August 5, 2026 • 33 mins
Hour 1 - This episode unpacks the arrest of an armed man at Trump’s golf club—earpiece in, camera out—probing what it signals about modern security. The hosts sift through explosive letters revealing the internal threats that hastened Alberto Carvalho’s LAUSD departure. They break down how, after the Lineage fire, LA County Supervisors are boosting penalties for public health violations to better protect residents. And they head to Boyle Heights, where a proposed street-cleaning tax becomes a flashpoint in a broader gentrification fight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
J Meryl.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hi, this is Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Because these are the morons who are running this city.
They speak activist language, and people clap like seals for
it and re elect them.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Posted by Michael Monks and Chris Merrill on K I am.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Tranke and tapped into my inner coal belt yesterday. I
don't know, just aggravated, and I'm aggravated today by some
of the news we'll be talking about. I'm sorry, It's
gonna be one of those days. No, you know, I
usually have a sunny disposition. I think everyone agrees that
is a lot. It's Monks and Marril. I'm Chris Merril.
(00:43):
He's the very angry Michael Monks. You'll find us on
the socials at Monks and Merrill at Monks and Merrill,
and on demand any time on the iHeartRadio app where
you can follow us on the podcast as well. Never
miss a moment. Big news yesterday because there was a
visit by the President just as we were getting off
the area today. Yeah, I started getting emails. I mean
right after get off the air. I don't think I'd
(01:04):
even made it to my car in the parking garage. Yet.
You do walk slowly though, fat guy, And then what
did I see? I started getting these emails about, uh, oh,
we've got a dude that got arrested.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've already say on Sunday playing clothes. Federal agents noticed
a man walking around the golf course grounds, taking pictures,
in videos and appearing to monitor security planning.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But that was on Sunday. Yeah, we didn't know anything
about it.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Authorities arrested him after discovering he had a sixteen round
magazine containing hollow point ammunition in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, I'm going to pause this for a moment because
I noticed that the guy wasn't the president wasn't here
on Sunday, So all of a sudden, it felt like
It's kind of like when police start telling you about
how many drugs. They like, we got nearly six pounds
of marijuana, enough to kill four hundred million people seven
(01:56):
times over. And they're like, oh, he was arrested and
he had a magazine with hollow point bullets. You don't
think that's threatening. He didn't have a gun. They found
a gun at his house. Now, if he was on you,
do you have more to play from that iPort?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, A loaded pistol and more AMMO in his car
that was parked at the club, and that he was
wanted by El Segundo police on a robbery investigation. On Monday,
neighbors witnessed the detectives with the Sheriff's Major Crime Bureau
serve a search warrant at his Downing home. During the search,
authorities tell us they found several guns and ammunition, including
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an illegally modified air platform rifle, a forty five caliber pistol,
and high capacity magazine. They also allegedly found body armor,
two radio signal devices, and several notebooks with concerning statements.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, hollow points aren't illegal. What are they? So a
HaLow point bullet is I'll show you a picture. I'll
try to describe it on the air for people that
are unfamiliar. It's a bullet and then at the very
tip of the bullet it looks like there's a little
hole in the top basically, and what happens is when
the when the when the round strikes its target target right,
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it explodes unimpact. Okay, so dangerous. It does a lot
of damage, but they're not illegal. I used to use
these when my uh, when I was young, we were
deer hunting, we would use HaLow points. Yeah, but did
you have like it ruined a lot of meat, so
I didn't like to do it. Did you carry them
in your pocket scouting out the area where the President
of the United States is. Don't want to demonize somebody
for exercising their Second Amendment right now to believe in
(03:30):
the Bill of Rights. Michael Munks in a way apologizing
for this guy. Well, here's here's the trouble that I'm
having with it. Sounds like the dude was a bad character.
What I don't like is the characterization that anyone who
has a pistol in their car is immediately a threat
to whomever is around them. I don't like that demonization.
I mean, sometimes I play contrarianto you just for fun,
but I I mean, this is a guy that they
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found sixteen round magazine with those hollowpoint ammunitions in his pocket.
Not illegal. His pickup truck had a loaded nine millimeters pistol.
Was it in a locked box? I don't know. See,
we're not getting the details. Were just saying anyone that
has a nine millimeter is a danger. But you know
there's contacts. He had another magazine, Okay, but there are
thousands of people listening to us right now that have
(04:12):
a pistol on Trump's golf course before two days before
he arrives. I'm not saying that's a suspicious. What I
don't like is the character Again, I think this guy's creepy,
especially when they found sounds like they found some notebooks
that were ye binoculars, a badge reading security protection agent. Yeah, again,
he's not a great guy. But just the fact that
some I own binoculars? Am I a threat to my neighbors?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I think you would be under suspicion as a threat
if you had all these items scouting out the location
where the president is to be in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Agreed. What I don't like is the characterization that because
he had a magazine and he had hollow point bullets,
he's someone you should be terrified. Well, those things taken
on their own, is not evidence. D LA Times has
an updated article from late this morning that says he
also wore an earp photographed Secret Services and you're literally
wearing any piece as we speak on the on the
(05:05):
radio and burbank you photograph strangers on the street all
the time, especially buff ripped secret service agent. That's a
very popular blog. Okay, it's it's very public and everyone knows,
no doubt. It sounds like this guy had some plans.
It sounds like he's been untinged. But and he also
had he was wanted in Elsa Gund. He's from down.
(05:25):
He was wanted for how to warrant out for a
robbery and Elsa Gunda. It sounds like he's no good guy.
I just don't like the idea that we're going to
paint with a broad brush this picture that anyone who
has a firearm and anyone that has a hollow point
bullets is a threat to society. Do you think because
he's a guy named Janine he should be No, it
toughens him up. It's like exactly exactly what I was
(05:48):
gonna say. Yeah, you're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We will say that there was supposed to be a
press conference what like right about now one of Okay,
so the federal government, the prosecutor, Bill Sale and and
the rest were supposed to have a press conference on.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That and it's been canceled. Yeah, they didn't say postponed,
they said canceled. And maybe that was just somebody using
different words. But it's it's stuck out as odd. It
wasn't like we're postponing for the reason or elier they said,
they canceled it. And then our Heather Brooker, reporter in
the newsroom, host of KFI Live on Sundays, she was
supposed to talk to as Sale and he canceled that also,
So we don't know what's going on there. Yeah, but
(06:24):
we will look for more news coming out on this
and what these official charges might look like and whether
any additional evidence will be presented. It sounds like a
pretty troubling situation if you ask me. Yeah, the guy
had had the makings and the and the equipment of
somebody who was looking to do a serious crime. From
the talkbacks, Remember if you're listening online, you always hit
that talkback button give us feedback on what it is
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that we're discussing.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, then it really must bother you when an old
lady gets shot dead in the head.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes it does.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And all the Democrats can do is blame the gun,
not the person who pulled the trigger, but the gun. Okay,
so rationalise that one for me, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know what your point is. He is he
making an assumption that I'm blaming your gun and something else.
Welcome to clarify and send another talk back and we'll
take that. No, I don't like when old ladies get
shot in the head. But do you like when the
Democrats blame the gun and not the shooter.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, Let's say your bosses give you an A plus,
they extend your contract, they give you a fat pack
on the back, and then the next thing you hear
ATBI agents knocking on your door and the doors of
your bosses. Now that same boss can't wait to tell
you all the reasons you should have been fired.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh that's nice. We're of course talking about the La
Unified School District. Oh yeah, new details on what led
to the ouster of this seemingly dirt baggish guy, Alberto Carvallo. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Now I'm going so you like the guy and Elsa
Gundo and Downey and Pallas Verde. I believe it innocent
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until proven guilty.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Interesting, you're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk yep, but.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's Monk's and Merril k I AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Monks with Merrill. Here by
the way, before we get rolling back into these beautiful
segments of ours, if you're headed to six Lags Magic Mountain.
I just saw on the wires they're in Valencia Park.
Officials have said that the power's out, so they're working
with so Cal Edison to restore the electrical service and
they expect to open at one pm. Okay, that's good news,
(08:36):
is it? I mean, it's it's good news reporting. I'm
Michael Monks live in Burbank. We were just talking about
this guy that got picked up in Rancho Palas Verdes.
He was at Trump's golf club, and I believe, I said,
this guy has got all sorts of evidence against him.
What I don't like is the characterization that's simply because
he had a firearm and he had hollow point bullets
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that he was Yeah, but he had all that other stuff.
That's and that's all part of the whole story. What
I don't like is that we lean into well, he
had a gun, so what so what that I mean?
I don't like the just the instant suspicion of anyone
that has a firearm. No, granted, you should suspect this
guy because he had a firearm and he was at
the golf course and he was like all those things
(09:18):
added together, the circumstance lab it's pretty strong in this guy.
Don't get me wrong, I just don't want to be
careful how we're reporting it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Oh my god, Meryl, you're ridiculous. There's so many crazy
people out in the world, and unfortunately, yeah, people do
have guns, but you got to look at it a
whole different way. Okay, So I agree with with Monk.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh wow, take all the guns away, and.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Look look what happened after they found all the other
crap outs. So there you go, There you go. You
guys are great.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But when Monk is the uh boys the reason, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Come on, Chris, do better. Don't backhand compliment me.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Hey, Chris, what about the last time that the president
was at one of his golf courses and that guy
had that rifle with a clip in it and the
shrubbery outside by the defense. Yeah, maybe the guy was
going to hide the clip there and come back later,
went the gun? Use your common sense?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, sounds like he's out there panting for gold. I
love that. I love that he had the cadence of
a of a panner. Sounded like he was like the cook.
It like a civil War care love that. I appreciate
the voice and the call. I didn't realize there were
so many people who were anti guns listening to you.
That's not what it is. A lot of people want
to take away.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
People are anti tom foolery from Chris Merrill. By the way, Jesse,
can you isolate that SoundBite where the lady said, oh god, Merrill,
I'd like that to be.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You're ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
She says next, I'd like that bar too, You're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, because I'd like that to be my text messification.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, oh my god, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, now there's something else that we could do with
that too, though. Let me just see if I can No, No, yeah,
I think I can take that same thing. Here's the
beauty of coming up through small markets where you basically
had to do everything on your own, is that you
can addit a lot of stuff on the fly. So
let me just see if I can grab It's such
a pleasure to watch the artist at work. Yeah, it's
(11:24):
really you really gripping radio. By the way, that's fine
at least hit the keys a little more loudly, and
I have to convert sound sample. Uh do this? Oh
it's wait, just wait until Michael tells you about his
own lanes for Michael's gonna give me a seven parts
special and people playing chess on the street. Oh, that's
(11:46):
gonna win awards. All right. I'm just trying to I'm
trying to move some sound around to his music or something.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Good Lord, Oh my god, Merrill, Oh no, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, delete that from your system and my memory immediately. Yeah,
all right, let's get on with it. The FBI raid appears.
Oh god, Meryl, you know what I wish I had
a gun.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The FBI raids appear to have triggered a much broader
internal examination of former Superintendent Alberto Crevallo at LAUSD. Keep
in mind last fall, this school board of ours that
we elect. Oh, they couldn't stop salivating every time he
walked up with his slick hair and his slick words
and his slick suits.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So dreamy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They voted unanimously to extend his contract. They loved Alberto Cravallo.
And then the FED showed up.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The FBI, those three letter jackets showed up, and you
start to get angry about it because they didn't just
look at his house and this property in Miami. They
came to the school board offices and started rummaging around,
and ultimately he resigned. He still hasn't been arrested as
far as I know, or like charge with whatever. We
don't know, really, but he did ultimately resign, despite saying
(13:10):
that he's innocent of whatever they're looking into. We believe
there's some potential kickbacks that they're looking at in following
AIAI company, an app that got a big contract, as
well as some other income that he was receiving and
not reporting, including mentoring the superintendent of schools in Denver, Colorado.
So the LAUSD school Board sent a letter confidentially before
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Carvallo resigned back in June, and they accused him of
unprofessional conduct, unsatisfactory performance, and violation of a refusal to
obey state laws or school district regulations. They basically said,
if you don't resign, we're going to fire you. Of
course they did. That should come as a surprise to
(13:55):
no one. What I think is interesting here, my gut
tell tells me this that as soon as that raid happened.
They started scrambling, uh oh, how do we save face?
And he didn't resign right away. He went on this
paid leave, and so they started panicking and they went,
we do not want this to drag out where all
of a sudden, we're going to be legally responsible for
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covering his bills.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They don't want to have to pay for his lawyers
for anything he did while he was there and then
beyond that. So they're immediately trying to cut ties. So
this is this is I mean, it's like like this show.
I no, you've never gone through this before. But let
me tell you what's going to happen. Let me just
tell you how things are going. This show is going
(14:41):
pretty well. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, shows if seventy seven subscribers, it's growing in popularity,
it's doing okay. All right. We sit down at meetings
and boss says, well, things are going really well right now.
He's score. Yeah, they're going this is our replacement, And
they said, Boss, this, things are going pretty well.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
There's a nice buzz about the show. Love to hear that.
Let me tell you what's going to happen here. We
got three year contracts, right, okay, about two and a
half years. You know what they're gonna do, They're gonna go.
I don't think it's working, guys, I don't know, you know,
it's uh. I think we're probably paying it too much.
It's not going that great. I've been through this before. Yeah,
(15:17):
everything's great until all of a sudd there's contract renewal,
and then all of a sudden, you're the worst thing
they've ever heard. That's what happened. Here they go, You're great,
You're the best things in sliced bread. Uh oh, now
you're a liability. We never liked you in the first place.
You're the most horrible thing there is out there. What
a what a screw up it was. You've been lying
to us all along. Basically prove yourself too, is why
we need to renew you. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I
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mean I am I don't know if this is awkward,
but I actually have a seven year contract. But this
was back in September of last year. Cool Board extended
Carvallo's contract for four years. Yeah, four years. Oh and
you doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Gave him four hundred and forty thousand dollars salary and
a fifty thousand dollars annual retirement contribution. So everything, Honkey Dory,
this is and I know what you're saying, that this
is a district that started to be concerned about legal
cost and maybe having to defend this guy image. They
love setting money on fire at LAUSD. I don't know
what came over them. I think they're worried.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think the school board is worried that this is
gonna look so bad that it could cost them reelections.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, it was costing them money anyway. They identified about
two dozen instances of income, gifts or travel that worried
about that before they didn't look, they weren't supervising, and
which is what they're elected to do.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, he didn't report them.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And this is just over a three year span twenty
twenty two, maybe just two years twenty twenty two and
twenty twenty four. The district cited consulting work that paid
five hundred or six hundred dollars an hour, Dodgers, tickets
and trips paid for by companies including Scholastic, Hazel Health,
Carnegie Learning, and Lego Education, shaying.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Whatever he could from wherever he could get it, and
they were all I'm telling you they knew what was
going on. You know, you ask anybody out in the
wild thing of America and say, what's the most corrupt
city in America? And I bet a lot of people
still say Cago. We does still have problems, but not
like I think it used to. I think it's one
for their money's la Yeah, everywhere you turn. Oh my gosh,
it's law. Why don't you defend this alleged criminal? Speaking
(17:11):
of poor decisions, we got weeks of stints. You got
the flies, green flies and Boyle Heights green ones. You've
got the officials making promises, and every politician now is
trying to take credit for helping Boyle Heights. But what
Boyle Heights is actually getting is next on Monks and
Merril kfi.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
AM, Oh my god, Merril, Yes, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're listening to Monks and Meryl on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm Chris Merrill. He's Michael Monks on demand anytime and
the iHeartRadio follow us on the social media's had Monks
and Meryl at Monks and Meryl, I see lineages now
said Michael that they're going to spend eighty to one
hundred million dollars is part of that warehouse cleanup, and
that's just for mariachi concerts. I see what you did.
That's yeah, it's a callback, wasn't it to all the
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community meetings they've had there. It's yeah. They're going to
spend eighty one hundred million dollars on the on the
clean up. We don't know if that includes the rebuild.
I suppose it might, maybe not, but this was a costly,
costly event for them. Of course, their neighbors don't want
them coming back, no, so they've got that going on.
What happens that area though? What are they going to do?
(18:25):
Put condos in there? I mean it's zoned industrial right, Well,
I mean it's also zone residential, so I'm sure that
the lot could be turned residential. Is axed use, Yeah,
it's right next to houses, well, I know what I
mean that exact low. It's probably because all the other ones.
Granted there are houses across the street from it, but
that may be a different zone. In this zone, I
think it's industrial.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And there can also be impacts on what can follow
that type of operation because of what was done there previously.
If like the ground might be contaminated Meanwhile, LA city
and county leaders have announced more money, stronger penalties fines,
tighter oversight gat and new environmental protections after that lineage
Warehouse fire so good the county, which the Board of
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Supervisors met yesterday, they have called for a business fund
as well as city health and transportation services.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What is the what is the county doing in this now?
Because of supervisor Hill to Elise represents this air and
they're all falling over themselves to talking about how much
they love Boyle Heights. I see, you know, Hill of Salise,
who is a terrible supervisor, is turning seventy I think
this year, and she's going back to Congress, because that's
what happens here. You serve in one office until you're
(19:35):
not allowed to serve anymore, and then you move right
back into seventy is the chapper there'll be. She'll be
among the youngest members ever in the House of Representatives.
She'll need a babysitter, a mentor. Oh my gosh, what
is the average right now? Is not like sixty five
or something. It's ridiculous, It's cool. I mean they're literally dying, yeah,
literally dying. So who's been out there so far that's
(19:57):
been trying to get on that podium. You've had the
bass Horado, and so that got got the mayor, the
council member, and then the the supervisor supervisor and the
ones who were not there. I think there was a
member of Congress and a state legislator who were just
mentioned and also were booed in absentia at that community
meeting exactly. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
The thing is we talked a bit about what Councilman
Herado did it yesterday's council meeting, introducing seven motions about
you know, environmental justice and lasting community power. That's a
bunch of ridiculous BS words and terms. They don't have
any money for it, none of it's funded. They're just
talking out of their butts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So so what they're doing is they're they're going out
and they're saying we're going to do something, we're doing
stuff for you, But they're not actually doing anything. They're
they're this is panamime. Yeah, they're playing charades. Yes, they're
not doing squad. That is the that is the La paulaway.
And again they will be re elected or sent to
(21:03):
a better office. I mean, but as you pointed out,
the La City. Wait there, council. Way is then she
put together like a task force or some sort of
is a special committee to ensure environmental justice and community empowerment? Yeah,
we have to have a committee. It's still a committee
on that one, is so.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The La County Board of Supervisors yesterday approved a motion
to increase penalties for public health violations and to provide
funds to small businesses affected by local emergencies like what
happened in Boyle Heights. They voted unanimously. The board approved
this motion from Soley's to use dollars from her first
District Catalytic Development Fund to launch a small Business Interruption
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Fund for businesses in the area.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, that makes sense. That's fine. As long as you
have the cash to distribute. We say take this for
somebody to be business friendly. If you have money to
do small business launches, why aren't you using that money
for small business launches? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Imagine that you're a family, an immigrant family, no less
the type of demographic Hillasalise loves to exploit.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But you went about your business the right way. You've
got a brick and mortar shop you're selling nowl You
worked to nineteen hours a day. Yeah, you're selling the
food in there. But this Mitsalase is also a big
fan of giving away those food carts for free and
letting people just open up shop wherever they want. Violation free,
no health requirements, you know, no rules to be filed
out there at all whatsoever. And by the way, this
financial assistant is not supposed to be dispersed or is
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to be dispersed within forty five days, so it could
still be a month and a half before any of
that money gets to you. If you're hanging by a
thread right now, what the hell difference does it make.
There is also happening today a hearing at the air
the South Coast air Quality Management District. This is where
they're going to say that they spend eighty to one
hundred million dollars in the fire. They're telling there's a
(22:46):
boor MD. Today they're taking up the request for an
abatement order against Lineage Logistics in response to that fire.
Lineage Logistics says it expects to.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Spend between eighty and one hundred million dollars on clean
up efforts and will provide more details on its clean
up and odor mitigation plans at the hearing. They're at
the Air Quality Management District's headquarters in Diamond Bar, so.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Could lineage Logistics. Genuine question, is there anything that they
could do to make the politicians happy now? Because I
think I don't think the politicians want change. I don't
think they want something better. I don't think they want improvement.
I think what they want is a foil.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I think initially in the immediate aftermath of this, when
the company came out and said, look, we're going to
put some money aside, but we're going to give it
to a foundation to handle the distribution. We're not going
to be writing checks to individuals, so that there could
be some oversight of the politicians. Well, it made the
residents mad, and so the politicians are mad, and they've
been grand standing so hard ever since that. I think
the people of Boyle Heights feel like they're bigger victims
(23:45):
than they actually are. I'm not diminishing the odor, the
disruption to your lives. I know it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sounds like you're saying, suck it up, Buttercup Mount Saint
Helens didn't erupt in Boil Heights. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It wasn't a massive earthquake. You know where I stand
with that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You these folks are falling, and I think because of
the way the elected officials have been talking about it.
If I live there, I would feel more victimized to Well.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They keep begging them on.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They're gonna give us more. They're gonna get more. We
can get more. Let's get more.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's like it's like, uh, it's like when mommy's a baby.
The youngest they're like, oh, sweetie, do you have a cut?
Do we need to go get stitches? Do you need
to do you need a teddy Bear? Do you need
to do you want to go get McDonald's. What do
you want? Sweetye? It's they scraped their knee, Like, get over,
put a band aid out and tell them go back
out in the air and play.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
There's something else coming near Boyle Heights and it's going
to be an attraction for all of us here. You
know the sixth Street Bridge, wautiful Bridge, what kind of
that big beautiful bridge that got all the fanfare when
it opened up and has been dark ever since and
covered in graffiti because of the thieves that stole the
copper wire. Yeah, you don't see that part in the
car commercials do now they leave that out. I think
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they use AI to light. It's ridiculous. There's a plan
to spend even more money. Not on the bridge before
the area under it. How long before that's a pile
of human pool. We'll get into that next.
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Available anywhere on the irt radio app. It's Monks and Maryland,
Michael Monks. That's Chris Merril. This is Wednesday. Thanks for
being with us. There is you didn't know that? Sometimes
people download the podcast. I like to just throw the
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more about analog radio and Peoria, Chris, why don't you
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wax poetic? Oh, journey across the planes legendary place? All right?
She said? Pierce College is canceling their entire football seas.
Oh my god, I know, but I couldn't figure out
why are there details about why Daily News had it
and just that it's been canceled. It's just and they
just told the players the way that the the way
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that the the La Daily News wrote it. It makes
it sound like they canceled the season because they suck. Really, yeah,
they go, oh, it's been canceled. The school statement didn't
adress whether the team is going to come back next year.
They haven't won. They haven't had a winning season since
twenty thirteen, Like that's the only thing they say about it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, but if you realize you're not able to mount
a winning program after a decade plus, you know, if
you want to consider the cost and whether it's worth doing,
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, then you would say this is our last season,
and you would say there's no money for the program. Right,
you would at least say this is why it's not
worth the investment something like that. But you're right.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I mean, Per's Colleges came out this week and said
we've put the football program on hiatus, yeah, for twenty
twenty six, and they did not say whether it would
come back in twenty twenty seven. But here's the part
that really bothers me is that the players were told
at the same time, I mean on Monday when the
school came out with the announcement.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A little late to go somewhere else. It's a little
bit late. I mean, this is junior college, so I
don't know what the rules are with transfer in those
sorts of things. I don't know if it's as regulated
as d one these days. It's certainly not as lucrative,
that's for sure. But to be told, it's it's August.
Like you're practicing at this point, aren't you. Yes? Did
you see a fun fact? I didn't know this? Did
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you know that Mark Harmon was a quarterback there at
Pierce Pierce College? Mark Harmon, the actor from.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Like n C.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I s, oh, yeah, yeah, he played at Pierce, played
at Pierce and then he and then he went to
Ucile where he was a quarterback. Didn't coach Denny Crumb
spend some time at at Piers? I think Pierce has
a tradition. Well, I know Eric Kramer, who was a
quarterback for the Bears for a while and for the Lions.
He was there, Yeah, he was Denny Crumb. Do you
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know Dinny Crumb, longtime head coach of the Louisville Cardinals.
But was to tell me more about the history of
Kentucky colleges. Go ahead, Well, he's from La grew up
in afternoon. I'll still you a little history he was
a protege John Wooden at u C l A. He
played at UCLA and was poised to replace John Wooden
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at UCLA, but decided to stay with the Cardinals. Okay,
but I mean that's the type of pedigree you've got
in the athletics department over at Pierce, and then they
just blindside their employees. I mean they're workers, I mean
they're players. Let's go back to Boyle Heights. I was
looking forward to some games this year. I'm a big
Pierce football fan season ticket holder. I believe right fourth
year running. Let's go back to Boyle Heights. The sixth
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Street Bridge runs between the Arts District and Boyle Heights.
If you're on the Arts District side.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If you're go underneath there, they got a little park.
It is nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I mean, the Arts District is right across from downtown,
connected by the six Street Bridge, and the Arts District
was kind of an ergoing a resurgence in the twenty tens.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's still working.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, it's not as vibrant, I think as it's designed
to be. There's plenty of empty spaces there, but the
apartments are nice. The food is great, it's nice. But
we've got this big pink elephant in the middle of
it all. And it's called the Sixth Bridge, which was
a very expensive project that the city is just allowed
to continue to decay because it's covered in graffiti. The
lights have been out since the copper was stolen. But
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they got big plans because if LA can do anything,
it's spend money. Yeah, and I want to put a nice,
big park under there.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
There's already some places for people to go and enjoy
a little bit of space under there, but they want
to put this big park under there, the sixth Street
PA r C. How do you sound that out? It's
a naturally supposed to say park, But isn't it the
parks and recreational community blah blah, something of the sort.
It's probably to help foster lasting community power. Oh that's it. Yeah,
(29:38):
and environmental justice. Sure. So here's what's going on though,
is they want to put this in. There's twelve acres
of recreational space that stretches from the Arts District to
the edge of the one to one freeway and Boiled Heights.
City says construction is going to finish. They saved this
year the trouble that they're having is they've got some
activists that are that are saying, you can't clean up
the graffiti, you can't take the the drug dealers out
(30:01):
of that area. That's gentrification. So I hate my neighbors
with the passion of a thousand suns. Yeah. The arts district, however,
they say, yeah, you know what we want to do.
We want to attract the families and businesses and we
want to have a nice, safe, nice safe place. So
they've got a business Improvement district that funds the cleaning
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and the security and the programming. Boyle Heightside does not
have a comparable organization. They depend on the city, which
is not really inspiring confidence with the upkeep of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Fair to say, by the way, this park project is
estimated to cost about sixty two million dollars. So not
only I could have done it for fifty would you
have to invest to create this park?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Which always sounds nice fields, playgrounds, splash pads, picnic areas,
sports courts, dog parks, skate elements, restrooms, public art, walking paths.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Sounds great storm water improvement. That's always fun at a park.
Oh that's right up your alley. But if the major
piece of infrastructure above it is a sitting to what
is the environment below it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Going to be? Well? I think that's a concern everybody has.
But if you've got like the Arts District is doing,
and you're funding some security, then at least you might
be able to say, look, this is this is the
first step in maintaining this park, and as having security
on site, we hope that we're able to deter some
of the crime that's happening on the bridge itself. I
think the city's necessarily gonna do.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I think I need to see proof of concept, not
of the park, but that the city can do that,
because they have no record in recent years of doing that.
And Isabelle Herrado, who represents this area again on the
city council, votes every time against any other city council
member who wants to remove homeless camps from certain parts
of the city. This place will be overrun in twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So if you are an activist who's afraid of your
town being cleaned up, good news. Michael Monks says, you
don't have to worry about that now they're not going
to do it. Though, Yeah, you can't worry about gentrification.
It'll still stay covered in graffiti, It'll still have needles
in the in the gutters. Don't worry about any of
that stuff. Congratulations, you win. That's kind of why I've
been My sunny disposition has been fading. I've been howling
(31:59):
at the moon because I'm becoming a werewolf. A lot
of people say that about you. They see that Michael
Monks has got a sunny disposition. They do sick. I
heard saying it the other day. I heard her talking
about just how sonny and nice. She was telling me, like, boy,
you listen to Michael Monks. He really knows what he's
talking about. I just said, he is very He actually
(32:19):
is very positive for them. He knows what day of
the week it is, and he's not very driven. He's
very driven. And I will step on anyone who gets
in my way. Yes he will. It's Wednesday, August fifth.
We'll be right back. Stop doing that. California has been
fighting for the e motorcycle a menace for a while now,
and we will get reports for a time. We do
the story people saying, well, it's my neighborhood's my neighborhood's
(32:41):
my neighborhood. One County is ground zero for that battle
against the e motorcycles. Wait until you hear who is
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hi, this is Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Because these are the morons who are running this city.
They speak activist language, and people clap like seals for
it and re elect them.
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Posted by Michael Monks and Chris Merrill on K I am.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Tranke and tapped into my inner coal belt yesterday. I
don't know, just aggravated, and I'm aggravated today by some
of the news we'll be talking about. I'm sorry, It's
gonna be one of those days. No, you know, I
usually have a sunny disposition. I think everyone agrees that
is a lot. It's Monks and Marril. I'm Chris Merril.
(00:43):
He's the very angry Michael Monks. You'll find us on
the socials at Monks and Merrill at Monks and Merrill,
and on demand any time on the iHeartRadio app where
you can follow us on the podcast as well. Never
miss a moment. Big news yesterday because there was a
visit by the President just as we were getting off
the area today. Yeah, I started getting emails. I mean
right after get off the air. I don't think I'd
(01:04):
even made it to my car in the parking garage. Yet.
You do walk slowly though, fat guy, And then what
did I see? I started getting these emails about, uh, oh,
we've got a dude that got arrested.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've already say on Sunday playing clothes. Federal agents noticed
a man walking around the golf course grounds, taking pictures,
in videos and appearing to monitor security planning.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But that was on Sunday. Yeah, we didn't know anything
about it.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Authorities arrested him after discovering he had a sixteen round
magazine containing hollow point ammunition in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, I'm going to pause this for a moment because
I noticed that the guy wasn't the president wasn't here
on Sunday, So all of a sudden, it felt like
It's kind of like when police start telling you about
how many drugs. They like, we got nearly six pounds
of marijuana, enough to kill four hundred million people seven
(01:56):
times over. And they're like, oh, he was arrested and
he had a magazine with hollow point bullets. You don't
think that's threatening. He didn't have a gun. They found
a gun at his house. Now, if he was on you,
do you have more to play from that iPort?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, A loaded pistol and more AMMO in his car
that was parked at the club, and that he was
wanted by El Segundo police on a robbery investigation. On Monday,
neighbors witnessed the detectives with the Sheriff's Major Crime Bureau
serve a search warrant at his Downing home. During the search,
authorities tell us they found several guns and ammunition, including
(02:32):
an illegally modified air platform rifle, a forty five caliber pistol,
and high capacity magazine. They also allegedly found body armor,
two radio signal devices, and several notebooks with concerning statements.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, hollow points aren't illegal. What are they? So a
HaLow point bullet is I'll show you a picture. I'll
try to describe it on the air for people that
are unfamiliar. It's a bullet and then at the very
tip of the bullet it looks like there's a little
hole in the top basically, and what happens is when
the when the when the round strikes its target target right,
(03:10):
it explodes unimpact. Okay, so dangerous. It does a lot
of damage, but they're not illegal. I used to use
these when my uh, when I was young, we were
deer hunting, we would use HaLow points. Yeah, but did
you have like it ruined a lot of meat, so
I didn't like to do it. Did you carry them
in your pocket scouting out the area where the President
of the United States is. Don't want to demonize somebody
for exercising their Second Amendment right now to believe in
(03:30):
the Bill of Rights. Michael Munks in a way apologizing
for this guy. Well, here's here's the trouble that I'm
having with it. Sounds like the dude was a bad character.
What I don't like is the characterization that anyone who
has a pistol in their car is immediately a threat
to whomever is around them. I don't like that demonization.
I mean, sometimes I play contrarianto you just for fun,
but I I mean, this is a guy that they
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found sixteen round magazine with those hollowpoint ammunitions in his pocket.
Not illegal. His pickup truck had a loaded nine millimeters pistol.
Was it in a locked box? I don't know. See,
we're not getting the details. Were just saying anyone that
has a nine millimeter is a danger. But you know
there's contacts. He had another magazine, Okay, but there are
thousands of people listening to us right now that have
(04:12):
a pistol on Trump's golf course before two days before
he arrives. I'm not saying that's a suspicious. What I
don't like is the character Again, I think this guy's creepy,
especially when they found sounds like they found some notebooks
that were ye binoculars, a badge reading security protection agent. Yeah, again,
he's not a great guy. But just the fact that
some I own binoculars? Am I a threat to my neighbors?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I think you would be under suspicion as a threat
if you had all these items scouting out the location
where the president is to be in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Agreed. What I don't like is the characterization that because
he had a magazine and he had hollow point bullets,
he's someone you should be terrified. Well, those things taken
on their own, is not evidence. D LA Times has
an updated article from late this morning that says he
also wore an earp photographed Secret Services and you're literally
wearing any piece as we speak on the on the
(05:05):
radio and burbank you photograph strangers on the street all
the time, especially buff ripped secret service agent. That's a
very popular blog. Okay, it's it's very public and everyone knows,
no doubt. It sounds like this guy had some plans.
It sounds like he's been untinged. But and he also
had he was wanted in Elsa Gund. He's from down.
(05:25):
He was wanted for how to warrant out for a
robbery and Elsa Gunda. It sounds like he's no good guy.
I just don't like the idea that we're going to
paint with a broad brush this picture that anyone who
has a firearm and anyone that has a hollow point
bullets is a threat to society. Do you think because
he's a guy named Janine he should be No, it
toughens him up. It's like exactly exactly what I was
(05:48):
gonna say. Yeah, you're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We will say that there was supposed to be a
press conference what like right about now one of Okay,
so the federal government, the prosecutor, Bill Sale and and
the rest were supposed to have a press conference on.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That and it's been canceled. Yeah, they didn't say postponed,
they said canceled. And maybe that was just somebody using
different words. But it's it's stuck out as odd. It
wasn't like we're postponing for the reason or elier they said,
they canceled it. And then our Heather Brooker, reporter in
the newsroom, host of KFI Live on Sundays, she was
supposed to talk to as Sale and he canceled that also,
So we don't know what's going on there. Yeah, but
(06:24):
we will look for more news coming out on this
and what these official charges might look like and whether
any additional evidence will be presented. It sounds like a
pretty troubling situation if you ask me. Yeah, the guy
had had the makings and the and the equipment of
somebody who was looking to do a serious crime. From
the talkbacks, Remember if you're listening online, you always hit
that talkback button give us feedback on what it is
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that we're discussing.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, then it really must bother you when an old
lady gets shot dead in the head.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes it does.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
And all the Democrats can do is blame the gun,
not the person who pulled the trigger, but the gun. Okay,
so rationalise that one for me, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know what your point is. He is he
making an assumption that I'm blaming your gun and something else.
Welcome to clarify and send another talk back and we'll
take that. No, I don't like when old ladies get
shot in the head. But do you like when the
Democrats blame the gun and not the shooter.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, Let's say your bosses give you an A plus,
they extend your contract, they give you a fat pack
on the back, and then the next thing you hear
ATBI agents knocking on your door and the doors of
your bosses. Now that same boss can't wait to tell
you all the reasons you should have been fired.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh that's nice. We're of course talking about the La
Unified School District. Oh yeah, new details on what led
to the ouster of this seemingly dirt baggish guy, Alberto Carvallo. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Now I'm going so you like the guy and Elsa
Gundo and Downey and Pallas Verde. I believe it innocent
(08:01):
until proven guilty.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Interesting, you're listening to Monks and Merrill on demand from
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk yep, but.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's Monk's and Merril k I AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Monks with Merrill. Here by
the way, before we get rolling back into these beautiful
segments of ours, if you're headed to six Lags Magic Mountain.
I just saw on the wires they're in Valencia Park.
Officials have said that the power's out, so they're working
with so Cal Edison to restore the electrical service and
they expect to open at one pm. Okay, that's good news,
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is it? I mean, it's it's good news reporting. I'm
Michael Monks live in Burbank. We were just talking about
this guy that got picked up in Rancho Palas Verdes.
He was at Trump's golf club, and I believe, I said,
this guy has got all sorts of evidence against him.
What I don't like is the characterization that's simply because
he had a firearm and he had hollow point bullets
(08:57):
that he was Yeah, but he had all that other stuff.
That's and that's all part of the whole story. What
I don't like is that we lean into well, he
had a gun, so what so what that I mean?
I don't like the just the instant suspicion of anyone
that has a firearm. No, granted, you should suspect this
guy because he had a firearm and he was at
the golf course and he was like all those things
(09:18):
added together, the circumstance lab it's pretty strong in this guy.
Don't get me wrong, I just don't want to be
careful how we're reporting it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Oh my god, Meryl, you're ridiculous. There's so many crazy
people out in the world, and unfortunately, yeah, people do
have guns, but you got to look at it a
whole different way. Okay, So I agree with with Monk.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh wow, take all the guns away, and.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Look look what happened after they found all the other
crap outs. So there you go, There you go. You
guys are great.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
But when Monk is the uh boys the reason, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Come on, Chris, do better. Don't backhand compliment me.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Hey, Chris, what about the last time that the president
was at one of his golf courses and that guy
had that rifle with a clip in it and the
shrubbery outside by the defense. Yeah, maybe the guy was
going to hide the clip there and come back later,
went the gun? Use your common sense?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, sounds like he's out there panting for gold. I
love that. I love that he had the cadence of
a of a panner. Sounded like he was like the cook.
It like a civil War care love that. I appreciate
the voice and the call. I didn't realize there were
so many people who were anti guns listening to you.
That's not what it is. A lot of people want
to take away.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
People are anti tom foolery from Chris Merrill. By the way, Jesse,
can you isolate that SoundBite where the lady said, oh god, Merrill,
I'd like that to be.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You're ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
She says next, I'd like that bar too, You're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, because I'd like that to be my text messification.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, oh my god, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, now there's something else that we could do with
that too, though. Let me just see if I can No, No, yeah,
I think I can take that same thing. Here's the
beauty of coming up through small markets where you basically
had to do everything on your own, is that you
can addit a lot of stuff on the fly. So
let me just see if I can grab It's such
a pleasure to watch the artist at work. Yeah, it's
(11:24):
really you really gripping radio. By the way, that's fine
at least hit the keys a little more loudly, and
I have to convert sound sample. Uh do this? Oh
it's wait, just wait until Michael tells you about his
own lanes for Michael's gonna give me a seven parts
special and people playing chess on the street. Oh, that's
(11:46):
gonna win awards. All right. I'm just trying to I'm
trying to move some sound around to his music or something.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Good Lord, Oh my god, Merrill, Oh no, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, delete that from your system and my memory immediately. Yeah,
all right, let's get on with it. The FBI raid appears.
Oh god, Meryl, you know what I wish I had
a gun.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The FBI raids appear to have triggered a much broader
internal examination of former Superintendent Alberto Crevallo at LAUSD. Keep
in mind last fall, this school board of ours that
we elect. Oh, they couldn't stop salivating every time he
walked up with his slick hair and his slick words
and his slick suits.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So dreamy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
They voted unanimously to extend his contract. They loved Alberto Cravallo.
And then the FED showed up.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The FBI, those three letter jackets showed up, and you
start to get angry about it because they didn't just
look at his house and this property in Miami. They
came to the school board offices and started rummaging around,
and ultimately he resigned. He still hasn't been arrested as
far as I know, or like charge with whatever. We
don't know, really, but he did ultimately resign, despite saying
(13:10):
that he's innocent of whatever they're looking into. We believe
there's some potential kickbacks that they're looking at in following
AIAI company, an app that got a big contract, as
well as some other income that he was receiving and
not reporting, including mentoring the superintendent of schools in Denver, Colorado.
So the LAUSD school Board sent a letter confidentially before
(13:34):
Carvallo resigned back in June, and they accused him of
unprofessional conduct, unsatisfactory performance, and violation of a refusal to
obey state laws or school district regulations. They basically said,
if you don't resign, we're going to fire you. Of
course they did. That should come as a surprise to
(13:55):
no one. What I think is interesting here, my gut
tell tells me this that as soon as that raid happened.
They started scrambling, uh oh, how do we save face?
And he didn't resign right away. He went on this
paid leave, and so they started panicking and they went,
we do not want this to drag out where all
of a sudden, we're going to be legally responsible for
(14:18):
covering his bills.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
They don't want to have to pay for his lawyers
for anything he did while he was there and then
beyond that. So they're immediately trying to cut ties. So
this is this is I mean, it's like like this show.
I no, you've never gone through this before. But let
me tell you what's going to happen. Let me just
tell you how things are going. This show is going
(14:41):
pretty well. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, shows if seventy seven subscribers, it's growing in popularity,
it's doing okay. All right. We sit down at meetings
and boss says, well, things are going really well right now.
He's score. Yeah, they're going this is our replacement, And
they said, Boss, this, things are going pretty well.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
There's a nice buzz about the show. Love to hear that.
Let me tell you what's going to happen here. We
got three year contracts, right, okay, about two and a
half years. You know what they're gonna do, They're gonna go.
I don't think it's working, guys, I don't know, you know,
it's uh. I think we're probably paying it too much.
It's not going that great. I've been through this before. Yeah,
(15:17):
everything's great until all of a sudd there's contract renewal,
and then all of a sudden, you're the worst thing
they've ever heard. That's what happened. Here they go, You're great,
You're the best things in sliced bread. Uh oh, now
you're a liability. We never liked you in the first place.
You're the most horrible thing there is out there. What
a what a screw up it was. You've been lying
to us all along. Basically prove yourself too, is why
we need to renew you. Yeah, yeah, well yeah, I
(15:39):
mean I am I don't know if this is awkward,
but I actually have a seven year contract. But this
was back in September of last year. Cool Board extended
Carvallo's contract for four years. Yeah, four years. Oh and
you doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Gave him four hundred and forty thousand dollars salary and
a fifty thousand dollars annual retirement contribution. So everything, Honkey Dory,
this is and I know what you're saying, that this
is a district that started to be concerned about legal
cost and maybe having to defend this guy image. They
love setting money on fire at LAUSD. I don't know
what came over them. I think they're worried.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think the school board is worried that this is
gonna look so bad that it could cost them reelections.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, it was costing them money anyway. They identified about
two dozen instances of income, gifts or travel that worried
about that before they didn't look, they weren't supervising, and
which is what they're elected to do.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, he didn't report them.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And this is just over a three year span twenty
twenty two, maybe just two years twenty twenty two and
twenty twenty four. The district cited consulting work that paid
five hundred or six hundred dollars an hour, Dodgers, tickets
and trips paid for by companies including Scholastic, Hazel Health,
Carnegie Learning, and Lego Education, shaying.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Whatever he could from wherever he could get it, and
they were all I'm telling you they knew what was
going on. You know, you ask anybody out in the
wild thing of America and say, what's the most corrupt
city in America? And I bet a lot of people
still say Cago. We does still have problems, but not
like I think it used to. I think it's one
for their money's la Yeah, everywhere you turn. Oh my gosh,
it's law. Why don't you defend this alleged criminal? Speaking
(17:11):
of poor decisions, we got weeks of stints. You got
the flies, green flies and Boyle Heights green ones. You've
got the officials making promises, and every politician now is
trying to take credit for helping Boyle Heights. But what
Boyle Heights is actually getting is next on Monks and
Merril kfi.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
AM, Oh my god, Merril, Yes, you're ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
You're listening to Monks and Meryl on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm Chris Merrill. He's Michael Monks on demand anytime and
the iHeartRadio follow us on the social media's had Monks
and Meryl at Monks and Meryl, I see lineages now
said Michael that they're going to spend eighty to one
hundred million dollars is part of that warehouse cleanup, and
that's just for mariachi concerts. I see what you did.
That's yeah, it's a callback, wasn't it to all the
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community meetings they've had there. It's yeah. They're going to
spend eighty one hundred million dollars on the on the
clean up. We don't know if that includes the rebuild.
I suppose it might, maybe not, but this was a costly,
costly event for them. Of course, their neighbors don't want
them coming back, no, so they've got that going on.
What happens that area though? What are they going to do?
(18:25):
Put condos in there? I mean it's zoned industrial right, Well,
I mean it's also zone residential, so I'm sure that
the lot could be turned residential. Is axed use, Yeah,
it's right next to houses, well, I know what I
mean that exact low. It's probably because all the other ones.
Granted there are houses across the street from it, but
that may be a different zone. In this zone, I
think it's industrial.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And there can also be impacts on what can follow
that type of operation because of what was done there previously.
If like the ground might be contaminated Meanwhile, LA city
and county leaders have announced more money, stronger penalties fines,
tighter oversight gat and new environmental protections after that lineage
Warehouse fire so good the county, which the Board of
(19:08):
Supervisors met yesterday, they have called for a business fund
as well as city health and transportation services.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What is the what is the county doing in this now?
Because of supervisor Hill to Elise represents this air and
they're all falling over themselves to talking about how much
they love Boyle Heights. I see, you know, Hill of Salise,
who is a terrible supervisor, is turning seventy I think
this year, and she's going back to Congress, because that's
what happens here. You serve in one office until you're
(19:35):
not allowed to serve anymore, and then you move right
back into seventy is the chapper there'll be. She'll be
among the youngest members ever in the House of Representatives.
She'll need a babysitter, a mentor. Oh my gosh, what
is the average right now? Is not like sixty five
or something. It's ridiculous, It's cool. I mean they're literally dying, yeah,
literally dying. So who's been out there so far that's
(19:57):
been trying to get on that podium. You've had the
bass Horado, and so that got got the mayor, the
council member, and then the the supervisor supervisor and the
ones who were not there. I think there was a
member of Congress and a state legislator who were just
mentioned and also were booed in absentia at that community
meeting exactly. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
The thing is we talked a bit about what Councilman
Herado did it yesterday's council meeting, introducing seven motions about
you know, environmental justice and lasting community power. That's a
bunch of ridiculous BS words and terms. They don't have
any money for it, none of it's funded. They're just
talking out of their butts.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So so what they're doing is they're they're going out
and they're saying we're going to do something, we're doing
stuff for you, But they're not actually doing anything. They're
they're this is panamime. Yeah, they're playing charades. Yes, they're
not doing squad. That is the that is the La paulaway.
And again they will be re elected or sent to
(21:03):
a better office. I mean, but as you pointed out,
the La City. Wait there, council. Way is then she
put together like a task force or some sort of
is a special committee to ensure environmental justice and community empowerment? Yeah,
we have to have a committee. It's still a committee
on that one, is so.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The La County Board of Supervisors yesterday approved a motion
to increase penalties for public health violations and to provide
funds to small businesses affected by local emergencies like what
happened in Boyle Heights. They voted unanimously. The board approved
this motion from Soley's to use dollars from her first
District Catalytic Development Fund to launch a small Business Interruption
(21:40):
Fund for businesses in the area.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, that makes sense. That's fine. As long as you
have the cash to distribute. We say take this for
somebody to be business friendly. If you have money to
do small business launches, why aren't you using that money
for small business launches? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Imagine that you're a family, an immigrant family, no less
the type of demographic Hillasalise loves to exploit.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But you went about your business the right way. You've
got a brick and mortar shop you're selling nowl You
worked to nineteen hours a day. Yeah, you're selling the
food in there. But this Mitsalase is also a big
fan of giving away those food carts for free and
letting people just open up shop wherever they want. Violation free,
no health requirements, you know, no rules to be filed
out there at all whatsoever. And by the way, this
financial assistant is not supposed to be dispersed or is
(22:26):
to be dispersed within forty five days, so it could
still be a month and a half before any of
that money gets to you. If you're hanging by a
thread right now, what the hell difference does it make.
There is also happening today a hearing at the air
the South Coast air Quality Management District. This is where
they're going to say that they spend eighty to one
hundred million dollars in the fire. They're telling there's a
(22:46):
boor MD. Today they're taking up the request for an
abatement order against Lineage Logistics in response to that fire.
Lineage Logistics says it expects to.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Spend between eighty and one hundred million dollars on clean
up efforts and will provide more details on its clean
up and odor mitigation plans at the hearing. They're at
the Air Quality Management District's headquarters in Diamond Bar, so.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Could lineage Logistics. Genuine question, is there anything that they
could do to make the politicians happy now? Because I
think I don't think the politicians want change. I don't
think they want something better. I don't think they want improvement.
I think what they want is a foil.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I think initially in the immediate aftermath of this, when
the company came out and said, look, we're going to
put some money aside, but we're going to give it
to a foundation to handle the distribution. We're not going
to be writing checks to individuals, so that there could
be some oversight of the politicians. Well, it made the
residents mad, and so the politicians are mad, and they've
been grand standing so hard ever since that. I think
the people of Boyle Heights feel like they're bigger victims
(23:45):
than they actually are. I'm not diminishing the odor, the
disruption to your lives. I know it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Sounds like you're saying, suck it up, Buttercup Mount Saint
Helens didn't erupt in Boil Heights. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It wasn't a massive earthquake. You know where I stand
with that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You these folks are falling, and I think because of
the way the elected officials have been talking about it.
If I live there, I would feel more victimized to Well.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They keep begging them on.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
They're gonna give us more. They're gonna get more. We
can get more. Let's get more.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's like it's like, uh, it's like when mommy's a baby.
The youngest they're like, oh, sweetie, do you have a cut?
Do we need to go get stitches? Do you need
to do you need a teddy Bear? Do you need
to do you want to go get McDonald's. What do
you want? Sweetye? It's they scraped their knee, Like, get over,
put a band aid out and tell them go back
out in the air and play.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
There's something else coming near Boyle Heights and it's going
to be an attraction for all of us here. You
know the sixth Street Bridge, wautiful Bridge, what kind of
that big beautiful bridge that got all the fanfare when
it opened up and has been dark ever since and
covered in graffiti because of the thieves that stole the
copper wire. Yeah, you don't see that part in the
car commercials do now they leave that out. I think
(24:59):
they use AI to light. It's ridiculous. There's a plan
to spend even more money. Not on the bridge before
the area under it. How long before that's a pile
of human pool. We'll get into that next.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
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Available anywhere on the irt radio app. It's Monks and Maryland,
Michael Monks. That's Chris Merril. This is Wednesday. Thanks for
being with us. There is you didn't know that? Sometimes
people download the podcast. I like to just throw the
day in there. Okay, I think digitally I'm part of
the twenty first you can't read your to tell us
more about analog radio and Peoria, Chris, why don't you
(25:38):
wax poetic? Oh, journey across the planes legendary place? All right?
She said? Pierce College is canceling their entire football seas.
Oh my god, I know, but I couldn't figure out
why are there details about why Daily News had it
and just that it's been canceled. It's just and they
just told the players the way that the the way
(25:58):
that the the La Daily News wrote it. It makes
it sound like they canceled the season because they suck. Really, yeah,
they go, oh, it's been canceled. The school statement didn't
adress whether the team is going to come back next year.
They haven't won. They haven't had a winning season since
twenty thirteen, Like that's the only thing they say about it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, but if you realize you're not able to mount
a winning program after a decade plus, you know, if
you want to consider the cost and whether it's worth doing,
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, then you would say this is our last season,
and you would say there's no money for the program. Right,
you would at least say this is why it's not
worth the investment something like that. But you're right.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I mean, Per's Colleges came out this week and said
we've put the football program on hiatus, yeah, for twenty
twenty six, and they did not say whether it would
come back in twenty twenty seven. But here's the part
that really bothers me is that the players were told
at the same time, I mean on Monday when the
school came out with the announcement.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
A little late to go somewhere else. It's a little
bit late. I mean, this is junior college, so I
don't know what the rules are with transfer in those
sorts of things. I don't know if it's as regulated
as d one these days. It's certainly not as lucrative,
that's for sure. But to be told, it's it's August.
Like you're practicing at this point, aren't you. Yes? Did
you see a fun fact? I didn't know this? Did
(27:15):
you know that Mark Harmon was a quarterback there at
Pierce Pierce College? Mark Harmon, the actor from.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Like n C.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I s, oh, yeah, yeah, he played at Pierce, played
at Pierce and then he and then he went to
Ucile where he was a quarterback. Didn't coach Denny Crumb
spend some time at at Piers? I think Pierce has
a tradition. Well, I know Eric Kramer, who was a
quarterback for the Bears for a while and for the Lions.
He was there, Yeah, he was Denny Crumb. Do you
(27:43):
know Dinny Crumb, longtime head coach of the Louisville Cardinals.
But was to tell me more about the history of
Kentucky colleges. Go ahead, Well, he's from La grew up
in afternoon. I'll still you a little history he was
a protege John Wooden at u C l A. He
played at UCLA and was poised to replace John Wooden
(28:06):
at UCLA, but decided to stay with the Cardinals. Okay,
but I mean that's the type of pedigree you've got
in the athletics department over at Pierce, and then they
just blindside their employees. I mean they're workers, I mean
they're players. Let's go back to Boyle Heights. I was
looking forward to some games this year. I'm a big
Pierce football fan season ticket holder. I believe right fourth
year running. Let's go back to Boyle Heights. The sixth
(28:29):
Street Bridge runs between the Arts District and Boyle Heights.
If you're on the Arts District side.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If you're go underneath there, they got a little park.
It is nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I mean, the Arts District is right across from downtown,
connected by the six Street Bridge, and the Arts District
was kind of an ergoing a resurgence in the twenty tens.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's still working.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, it's not as vibrant, I think as it's designed
to be. There's plenty of empty spaces there, but the
apartments are nice. The food is great, it's nice. But
we've got this big pink elephant in the middle of
it all. And it's called the Sixth Bridge, which was
a very expensive project that the city is just allowed
to continue to decay because it's covered in graffiti. The
lights have been out since the copper was stolen. But
(29:09):
they got big plans because if LA can do anything,
it's spend money. Yeah, and I want to put a nice,
big park under there.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
There.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
There's already some places for people to go and enjoy
a little bit of space under there, but they want
to put this big park under there, the sixth Street
PA r C. How do you sound that out? It's
a naturally supposed to say park, But isn't it the
parks and recreational community blah blah, something of the sort.
It's probably to help foster lasting community power. Oh that's it. Yeah,
(29:38):
and environmental justice. Sure. So here's what's going on though,
is they want to put this in. There's twelve acres
of recreational space that stretches from the Arts District to
the edge of the one to one freeway and Boiled Heights.
City says construction is going to finish. They saved this
year the trouble that they're having is they've got some
activists that are that are saying, you can't clean up
the graffiti, you can't take the the drug dealers out
(30:01):
of that area. That's gentrification. So I hate my neighbors
with the passion of a thousand suns. Yeah. The arts district, however,
they say, yeah, you know what we want to do.
We want to attract the families and businesses and we
want to have a nice, safe, nice safe place. So
they've got a business Improvement district that funds the cleaning
(30:22):
and the security and the programming. Boyle Heightside does not
have a comparable organization. They depend on the city, which
is not really inspiring confidence with the upkeep of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Fair to say, by the way, this park project is
estimated to cost about sixty two million dollars. So not
only I could have done it for fifty would you
have to invest to create this park?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Which always sounds nice fields, playgrounds, splash pads, picnic areas,
sports courts, dog parks, skate elements, restrooms, public art, walking paths.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Sounds great storm water improvement. That's always fun at a park.
Oh that's right up your alley. But if the major
piece of infrastructure above it is a sitting to what
is the environment below it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Going to be? Well? I think that's a concern everybody has.
But if you've got like the Arts District is doing,
and you're funding some security, then at least you might
be able to say, look, this is this is the
first step in maintaining this park, and as having security
on site, we hope that we're able to deter some
of the crime that's happening on the bridge itself. I
think the city's necessarily gonna do.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I think I need to see proof of concept, not
of the park, but that the city can do that,
because they have no record in recent years of doing that.
And Isabelle Herrado, who represents this area again on the
city council, votes every time against any other city council
member who wants to remove homeless camps from certain parts
of the city. This place will be overrun in twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So if you are an activist who's afraid of your
town being cleaned up, good news. Michael Monks says, you
don't have to worry about that now they're not going
to do it. Though, Yeah, you can't worry about gentrification.
It'll still stay covered in graffiti, It'll still have needles
in the in the gutters. Don't worry about any of
that stuff. Congratulations, you win. That's kind of why I've
been My sunny disposition has been fading. I've been howling
(31:59):
at the moon because I'm becoming a werewolf. A lot
of people say that about you. They see that Michael
Monks has got a sunny disposition. They do sick. I
heard saying it the other day. I heard her talking
about just how sonny and nice. She was telling me, like, boy,
you listen to Michael Monks. He really knows what he's
talking about. I just said, he is very He actually
(32:19):
is very positive for them. He knows what day of
the week it is, and he's not very driven. He's
very driven. And I will step on anyone who gets
in my way. Yes he will. It's Wednesday, August fifth.
We'll be right back. Stop doing that. California has been
fighting for the e motorcycle a menace for a while now,
and we will get reports for a time. We do
the story people saying, well, it's my neighborhood's my neighborhood's
(32:41):
my neighborhood. One County is ground zero for that battle
against the e motorcycles. Wait until you hear who is
crashing more of the emotos than anyone else. The DA
there says, why not even be the rider's fault the
machines that are sending your kids to the trauma care Next.
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