August 6, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 2 - Day 1 of the Lineage warehouse fire hearing, including Mayor Karen Bass and other officials pressing Lineage to fund long-term aid for affected residents. Plus: a gutting look at LA’s surge in dog euthanasia and the heartbreaking faces on the “kill list,” and why a nearly $1 million Runyon Canyon restroom is still closed months past its expected opening. Tune in for local accountability, human stories, and what comes next.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Monks and MARYL hosted by Michael Monks and
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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breeze is blown in from Boyle Heights at your place? No,
not lately. It just smells like hobo p which is worse?
(00:33):
Is it the stench from Boyle Heights it's bad? Or
is it the hobo p skid row? Or is it
just sort of different?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Noe.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're happy to have the hobo pee back. Oh is
that right? Okay, that's very good. So they had a
they had a meeting with a q m D. What
is that, the Air Quality Management District? Okay, So the
AQMD has got their their their places in Diamond Bar.
Well that's too far away from Boyle Heights. Well he is,
I mean, you gotta, but it is where their meeting is. Yeah,
(00:59):
for where wherever the issue is? Was the boil Haitians.
What are they called? I wouldn't call them Boil Haitians,
the boilers. After the recent presidential election, it got a
little testing. Oh, just the word Haitian. Well that's the
second time I've been accidentally racist today. That's great. If
you missed the first hour, you want to tune right
in and see why I might get fired. That'll be
a lot of fun. So anyway, what do we call them? Boilers? Angelina?
(01:22):
Boiler makers who live in boil Heights. Okay, so they
had to go to Diamond Bar. So they had to
jump on a bus, get on the sixty and go
to Diamond Bar. And when they got there, they complained
that they had to get out of bus and go
to Diamond Bar. Everything has to be hand delivered. Yes,
that's exactly right. In fact, I did a little montage
here some of the complaints. CBSLA was there and they
(01:45):
they were putting people together, they were complaining. I will
give CBSLA a credit for cutting out most of the
bs So most of the complaints you're about to hear
were somewhat legitimate.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
This is just one more example on top of another.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Smells whole horridic.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I support the order to hold the lineage accountable for
the harm they've done to Easter La and Boyle Heights.
Good morning to everybody except lineage.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That is so. The thing is, if you were to
ask her do you support President Trump and then things
he says online, she'd be like, no, I can't stand him.
But remember when President Trump was like Merry christmassed everyone
except the Democratic socialist losers, and people are so mad
at President Trump for that. Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
AQMD is an enforcement agency.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So enforced. I like when they tell people what their
jobs are. It's my favorite.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
It wasn't just a fire, it was a toxic fire.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Everything out there is toxic now, okay, and AQMD, you
guys are responsible for that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Unfortunately, So we've got people that are holding every agency
accountable for a fire.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Unfortunately, AQMD and other agencies and electeds have not stepped
up with the urgency required for our hoods.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Some of the other complaints were things like a little
boy showed up to say that his little league baseball
game got canceled because of the fire. Oh, AQMD probably
should have compensated him for that. Another one said that
there's summer vacation plans from school were ruined. I can
believe in well, I mean, I guess it was a stake.
(03:22):
It'd be a summer staycation at that point, because if
you're going on vacation, you'd be leaving Boyle House. Well,
not if you had to worry about vacating your house
or what the situation was near confidence. Okay, well, I'm
not as cynical as you I am, because what I
saw was a number of people lining up with a
list of grievances. It was a festivus at AQMD when
(03:43):
they were complaining that I had to get on a
bus to come to a meeting. That's how government works.
I can't complain that city Hall isn't meeting in my
courtyard in my apartment complex. I have to go to
city Hall where they meet. That's how it works because
there's too many there's too many, too many complexes that
they have to stop at every day, and day doesn't
(04:04):
work that way. They do make government in Southern California
annoyingly accessible. By the way they have to be broadcast.
You have to be able to take comments from phones.
You can submit written comments and these are all brought
into the records, so you didn't have to go they
wanted to to show. Was there a show of force?
I get it, was there a mariachi? I don't believe
(04:25):
there was. I think that's why everybody was upset. Although
Karen Bass did show up via video call, yes, and
she said as a public health crisis, she just didn't
want to be close to it because it stinks. Yeah,
somebody else I thought this was Oh, this was really
great too. Many speakers of the lineages from LAS. Many
speakers the Lineage fire was not an isolated incident. They
said it was another example of Boil Heights and Ea
(04:46):
Stella communities being forced to live with the impacts of
policies and businesses that create health hazards for the community.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One person said, we are witnessing environmental racism. That is
help me understand what that is? Is that another one
of those not necessarily. I think it's it's easily to
pooh pooh, easy to pooh poo for some folks because
they don't like to consider that racism does actually exist
in some places. And then you attach it to environment
you've got a couple of dog whistles. Yeah, that make
(05:13):
you uncomfortable. The idea behind environmental racism specifically, is that
there are communities that tend to be populated by one
race or another, maybe black people or people of lat
you know, And it's those neighborhoods where unpleasant are unsavory
(05:33):
or environmentally polluting companies are located. Help me with this
because I genuinely do not know the answer to this. Oh,
you're a known racist, So I understand. After today's show,
I'm telling you, I'm getting suspended. I just listen to
the first hour of the podcast killing me. Jesse, You're
not helping. Finally, Jesse's on my side. He's gonna be
the worst witness at my HR meeting, which came first.
(05:56):
I genuinely do not know. So is it that you
have for I know there's history of redlining in different
areas and things like that. Is the history? Oh, we
can put the factories over there because that's where the
minorities are. Or is it a situation where and I'll
tell you, I'll tell you there's systemic racism all over
the place I see it. Is it a situation where
(06:19):
near that zoning is where housing has been affordable the
longest for people who were not getting the high paying
jobs and maybe being locked out for systemic racism for
different reasons. But were the factories there was the zoning
there first, or did they put the zoning there because
it was a minority community. Well, I think I think
both of those things are true. Okay, it would depend
on which neighborhood specifically, and how long have the neighborhoods existed,
(06:41):
because there was a time where there were more white
people in certain neighborhoods than there are now. That's why
I said, in a variety of reasons that that is
not true anymore. Maybe they became economically mobile and they
moved somewhere else. Some people might have been motivated by racism,
Hey it's getting you know, a little black in the neighborhood.
I think it's certainly those types of neighborhood or cities
there were. And then there are the consideration that certain
(07:04):
types of industry around a housing stock depresses its value,
and so it is attainable to folks who might be
first generation immigrants, lower income factory workers, and they populate
those neighborhoods. That's my point. So that is that in
and of itself, is it environmentally racist or it was
affordable for people who didn't have the means when they
(07:26):
first came to this country. For instance, I think a
lot of times, and this can be true. I think
of both people who feel that they're experiencing racism or
people who are exhibiting racism. It may be more closely
related to economic situation than one's race. And yes, you
can look around the neighborhod and say everybody here is Latino, right,
(07:49):
But are you also have the same economic level and
that is that the primary reason that you're suffering next
to these places? That's my question. You don't have the
political leverage or influence because of your economic status, not
because of your race. That's my question. When people start
claiming environmental racism, I'm not buying that. I have to
(08:11):
do a little more investigation into it is an environmental
racism or is it socioeconomic imbalance? Because look, if I
don't have the money, but the house over by this
area that's being zoned this way is more affordable, and
I want to raise my family in a single family home,
that's my option. But if you say racist, then you
get everybody's ears. You get ears. That's why I asked
(08:32):
it was a daghouse, And well, yeah, I think maybe
maybe it's weaponized. Yeah, which is sad to say. Goodness
knows racism is weaponized against people to experience racism, but yes,
people that might have been the targets of racism can
weaponize it in a way that can lead to tougher
penalties because it wins over the type of sympathies you
(08:53):
need in certain layers of government, especially in La County,
and I would bet the AQMD is one of those
that we more sympathetic. But keep in mind, let me
ins is a company that has already cleaned up most
of this mess within the timeline, eighty to ninety percent
of it, right, and they've spent eighty one hundred million
dollars doing that so far. I mean that's significant. Well,
(09:14):
but that's not enough. And they've also spent three point
three million dollars in assistance. Now this is coming from
the company itself, Like I haven't checked their books. Three
point three million dollars in assistance air purifiers, air conditioners,
mask water, grocery vouchers, cash cards, and relocation support. But
residents are saying that that is still insufficient or unevenly distributed.
I blame the local politicians who have made these folks
(09:35):
and boy Heights who are definitely experiencing some unpleasantness, a
bad environmental situation. They've made them feel like bigger victims
than I think they really are. And we're not going
to hear the end of this. But I don't hear
any of them saying whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't
baby me here. I can handle my own business. Let's
figure out what is, let's figure out what it's mixed,
and let's figure out what you need to handle. Everyone
(09:57):
lining up with their hands out, even going so far
as to plain about having to travel all the way
to Diamond Box. Oh they had to take public transit.
Now for that, I'm sorry. Yeah, how do you compensate
pit pull without turning the entire northeast section of LA
into an unlimited corporate claims file. That's exactly what's happening,
and that's all the Maryland. Yeah, very well done.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI
AM sixty more stimulating talk before.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We get to any further here. Monks Jesse did ask
me a question in the last segment during the last
commercial break. There there's an extinct toad that was found
in the tar pits in Librea, and he said, was
this toad dead or alive? And I thought, yes, Jesse,
the extinct toad was alive. He goes, that's cool. Hm, No,
(10:50):
it's dead. It's been dead for millions of years. But
it was actually he then explained it. I thought, actually,
that's not a bad question. He said, did they think
it was extinct? But then they found one of the
tar pits? And I go, okay, that's legit question. But
no it's not. It was an ice age toad. Jesse.
Where did you do your undergrad? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, I have an update on my fire extinguisher
if you want to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh, let's just refresh everybody. And I'm glad to hear this.
Jesse is such a unique character, very bizarre man with
a wonderful mustache. It's okay mustache. He had a fire
extinguisher in his old apartment that had been used because
there was a fire. Right you burned something on the stove.
He was attacked by a couple of and they burned.
(11:32):
I mean, you know, the instructions are on the box.
Regardless of that, where'd you do your undergrad?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You see, where were saying yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He did read the box to be fair and it
said placed directly on the rack, but he thought the
rack was just the burners. You try to cut them
on the stovetop, right in the oven.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Did you leave?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Did you get high and forget they were in there
right on the Yeah, it's fine. Okay. So anyway, he
had a fire at his old place, so the fire
extinguisher is empty, but he kept it in there. Now
he has since moved know what to do with the fires.
He didn't know what to do with the fire exting
it with him, so it is now in the new
apartment with him. And so we posed this question, what
are you supposed to do? How do you get rid
(12:08):
of the fire exting, which when we got a lot
of great feedback from listeners who were like, you can
refill it or there are Yeah, he tried to take
it to the firehouse, so nobody answered that. We heard
that that's not a good idea either. You now have a.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Solution, Well, yeah, I guess. So I did try to
take it to the firehouse. It was no one was there,
so I wanted to check that was empty, so I
kind of grabbed like a paper bag and sprayed it
out of the paper bag. But I'm glad it was
empty because that probably would have ended in a mess
if it wasn't. Yes, yeah, and it was empty, so
(12:40):
I just chucked it into the dumpster.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Oh tost it. Yeah, my neighbor's dumsterer.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Though, So okay. The only problem with that is that
you're supposed to recycle in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
You know what, there's a lot of people in my
apartment complex that buy a lot of Amazon and it's
the recycling dumpster.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It is always full of Amazon boxes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, ourse too. Yeah, ours is uh. I told you
the story of mine when I said, is they're recycling
and they said, yeah, we don't really do that here.
Well that's the latest from Jesse Black thrown thro my dumpster.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Any waist back.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm going to miss you guys tomorrow. I just got
word you're not going to be here tomorrow Morrow. I
wonder if that's anything very quickly first hour, So it
could be Meryl will have the day off tomorrow, and Jesse, incidentally,
for allowing that to air, will also not be here tomorrow.
So it's going to be Monks and Merrill without Merrill.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
I always look.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Forward to your guys show.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
It makes my afternoon. I listen to it while I
work from home. You just make me laugh and I
agree with most of what you say. I think you
guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So thanks for what you do. She on the treadmill,
maybe I love that exercising, and or maybe the dryer
could be the dryer. Either way, she's getting stuff done
listening to monst and Marylo those automatic CPR machines. You know,
just maybe she's shaking a half empty fire exting whish
you're trying to figure out what to do with it.
That could be like some other idiot.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I know.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
It makes my afternoon. I listened to it while I
work from home. It just makes me laugh, and I
agree with most of what you say. I think you
guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That is very sweet. Thank you for taking the time
to let us know that. That means a lot. Meanwhile,
Mark Karen Bass other elected officials want lineage that cold
storage facility to finance familiarly ongoing assistance for people affected
by the warehouse. Keep in mind they've already spent over
three million dollars on these people in this neighborhood. Yeah, okay,
So what is a fair compensation. I mean we we
(14:27):
now have. And by the way, we were talking about
this Air Quality Management District meeting where a lot of
the boile height scenes. I don't know the deminem boilers
the boilers. I said that you said, don't call them that,
but I think you said boil Haitians, right, And then
I said, if not that, what about the boilers. And
that's why you've got the day off to move Just
call you just call them Angelino's right, I said, boiler makers.
(14:50):
So they had this meeting yesterday and it didn't get
no conclusion, so they're meeting again today. Like this is
still going on. I mean, people had to take a
bus a second day in a row, and the boil
high people are mad that they had to take a
bus a diamond bar, that the meeting wasn't brought to them.
It's it's starting to get tedious. So they'll let me
take a corporation side. Here's my concern. When you've got
Karen Bass, and you've got Isabel Herado, and you've got
(15:11):
the others that are that are saying, you know, lineage,
you need to have an open checkbook with with the
bottomless funds for whatever. Repeat and by the way, we're
not gonna let you ever rebuild, so your checkbook could
never replenish. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna do everything they can
to bankrupt this company. My concern here is that, like
everything else with the city, they're not going to administrate
this very well. Oh it's gonna be dreadful, and they're
(15:33):
gonna say just just whatever people want, just go to
lineage and that's your new piggy bank, instead of actually
having some sort of a system that's set up to
provide legitimate Look, here's your here's your reimbursement for the
receipts you've turned in, Like we all have to do
at work. If I have a work expense, I got
(15:53):
to turn in a receipt and then the work goes.
They determine whether or not that's a legitimate expense, and
then they'll reimburse me it is our work works. No,
what they want is they want to give people like
you have the corporate credit card, to just say, yeah,
just max that out whenever you want. That's not how
we govern, that's not how it works. There is no
bottomless well that you can just keep going back to
(16:15):
the rain and how much is expected. Three point three
million is a lot. The company itself said, as of
this week, households around the fire, the burned out warehouse
where it does legitimately stink, to high heaven, where it
is a mess. You said, it's even worse than the
skid row you're in space. I'd rather smell the hobo's
butts as I smell every day in skid row than
(16:37):
what I smelled in boil Heights. Not good. It's disgusting. Okay,
So they had my sympathies. But as of this week,
Lineage said nearby households had received almost six hundred air purefires,
six hundred and fifty one portable air conditioners, more than
twelve hundred grocery vouch. So people have air conditioners that
didn't have air conditioners before. They might have got the
(16:58):
portable ones so as to not use the window units,
you know what I mean? In case it's yeah, because
they had to close their windows, and it was yeah,
that's true too, exactly. But pretty good deal if you
didn't have an air conditioner before and they just cleaned
out home depot for you. Sure, and over one hundred
cash assistance cards, among other supplies. So there's also this
nonprofit that's been involved. Originally, Remember right after the disaster started,
(17:20):
Lineage came out and said, don't worry, we were putting
money in towards this nonprofit that's going to handle it.
Wasn't good enough. People needed direct payments, and Lineage was like, fine, Okay,
we've got a mess on our hands. We've got to
clean up, but let us get our check book out
to each of you individually and bring you air, purefiers
and all this stuff. Well they did it. Make it
rain for us exactly, and that's what I think is
going to keep happening. You had a significant turnout. They
(17:44):
loaded up a bus and brought a bunch of boiler
spoil height scenes. I'm gonna have to look up what
the demonem is for that, only because you don't want
to get suspended. But this is the other thing that
we have to keep in mind. We don't know how
this fire started. No, we don't know who to blame
for this fire. And LINEA is gonna find itself in litigation,
(18:05):
probably with the solar panel company, maybe with the city.
And yet this company is continuing to be demonized for
not doing enough for this community. They're meeting the deadline
for cleaning up that was mandated by the mayor, and
yet the governments are still trying to pile on even
higher fines against them. They seem to be working their
butts off here to clean up a mess that they
(18:27):
clearly didn't want to happen. No, it wasn't like they
were out there starting in their warehouse on fire. It's
not even like it was a natural fire hazard anyway.
I mean, I suppose every building is to some degree,
but and solar panels. I don't know whether that enhances
that or not, but the belief seems to be that
it started with the solar panels, and it's not theirs.
(18:48):
But who's got the deeper pockets and who's immediately the
face of the issue. That's where this is going to go.
I need another piece of birthday cake it and you
know what, we got a message for our producer, Michelle.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Happy birthday, Michelle Cbe. You put all the best special
events from KFI. I think I think the three of
them now in each one just keep getting better and
better and better. We all love you out here, Michelle.
You help make KFI what it is. Beautiful party on.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
She's gonna be mad that we're late getting out of this. Oh,
it's your father realizing Jesse's the one only at us.
But he got a little airtime, so he was all
excited about the second. All right, you see the faces
online with it. Just have hours left to live. All
this made me really sad. I heard Sarah maclachl in
the back of my head when I was reading it. Uh,
Los Angeles has spent years promising a hum main shelter system.
(19:42):
You yet thousands of animals are still dying inside that system.
How the city lost control? Is next Monks and Merril
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You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from kf
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Speaker 2 (19:58):
Follow us on the social media is at Monks and Marril,
at Monks and maryl Oh. Yeah, by the way, you
make me out to be this horrible abuse there. Anybody
that follows me in social media is knows that I
like every afternoon, I get a palate cleanse by just
going through social media and looking at puppy videos. That's
my life. Then why deal with you. I'm going to
go home and I go watch golden retrievers play with ducks.
(20:18):
How many animals have you killed with your bare hands
that we know of? The porcupine?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
None?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You beat a porcupine to death for attacking your dogs.
This is a possum. Oh, there's also a possum. I
don't beat the porcupine there. I've never killed a porcupine.
Where did you encounter a porcupine? I've never seen one
in my life. Where are they? And you grew up
in the city, young fella. Are they widespread animals? They
are in northern Michigan. Yeah, you just run into them. Honestly,
(20:46):
if you had it on a sniper on an exam,
where where's the natural habitat in America for porcupines? I
really wouldn't have an idea. The woods? Are they here? Yeah,
I'm sure if you if you've head up the trails
and you'll run into it. I've never encountered a porcupine
in the Why I'll tell you who runs into porcupines
in the wild. My dog, and then you beat it
to death, Not your dog, but the porcupine. You were vengue.
I couldn't find the porcupine. Oh he's still on the loose, right,
(21:09):
So you beat the possum to death, because then the
porcupine got into a fight with a with a juvenile raccoon,
and then the poor raccoon was I had to put
that down because and how she put it down? Chris,
did you drown it in a bucket?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I didn't drown it in a bucket. It's the matter
with you. I don't know. I'd give drown in the
bucket by one. I put one in the back of it, said,
real fast, one but a boot a bullet, Yeah, tell it.
Look at so much pain. Look at the flowers coon.
Look at that. He's showing me a picture right now,
(21:41):
and it is a terrible photo of his dog with
all those quills. Are they called quills?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
In his nose that's rough. And yes, the dog has
such sad eyes. Honestly, the porcupine deserves that. She was
scared to come back because she thought she was gonna
get in trouble. She was just covering these porcupines and
these quills and they were all down her throat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Man.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Of course, it was Friday, at like five point thirty,
right after the vet closed. Well, it was a rough
weekend for her. While you're serving your suspension and we
took you can resume your hunt for this porcupine. Well,
the reason I bring this up is because, well, first
of all, Jackie's back in oxygen. That's stupid eagle. I'm ready.
I'm done with it. Now you're done with I agree,
(22:17):
good luck to her. I love that people love it
and they have their thing. But it's kind of a weird.
It's nature, Okay, the eagle is it's at the end
of its and you know, I do feel a little
bit sad, even though we tend to humanize animals experiences. Yes,
like the eagle. The eaglets, for example, left they're gone. Yeah,
like they was just respected. I mean, now they've reached
(22:38):
the age, they've flown around a bit, now they're ready
to leave for good. It appears that they have part
of me is like I felt a bit of sadness
for Jackie that she didn't see them leave, But like,
do you think she cares? No, she's had other She
did what she's supposed to do. That's right. And I'm
sure that she's like a grandmother, a great grandmother at
this point. And what happens if great Grandma's gotten Mimian
is on oxygen. It's like everybody gather around, She's all
going to say goodbye. She's an old ass eagle. It's time.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Oh that's really sad.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That's nature. I mean, they don't live forever.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
It's still sad. Why because I'm attached to Yeah, a
lot of people are. Look, if I ran into the bird,
I would do what I could to save it. But
have you seen how much people are giving away in
the like the gofundmes for this thing.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
It's like you want to read it though, and it's
helping so many other That's true, right, it's so much
awareness to wildlife.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Glad we would have an affordability issue. You know what,
the next time anybody brings up the cost of anything,
I'm gonna go, oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know I don't have any money for groceries because
you give it all that bird. Yeah, I mean what
they've done all kinds of weird things. They like she
got a liver transplant or something. Blood transfusions for an eagle.
I don't even know where you get spare blood an
MRI on a bird? That that that is that old. Listen,
anyone that's ever owned a pet knows they go to
the vet, and the vet goes the cancer is spreading.
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We can do this and this and this and this,
and you could probably get three more months out of it.
And you go, how much is that gonna cost? And
they say that'll be another twelve thousand dollars, And you say,
I love my dog more than anything in the world,
but I'm gonna take him home and drown him in
a bucket.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
I spent thirty thousand dollars on my dog trying to
save him.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How old was your dog?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
He was he had just turned eleven? Nope, and then
he passed away.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
How much did you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Spend thirty thirty thousand dollars? I appreciate how much you
love the animal, but that's not a good use of money.
I'm sorry. I mean, I get it. Look my last dog,
this dog that I just showed you with the porcupine quills.
We had to take her back twice because she's so dumb. Hey,
thousand dollars every time. Then she pore her leg up.
That was seven grand. But if the dog, if the
(24:32):
prognosis is the dog's not gonna make it, then you're
gonna have to say goodbye either now or later. But
I'm thirty thousand dollars an awful lot of incentive for
me to see now.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Instead, I thought he was going to live. Though.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I don't blame you for trying. Blame thirty thousand dollars.
You could have room and board in full tuition at
UC Riverside.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
I'm still paying for it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You could have ended up with a full degree like
Jesse has.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
For that.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, there is some really bad animal news. I mean,
we're glad that Jackie. I feel like there's mixed headlines
come out of Jackie's situation, like she's not good, she
is good. She's back on oxygen. Yeah, back on oxygen. Oxygen, Yeah,
oxygen bird oxygen. That's at least cheap. But here's something terrible.
City shelters in La euthanized more than two thousand cats, kittens,
(25:19):
and dogs this year. Okay, I'm not happy about it.
Can you be a little more sensitive about this? This
one bothered me. I told you I love these animals.
That's a thirty three percent increase from the same period
last year. Okay, let me be realistic for just a moment.
Take everyone that's donated to this one eagle and drown
them in a bucket. Let's just drown all those people
in buckets.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Stop it with that?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Will you take all the tens of thousands of dollars
that have been donated for blood transfusions and oxygen and
beak transplants for that one bird, she got a beat job?
And what if you had donated that money to try
to help some of these humane shelters or to help
pay for fostering some of these animals that are being
put down every single day because the shelters are full. Yeah,
(26:02):
they are full. They're absolutely is why they have to
why they reason to put them down? Well, it's horrible.
These are viable pets, viable pets. And as someone who
has rescued a cat from the streets of skid raw,
oh did you? I did? And you've never mentioned that before. Yeah,
because I didn't drown her a bucket like you would have,
Tim Allen, stop it. I think about this all the
(26:24):
time when I'm having a good moment with a little
cat that you would have absolutely been killed by now
and you're so sweet, yeah and full of love. Would
not have made it. Because one of the issues I
think that we're having and why there's no data on
this specifically where these animals are coming from. But you
realize that like more than ten percent of skid row
(26:45):
homeless people have no animals. They know they do, I
know they do. They can't take care of themselves, and
now we're asking them to take care of animals. The
animals are not getting care. I know they're not getting
spade neutered. I know they're not. And by the way,
you're supposed to have any animals supposed to be spade
nuted over the age of four, right, that's supposed to happen.
They're not doing that. And what do you what is
it to Almost sixteen percent of one on house people
(27:05):
surveyed in Los Angeles reported having pets, and we know
what happens to those pets down there. We've had Joey
tuc On and Joey Tucco, who's an activist here in
the city, to talk about it. It's terrible. By the way,
I want to talk to him again because he had
you know, he showed up at his house, Kenneth and
he and Nythia Rahman at his house. He had them
over and he was very disappointed. I think he wanted
(27:26):
to one my oral candidate wants you to put her
in charge of a fourteen billion dollar city, but she
can't even seem to get a million dollar bathroom open
in her own back yard. Would you vote for someone
who makes her own constituents hold it? The latest on
the wild bathroom that won't open.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from KFI
AM six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's Monks and Marilyn Michael Monks. That is Chris Meryl
just had a freak accident, and it's what I get
for making fun of Jesse, making fun of Eileen, and
making fun of you. I was just putting the headphones
on and some how they snap back and hit my glasses,
show that into my eyebrow and I might be bleeding.
I think I deserve it more compelling radio like that
tomorrow while I'm yeah, we're gonna find other places to
(28:11):
bury fire extinguishers tomorrow too. That's when it's Monks without Merrill.
That's great.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Happy birthday to Michelle. This is Gabby from Ranchi Cuckamonga.
She's one of the hardest working women in the industry.
I met her at one of your events and I
think she's fabulous. Save me a piece of cake.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Michael, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It's not up to me to do that. It is
almost gone. And I really had a sliver because I
haven't exercise yet. You know, Oh, do you exercise too?
You rescue a cat and the exercise. Yeah, burn a
few calories here and there. You should try it. You
ought to talk about do you have an advanced degree
as well? I do have a master's comunication. You're so
(28:57):
jealous of me, and I don't know. Why can I
tell you what a lot of people no longer like
this show because of what you said. Yeah, every Karen,
Kelly and Kathy is upset with you for what did
I say? Well, what you were, how you were treating
those animals. You drowned the animals in the bucket. You
did some really terrible things. There's a so you know,
there's people very upset about that. There would be a
(29:18):
new place.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
For you, the story and everything that's wrong with America
and what is wrong with human beings. And they don't
get irony. So, while we are literally giving thousands of
dollars worth of medical care to this bird, we are
eating fried chicken and killing millions of chickens.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, here's some newsflash. Chickens are birds too.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Because they don't have a YouTube channel, we get to
eat them.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Chickens are birds too. I love that, and it is true.
Chickens are birds too, save that we we have a
different hierarchy for animals. Well, this is a celebrity, this
is the bird is Well that's true too. But if
you were driving on the highway and you saw a
dead bald eagle, that would hit you differently than seeing
(30:10):
a dead possum. Oh no, not, according to uh every Karen,
Kelly and Kathy that wrote in to say that they
don't like you. I think he's what you did to
that point. You killed the possum, and they were upset
that you killed the possum. And I would feel upset
if I ran over a possum. You killed one directly
with a bullet. No, that was the raccoon. Then how
you strangled the possum with your bare hands, with those
(30:32):
big sausage fingers of yours, strangled a possum to death?
What chickens are birds too? Yeah, at least you know
Debra's not here. Eileen is in for Debora. I'm you
picked the Are you a vegetarian?
Speaker 12 (30:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
But I'm not totally You eat me so like there's
some animals like you are birds too. You ate you're
eating a cow right now?
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I mean you said you brought in some stea. I
was vegan for a while, yeah, but you're not now.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
But like my body did not like it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
How many zoo animals died for your dress today?
Speaker 10 (31:06):
I can't eat chicken on the bone though, it's too real.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Chickens are birds too, I agree. I like chicken tender.
Literally wearing cheetah skin on your legs as we speak,
leopard even Debora wear's leather. She does say that's the
one thing she she violates the vegan coat on she wears.
You never go hiking and have to go pop up.
Oh sure.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
The questions swirling over the controversial million dollar bathroom and
runing canyon. Here it is in February, the prefabricated building
was wheeled in. Now six months later, the doors are
still locked and some can barely hold in their frustration.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I've had some close calls, but uh, you know how
to improvise.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
But that's all I'll say, because I don't want to
incriminate myself.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
According to the.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Council, District four.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Did he just admit to go and pop up on
the trail?
Speaker 12 (31:52):
You have to, according to the council District four website construction.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Wait, who's who's the council member in councole District four.
I think her name is is nit the romic I've
heard of her.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
Construction began in January and was expected to take about
fifteen weeks, putting completion in April or May.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
They're about four months behind schedule.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
And I'm here every day.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I never see people.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Working on it now.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
The two stalls, sinks, sidewalks, even the lights all appear
in place, but the fencing is still up.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
A lot of things like that happened in California, where
a lot it gets poured in and a lot of
time goes by and we don't see the results that
we hoped for.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
It makes me wonder, you know it's dude, are they
you know, appropriately putting the funding you know where they
need to put it early?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Whoops? Sorry, I got the cut off. You get the point, Yeah,
you get the point that this is another thing that
we were promised. Obviously, the price tag was already outrageous.
There was a million dollars for it's a prefab bathroom,
which means is a trailer going they're dropping it off. Yeah.
Now the million dollars does include like the trail, the
walk up to a defencing, the plumbing, all that stuff.
But still a million dollars. Yeah, come on, come on,
(32:59):
And they don't finish it, and it's supposed to be
done if prefabs, so it could be done in fifteen weeks.
So I want you to keep this six months in
Nitthia Rahman can't even get a toilet built in her district.
So when she gets this endorsement that she got this
week from the Western Carpenter's Union, who are also very
slow at building things, Oh maybe that's why. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
you will know that she's lying when she says there
(33:19):
will be cranes all over the city. Oh, there might be,
they just will never move. They'll just be permanent parts
of the skyline because we'll start projects and then the
union will get angry about something, or one union will
sue a subcontractor, and then we'll be stuck in litigation. Exactly.
This is a microcosm of basically anything that anyone dreams
(33:40):
of in Los Angeles. People love running Canyon yevon hike.
It's beautiful and it would be nice to have, but also,
on the other hand, you expect this bathroom to remain nice.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Maybe right there, I might you got some decent I
don't know. I don't I guess I don't know where
the trail hit is. I haven't been there, so I
don't know. Is it is that one of those situations
do you have to do you have to get to it,
I guess. Is my point.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Like the Magic Castle?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, is that where you threw your
fire exting. I'm sure when you're trying to get rid
of it.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
No, I used to go there a lot when I
was like fully unemployed.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Think about jumping as opposed to radio unemployed. Uh yeah, okay,
so I know. I think this one will probably be okay.
I don't think there's gonna be a lot of graffiti
artists that are gonna be this area. It's nice area.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Appreciate Go ahead, I'm just gonna run through Kentucky fed
Do you want any grab your something? You want wings?
Speaker 10 (34:42):
No, I can't eat chicken on the bone.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
No, we'll get some popcorn. Eaglet with some tater wedges,
got another cell. Cal City says their cops can't keep
up with your bad behavior, so their solution is more surveillance.
The police industrial complex supporters, you're getting your way. Somebody's
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(35:05):
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breeze is blown in from Boyle Heights at your place? No,
not lately. It just smells like hobo p which is worse?
(00:33):
Is it the stench from Boyle Heights it's bad? Or
is it the hobo p skid row? Or is it
just sort of different?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Noe.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're happy to have the hobo pee back. Oh is
that right? Okay, that's very good. So they had a
they had a meeting with a q m D. What
is that, the Air Quality Management District? Okay, So the
AQMD has got their their their places in Diamond Bar.
Well that's too far away from Boyle Heights. Well he is,
I mean, you gotta, but it is where their meeting is. Yeah,
(00:59):
for where wherever the issue is? Was the boil Haitians.
What are they called? I wouldn't call them Boil Haitians,
the boilers. After the recent presidential election, it got a
little testing. Oh, just the word Haitian. Well that's the
second time I've been accidentally racist today. That's great. If
you missed the first hour, you want to tune right
in and see why I might get fired. That'll be
a lot of fun. So anyway, what do we call them? Boilers? Angelina?
(01:22):
Boiler makers who live in boil Heights. Okay, so they
had to go to Diamond Bar. So they had to
jump on a bus, get on the sixty and go
to Diamond Bar. And when they got there, they complained
that they had to get out of bus and go
to Diamond Bar. Everything has to be hand delivered. Yes,
that's exactly right. In fact, I did a little montage
here some of the complaints. CBSLA was there and they
(01:45):
they were putting people together, they were complaining. I will
give CBSLA a credit for cutting out most of the
bs So most of the complaints you're about to hear
were somewhat legitimate.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
This is just one more example on top of another.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Smells whole horridic.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I support the order to hold the lineage accountable for
the harm they've done to Easter La and Boyle Heights.
Good morning to everybody except lineage.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That is so. The thing is, if you were to
ask her do you support President Trump and then things
he says online, she'd be like, no, I can't stand him.
But remember when President Trump was like Merry christmassed everyone
except the Democratic socialist losers, and people are so mad
at President Trump for that. Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
AQMD is an enforcement agency.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So enforced. I like when they tell people what their
jobs are. It's my favorite.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
It wasn't just a fire, it was a toxic fire.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Everything out there is toxic now, okay, and AQMD, you
guys are responsible for that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Unfortunately, So we've got people that are holding every agency
accountable for a fire.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Unfortunately, AQMD and other agencies and electeds have not stepped
up with the urgency required for our hoods.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Some of the other complaints were things like a little
boy showed up to say that his little league baseball
game got canceled because of the fire. Oh, AQMD probably
should have compensated him for that. Another one said that
there's summer vacation plans from school were ruined. I can
believe in well, I mean, I guess it was a stake.
(03:22):
It'd be a summer staycation at that point, because if
you're going on vacation, you'd be leaving Boyle House. Well,
not if you had to worry about vacating your house
or what the situation was near confidence. Okay, well, I'm
not as cynical as you I am, because what I
saw was a number of people lining up with a
list of grievances. It was a festivus at AQMD when
(03:43):
they were complaining that I had to get on a
bus to come to a meeting. That's how government works.
I can't complain that city Hall isn't meeting in my
courtyard in my apartment complex. I have to go to
city Hall where they meet. That's how it works because
there's too many there's too many, too many complexes that
they have to stop at every day, and day doesn't
(04:04):
work that way. They do make government in Southern California
annoyingly accessible. By the way they have to be broadcast.
You have to be able to take comments from phones.
You can submit written comments and these are all brought
into the records, so you didn't have to go they
wanted to to show. Was there a show of force?
I get it, was there a mariachi? I don't believe
(04:25):
there was. I think that's why everybody was upset. Although
Karen Bass did show up via video call, yes, and
she said as a public health crisis, she just didn't
want to be close to it because it stinks. Yeah,
somebody else I thought this was Oh, this was really
great too. Many speakers of the lineages from LAS. Many
speakers the Lineage fire was not an isolated incident. They
said it was another example of Boil Heights and Ea
(04:46):
Stella communities being forced to live with the impacts of
policies and businesses that create health hazards for the community.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One person said, we are witnessing environmental racism. That is
help me understand what that is? Is that another one
of those not necessarily. I think it's it's easily to
pooh pooh, easy to pooh poo for some folks because
they don't like to consider that racism does actually exist
in some places. And then you attach it to environment
you've got a couple of dog whistles. Yeah, that make
(05:13):
you uncomfortable. The idea behind environmental racism specifically, is that
there are communities that tend to be populated by one
race or another, maybe black people or people of lat
you know, And it's those neighborhoods where unpleasant are unsavory
(05:33):
or environmentally polluting companies are located. Help me with this
because I genuinely do not know the answer to this. Oh,
you're a known racist, So I understand. After today's show,
I'm telling you, I'm getting suspended. I just listen to
the first hour of the podcast killing me. Jesse, You're
not helping. Finally, Jesse's on my side. He's gonna be
the worst witness at my HR meeting, which came first.
(05:56):
I genuinely do not know. So is it that you
have for I know there's history of redlining in different
areas and things like that. Is the history? Oh, we
can put the factories over there because that's where the
minorities are. Or is it a situation where and I'll
tell you, I'll tell you there's systemic racism all over
the place I see it. Is it a situation where
(06:19):
near that zoning is where housing has been affordable the
longest for people who were not getting the high paying
jobs and maybe being locked out for systemic racism for
different reasons. But were the factories there was the zoning
there first, or did they put the zoning there because
it was a minority community. Well, I think I think
both of those things are true. Okay, it would depend
on which neighborhood specifically, and how long have the neighborhoods existed,
(06:41):
because there was a time where there were more white
people in certain neighborhoods than there are now. That's why
I said, in a variety of reasons that that is
not true anymore. Maybe they became economically mobile and they
moved somewhere else. Some people might have been motivated by racism,
Hey it's getting you know, a little black in the neighborhood.
I think it's certainly those types of neighborhood or cities
there were. And then there are the consideration that certain
(07:04):
types of industry around a housing stock depresses its value,
and so it is attainable to folks who might be
first generation immigrants, lower income factory workers, and they populate
those neighborhoods. That's my point. So that is that in
and of itself, is it environmentally racist or it was
affordable for people who didn't have the means when they
(07:26):
first came to this country. For instance, I think a
lot of times, and this can be true. I think
of both people who feel that they're experiencing racism or
people who are exhibiting racism. It may be more closely
related to economic situation than one's race. And yes, you
can look around the neighborhod and say everybody here is Latino, right,
(07:49):
But are you also have the same economic level and
that is that the primary reason that you're suffering next
to these places? That's my question. You don't have the
political leverage or influence because of your economic status, not
because of your race. That's my question. When people start
claiming environmental racism, I'm not buying that. I have to
(08:11):
do a little more investigation into it is an environmental
racism or is it socioeconomic imbalance? Because look, if I
don't have the money, but the house over by this
area that's being zoned this way is more affordable, and
I want to raise my family in a single family home,
that's my option. But if you say racist, then you
get everybody's ears. You get ears. That's why I asked
(08:32):
it was a daghouse, And well, yeah, I think maybe
maybe it's weaponized. Yeah, which is sad to say. Goodness
knows racism is weaponized against people to experience racism, but yes,
people that might have been the targets of racism can
weaponize it in a way that can lead to tougher
penalties because it wins over the type of sympathies you
(08:53):
need in certain layers of government, especially in La County,
and I would bet the AQMD is one of those
that we more sympathetic. But keep in mind, let me
ins is a company that has already cleaned up most
of this mess within the timeline, eighty to ninety percent
of it, right, and they've spent eighty one hundred million
dollars doing that so far. I mean that's significant. Well,
(09:14):
but that's not enough. And they've also spent three point
three million dollars in assistance. Now this is coming from
the company itself, Like I haven't checked their books. Three
point three million dollars in assistance air purifiers, air conditioners,
mask water, grocery vouchers, cash cards, and relocation support. But
residents are saying that that is still insufficient or unevenly distributed.
I blame the local politicians who have made these folks
(09:35):
and boy Heights who are definitely experiencing some unpleasantness, a
bad environmental situation. They've made them feel like bigger victims
than I think they really are. And we're not going
to hear the end of this. But I don't hear
any of them saying whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't
baby me here. I can handle my own business. Let's
figure out what is, let's figure out what it's mixed,
and let's figure out what you need to handle. Everyone
(09:57):
lining up with their hands out, even going so far
as to plain about having to travel all the way
to Diamond Box. Oh they had to take public transit.
Now for that, I'm sorry. Yeah, how do you compensate
pit pull without turning the entire northeast section of LA
into an unlimited corporate claims file. That's exactly what's happening,
and that's all the Maryland. Yeah, very well done.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI
AM sixty more stimulating talk before.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We get to any further here. Monks Jesse did ask
me a question in the last segment during the last
commercial break. There there's an extinct toad that was found
in the tar pits in Librea, and he said, was
this toad dead or alive? And I thought, yes, Jesse,
the extinct toad was alive. He goes, that's cool. Hm, No,
(10:50):
it's dead. It's been dead for millions of years. But
it was actually he then explained it. I thought, actually,
that's not a bad question. He said, did they think
it was extinct? But then they found one of the
tar pits? And I go, okay, that's legit question. But
no it's not. It was an ice age toad. Jesse.
Where did you do your undergrad? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, I have an update on my fire extinguisher
if you want to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh, let's just refresh everybody. And I'm glad to hear this.
Jesse is such a unique character, very bizarre man with
a wonderful mustache. It's okay mustache. He had a fire
extinguisher in his old apartment that had been used because
there was a fire. Right you burned something on the stove.
He was attacked by a couple of and they burned.
(11:32):
I mean, you know, the instructions are on the box.
Regardless of that, where'd you do your undergrad?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
You see, where were saying yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He did read the box to be fair and it
said placed directly on the rack, but he thought the
rack was just the burners. You try to cut them
on the stovetop, right in the oven.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Did you leave?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Did you get high and forget they were in there
right on the Yeah, it's fine. Okay. So anyway, he
had a fire at his old place, so the fire
extinguisher is empty, but he kept it in there. Now
he has since moved know what to do with the fires.
He didn't know what to do with the fire exting
it with him, so it is now in the new
apartment with him. And so we posed this question, what
are you supposed to do? How do you get rid
(12:08):
of the fire exting, which when we got a lot
of great feedback from listeners who were like, you can
refill it or there are Yeah, he tried to take
it to the firehouse, so nobody answered that. We heard
that that's not a good idea either. You now have a.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Solution, Well, yeah, I guess. So I did try to
take it to the firehouse. It was no one was there,
so I wanted to check that was empty, so I
kind of grabbed like a paper bag and sprayed it
out of the paper bag. But I'm glad it was
empty because that probably would have ended in a mess
if it wasn't. Yes, yeah, and it was empty, so
(12:40):
I just chucked it into the dumpster.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Oh tost it. Yeah, my neighbor's dumsterer.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Though, So okay. The only problem with that is that
you're supposed to recycle in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
You know what, there's a lot of people in my
apartment complex that buy a lot of Amazon and it's
the recycling dumpster.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
It is always full of Amazon boxes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, ourse too. Yeah, ours is uh. I told you
the story of mine when I said, is they're recycling
and they said, yeah, we don't really do that here.
Well that's the latest from Jesse Black thrown thro my dumpster.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Any waist back.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm going to miss you guys tomorrow. I just got
word you're not going to be here tomorrow Morrow. I
wonder if that's anything very quickly first hour, So it
could be Meryl will have the day off tomorrow, and Jesse, incidentally,
for allowing that to air, will also not be here tomorrow.
So it's going to be Monks and Merrill without Merrill.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
I always look.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Forward to your guys show.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
It makes my afternoon. I listen to it while I
work from home. You just make me laugh and I
agree with most of what you say. I think you
guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So thanks for what you do. She on the treadmill,
maybe I love that exercising, and or maybe the dryer
could be the dryer. Either way, she's getting stuff done
listening to monst and Marylo those automatic CPR machines. You know,
just maybe she's shaking a half empty fire exting whish
you're trying to figure out what to do with it.
That could be like some other idiot.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I know.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
It makes my afternoon. I listened to it while I
work from home. It just makes me laugh, and I
agree with most of what you say. I think you
guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That is very sweet. Thank you for taking the time
to let us know that. That means a lot. Meanwhile,
Mark Karen Bass other elected officials want lineage that cold
storage facility to finance familiarly ongoing assistance for people affected
by the warehouse. Keep in mind they've already spent over
three million dollars on these people in this neighborhood. Yeah, okay,
So what is a fair compensation. I mean we we
(14:27):
now have. And by the way, we were talking about
this Air Quality Management District meeting where a lot of
the boile height scenes. I don't know the deminem boilers
the boilers. I said that you said, don't call them that,
but I think you said boil Haitians, right, And then
I said, if not that, what about the boilers. And
that's why you've got the day off to move Just
call you just call them Angelino's right, I said, boiler makers.
(14:50):
So they had this meeting yesterday and it didn't get
no conclusion, so they're meeting again today. Like this is
still going on. I mean, people had to take a
bus a second day in a row, and the boil
high people are mad that they had to take a
bus a diamond bar, that the meeting wasn't brought to them.
It's it's starting to get tedious. So they'll let me
take a corporation side. Here's my concern. When you've got
Karen Bass, and you've got Isabel Herado, and you've got
(15:11):
the others that are that are saying, you know, lineage,
you need to have an open checkbook with with the
bottomless funds for whatever. Repeat and by the way, we're
not gonna let you ever rebuild, so your checkbook could
never replenish. Yeah. Yeah, they're gonna do everything they can
to bankrupt this company. My concern here is that, like
everything else with the city, they're not going to administrate
this very well. Oh it's gonna be dreadful, and they're
(15:33):
gonna say just just whatever people want, just go to
lineage and that's your new piggy bank, instead of actually
having some sort of a system that's set up to
provide legitimate Look, here's your here's your reimbursement for the
receipts you've turned in, Like we all have to do
at work. If I have a work expense, I got
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to turn in a receipt and then the work goes.
They determine whether or not that's a legitimate expense, and
then they'll reimburse me it is our work works. No,
what they want is they want to give people like
you have the corporate credit card, to just say, yeah,
just max that out whenever you want. That's not how
we govern, that's not how it works. There is no
bottomless well that you can just keep going back to
(16:15):
the rain and how much is expected. Three point three
million is a lot. The company itself said, as of
this week, households around the fire, the burned out warehouse
where it does legitimately stink, to high heaven, where it
is a mess. You said, it's even worse than the
skid row you're in space. I'd rather smell the hobo's
butts as I smell every day in skid row than
(16:37):
what I smelled in boil Heights. Not good. It's disgusting. Okay,
So they had my sympathies. But as of this week,
Lineage said nearby households had received almost six hundred air purefires,
six hundred and fifty one portable air conditioners, more than
twelve hundred grocery vouch. So people have air conditioners that
didn't have air conditioners before. They might have got the
(16:58):
portable ones so as to not use the window units,
you know what I mean? In case it's yeah, because
they had to close their windows, and it was yeah,
that's true too, exactly. But pretty good deal if you
didn't have an air conditioner before and they just cleaned
out home depot for you. Sure, and over one hundred
cash assistance cards, among other supplies. So there's also this
nonprofit that's been involved. Originally, Remember right after the disaster started,
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Lineage came out and said, don't worry, we were putting
money in towards this nonprofit that's going to handle it.
Wasn't good enough. People needed direct payments, and Lineage was like, fine, Okay,
we've got a mess on our hands. We've got to
clean up, but let us get our check book out
to each of you individually and bring you air, purefiers
and all this stuff. Well they did it. Make it
rain for us exactly, and that's what I think is
going to keep happening. You had a significant turnout. They
(17:44):
loaded up a bus and brought a bunch of boiler
spoil height scenes. I'm gonna have to look up what
the demonem is for that, only because you don't want
to get suspended. But this is the other thing that
we have to keep in mind. We don't know how
this fire started. No, we don't know who to blame
for this fire. And LINEA is gonna find itself in litigation,
(18:05):
probably with the solar panel company, maybe with the city.
And yet this company is continuing to be demonized for
not doing enough for this community. They're meeting the deadline
for cleaning up that was mandated by the mayor, and
yet the governments are still trying to pile on even
higher fines against them. They seem to be working their
butts off here to clean up a mess that they
(18:27):
clearly didn't want to happen. No, it wasn't like they
were out there starting in their warehouse on fire. It's
not even like it was a natural fire hazard anyway.
I mean, I suppose every building is to some degree,
but and solar panels. I don't know whether that enhances
that or not, but the belief seems to be that
it started with the solar panels, and it's not theirs.
(18:48):
But who's got the deeper pockets and who's immediately the
face of the issue. That's where this is going to go.
I need another piece of birthday cake it and you
know what, we got a message for our producer, Michelle.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Happy birthday, Michelle Cbe. You put all the best special
events from KFI. I think I think the three of
them now in each one just keep getting better and
better and better. We all love you out here, Michelle.
You help make KFI what it is. Beautiful party on.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
She's gonna be mad that we're late getting out of this. Oh,
it's your father realizing Jesse's the one only at us.
But he got a little airtime, so he was all
excited about the second. All right, you see the faces
online with it. Just have hours left to live. All
this made me really sad. I heard Sarah maclachl in
the back of my head when I was reading it. Uh,
Los Angeles has spent years promising a hum main shelter system.
(19:42):
You yet thousands of animals are still dying inside that system.
How the city lost control? Is next Monks and Merril
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from kf
I AM six.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Follow us on the social media is at Monks and Marril,
at Monks and maryl Oh. Yeah, by the way, you
make me out to be this horrible abuse there. Anybody
that follows me in social media is knows that I
like every afternoon, I get a palate cleanse by just
going through social media and looking at puppy videos. That's
my life. Then why deal with you. I'm going to
go home and I go watch golden retrievers play with ducks.
(20:18):
How many animals have you killed with your bare hands
that we know of? The porcupine?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
None?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You beat a porcupine to death for attacking your dogs.
This is a possum. Oh, there's also a possum. I
don't beat the porcupine there. I've never killed a porcupine.
Where did you encounter a porcupine? I've never seen one
in my life. Where are they? And you grew up
in the city, young fella. Are they widespread animals? They
are in northern Michigan. Yeah, you just run into them. Honestly,
(20:46):
if you had it on a sniper on an exam,
where where's the natural habitat in America for porcupines? I
really wouldn't have an idea. The woods? Are they here? Yeah,
I'm sure if you if you've head up the trails
and you'll run into it. I've never encountered a porcupine
in the Why I'll tell you who runs into porcupines
in the wild. My dog, and then you beat it
to death, Not your dog, but the porcupine. You were vengue.
I couldn't find the porcupine. Oh he's still on the loose, right,
(21:09):
So you beat the possum to death, because then the
porcupine got into a fight with a with a juvenile raccoon,
and then the poor raccoon was I had to put
that down because and how she put it down? Chris,
did you drown it in a bucket?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I didn't drown it in a bucket. It's the matter
with you. I don't know. I'd give drown in the
bucket by one. I put one in the back of it, said,
real fast, one but a boot a bullet, Yeah, tell it.
Look at so much pain. Look at the flowers coon.
Look at that. He's showing me a picture right now,
(21:41):
and it is a terrible photo of his dog with
all those quills. Are they called quills?
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
In his nose that's rough. And yes, the dog has
such sad eyes. Honestly, the porcupine deserves that. She was
scared to come back because she thought she was gonna
get in trouble. She was just covering these porcupines and
these quills and they were all down her throat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Man.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Of course, it was Friday, at like five point thirty,
right after the vet closed. Well, it was a rough
weekend for her. While you're serving your suspension and we
took you can resume your hunt for this porcupine. Well,
the reason I bring this up is because, well, first
of all, Jackie's back in oxygen. That's stupid eagle. I'm ready.
I'm done with it. Now you're done with I agree,
(22:17):
good luck to her. I love that people love it
and they have their thing. But it's kind of a weird.
It's nature, Okay, the eagle is it's at the end
of its and you know, I do feel a little
bit sad, even though we tend to humanize animals experiences. Yes,
like the eagle. The eaglets, for example, left they're gone. Yeah,
like they was just respected. I mean, now they've reached
(22:38):
the age, they've flown around a bit, now they're ready
to leave for good. It appears that they have part
of me is like I felt a bit of sadness
for Jackie that she didn't see them leave, But like,
do you think she cares? No, she's had other She
did what she's supposed to do. That's right. And I'm
sure that she's like a grandmother, a great grandmother at
this point. And what happens if great Grandma's gotten Mimian
is on oxygen. It's like everybody gather around, She's all
going to say goodbye. She's an old ass eagle. It's time.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Oh that's really sad.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That's nature. I mean, they don't live forever.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
It's still sad. Why because I'm attached to Yeah, a
lot of people are. Look, if I ran into the bird,
I would do what I could to save it. But
have you seen how much people are giving away in
the like the gofundmes for this thing.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
It's like you want to read it though, and it's
helping so many other That's true, right, it's so much
awareness to wildlife.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Glad we would have an affordability issue. You know what,
the next time anybody brings up the cost of anything,
I'm gonna go, oh, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know I don't have any money for groceries because
you give it all that bird. Yeah, I mean what
they've done all kinds of weird things. They like she
got a liver transplant or something. Blood transfusions for an eagle.
I don't even know where you get spare blood an
MRI on a bird? That that that is that old. Listen,
anyone that's ever owned a pet knows they go to
the vet, and the vet goes the cancer is spreading.
(23:52):
We can do this and this and this and this,
and you could probably get three more months out of it.
And you go, how much is that gonna cost? And
they say that'll be another twelve thousand dollars, And you say,
I love my dog more than anything in the world,
but I'm gonna take him home and drown him in
a bucket.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
I spent thirty thousand dollars on my dog trying to
save him.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
How old was your dog?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
He was he had just turned eleven? Nope, and then
he passed away.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
How much did you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Spend thirty thirty thousand dollars? I appreciate how much you
love the animal, but that's not a good use of money.
I'm sorry. I mean, I get it. Look my last dog,
this dog that I just showed you with the porcupine quills.
We had to take her back twice because she's so dumb. Hey,
thousand dollars every time. Then she pore her leg up.
That was seven grand. But if the dog, if the
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prognosis is the dog's not gonna make it, then you're
gonna have to say goodbye either now or later. But
I'm thirty thousand dollars an awful lot of incentive for
me to see now.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Instead, I thought he was going to live. Though.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I don't blame you for trying. Blame thirty thousand dollars.
You could have room and board in full tuition at
UC Riverside.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
I'm still paying for it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You could have ended up with a full degree like
Jesse has.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
For that.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, there is some really bad animal news. I mean,
we're glad that Jackie. I feel like there's mixed headlines
come out of Jackie's situation, like she's not good, she
is good. She's back on oxygen. Yeah, back on oxygen. Oxygen, Yeah,
oxygen bird oxygen. That's at least cheap. But here's something terrible.
City shelters in La euthanized more than two thousand cats, kittens,
(25:19):
and dogs this year. Okay, I'm not happy about it.
Can you be a little more sensitive about this? This
one bothered me. I told you I love these animals.
That's a thirty three percent increase from the same period
last year. Okay, let me be realistic for just a moment.
Take everyone that's donated to this one eagle and drown
them in a bucket. Let's just drown all those people
in buckets.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Stop it with that?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Will you take all the tens of thousands of dollars
that have been donated for blood transfusions and oxygen and
beak transplants for that one bird, she got a beat job?
And what if you had donated that money to try
to help some of these humane shelters or to help
pay for fostering some of these animals that are being
put down every single day because the shelters are full. Yeah,
(26:02):
they are full. They're absolutely is why they have to
why they reason to put them down? Well, it's horrible.
These are viable pets, viable pets. And as someone who
has rescued a cat from the streets of skid raw,
oh did you? I did? And you've never mentioned that before. Yeah,
because I didn't drown her a bucket like you would have,
Tim Allen, stop it. I think about this all the
(26:24):
time when I'm having a good moment with a little
cat that you would have absolutely been killed by now
and you're so sweet, yeah and full of love. Would
not have made it. Because one of the issues I
think that we're having and why there's no data on
this specifically where these animals are coming from. But you
realize that like more than ten percent of skid row
(26:45):
homeless people have no animals. They know they do, I
know they do. They can't take care of themselves, and
now we're asking them to take care of animals. The
animals are not getting care. I know they're not getting
spade neutered. I know they're not. And by the way,
you're supposed to have any animals supposed to be spade
nuted over the age of four, right, that's supposed to happen.
They're not doing that. And what do you what is
it to Almost sixteen percent of one on house people
(27:05):
surveyed in Los Angeles reported having pets, and we know
what happens to those pets down there. We've had Joey
tuc On and Joey Tucco, who's an activist here in
the city, to talk about it. It's terrible. By the way,
I want to talk to him again because he had
you know, he showed up at his house, Kenneth and
he and Nythia Rahman at his house. He had them
over and he was very disappointed. I think he wanted
(27:26):
to one my oral candidate wants you to put her
in charge of a fourteen billion dollar city, but she
can't even seem to get a million dollar bathroom open
in her own back yard. Would you vote for someone
who makes her own constituents hold it? The latest on
the wild bathroom that won't open.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from KFI
AM six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's Monks and Marilyn Michael Monks. That is Chris Meryl
just had a freak accident, and it's what I get
for making fun of Jesse, making fun of Eileen, and
making fun of you. I was just putting the headphones
on and some how they snap back and hit my glasses,
show that into my eyebrow and I might be bleeding.
I think I deserve it more compelling radio like that
tomorrow while I'm yeah, we're gonna find other places to
(28:11):
bury fire extinguishers tomorrow too. That's when it's Monks without Merrill.
That's great.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Happy birthday to Michelle. This is Gabby from Ranchi Cuckamonga.
She's one of the hardest working women in the industry.
I met her at one of your events and I
think she's fabulous. Save me a piece of cake.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Michael, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It's not up to me to do that. It is
almost gone. And I really had a sliver because I
haven't exercise yet. You know, Oh, do you exercise too?
You rescue a cat and the exercise. Yeah, burn a
few calories here and there. You should try it. You
ought to talk about do you have an advanced degree
as well? I do have a master's comunication. You're so
(28:57):
jealous of me, and I don't know. Why can I
tell you what a lot of people no longer like
this show because of what you said. Yeah, every Karen,
Kelly and Kathy is upset with you for what did
I say? Well, what you were, how you were treating
those animals. You drowned the animals in the bucket. You
did some really terrible things. There's a so you know,
there's people very upset about that. There would be a
(29:18):
new place.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
For you, the story and everything that's wrong with America
and what is wrong with human beings. And they don't
get irony. So, while we are literally giving thousands of
dollars worth of medical care to this bird, we are
eating fried chicken and killing millions of chickens.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well, here's some newsflash. Chickens are birds too.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Because they don't have a YouTube channel, we get to
eat them.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Chickens are birds too. I love that, and it is true.
Chickens are birds too, save that we we have a
different hierarchy for animals. Well, this is a celebrity, this
is the bird is Well that's true too. But if
you were driving on the highway and you saw a
dead bald eagle, that would hit you differently than seeing
(30:10):
a dead possum. Oh no, not, according to uh every Karen,
Kelly and Kathy that wrote in to say that they
don't like you. I think he's what you did to
that point. You killed the possum, and they were upset
that you killed the possum. And I would feel upset
if I ran over a possum. You killed one directly
with a bullet. No, that was the raccoon. Then how
you strangled the possum with your bare hands, with those
(30:32):
big sausage fingers of yours, strangled a possum to death?
What chickens are birds too? Yeah, at least you know
Debra's not here. Eileen is in for Debora. I'm you
picked the Are you a vegetarian?
Speaker 12 (30:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
But I'm not totally You eat me so like there's
some animals like you are birds too. You ate you're
eating a cow right now?
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I mean you said you brought in some stea. I
was vegan for a while, yeah, but you're not now.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
But like my body did not like it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
How many zoo animals died for your dress today?
Speaker 10 (31:06):
I can't eat chicken on the bone though, it's too real.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Chickens are birds too, I agree. I like chicken tender.
Literally wearing cheetah skin on your legs as we speak,
leopard even Debora wear's leather. She does say that's the
one thing she she violates the vegan coat on she wears.
You never go hiking and have to go pop up.
Oh sure.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
The questions swirling over the controversial million dollar bathroom and
runing canyon. Here it is in February, the prefabricated building
was wheeled in. Now six months later, the doors are
still locked and some can barely hold in their frustration.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I've had some close calls, but uh, you know how
to improvise.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
But that's all I'll say, because I don't want to
incriminate myself.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
According to the.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Council, District four.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Did he just admit to go and pop up on
the trail?
Speaker 12 (31:52):
You have to, according to the council District four website construction.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Wait, who's who's the council member in councole District four.
I think her name is is nit the romic I've
heard of her.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
Construction began in January and was expected to take about
fifteen weeks, putting completion in April or May.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
They're about four months behind schedule.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
And I'm here every day.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I never see people.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Working on it now.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
The two stalls, sinks, sidewalks, even the lights all appear
in place, but the fencing is still up.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
A lot of things like that happened in California, where
a lot it gets poured in and a lot of
time goes by and we don't see the results that
we hoped for.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
It makes me wonder, you know it's dude, are they
you know, appropriately putting the funding you know where they
need to put it early?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Whoops? Sorry, I got the cut off. You get the point, Yeah,
you get the point that this is another thing that
we were promised. Obviously, the price tag was already outrageous.
There was a million dollars for it's a prefab bathroom,
which means is a trailer going they're dropping it off. Yeah.
Now the million dollars does include like the trail, the
walk up to a defencing, the plumbing, all that stuff.
But still a million dollars. Yeah, come on, come on,
(32:59):
And they don't finish it, and it's supposed to be
done if prefabs, so it could be done in fifteen weeks.
So I want you to keep this six months in
Nitthia Rahman can't even get a toilet built in her district.
So when she gets this endorsement that she got this
week from the Western Carpenter's Union, who are also very
slow at building things, Oh maybe that's why. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
you will know that she's lying when she says there
(33:19):
will be cranes all over the city. Oh, there might be,
they just will never move. They'll just be permanent parts
of the skyline because we'll start projects and then the
union will get angry about something, or one union will
sue a subcontractor, and then we'll be stuck in litigation. Exactly.
This is a microcosm of basically anything that anyone dreams
(33:40):
of in Los Angeles. People love running Canyon yevon hike.
It's beautiful and it would be nice to have, but also,
on the other hand, you expect this bathroom to remain nice.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Maybe right there, I might you got some decent I
don't know. I don't I guess I don't know where
the trail hit is. I haven't been there, so I
don't know. Is it is that one of those situations
do you have to do you have to get to it,
I guess. Is my point.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Like the Magic Castle?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, is that where you threw your
fire exting. I'm sure when you're trying to get rid
of it.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
No, I used to go there a lot when I
was like fully unemployed.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Think about jumping as opposed to radio unemployed. Uh yeah, okay,
so I know. I think this one will probably be okay.
I don't think there's gonna be a lot of graffiti
artists that are gonna be this area. It's nice area.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Appreciate Go ahead, I'm just gonna run through Kentucky fed
Do you want any grab your something? You want wings?
Speaker 10 (34:42):
No, I can't eat chicken on the bone.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
No, we'll get some popcorn. Eaglet with some tater wedges,
got another cell. Cal City says their cops can't keep
up with your bad behavior, so their solution is more surveillance.
The police industrial complex supporters, you're getting your way. Somebody's
getting rich off your dollars. But if you're a good
little citizen, you have nothing to worry about. Saving lives
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