September 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Another round of new tariffs has been announced by the President just as the Ports of LA and Long Beach warn the White House's policies have created uncertainty among retailers and consumers; Two elephants taken from the LA Zoo in the dead of night four months ago are the focus of a new call for transparency from zoo officials.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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You just heard that warning here from the National Weather Service.
We do have a flash flood warning in parts of
the county. This is near the western edge of the
Bridge Burn Scar, and so what the National Weather Service
is saying is that flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Minor debris flows along that Bridge Burn Scar is possible,
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along with minor rock slides and mud slides, So be aware.
This is a warning that is in effect until eight
o'clock tonight, so we'll keep you posted on this throughout
this broadcast. What they're reporting is a couple of hours ago,
their radar indicated heavy rain do to developing thunderstorms, and
minor flooding is already ongoing or expected to begin shortly
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in that advisory area. It's not a large area, but
this could be a significant storm if.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You are there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
As you heard the cliche, of course, pay attention, don't drown,
turn around. If you see the high water, don't try
to drive through it. The flash flood it comes at
you quickly, so pay attention to those things, and again
we will keep you posted throughout the night on those
developing weather conditions, a flash flowed, a flash flood warning
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is an effect until eight o'clock tonight. The Dodgers are
in action right now. It's the top of the second
in Seattle, zero zero right now, as the regular season
comes to a close. They clinched the Western Division just
this week. But what we're waiting on is who they're
going to play in the playoffs. I'm, of course rooting
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for the Reds. I would love to see an La
Reds series as a guy from northern Kentucky Red's Country.
And right now, the Reds and the Mets are nose
to nose here in the home stretch of the regular season.
The Mets won earlier time against the Marlins five nothing.
So the Mets record is eighty three and seventy eight.
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The Reds are eighty two and seventy eight. They are
in the top of the ninth at Milwaukee. They beat
Milwaukee yesterday. Milwaukee, whre the best teams in baseball, and
the Reds beat them yesterday. They're beating them right now,
seven to four in the top of the ninth. If
it turns out after tomorrow the Reds and the Mets
have the same record. Let's say they both lose, or
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they both win. If the Reds win today, the Reds
win the tiebreaker. So the Dodgers are waiting on the
Reds and the Mets to figure out who is taking
up that final spot in Major League Baseball's playoffs. I
know Eric Skalar, who's here working the board for us tonight.
You know from the John Cobelt shows, a big Dodgers guy.
Who do you want the Dodgers to play? Who do
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Dodgers fan want to play? As a way to say
this will be an easy.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Way to coast in the next round, I don't think
Dodgers fans are thinking there's gonna be an easy way
to coast to any round in these playoffs based off
of the way the Dodgers team has played this year,
even though they did win the division. A lot of
fans are worried about this shaky bullpen that the Dodgers have.
But me, personally, I want the Reds.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
My sister's boyfriend is a Mets fan, so I would
like it if the Mets don't have success. Yeah. Also,
I was going to say, if the Reds do make it,
are me and you making a bet?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh? For sure? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I've only you know, I don't have much Reds apparel.
I have an old Reds hat on my shelf, signed
by Marge Shot. Do you know who Marge Shot is?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, Mark Roners shaking his head. Yes, I don't know
that's for what I'm saying or not, but it is.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Marche Shot longtime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, a longtime
chain smoker, longtime racist, in fact, very well documented racist,
who was ultimately kind of forced out of her ownership there.
But you know, she was a celebrity about town and
I ran into her in a pizza joint and she
signed my hat, and she was she always drew a
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little paul little dog paw because her dog, Shotzi was
always with her. So she was very notorious for smoking
cigarettes in the front row at Riverfront Stadium. It was
a different time. Did she pay your pizza tab?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
She wasn't a nice lady. Ah. She was just a
lady about town whose husband died earlier in their marriage,
and so she had all of his money and owned
the Reds and was just a nasty old thing. But
you know, I don't want to excuse the very overt racism,
but kind of a funny honoree old lady, and at.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Least she wasn't Georgia Frontier and moved the team away
from the city. I don't get that reference. What's that
the old owner of the rams moving them from LA
to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, she was banned for her race
exactly and LB banner in the nineteen ninety three. I
can't believe, and I hope it don't give you one
any ideas because I kind of I would love to
write this. There's not been a biopic of Marge Shot. Well,
the problem is who would you get to play her?
Oh that's a I mean you could chew the scenery
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through the scene. I mean that is a great role
for somebody. They got Ed O'Neil to play Donald Serling.
I think Ed O'Neil would look good as Marge Shot. Actually,
you could do something fun with that. It could be
for an age appropriate actress, or they could get somebody
who they could age through makeup at March Shot a
March Shot move, even if she's not the star. If
there's some you know, the Big Red Machine is very interesting.
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But they did have a very good team in nineteen ninety.
They won the World Series in nineteen ninety. So I
don't know if there's like a good story there where
she could kind of be a supporting character. But i'd
watch a Marge shot HBO picture. Okay, just hear me out,
Josh Gadd Okay, Okay, you like that. I don't mind.
It's okay, little gender bending.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like there's a Pete Rose biopick
in there, and you could just yes Forker in there.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean Cincinnati reads, I mean, the oldest team in baseball,
a lot of history there. Would love to see the
long suffering Reds fans get a chance at the Dodgers. So,
like I said, right now, the Reds leading seven to
four in the top of the ninth of the Brewers,
the Mets already won, so that playoff race, that wild
card seat still available. Who will face the Dodgers in
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the first round of the playoffs still to be determined. Meanwhile,
the Angels wrapping up their season at home with Houston
in town. The Astros are up to nothing in the
bottom of the second On the football field, today, USC
suffered its first loss of the season at Illinois. The
twenty first ranked Trojans fall to the twenty third ranked
A Line I and a nail bier thirty four to
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thirty two. Ucla also went down today a closer game
at Northwestern, losing by field goals seventeen to fourteen. Another
episode in what has amounted to a long season for
the Bruins. And let me tell you, as a Kentucky
football fan Ucla, I just I know right now the
Wildcats are just givving the ball to South Carolina and
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asking them to be marched on. And that's kind of
how it goes in Lexington. So it's tough. But that's
our sports report for tonight. We'll keep an eye on
that Reds game to see if tomorrow shapes up to
be a really exciting day for the Dodgers regardless of
the outcome of their own game as we watch the
Reds and the Mets go head to head in different
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cities for that last wild card slot. Very very exciting.
We do have a lot of news to get to tonight.
We're gonna get to that coming up next. Reminder, there
is a flash flood warning in effect. It is in
that area of the Bridge Burns Scar don't drown turn around.
This is an effect until eight o'clock tonight. We'll keep
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you posted as new information comes in on that, and
we got a full hour ahead to get to and
coming up next, there's new tariffs that were announced by
President Trump on pills and kitchen cabinets, so we'll look
at what that means for the economy and whether President
Trump's tariff policies have impacted the ports of Long Beach
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and La Both of them are out with their new
data from the previous months, so we'll dive into that.
And plus a fight over zoo elephants hauled out of
the La Zoo and the dead of night that has
returned to city Hall four months later. Not the elephants,
the fight about the elephants. We'll dive into that too.
As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The Trump administration has taken aim now at all twenty
two campuses of the cow State University system. The administration
has launched an investigation into alleged anti semitism. Chancellor Mildred
Garcia told Cow State students and faculty members that the
federal equal excuse me, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena
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the university to provide the personal phone numbers and email
addresses of every employee. That commission says it needs this
information for the purpose of asking them about their experiences.
Daily Times reports this investigation comes from those campus protests
against Israel's war in Gaza that took place last year.
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Garcia told the cal State community that she understands the
news could be unsettling. She says, please be assured that
we are responding appropriately, and perhaps most importantly, please know
with absolute certainty that we will continue to advance the
CSU's mission through these and any challenges we face. Of course,
the Trump administration has gone after UCLA already the uc system,
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and that is still an ongoing case with a lot
of grant funding and research funding at stake there over
the same issue, this perception of anti Semitism stemming from
those Palestinian protests that took place on the campus last year.
In other news from the federal government in Los Angeles,
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there are now federal charges against a couple of women
from here, as well as a woman from Colorado who
allegedly followed an ICE agent home and live streamed that
agent's address.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Federal prosecutors say thirty seven year old Cynthia Ragoza, thirty
eight year old Ashley Brown, and twenty five year old
Sandra Semaine followed an ICE agent from downtown Los Angeles
to his home while live streaming on their Instagram accounts,
even giving viewers directions on how to find his home.
Once at the agent's home, they allegedly shouted to bystanders
and their neighbor is ICE. The charges include one count
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of conspiracy and one count of publicly disclosing the personal
information of a federal agent. Ray Gooza remains a fugitive.
The other two women were arrested. Alex Stone Abcinnews sancheles.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Ellie County has come out with the report and after
action report on the wildfires that took place in January.
This is just one report, there will be more. This
was related to the evacuation and the alert systems. Here's
more from our friend Alex Stone at ABC.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
As flames were raging and hurricane strength winned last January,
some residents in the fire zones never got emergency alerts,
and as wildfires were growing, others who were far away
from the fires got alerts. By mistake telling them to evacuate.
A new independent after action report finds there was no
single point of failure in warning and evacuating residents, but
that it was a series of weaknesses due to outdated
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policies and consistent practices and communications vulnerabilities. The report is
calling for clearer policies, stronger training, and improved public communications
at like Stone, ABC News, La Sancheles.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
There is apparently some help coming to victims of the wildfires.
It appears that people who lost their house have been
busy compiling lists of the contents of their homes for
insurance claims. And this has been a long and painful process,
of course, but it's been made easier with the help
of a free website created by a guy named Adam Freed.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That detailed list is needed for insurance claims, but compiling
it is time consuming and likely never really complete. That's
why Adam and a friend created Bebelmade, a free website
to help in a task that can seem overwhelming. Bebelmade
has evolved from a simple, efficient way to help fire
survivors work through their memory of lost items and create
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a list. Now, digital photos and even videos can be
uploaded to your page, and AI creates a list of
everything in a room and assigns an estimated value.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, that's helpful because I can imagine, having seen those
scenes up close, that it's hard enough to go through
a house that is in mint condition, much less so
to go through a house that has been devastated by
those fires. But there is some help on the way
for those of you who are looking to compile your
contents for these insurance purposes. I know, it's just it's
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been a mess. It's easy to move on sometimes as
reporters because news doesn't stop. But if your life was
up ended by those wildfires, we know you were still
in the thick of it, and we are, of course
still wishing you all the best. There new tariffs announced
by President Trump just this week, a one hundred percent
tax on pharmaceutical drugs certain ones, fifty percent on kitchen
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cabinets and bathroom vanities, thirty percent on upholstered furniture, and
twenty five percent on heavy trucks. That all starts next
week October first, yes, it is already almost October. Trump
said this week on his social media platform that people
who are making these pieces of furniture, these cabinets were
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flooding the US with their products, and that these tariffs
would be applied for what he calls national security and
other reasons. He says foreign made heavy trucks and parts
are also hurting domestic producers.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles,
they give their reports every month about what traffic looks like,
and in years past they're pretty boring. We keep an
eye on it because they are significant contributors to the economy.
A lot of people work there. It is our connection
to the world in this sector of the economy, very
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very important ports globally. But this year, since President Trump
came back to office, they've been really interesting reports to watch.
So I watched them every month and report on them
for you because they are often looked at as a
barometer for what these tariff policies are doing to the
shipping industry. What are retailers doing, what are manufacturers doing?
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We will dive into what the ports are saying. I'll
give you a hint. It hasn't slowed down at all,
But they keep throwing an asterisk on this that they
expected to slow down. But they've been saying that for
several months. We'll take a look at what that is.
And I'll also get into that zoo elephant fight taking
place at Los Angeles City Hall after two elephants were
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taken out of the La Zoo in the day night
back in May, shipped off to a zoo in Tulsa.
That fight is apparently not over. We'll talk about what
happened this week coming up next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
The Michael Monks from KFI News. We'll be together till
nine o'clock tonight on this wet Saturday in southern California.
A reminder that there is a flash flood warning or
an area on the west side of the Old Bridge
burn Scar flash flood warning and effect until eight o'clock tonights.
Will be careful in that area. We'll continue to monitor
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to see if that is extended, or if they call
that off, or if the weather takes a worse turn tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You can count on KFI to bring you the latest.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you were listening to us at the top of
the show, we were recapping a little baseball drama. Of course,
the Dodgers have clinched the NL West, so they're not
worried about making the playoffs or the third seed, but
who are they going to play? It is a race
to the finish, which I mean the Reds and the Mets.
One of those two teams will play the Dodgers in
the opening round of the wild Card round there in
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Major League Baseball's playoffs starting next month. Both the Reds
and the Mets won today. The Reds were winning when
the show started. They have now won that game against
the Brewers seven to four. So here's the situation. The
Reds are eighty three and seventy eight. The Mets are
eighty three and seventy eight. One game remains. First pitch
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is at twelve ten hour time tomorrow. For both of
those games, the Mets are on the road at the Marlins.
The Reds are on the road at the Brewers. As
I understand it, the Reds own the tiebreaker there, so
if they both lose tomorrow, the Reds get the spot.
If they both win tomorrow, the Reds get the spot.
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So if you are a Mets fan, or if you
are a Dodgers fan hoping for a date with the Mets,
you want the Mets to win and the Reds to lose.
The Reds just want to win. If they win the game,
then they have created their own destiny.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I did just double check the Reds do officially have
the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, it's a weird combination of thing. I think the
Diamondbacks were involved at one point when they were still
in the hunt, and the Reds have one more games
head to head against them, I guess is how the
tiebreaker works. So like, even if there were a three
way tie, they measure how many games you won against
the other two teams, and the Reds were coming out
clean on all of that. So not sure yet who
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the Dodgers get, But it's going to be an exciting
day of baseball tomorrow. The Reds and the Mets first
pitch for both games twelve ten hour time.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You know what else is tomorrow? What Clayton Kershaw's final
regular season start of his career. He obviously had his
final home start this week or last week, but Clayton Kershaw's.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's a final day for the Dodgers tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes and no, because well, I mean, you know it's
a regular season farewell, I mean, obviously, Clayton Krushaw and
the rest of the crew want to see how deep
they can go one last time together. He is as
the playoffs get underway, but that's going to be a
bit emotional. But you know, knowing that he's probably got
another start in him before the season is officially over
one way or the other, I guess it's not that dramatic.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, yeah, tomorrow, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
The thing is, the debate is who is going to
make the Dodgers postseason pitching rotation. I'm not sure Clayton
Kershaw makes it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Really. They might put him in the bullpen. Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
He came in in the ninth inning the other night
when they went into extra innings against the Diamondbacks, so
I think they're prepping him for a bullpen roll because
I think realistically the starting rotation is going to be
Yoshinoba Yamamoto, Tyler Glass now, Blake's Now and sho heey
O Tani.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Do you think the Reds can handle that? No? No, Well,
we shall see. I'm excited. It's it's an exciting end
to Honestly, I find baseball to be rather the truth
or rather boring. I'm sorry to say it's it's a
boring game, but it's exciting when it's coming down to
the wire like this. Basketball is a superior sport. Football
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is a superior sport. Baseball Eric is just no, yeah,
you're getting no arguments from here. For me, basketball is
my favorite sport. Yeah, then baseball, then football.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But I mean yeah, baseball itself, if you're watching on TV,
is boring, but there's nothing like going to the ballpark
on a hotcat during the summer. Baseball in person is
much better than on TV. That's right, that's right, that's fair.
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, that's the sports report from Eric Sklar there at
the board. I appreciate you, man. No problem. I mentioned
before we went to break that we've got these new
tariffs starting next week. It's been hard to keep track
of what tariffs are in effect, who they are impacting,
what's the rate on which country, which product. But these
new ones are related to some pharmaceuticals will be one
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hundred percent import tax. But also this fifty percent tariff
on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, so that's bad news
for the home builder industry. Thirty percent tariff on upholstered
furniture and twenty five percent on heavy trucks that all
starts next week on October first, and the President says
this is necessary for national security and other reasons. Now,
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this new tariff announcement came out after both the Ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach released their numbers from August.
Each month they come out and release their reports from
the month before, and each month, I've heard the leaders
of these ports say there's a lot of uncertainty. The
tariffs have created a lot of uncertainty. But we are
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super busy, and we think we're super busy because manufacturers
and retailers are making their order to get ahead of
those tariffs, and so they've been busy in the early
part of the year, the first half of the year
because of that. But they keep saying it's going to
slow down. We expect to slow down. It just hasn't though.
The Port of Long Beach says that August was its
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second busiest August ever in the history of the Port
of Long Beach, and at the Port of la they
continue to build on the heavy traffic they had in July.
It was strong in August as well. And it's not
always easy to understand the data. We're talking about the
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units they measure are te US twenty foot equivalent units.
I think we know them more casually as shipping containers.
We know what those look like. We saw a bunch
of them fall at the Port of Long Beach just
a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
At the Port of LA there.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Was nearly nine hundred and fifty nine thousand of those
moved either in or out. The ones that were shipped
out up five percent in LA and the ones that
came in as imports were just down one percent. And
at Long Beach imports were down three point six percent,
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exports were down eight point three percent. Both CEOs at
the ports say shifting trade policies continue to create uncertainty
for businesses and consumers. Now I know from covering all
of these every month that what they were warning us
about was that traffic went slowed towards the end of
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the year. Well, now we are just about to enter
the final quarter. I was anxious to see what these
numbers look like out of August. They're not that terrible.
So now we've got to see what September's numbers look
like when the reports come out next month. Because what
they were warning about specifically was back to school supplies
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here we are for that. I mean, people are back
in school. Did you have a problem finding what you needed?
Halloween costumes, candies, you know those sorts of things, decorations
that you have trouble finding those? And also holiday So
it looks like none of that has panned out so far.
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But the uncertainty apparently still exists. But in addition to
paying attention to the ports, I am your city hall guy,
and up next, I'm going to share with you one
of my all time favorite exchanges that have ever happened
at La City Hall. It's about zoo elephants. We're going
to revisit a fight that took place back in May.
Because the fight is back at city Hall. I will
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tell you why. We'll get into that up next, right
here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
On Michael Monks from KFI News. I spend a lot
of time either at city Hall or here at the
Burbank studios watching the city hall meetings so that I
can bring you all the latest news from your government.
And occasionally I find myself laughing at the exchanges, not
to take away from the seriousness of the topic. But
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you can't help but giggle from time to time, and
that was certainly true back in May. Now, this was
during a very difficult budget period for the city, difficulty
that will be continuing indefinitely apparently. But the budget committee
was meeting to figure out how to close a billion
dollar budget gap, and so every single department is being
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paraded in, including the La Zoo. During the conversation, i
should say, interrogation of the head of the zoo. The
conversation straight a bit from dollars and cents and towards
a couple of elephants named Billy and Tina. There was
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speculation that the zoo was working covertly to move those
elephants to another zoo somewhere else. It ended up being
tuls Oklahoma. Some advocates here in the city, including someone
city council like Councilman Bob Bloomenfield, one of those elephants
moved to a sanctuary. So I want to replay part
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of that conversation in May, and then we'll bring you
up to speed on what happened this week about these
zoo elephants at La City Hall. Again, this is Councilman
Bob Bloomenfield talking to the leader of the La.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Zoo, and then ultimately that would be vetted and would
be a public process that we could go through. Not
dictating the outcome of that, but I am as a
as the motion and this Council dictating that we before
those elephants are moved anywhere, that that come to the
Council for the oversight.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So can you promise.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Me here that those elephants will not be moved until
the Council has that chance to review that report and
vote on it.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
What I can promise you is that I am always
going to make decisions that are for the best interest
of the animals at the zoo, including the elephants.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, that's not good enough. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But okay, so it was getting a little bit chippy there.
But it gets to be a little funnier here.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
When is the plan to move them?
Speaker 8 (26:35):
There is no particular.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Date, Nope, no particularly So it's not imminent.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
It's not eminent. We obviously have to plan because it
takes a while to prepare elephants to move, but elephants
move on their own time. What do you mean, Well,
you don't just ask an elephant would you please, you
get into this crate so I can drive you where
you need to go. They have to be prepared to
do that and that takes time.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So after that, the elephants were put in their creates
in the night and taken to a new location at
the zoo in Tulsa. The zoo and Taulsa says Billy
and Tina are doing well, but Councilman Bob Bluomenfield raised
this issue again just yesterday Friday at the city council
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meeting at Van Nuy's City Hall. He has introduced emotion
that would require the zoo to publicly report on the
circumstances of the move. He has called it rushed. He
has called it lacking consultation with the city Council.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Formally held at the La Zoo, elephants Billy and Tina
had recently, in the dead of night, been transferred to
a facility in Tulsa, without discussion, without putting their needs
before ours, without justice. This came after the euthanization of
other elephants to others in our zoo, Shaunza and Jewel.
These elephants live in conditions that bear men of care
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set by the Association of zoos and aquariums of the
Azya standards. They as mentioned in the clip, they need
socialization in Richmond and specific living accommodations that the La
Zoo that neither the La Zoo nor Tulsa can provide,
not to mention the horrific breeding activities that they're subject to.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So he brought in a filmmaker from Canada. Her name
is Fern Levitt. She has just released a documentary about
elephants in captivity and he put her up to talk
yesterday as well.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
The life stories of Billy and Tina, which is what
brought me here, who recently endured a traumatic transfer from
the Los Angeles Zoo to another zoo, the Taosa Zoo,
is just tragic. It's just tragic. They could have lived
out the remaining years in a sanctuary free for the
first time in decades. What a beacon of hope that
would have been for the dark for these dark times. Instead,
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they are languishing in another zoo, stripped again of everything
that is important for them to survive and throw.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Fern Levitt's documentary about elephants will play tomorrow in Westwood.
We'll continue to follow the elephants saga at Los Angeles
City Hall as Councilman Bloominfield's motion makes its way through
the various council committees that will have to take a
look at it first. Big thanks to Allison for the
call in today.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Bro, Michael Monks, I really hope that you get this
like a I love the Power Hour when you were
on Gary and Channon or Channon or whatever. I love
you and Bro as a smoke and scan viewer. Alison
loves when you do interviews with mister Herman, and I
know that you are the city guy that goes to
city council.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Guys, so probably to you.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
More cheers to you. Wayne Spindler, the goat, I mean,
come on, man, all.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Right, thanks for that. She's name checking some of those
city hall gadflies. And thank you Allison for the very
lovely comments the city hall gadflies. Yes, indeed, is that
a breaking news about the Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Is that what that was? Or no, that was horns
for the talkback? Thank you, oh, thank you, yes, very sweet.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm using it to promote the fact that the special
feature report I did on the city hall gadflies, the
folks who use profanity, racial slurs, sexist, slurs at LA
City Hall that prompted a change in the law there
just this year. That's going to be online. I think
on Monday, I'll push it on social media. You can
follow me on social media Mike Monks La on all
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the platforms. That's M I, C, M O, nks LA,
And I'll make sure that you can hear that. If
you didn't hear the broadcast on the Mo Kelly Show
last Friday and then this very show just last Saturday,
we will put it online so that you can hear
this in depth feature report about the City Hall gadflies.
I really hope you get a chance to check it out.
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We have another hour together though, so stay right where
you are. There's a new plan to save downtown Los
Angeles from an organization that has advocated for downtown since
nineteen twenty four. Will they get it right?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
This time?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
They're asking for city Hall to do some very specific things.
The president and CEO of that organization joins us next
right here on Michael Monks Reports on KFI AM six
forty KFI
Speaker 1 (31:13):
AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You just heard that warning here from the National Weather Service.
We do have a flash flood warning in parts of
the county. This is near the western edge of the
Bridge Burn Scar, and so what the National Weather Service
is saying is that flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Minor debris flows along that Bridge Burn Scar is possible,
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along with minor rock slides and mud slides, So be aware.
This is a warning that is in effect until eight
o'clock tonight, so we'll keep you posted on this throughout
this broadcast. What they're reporting is a couple of hours ago,
their radar indicated heavy rain do to developing thunderstorms, and
minor flooding is already ongoing or expected to begin shortly
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in that advisory area. It's not a large area, but
this could be a significant storm if.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You are there.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
As you heard the cliche, of course, pay attention, don't drown,
turn around. If you see the high water, don't try
to drive through it. The flash flood it comes at
you quickly, so pay attention to those things, and again
we will keep you posted throughout the night on those
developing weather conditions, a flash flowed, a flash flood warning
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is an effect until eight o'clock tonight. The Dodgers are
in action right now. It's the top of the second
in Seattle, zero zero right now, as the regular season
comes to a close. They clinched the Western Division just
this week. But what we're waiting on is who they're
going to play in the playoffs. I'm, of course rooting
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for the Reds. I would love to see an La
Reds series as a guy from northern Kentucky Red's Country.
And right now, the Reds and the Mets are nose
to nose here in the home stretch of the regular season.
The Mets won earlier time against the Marlins five nothing.
So the Mets record is eighty three and seventy eight.
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The Reds are eighty two and seventy eight. They are
in the top of the ninth at Milwaukee. They beat
Milwaukee yesterday. Milwaukee, whre the best teams in baseball, and
the Reds beat them yesterday. They're beating them right now,
seven to four in the top of the ninth. If
it turns out after tomorrow the Reds and the Mets
have the same record. Let's say they both lose, or
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they both win. If the Reds win today, the Reds
win the tiebreaker. So the Dodgers are waiting on the
Reds and the Mets to figure out who is taking
up that final spot in Major League Baseball's playoffs. I
know Eric Skalar, who's here working the board for us tonight.
You know from the John Cobelt shows, a big Dodgers guy.
Who do you want the Dodgers to play? Who do
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Dodgers fan want to play? As a way to say
this will be an easy.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Way to coast in the next round, I don't think
Dodgers fans are thinking there's gonna be an easy way
to coast to any round in these playoffs based off
of the way the Dodgers team has played this year,
even though they did win the division. A lot of
fans are worried about this shaky bullpen that the Dodgers have.
But me, personally, I want the Reds.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
My sister's boyfriend is a Mets fan, so I would
like it if the Mets don't have success. Yeah. Also,
I was going to say, if the Reds do make it,
are me and you making a bet?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh? For sure? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I've only you know, I don't have much Reds apparel.
I have an old Reds hat on my shelf, signed
by Marge Shot. Do you know who Marge Shot is?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, Mark Roners shaking his head. Yes, I don't know
that's for what I'm saying or not, but it is.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Marche Shot longtime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, a longtime
chain smoker, longtime racist, in fact, very well documented racist,
who was ultimately kind of forced out of her ownership there.
But you know, she was a celebrity about town and
I ran into her in a pizza joint and she
signed my hat, and she was she always drew a
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little paul little dog paw because her dog, Shotzi was
always with her. So she was very notorious for smoking
cigarettes in the front row at Riverfront Stadium. It was
a different time. Did she pay your pizza tab?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
She wasn't a nice lady. Ah. She was just a
lady about town whose husband died earlier in their marriage,
and so she had all of his money and owned
the Reds and was just a nasty old thing. But
you know, I don't want to excuse the very overt racism,
but kind of a funny honoree old lady, and at.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Least she wasn't Georgia Frontier and moved the team away
from the city. I don't get that reference. What's that
the old owner of the rams moving them from LA
to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, she was banned for her race
exactly and LB banner in the nineteen ninety three. I
can't believe, and I hope it don't give you one
any ideas because I kind of I would love to
write this. There's not been a biopic of Marge Shot. Well,
the problem is who would you get to play her?
Oh that's a I mean you could chew the scenery
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through the scene. I mean that is a great role
for somebody. They got Ed O'Neil to play Donald Serling.
I think Ed O'Neil would look good as Marge Shot. Actually,
you could do something fun with that. It could be
for an age appropriate actress, or they could get somebody
who they could age through makeup at March Shot a
March Shot move, even if she's not the star. If
there's some you know, the Big Red Machine is very interesting.
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But they did have a very good team in nineteen ninety.
They won the World Series in nineteen ninety. So I
don't know if there's like a good story there where
she could kind of be a supporting character. But i'd
watch a Marge shot HBO picture. Okay, just hear me out,
Josh Gadd Okay, Okay, you like that. I don't mind.
It's okay, little gender bending.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like there's a Pete Rose biopick
in there, and you could just yes Forker in there.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean Cincinnati reads, I mean, the oldest team in baseball,
a lot of history there. Would love to see the
long suffering Reds fans get a chance at the Dodgers. So,
like I said, right now, the Reds leading seven to
four in the top of the ninth of the Brewers,
the Mets already won, so that playoff race, that wild
card seat still available. Who will face the Dodgers in
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the first round of the playoffs still to be determined. Meanwhile,
the Angels wrapping up their season at home with Houston
in town. The Astros are up to nothing in the
bottom of the second On the football field, today, USC
suffered its first loss of the season at Illinois. The
twenty first ranked Trojans fall to the twenty third ranked
A Line I and a nail bier thirty four to
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thirty two. Ucla also went down today a closer game
at Northwestern, losing by field goals seventeen to fourteen. Another
episode in what has amounted to a long season for
the Bruins. And let me tell you, as a Kentucky
football fan Ucla, I just I know right now the
Wildcats are just givving the ball to South Carolina and
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asking them to be marched on. And that's kind of
how it goes in Lexington. So it's tough. But that's
our sports report for tonight. We'll keep an eye on
that Reds game to see if tomorrow shapes up to
be a really exciting day for the Dodgers regardless of
the outcome of their own game as we watch the
Reds and the Mets go head to head in different
(07:22):
cities for that last wild card slot. Very very exciting.
We do have a lot of news to get to tonight.
We're gonna get to that coming up next. Reminder, there
is a flash flood warning in effect. It is in
that area of the Bridge Burns Scar don't drown turn around.
This is an effect until eight o'clock tonight. We'll keep
(07:44):
you posted as new information comes in on that, and
we got a full hour ahead to get to and
coming up next, there's new tariffs that were announced by
President Trump on pills and kitchen cabinets, so we'll look
at what that means for the economy and whether President
Trump's tariff policies have impacted the ports of Long Beach
(08:04):
and La Both of them are out with their new
data from the previous months, so we'll dive into that.
And plus a fight over zoo elephants hauled out of
the La Zoo and the dead of night that has
returned to city Hall four months later. Not the elephants,
the fight about the elephants. We'll dive into that too.
As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The Trump administration has taken aim now at all twenty
two campuses of the cow State University system. The administration
has launched an investigation into alleged anti semitism. Chancellor Mildred
Garcia told Cow State students and faculty members that the
federal equal excuse me, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena
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the university to provide the personal phone numbers and email
addresses of every employee. That commission says it needs this
information for the purpose of asking them about their experiences.
Daily Times reports this investigation comes from those campus protests
against Israel's war in Gaza that took place last year.
(09:14):
Garcia told the cal State community that she understands the
news could be unsettling. She says, please be assured that
we are responding appropriately, and perhaps most importantly, please know
with absolute certainty that we will continue to advance the
CSU's mission through these and any challenges we face. Of course,
the Trump administration has gone after UCLA already the uc system,
(09:38):
and that is still an ongoing case with a lot
of grant funding and research funding at stake there over
the same issue, this perception of anti Semitism stemming from
those Palestinian protests that took place on the campus last year.
In other news from the federal government in Los Angeles,
(09:59):
there are now federal charges against a couple of women
from here, as well as a woman from Colorado who
allegedly followed an ICE agent home and live streamed that
agent's address.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Federal prosecutors say thirty seven year old Cynthia Ragoza, thirty
eight year old Ashley Brown, and twenty five year old
Sandra Semaine followed an ICE agent from downtown Los Angeles
to his home while live streaming on their Instagram accounts,
even giving viewers directions on how to find his home.
Once at the agent's home, they allegedly shouted to bystanders
and their neighbor is ICE. The charges include one count
(10:36):
of conspiracy and one count of publicly disclosing the personal
information of a federal agent. Ray Gooza remains a fugitive.
The other two women were arrested. Alex Stone Abcinnews sancheles.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Ellie County has come out with the report and after
action report on the wildfires that took place in January.
This is just one report, there will be more. This
was related to the evacuation and the alert systems. Here's
more from our friend Alex Stone at ABC.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
As flames were raging and hurricane strength winned last January,
some residents in the fire zones never got emergency alerts,
and as wildfires were growing, others who were far away
from the fires got alerts. By mistake telling them to evacuate.
A new independent after action report finds there was no
single point of failure in warning and evacuating residents, but
that it was a series of weaknesses due to outdated
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policies and consistent practices and communications vulnerabilities. The report is
calling for clearer policies, stronger training, and improved public communications
at like Stone, ABC News, La Sancheles.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
There is apparently some help coming to victims of the wildfires.
It appears that people who lost their house have been
busy compiling lists of the contents of their homes for
insurance claims. And this has been a long and painful process,
of course, but it's been made easier with the help
of a free website created by a guy named Adam Freed.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
That detailed list is needed for insurance claims, but compiling
it is time consuming and likely never really complete. That's
why Adam and a friend created Bebelmade, a free website
to help in a task that can seem overwhelming. Bebelmade
has evolved from a simple, efficient way to help fire
survivors work through their memory of lost items and create
(12:23):
a list. Now, digital photos and even videos can be
uploaded to your page, and AI creates a list of
everything in a room and assigns an estimated value.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, that's helpful because I can imagine, having seen those
scenes up close, that it's hard enough to go through
a house that is in mint condition, much less so
to go through a house that has been devastated by
those fires. But there is some help on the way
for those of you who are looking to compile your
contents for these insurance purposes. I know, it's just it's
(12:55):
been a mess. It's easy to move on sometimes as
reporters because news doesn't stop. But if your life was
up ended by those wildfires, we know you were still
in the thick of it, and we are, of course
still wishing you all the best. There new tariffs announced
by President Trump just this week, a one hundred percent
tax on pharmaceutical drugs certain ones, fifty percent on kitchen
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cabinets and bathroom vanities, thirty percent on upholstered furniture, and
twenty five percent on heavy trucks. That all starts next
week October first, yes, it is already almost October. Trump
said this week on his social media platform that people
who are making these pieces of furniture, these cabinets were
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flooding the US with their products, and that these tariffs
would be applied for what he calls national security and
other reasons. He says foreign made heavy trucks and parts
are also hurting domestic producers.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles,
they give their reports every month about what traffic looks like,
and in years past they're pretty boring. We keep an
eye on it because they are significant contributors to the economy.
A lot of people work there. It is our connection
to the world in this sector of the economy, very
(14:13):
very important ports globally. But this year, since President Trump
came back to office, they've been really interesting reports to watch.
So I watched them every month and report on them
for you because they are often looked at as a
barometer for what these tariff policies are doing to the
shipping industry. What are retailers doing, what are manufacturers doing?
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We will dive into what the ports are saying. I'll
give you a hint. It hasn't slowed down at all,
But they keep throwing an asterisk on this that they
expected to slow down. But they've been saying that for
several months. We'll take a look at what that is.
And I'll also get into that zoo elephant fight taking
place at Los Angeles City Hall after two elephants were
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taken out of the La Zoo in the day night
back in May, shipped off to a zoo in Tulsa.
That fight is apparently not over. We'll talk about what
happened this week coming up next. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The Michael Monks from KFI News. We'll be together till
nine o'clock tonight on this wet Saturday in southern California.
A reminder that there is a flash flood warning or
an area on the west side of the Old Bridge
burn Scar flash flood warning and effect until eight o'clock tonights.
Will be careful in that area. We'll continue to monitor
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to see if that is extended, or if they call
that off, or if the weather takes a worse turn tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You can count on KFI to bring you the latest.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you were listening to us at the top of
the show, we were recapping a little baseball drama. Of course,
the Dodgers have clinched the NL West, so they're not
worried about making the playoffs or the third seed, but
who are they going to play? It is a race
to the finish, which I mean the Reds and the Mets.
One of those two teams will play the Dodgers in
the opening round of the wild Card round there in
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Major League Baseball's playoffs starting next month. Both the Reds
and the Mets won today. The Reds were winning when
the show started. They have now won that game against
the Brewers seven to four. So here's the situation. The
Reds are eighty three and seventy eight. The Mets are
eighty three and seventy eight. One game remains. First pitch
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is at twelve ten hour time tomorrow. For both of
those games, the Mets are on the road at the Marlins.
The Reds are on the road at the Brewers. As
I understand it, the Reds own the tiebreaker there, so
if they both lose tomorrow, the Reds get the spot.
If they both win tomorrow, the Reds get the spot.
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So if you are a Mets fan, or if you
are a Dodgers fan hoping for a date with the Mets,
you want the Mets to win and the Reds to lose.
The Reds just want to win. If they win the game,
then they have created their own destiny.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I did just double check the Reds do officially have
the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, it's a weird combination of thing. I think the
Diamondbacks were involved at one point when they were still
in the hunt, and the Reds have one more games
head to head against them, I guess is how the
tiebreaker works. So like, even if there were a three
way tie, they measure how many games you won against
the other two teams, and the Reds were coming out
clean on all of that. So not sure yet who
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the Dodgers get, But it's going to be an exciting
day of baseball tomorrow. The Reds and the Mets first
pitch for both games twelve ten hour time.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You know what else is tomorrow? What Clayton Kershaw's final
regular season start of his career. He obviously had his
final home start this week or last week, but Clayton Kershaw's.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's a final day for the Dodgers tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes and no, because well, I mean, you know it's
a regular season farewell, I mean, obviously, Clayton Krushaw and
the rest of the crew want to see how deep
they can go one last time together. He is as
the playoffs get underway, but that's going to be a
bit emotional. But you know, knowing that he's probably got
another start in him before the season is officially over
one way or the other, I guess it's not that dramatic.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, yeah, tomorrow, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
The thing is, the debate is who is going to
make the Dodgers postseason pitching rotation. I'm not sure Clayton
Kershaw makes it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Really. They might put him in the bullpen. Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
He came in in the ninth inning the other night
when they went into extra innings against the Diamondbacks, so
I think they're prepping him for a bullpen roll because
I think realistically the starting rotation is going to be
Yoshinoba Yamamoto, Tyler Glass now, Blake's Now and sho heey
O Tani.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Do you think the Reds can handle that? No? No, Well,
we shall see. I'm excited. It's it's an exciting end
to Honestly, I find baseball to be rather the truth
or rather boring. I'm sorry to say it's it's a
boring game, but it's exciting when it's coming down to
the wire like this. Basketball is a superior sport. Football
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is a superior sport. Baseball Eric is just no, yeah,
you're getting no arguments from here. For me, basketball is
my favorite sport. Yeah, then baseball, then football.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But I mean yeah, baseball itself, if you're watching on TV,
is boring, but there's nothing like going to the ballpark
on a hotcat during the summer. Baseball in person is
much better than on TV. That's right, that's right, that's fair.
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, that's the sports report from Eric Sklar there at
the board. I appreciate you, man. No problem. I mentioned
before we went to break that we've got these new
tariffs starting next week. It's been hard to keep track
of what tariffs are in effect, who they are impacting,
what's the rate on which country, which product. But these
new ones are related to some pharmaceuticals will be one
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hundred percent import tax. But also this fifty percent tariff
on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, so that's bad news
for the home builder industry. Thirty percent tariff on upholstered
furniture and twenty five percent on heavy trucks that all
starts next week on October first, and the President says
this is necessary for national security and other reasons. Now,
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this new tariff announcement came out after both the Ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach released their numbers from August.
Each month they come out and release their reports from
the month before, and each month, I've heard the leaders
of these ports say there's a lot of uncertainty. The
tariffs have created a lot of uncertainty. But we are
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super busy, and we think we're super busy because manufacturers
and retailers are making their order to get ahead of
those tariffs, and so they've been busy in the early
part of the year, the first half of the year
because of that. But they keep saying it's going to
slow down. We expect to slow down. It just hasn't though.
The Port of Long Beach says that August was its
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second busiest August ever in the history of the Port
of Long Beach, and at the Port of la they
continue to build on the heavy traffic they had in July.
It was strong in August as well. And it's not
always easy to understand the data. We're talking about the
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units they measure are te US twenty foot equivalent units.
I think we know them more casually as shipping containers.
We know what those look like. We saw a bunch
of them fall at the Port of Long Beach just
a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
At the Port of LA there.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Was nearly nine hundred and fifty nine thousand of those
moved either in or out. The ones that were shipped
out up five percent in LA and the ones that
came in as imports were just down one percent. And
at Long Beach imports were down three point six percent,
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exports were down eight point three percent. Both CEOs at
the ports say shifting trade policies continue to create uncertainty
for businesses and consumers. Now I know from covering all
of these every month that what they were warning us
about was that traffic went slowed towards the end of
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the year. Well, now we are just about to enter
the final quarter. I was anxious to see what these
numbers look like out of August. They're not that terrible.
So now we've got to see what September's numbers look
like when the reports come out next month. Because what
they were warning about specifically was back to school supplies
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here we are for that. I mean, people are back
in school. Did you have a problem finding what you needed?
Halloween costumes, candies, you know those sorts of things, decorations
that you have trouble finding those? And also holiday So
it looks like none of that has panned out so far.
(23:24):
But the uncertainty apparently still exists. But in addition to
paying attention to the ports, I am your city hall guy,
and up next, I'm going to share with you one
of my all time favorite exchanges that have ever happened
at La City Hall. It's about zoo elephants. We're going
to revisit a fight that took place back in May.
Because the fight is back at city Hall. I will
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tell you why. We'll get into that up next, right
here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
On Michael Monks from KFI News. I spend a lot
of time either at city Hall or here at the
Burbank studios watching the city hall meetings so that I
can bring you all the latest news from your government.
And occasionally I find myself laughing at the exchanges, not
to take away from the seriousness of the topic. But
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you can't help but giggle from time to time, and
that was certainly true back in May. Now, this was
during a very difficult budget period for the city, difficulty
that will be continuing indefinitely apparently. But the budget committee
was meeting to figure out how to close a billion
dollar budget gap, and so every single department is being
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paraded in, including the La Zoo. During the conversation, i
should say, interrogation of the head of the zoo. The
conversation straight a bit from dollars and cents and towards
a couple of elephants named Billy and Tina. There was
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speculation that the zoo was working covertly to move those
elephants to another zoo somewhere else. It ended up being
tuls Oklahoma. Some advocates here in the city, including someone
city council like Councilman Bob Bloomenfield, one of those elephants
moved to a sanctuary. So I want to replay part
(25:28):
of that conversation in May, and then we'll bring you
up to speed on what happened this week about these
zoo elephants at La City Hall. Again, this is Councilman
Bob Bloomenfield talking to the leader of the La.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Zoo, and then ultimately that would be vetted and would
be a public process that we could go through. Not
dictating the outcome of that, but I am as a
as the motion and this Council dictating that we before
those elephants are moved anywhere, that that come to the
Council for the oversight.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So can you promise.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Me here that those elephants will not be moved until
the Council has that chance to review that report and
vote on it.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
What I can promise you is that I am always
going to make decisions that are for the best interest
of the animals at the zoo, including the elephants.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, that's not good enough. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
But okay, so it was getting a little bit chippy there.
But it gets to be a little funnier here.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
When is the plan to move them?
Speaker 8 (26:35):
There is no particular.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Date, Nope, no particularly So it's not imminent.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
It's not eminent. We obviously have to plan because it
takes a while to prepare elephants to move, but elephants
move on their own time. What do you mean, Well,
you don't just ask an elephant would you please, you
get into this crate so I can drive you where
you need to go. They have to be prepared to
do that and that takes time.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So after that, the elephants were put in their creates
in the night and taken to a new location at
the zoo in Tulsa. The zoo and Taulsa says Billy
and Tina are doing well, but Councilman Bob Bluomenfield raised
this issue again just yesterday Friday at the city council
(27:21):
meeting at Van Nuy's City Hall. He has introduced emotion
that would require the zoo to publicly report on the
circumstances of the move. He has called it rushed. He
has called it lacking consultation with the city Council.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Formally held at the La Zoo, elephants Billy and Tina
had recently, in the dead of night, been transferred to
a facility in Tulsa, without discussion, without putting their needs
before ours, without justice. This came after the euthanization of
other elephants to others in our zoo, Shaunza and Jewel.
These elephants live in conditions that bear men of care
(28:01):
set by the Association of zoos and aquariums of the
Azya standards. They as mentioned in the clip, they need
socialization in Richmond and specific living accommodations that the La
Zoo that neither the La Zoo nor Tulsa can provide,
not to mention the horrific breeding activities that they're subject to.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So he brought in a filmmaker from Canada. Her name
is Fern Levitt. She has just released a documentary about
elephants in captivity and he put her up to talk
yesterday as well.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
The life stories of Billy and Tina, which is what
brought me here, who recently endured a traumatic transfer from
the Los Angeles Zoo to another zoo, the Taosa Zoo,
is just tragic. It's just tragic. They could have lived
out the remaining years in a sanctuary free for the
first time in decades. What a beacon of hope that
would have been for the dark for these dark times. Instead,
(28:52):
they are languishing in another zoo, stripped again of everything
that is important for them to survive and throw.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Fern Levitt's documentary about elephants will play tomorrow in Westwood.
We'll continue to follow the elephants saga at Los Angeles
City Hall as Councilman Bloominfield's motion makes its way through
the various council committees that will have to take a
look at it first. Big thanks to Allison for the
call in today.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Bro, Michael Monks, I really hope that you get this
like a I love the Power Hour when you were
on Gary and Channon or Channon or whatever. I love
you and Bro as a smoke and scan viewer. Alison
loves when you do interviews with mister Herman, and I
know that you are the city guy that goes to
city council.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Guys, so probably to you.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
More cheers to you. Wayne Spindler, the goat, I mean,
come on, man, all.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Right, thanks for that. She's name checking some of those
city hall gadflies. And thank you Allison for the very
lovely comments the city hall gadflies. Yes, indeed, is that
a breaking news about the Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Is that what that was? Or no, that was horns
for the talkback? Thank you, oh, thank you, yes, very sweet.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm using it to promote the fact that the special
feature report I did on the city hall gadflies, the
folks who use profanity, racial slurs, sexist, slurs at LA
City Hall that prompted a change in the law there
just this year. That's going to be online. I think
on Monday, I'll push it on social media. You can
follow me on social media Mike Monks La on all
(30:25):
the platforms. That's M I, C, M O, nks LA,
And I'll make sure that you can hear that. If
you didn't hear the broadcast on the Mo Kelly Show
last Friday and then this very show just last Saturday,
we will put it online so that you can hear
this in depth feature report about the City Hall gadflies.
I really hope you get a chance to check it out.
(30:46):
We have another hour together though, so stay right where
you are. There's a new plan to save downtown Los
Angeles from an organization that has advocated for downtown since
nineteen twenty four. Will they get it right?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
This time?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
They're asking for city Hall to do some very specific things.
The president and CEO of that organization joins us next
right here on Michael Monks Reports on KFI AM six
forty KFI
Speaker 1 (31:13):
AM six forty on demand
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