May 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Happy Mother’s Day! Mother's Day surprise: More women with children are working than ever before. Survey reveals what moms really want for Mother's Day. Mother's Day gift guide: abortion rights, paid leave, daycare. I Got The Power: State utility regulators decided to let California’s largest power providers stick their customers with a new monthly flat fee in exchange for a reduction in the overall price of electricity, a controversial change to the way that millions of households pay their utility bills with weighty implications for state climate change policy. LA Law: The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law. All of the Lights: Lucky viewers enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime sight as a strong geomagnetic storm brought the northern lights to Southern California this weekend.Onlookers enjoyed the breathtaking view as the skies turned a brilliant electric shade of purple, pink, green and yellow hues.The aurora borealis was caused by a strong geomagnetic storm that hit the earth this weekend and was visible across the country and throughout California. The solar storm is the largest to hit the U.S. in over two decades.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Happy Mother's Day, Andrew,
Happy Mother's Day. I guess yeah. I told my mom on the
way in to work, she's goodfor you. She was like, what
are you doing. I'm like,I'm working. Yeah, that's what we
do. Real quick, before Ijump into some Mother's day stuff, I
wanted to go over this. You. You mentioned the Eurovision competition, which
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is massive. Yeah, it's ahuge deal and it was a Swede that
won, right yeah, Well,I mean Swedes usually make the best pop
music. So did you just saypop music? Pop pop? Oh,
pop music, popular popular song?Yeah? Oh okay, I got you.
So do you know who the you? You mentioned that it was the
first time that a Swede had wonsince Celine Dion, who's not she's weird?
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Do you know who that? Butit's the third time that they have
won the competition. Yeah, it'sjust the first time since eighty eight.
Right, yeah? Do you knowwho the so that's the that's too,
the three Do you know who thefirst one was? No? Yeah,
good question. I pulled a clipfor you. Here it is. This
is the very first Swedish winner ofthe Eurovision Song contest. Here we go,
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there you go, very first one. You wouldn't have guessed that,
huh, No, I wouldn't.That sounds like the baker from the Muppets.
No, no, the Sweetish chef. No, I wouldn't have done
that to you. Okay, Nope, nope, nope, no very first
Eurovision winner there, definitely not theSwedish chef. Mother's Day kicked off,
by the way, Happy Mother's Day. I didn't know this, and please
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forgive my naivete. I didn't realizethat Mother's Day is different in Mexico than
it is in the United States.So I didn't realize that Mother's Day is
always on the tenth in Mexico.So Friday was My's Day for those of
you with Mexican heritage, So HappyMother's Day. I didn't realize this until
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I went to work and a goodfriend of mine, Pablo, is there,
and I said something about what areyou doing for your mother on Mother's
Day? And he went, oh, that's today, and I said,
no, no, it's Sunday,and he said, no, it's today.
So I didn't know that I learnedsomething, and I felt naive,
but I felt like my eyes wereopen and listened to My Heart's Always in
the right place. Okay, SoI thought this is really great. So
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when I went home, I meta woman in the parking lot at the
Chateau de Merril and she's out walkingher dog and I said Happy Mother's Day,
and she was really flattered, andI was like, that's right.
She's Hispanic and I said that yeah, yep, culturally aware, Yep,
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she knows. I'm down. Sheknows. So I felt pretty good about
that. This is what we do. Listen, middle aged white American men.
We take victory laps when we dosomething right culturally. Okay, that's
what I'm doing, victory lab Soa happy Mother's Day for everyone who did
not celebrate on Friday. And ifyou did celebrate on Friday, Happy second
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Mother's Day. You get two thisyear. I say, good for you.
Saturday Night Live, Maya Rudolph wasdown there. I am a mya
roudoff fan. I thought it wasgreat, and Maya Rudolph has did you
know this? Four children? Soshe of course kicked off the show with
a Mother's Day montage where they actuallyreferred to her and I didn't realize this
was the thing. Forgive me again, I'm still learning, trying to be
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culturally aware. This is when Caylatells me how old I am. I
I guess mother means like you,you own it, you slay? Is
that right? Yes, Yes,that's right, that's right. Am I
using the terms correctly? You slay? Yeah, that's like m uva like
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move mother one bad mother? No, no, could that's just a little
bit making it a little lame whenyou do it that way. Yes,
I'm trying try listen. I'm nota cultural journey this weekend. Okay,
I'm proud of you. Thank you. I appreciate that. In your lap,
so my route off, my bigthree lap, my route off.
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Last night, I thought this wasgreat. This is my lady, the
gentlemen, Jesus give to you motherthe house. She's the mother of the
House of Rockefeller. Is that likebeing the Queen Bee? Is that?
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Are we? Am I getting fartheraway? I suppose they're they're similar.
Yeah, they similar. You're notso far off. So Beyonce would be
like the mother mother. Well yeah, yeah, it's a different division though.
That's that's music. This is comedy. Yes, and Beyonce is Queen
Bee because her name is b jonce. So oh yeah, but isn't she
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like isn't she like the best ofall of it? Well, I mean
she's only done like a couple actingroles, So I mean music is her
lane. Okay, I was givingher more credit than you guys want to.
Okay, that's cool, let's justkeep that in mind. Great,
I'm your matha, Why y'all,Latha may? Yeah? Oops, I
made you dance. Remember in thatmovie when I pooped my pants, when
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you maybe you pooped your pants andnot change your diaper. I'm your mother,
pokin sweater wather and you don't geta call, min did? I
also said clean your room? I'myour masa. That was great, It
was great, I laughed. Shewas fantastic. People asked me about watching
Saturday Night Live, which used tobe a religion back in the day before
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we had the DVR and the YouTube, and yeah, man, you had
to watch. You had to watchSaturday Night Live so that you could talk
about it on Monday. If youwere tired. You better hope that it
was going to be a rerun becauseyou didn't want to be on the outs
at the at the cool kid tablein the cafeteria because they were all going
to be talking about Saturday Night Live. So people say, do you watch
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Saturday Live? Nope, I reallycan't tell you the last time I watched
it live. It's been a coupleof years anyway, But man, I
love watching the clips the next dayand she she's slay. She was she
was a slayer. She was slaying. There was slash happening. All right,
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okay, all right. Have youseen her show Loot? I have
not. Is it awesome? Ireally like it? I really do,
And and I think it appeals tome in many cases because it's sort of
her having the same trouble relating topeople that I have, not because of
my billions of dollars, but ratherbecause there she's got the young people working
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in the office and she's just tryingto keep up and trying to be relevant
and trying to be cool. SoI definitely I really that. Yeah,
I relate, Yeah, I relatehard on that one. What does mom
want for Mother's Day? Oh?Here's so. My mother lives in northern
Michigan, and she is kind oftough to shop for because she's retired and
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they're retired comfortably. My parents aren'twealthy, but they're comfortable, and so
when she wants something, she goesand gets it. She doesn't really want
a whole lot, you know.They she goes, Oh, I'm going
to plant the garden, so Ineed some bulbs. I need some fertilizer,
I need some top soil. Likethat's it, right. She's not
out saying oh I need a Mercedes. That's not my mom. But I
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thought, what am I going toget my mother? I don't know what
she needs. I don't have anyidea. She doesn't have a lot of
hobbies. She's not like a makeupor a jewelry kind of person. She
just kind of does her thing.So I sent her a gift card to
Amazon. I figured, can't gowrong. Fair all right, So I
sent her a gift card fifty bucks. And she called and she said,
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I got the gift card. Thankyou. It was very nice. I
said, you're very welcome. Loveyou, mom, have a great day
whatever my wife, I said,sweetheart, did did we get something for
your mother? And she said no, what did you do? For years?
And I said, I send herfifty dollars. She goes, okay,
send mine a hundred. Does that? And I did. She wasn't
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kidding. She thought it was funnythat she said it out loud, but
she wasn't kidding. Her mother's verysocial, likes to go out as friends
will go. She bingoes like threetimes a week, this kind of thing.
Right, loves to go out andis very social, and also loves
to buy things for her grandkids.That kind of thing. But does that
seem a little weird? Is thatwrong? Shouldn't if you're married? Shouldn't.
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Shouldn't her mother get the same amountas my mother? Well? Would
your mother be content with just thefifty that you sent her? Yeah?
I think my mother's just happy thatI thought of her and I did something.
Then the then the value means nothing. You sound like my wife,
she says. Don't worry about whatyour mother wants. She doesn't need it.
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So, but what if we'd onlygive it her mother fifty dollars?
Would her mom be upset with justfifty dollars? What am I gonna do
with this? This doesn't even payfor a whole session of my bingo?
Well, then you would have donetwenty five for your mother, that's how
that works. Then I would havefelt cheap. Yeah, you should.
At that point all right, well, hopefully mom's napping today and not listening.
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What do moms want for Mother's Day? I always laugh at these these
stories that talk about what they reallywant most mothers. One third just be
taken out for drinks her meal.Another third want flowers, the hard one
for me, as always, theywant something handmade by the giver, kid,
husband, whatever it is, right. Some just want a gift card
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that was me, and some wouldbe happy with a greeting card. All
right, so that's good, right, that's solid. What I found that
I thought was really interesting. Sixtypercent want to spend time with their children,
and twenty percent say they just wantto be left alone. I thought
that's the easiest Mother's Day gift ofall because you can wrap that up like
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you're thinking of Mom, listen forthis Mother's Day. I want you to
relax. I don't want you haveto worry about anything. We're going to
leave you alone for the day,which is the lowest maintenance Mother's Day gift
there is. And I love that. I'm a big fan of that,
huge fan. Go enjoy your nap. I'm gonna enjoy not having to worry
about what I got you and whetherit was good enough or on par with
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what we got my mother in law. Next, we've got the power California's
has some problems. You may havealready known this. Every time you get
your power bill, you know yougot some problems. And even if you're
trying to make things better on yourend, you've got more problems. I'll
tell you why that is. Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
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on demand. The Northern Lights maymake another appearance. They'll tell me about
that coming up here this hour.We've also got La Law right after Andrews
News at two thirty. I didhappen to catch with the dag Gum Corporation,
the the the cup whatever it is, so the uh, the Utilities
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Corporation, right whatever. So Ihappen to catch with these turds were doing.
And the regulators then decided that whatwe should do. The California Public
Utilities Commission, what I call thema cup they're yeah anyway, what they
did is they decided we're going tolower your energy rates. And who can
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argue with lowering the energy rates?Doesn't that sound great? It's what's really
weird is that you had Pgenie SoCalEdison and SDG and E. So you
got PGENI up North SoCal here andthen SDGENIE in San Diego County and they
said, let lower our rates.Great, I love that idea. So
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what is that? What? Thatseems strange though, doesn't it? Yeah,
it does seem strange because when wasthe last time you heard the power
company say we want to lower yourrates? Okay, what they did is
an accounting trick. They're not loweringrates. Never in the history of ever
has the utility company said we'd liketo lower our profits. Ever. No,
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what they did is they put ina fixed charge. So instead of
your rate dropping by I don't know, ten to fifteen percent, your rate
drops that much, but then youpay another twenty four twenty four dollars.
Yeah, twenty four dollars for mostcustomers, but lower income households who already
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qualify for diskind of electric rates willsee fees of either six or twelve dollars.
So here's where this stinks. It'sreally good if you make good money
and you use a bunch of power, it's great. You're gonna save on
average. According to the study fromthe California Public Utilities Commission, you're gonna
save twenty bucks a month. Great, love it. However, excuse me,
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that's in San Diego County. Ifyou're a high user in a sokel
Edison customer, you're gonna say aboutfive bucks a month whatever, same thing,
PGENI. However, if you arenot a high energy user, a
high consumer, your bill is gonnago up overall because you're gonna get a
base charge and you don't use enoughpower to make that percentage off set with
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the with the lower rates elsewhere.Ain't that a booker? So yeah,
they're they're changing the numbers up.And you might think, well, why
did the Public Utilities Commission do this? And the answer is probably because they're
bought and paid for by the powercompanies. A lot of people spoke out
against it, and they said thenew flat fee is gonna be regressive and
it's bad. And they said,oh no, this is gonna be great.
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And if we just charge a higherfixed charge, which just means if
you are a customer, you haveto pay you have to pay them to
be a customer before you use onewant you gotta pay them twenty four dollars
and they go, right, Butif we lower the rates. We encourage
people then to convert more of theirgas stoves to electric, more of their
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gas furnaces to electric, more oftheir gas water heaters, to electric,
more of their gas cars to electric, because we want them to use more
power, and this is a wayto reduce the burden on the high energy
users. Okay, all right,I get it. But what if I'm
not somebody that makes a lot ofmoney. Now my bill just went up,
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and how am I supposed to takemoney and set it aside for a
new stove, a new water heater, a new furnace, a new are
You're not You're not. So thisis a move that benefits those with money.
But you might say, well,wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Meryl, that doesn't make any sense, because what if they get what
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they want and everybody converts all oftheir stuff over to electrics, so everyone
is a high energy user. Andif everyone is a high energy user,
then everyone's gonna start saving money.And won't that reduce profits? Good question,
No, no, because you're gonnahave more use. So think of
it more like wholesale versus retail.When you buy a costco, you spend
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a lot of money. Right,You might buy a gallon of nacho cheese.
Okay, I might buy a gallonof nacho cheese. I'm saving on
the price per ounce by buying agallon of it. Does Costco look like
they're going broke? No? Costcois doing very very well. Here's where
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else this might might jump in.Happen to see another article, and I'd
like to find the common threads whenI'm reading news. So I read an
article from cal Matters talking about ratesgoing up, and to be honest,
I can't stand power companies. Whateverthey do. I'm going to criticize them
because I just I hate them.I can't stand them. But I read
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another article from the New York Timesand this says giant batteries are transforming the
way the US uses energy. Ofcourse, we know that solar power peaks
mid morning to mid afternoon. Right. Peak demand, however, is later
on. That's when we all gethome from work, and that's when the
sun has been baking us all dayand things get really hot and we turn
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the air up and we want tocool the house down before we go to
bed. So peak demand is morelike closer to like eight pm. So
what's happening is a lot of peopleare starting to use those power walls,
those power batteries, right, Soa lot of not only individuals using the
power walls and the power batteries.So they're collecting solar during the day,
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they're not at home, they're notusing as much power. They're collecting more
power than they're using. It getsstored into a battery, and then at
night, when rates go up becauseof time of use charges, it discharges
from the battery. So you're notpaying that high time of use rate,
right, A great plan, andthen look you're able to lower your bill
and also you're taking pressure off thegrid. Seems like a win win,
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so much so that the power companieshave begun doing that. So California's installed
more giant batteries than anywhere in theworld save for China. So the power
companies they're using a ton of batteriestoo. It's actually turned into a huge
supply source, especially during those peakhours. Massive supply source. But now
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I want you to consider this.Suppose that you are a power company and
you see that more and more peopleare starting to use powerwall batteries, and
they're not paying you your high timeof use charges, and they're not getting
up into the high use rates.So how do you recoup your How do
you recoup that money that you thinkyou have, that you think you should
have. Right, it's not lostmoney, it's just money you believe people
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should be giving you. How doyou do that? You institute a fixed
use charge so that if people reducetheir usage and start using batteries and actually
cost them more money. Slimy sonsa gun, slimy sons of guns.
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Can't stand those guys. Hey,look I reduced my cost. Oh and
now they just penalized me for reducingmy cost. Thanks power companies, Thanks
Public Utilities Commission. You really giveus a hand up there, didn't you.
That's wonderful. All right, we'lltalk La law, including racist city
haullers and gas prices. Stuck forgood. Next, you're listening to KFI
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AM six forty on demand. Laterout of the program and tell you about
when you stop being cool? Kylasays, it's a for me. It's
every Sunday at about two o'clock.It's when I stopped being cool. She's
giving me fashion advice off there,and I appreciate that. Caleb, what's
the deal now I'm wearing I haveno shows on right now. But that's
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not cool any longer. No shoes. Yeah, yeah, apparently if you
wear inkle socks these days, theycan tell that you are over thirty.
You are supposed to wear high socksnow, high thick socks are now and
if you were like an old man, Yeah, the fashion has changed.
The fashion has changed. Now youget made fun of for the inkle socks.
It's a whole article and in yourNew York Times about it. It's
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a whole trend on TikTok. Youcannot, well, you can. You
can do whatever you want. I'mwearing inkle sox still because whatever. I'm
thirty and I don't care over thirty. I'm thirty three. There you go.
Hey man, let me be coolif I want to be cool.
But yeah, I'm gonna wear myinkle socks until I until I change my
mind. Yeah you know what,Okay, Cayla, There's going to come
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a time in your life when thetrend is going to change to being what
it was back when you were inhigh school. Happening. Evidently that is
happening to me right now. Well, that we used to wear socks that
would I mean, not the bigtube socks up to our the middle of
our calves, but certainly to thebottom of our calves. And that's that's
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what it was when I was inhigh school. In fact, I remember
at the tail ent of high school, one of the guys on our basketball
team came out wearing black athletic socks, and we thought, he's lost his
mind. Why is he wearing blacksocks. This guy's absolutely bonkers. He's
lost his dad gum mind, becauseyou didn't do that. You wore white
socks. You could have a logoNike or Adidas or something like that,
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but you didn't wear black socks whenyou were playing. You don't wear black
socks. You wore black socks.He was just way ahead, way ahead
of us, way ahead of us. I grew up in such a backwards
area. It's possible that the blacksocks were already halfway through their movement.
We just hadn't seen it yet.Yeah, totally possible. All right,
let's talk La law. All right, Maybe you recall the story of the
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recording from the city Hall. Sothere was an La County Federation of Labor
recording. Excuse me. One employeewith the La County Federation of Labor was
recording a conversation. Let me see, it was help me out here.
City Council President Nari Martinez and councilmembers Gil Sidillo and Kevin dal Leone and
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Labor Federation boss Ron Herrare. Doesthat sound familiar? This is this is
a few years back. So whathappened was they recorded this and there were
some unkind racisty things that were beingsaid. Remember that, you remember that,
Okay. So one of the issuesis this is sort of what's the
legal term fruit from a fruit froma poison tree? Is that right?
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Does that someun I've heard that beforethat something of that story. So what
happens is we find out there's thisshady stuff going on. People are being
super racist, nasty, but you'renot allowed to surreptitiously record people. That's
against the law. But what ifI'm recording somebody who's doing something really horrible?
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Should the person who recorded that beprosecuted? I mean, after all,
they did break the law, butthey broke the law for the quote
unquote greater good. Well this isalways a tough one, isn't there like
a good Samaritan law or something likethat. You would think, but not
in this case. Would not becovered by that not covered by a whistleblower
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law either. It's not like somebodythat was in there said, hey,
listen, I want to blow thewhistle on this. This was recorded by
somebody on the outside, according topolice. So police investigation looks into it
and finds out that, let mesee a couple of Yeah, at least
one former employee of the Ala CountyFederation of Labor was in connection with that.
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Uh. The prosecutor said that SantosLeone and Carla Vasquez lived at a
resident a residence tied to an Internetservice provider address that was in turn linked
to an email account associated with socialmedia posts that highlighted the audio. In
other words, they followed the internetback to where it came from. Okay,
so in this we know that therecording was made that was illegal.
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LAPD investigated and found that the recordingwas posted to Reddit that amplified on Twitter
by accounts that have been recently created. Both of these went back to these
couple of people. Prosecutors said thata crime was committed by one or both
of these individuals, but police couldn'tdetermine how the audio was made. They
couldn't identify a device us to makeit or determine who uploaded it to Reddit.
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And since neither suspect was willing toprovide a statement and each are represented
by separate council, it sounds likethey're not going to be charged because snitches
get stitches. Don't forget that theLAPD did recommend charges, but it is
going to be up to the LaCounty City attorney. Excuse me that it's
going to be up to the cityattorney whether not have to charge those employees
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with misdemeanors. And I'm kind ofwith you, Kayla. It feels like
there ought to be some sort ofa good Samaritan provision in here if I
catch somebody doing something really nasty andI especially in the world of government,
and I am transparent about it,feels like that ought to be. Feels
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like that's exactly what the founding fatherswould have wanted, right. It's kind
of the whole thing. Don't trustthe government, and if somebody is in
government, don't trust them. Butif you do trust them, they should
be trustworthy and you should always beon the lookout. That's why we have
freedom of the press. That's thewhole deal. People we're supposed to be
watching to make sure that the governmentis doing right on us, and to
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me, if you're not, thensomebody outs you tough. Maybe we talk
to legislators and see if we getsomething like that. Speaking of well,
not legislators so much as Newsom.Do you remember Newsom was fighting for US.
Governor Batman was stepping up and hesaid, listen, we're not gonna
take it. We are. Whatis it I am. I'm not the
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hero you deserve, but I'm thehero you need. Something like that.
So Governor Batman signs a bill thatis supposed to look at oil companies who
have been price gouging. Prices goup, we see that the price of
oil is dropping, and yet theprice of the pump stays very high,
and then eventually slowly starts coming down. And then at the end of the
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quarter we get an update that saysmade more money than they ever had before.
Look, BP's got so much moneythey started soaking up their oil spills
with dollar bills. It's cheaper thankidty litter for them. It's so miserable
profit margins. As we were payinga buttload at the pump. It still
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are profit margins have gone up bymore than two hundred percent when prices of
the pump spike over the last twoyears. So what do we do.
We say we are going to investigate, and what do we find when we
investigate? Oh, it's super duperbillionaires. I mean, we investigated,
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but we really couldn't find any wrongdoing. Oh you couldn't huh, Nope,
couldn't find any wrongdoing. And Ilooked all over with my new Bugatti,
A new Bugatti. I thought youwere a government employee. Yeah. I
saved for a really long time tobefore that Bagatti. And now I don't
find any problems with the billionaires.It's weird and it's daring. This thing
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strange. We're those billionaires now,Mari Lago, Oh, very good.
None of the according to the CaliforniaEnergy Commission chair telling the panel that's supposed
to be watching our butts, noneof the industry representatives and our good faith
discussions dispute that during these times theirprofits go up a lot. So who's
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to decide how high you can goduring those times? That's what we're trying
to through as of right now.However, there's no clear evidence that there's
price gouging taking place. Oh good. In other words, we're going to
keep taking it. You think pricesare gonna come down, they are not.
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And the reason prices are not goingto come down is because somehow we
can't find that there's any sort ofcorrelation between high pump prices and outrageous profits
by the oil company. But don'tworry, Governor Batman, he says,
he's watching it. Yeah, Ifeel better already. All right, we'll
discuss the lights, all of thelights next. You're listening to KFI AM
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six forty on demand. Well,they were saying we had a chance at
absolute calamity, and I would saywe dodged that bullet. We did not
have absolute calamity. Hey, it'sChris Meryl AM six forty. More stimulating
talk. We did not have allof our cell phones die, the power
grids didn't crash, the computers didn'treset to December thirty first, nineteen ninety
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nine, nothing of that sort.We just didn't have the Y two K
type disaster that some people were afraidof. Almost surprised when didn't have more
doomsdairs come out. But we didhave massive, massive solar flares, huge
solar storm which had an awful lotof people looking at the lights, all
of the lights. So the northernlights are not something that you think you're
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going to be able to see insouthern California? Is that fair to say?
Never did I dream that we'd havenorthern lights that would be visible in
San Diego County, that there wouldbe people in Alabama looking at the northern
lights. Did not think that wasgoing to be a thing. Didn't think
we'd get shots of the northern lightsfrom El Paso. But we did see
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it. We saw it, andthat's great. That's because of the massive
solar storm. And it's a Gfive solar storm, not to be confused
with the G six, which Ibelieve is a private jet. So the
G five solar storm meant that peoplewere heading to the hills to get away
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from the city lights so they couldsee the northern lights. It's like Alaska
and places like that. Along theWindy Mountain Road, families were camping just
after dusk to witness what many sayis at the top of their bucket list
otherworldly. I think, you know, it just did be so different,
it would be really cool, boring. Did people really say it's at the
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top of their bucket list. Ifeel like that's one you can click off
pretty easily. I mean, insouthern California, you're not really planning a
trip to Alaska anytime soon, SoI mean if it's on your bucket list
though, No, I don't know. I just think of a bucket list
meaning that you plan on Listen.I'm gonna have to move my butt to
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go see some of this stuff,like the Great Wall of China. That
would be a bucket list. Ican see the Northern Lights also being on
that list, right, But don'tyou then say I have to go to
China to see the Great Wall ofChina. We don't say, well,
it's a bucket list item. Iguess I'm gonna have to go to Whittier.
No, it's not, no,okay, anyway, the Aurora Borelli's
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typically see the what Aurora Borellies.Oh no, Aurora Borelli. Oh no,
he's got like the Hispanic accent.I think it's it's not Aurora Borealis,
is it? Andrew helped me outhere. I don't want to sound
like a giant racist. I've neverheard that terminology before. That helps,
Thank you. Aurora Borelli's typically seenin the polar regions of our planet are
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making a surprise appearance across the USand as far south as Los Angeles because
of a rare strong solar storm.This particular storm that's hit us is so
big that it's sending so many particlesdown to us that it's pushing that circle
of light. You know, there'ssome tinfoil hat wears out there that are
talking about sun particles that are bombardingus. Ah Man, I love crazies
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all the way down as far southas Florida, possibly even Hawaii. Back
on Mount Wilson. These families arehoping to catch this rare moment that they
hope to cherish for a lifetime.What we've been seeing is like pinks and
greens and stuff. We've been doinglike long shots on our cameras. See
if you can pick up anything.But if not, then I mean Ellie's
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always pretty. Oh l A isalways pretty? Did you look it up,
Andrew? Yeah, I mean itBorelli's Borelli is I don't know,
it's laden. Look, if you'vebeen listening to my reports today with that
whole Eurovision thing, I know it'sgreat. Foreign language I is not on
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on on like the top of thelist here, it's on my bucket list.
What to me is the funniest part. Let's see if I can find
that spot in the audio here?Is that the top of their bucket right
to witness? What many say isthat no, no, no, no,
wait we got a bucket listes yeah, okay? What is the harder
word to pronounce? Right? What? The aurora? Borealist? Borealis doesn't
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seem that difficult. Aurora is theone that can be a little challenging,
the aurora at least. Have youever been someplace where aurora is rural?
Have you ever served on a juryand Aurora and a jury? And have
you ever been a juror? Ajuror in rural Aurora? Only when Sally
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sells seashells. Anyway, they saidthat it could happen again. Ah,
sweet, because I missed it.Oh, I can't wait to fight traffic
if you missed it. The Sunwill continue to send more activity to Earth
tonight and earlier this week. Aseries of very fast eruptions on the Sun
expected to slam into Earth through tonight, triggering another round of severe to extreme
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geomagnetic storms. Oh crap, whichone is worse severe or extreme. I
can never keep these straight. Okay, if we're having a severe drought,
that's not as bad as an extreme, So extreme is worse? Right,
extreme is worse than severe. Accordingto scientists, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration NOAH
says severe to extreme geomatic magnetic stormstoday predicted to offer the best chance for
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Arora chasing before this round of solaractivity diminishes Sundays, geomagnetic storms could reach
this From the Washington Post level Gfour or G five, Pontiac made one
of those. It's very intense.If the forecast holds, tonight could produce
a repeat of Friday night, whensimilar storm levels brought arora sightings down to
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Florida and Mexico. It could happenagain tonight. They say. It could
chill out a little bit before dawntomorrow morning, but after dark tonight there
you may, you may ro ray. There could be a borealities out there
for you to go witness. Theysaid that aurors could be spotted as far
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south as Illinois and Oregon with thenaked eye, even pre dawn, but
cameras could capture the dancing lights evenfurther south. So here we go.
You want the really great news.I'm looking at the cloud cover map because
I went full geek on this todayand it's looking good for us. We
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shouldn't have a lot of issues withcloud cover. Our issue as per USU.
Anybody that's looking up to the heavensat night is going to be he's
going to be light pollution, potentiallysmog. But listen, if you're an
area that's got smog, you've gottoo many lights to be able to see
things really well. So you're gonnahave to get out to someplace dark,
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which means you're gonna have to drive. And it's terrible for the environment.
Really, the Aurora Bore alleys arekilling the environment because it's sending everybody in
their SUVs to the high country andthat's difficult. I guess that the issue
did actually cause some radio outages inthe Eastern Hemisphere according to some reports.
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Sounds like some places that were inIndia, Russia, China, even parts
of East Africa had some issues withsome radio blackout conditions, but we did
not. However, could happen tonight. You'll know if all of a sudden,
I KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six fortyon demand. Happy Mother's Day, Andrew,
Happy Mother's Day. I guess yeah. I told my mom on the
way in to work, she's goodfor you. She was like, what
are you doing. I'm like,I'm working. Yeah, that's what we
do. Real quick, before Ijump into some Mother's day stuff, I
wanted to go over this. You. You mentioned the Eurovision competition, which
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is massive. Yeah, it's ahuge deal and it was a Swede that
won, right yeah, Well,I mean Swedes usually make the best pop
music. So did you just saypop music? Pop pop? Oh,
pop music, popular popular song?Yeah? Oh okay, I got you.
So do you know who the you? You mentioned that it was the
first time that a Swede had wonsince Celine Dion, who's not she's weird?
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Do you know who that? Butit's the third time that they have
won the competition. Yeah, it'sjust the first time since eighty eight.
Right, yeah? Do you knowwho the so that's the that's too,
the three Do you know who thefirst one was? No? Yeah,
good question. I pulled a clipfor you. Here it is. This
is the very first Swedish winner ofthe Eurovision Song contest. Here we go,
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there you go, very first one. You wouldn't have guessed that,
huh, No, I wouldn't.That sounds like the baker from the Muppets.
No, no, the Sweetish chef. No, I wouldn't have done
that to you. Okay, Nope, nope, nope, no very first
Eurovision winner there, definitely not theSwedish chef. Mother's Day kicked off,
by the way, Happy Mother's Day. I didn't know this, and please
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forgive my naivete. I didn't realizethat Mother's Day is different in Mexico than
it is in the United States.So I didn't realize that Mother's Day is
always on the tenth in Mexico.So Friday was My's Day for those of
you with Mexican heritage, So HappyMother's Day. I didn't realize this until
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I went to work and a goodfriend of mine, Pablo, is there,
and I said something about what areyou doing for your mother on Mother's
Day? And he went, oh, that's today, and I said,
no, no, it's Sunday,and he said, no, it's today.
So I didn't know that I learnedsomething, and I felt naive,
but I felt like my eyes wereopen and listened to My Heart's Always in
the right place. Okay, SoI thought this is really great. So
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when I went home, I meta woman in the parking lot at the
Chateau de Merril and she's out walkingher dog and I said Happy Mother's Day,
and she was really flattered, andI was like, that's right.
She's Hispanic and I said that yeah, yep, culturally aware, Yep,
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she knows. I'm down. Sheknows. So I felt pretty good about
that. This is what we do. Listen, middle aged white American men.
We take victory laps when we dosomething right culturally. Okay, that's
what I'm doing, victory lab Soa happy Mother's Day for everyone who did
not celebrate on Friday. And ifyou did celebrate on Friday, Happy second
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Mother's Day. You get two thisyear. I say, good for you.
Saturday Night Live, Maya Rudolph wasdown there. I am a mya
roudoff fan. I thought it wasgreat, and Maya Rudolph has did you
know this? Four children? Soshe of course kicked off the show with
a Mother's Day montage where they actuallyreferred to her and I didn't realize this
was the thing. Forgive me again, I'm still learning, trying to be
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culturally aware. This is when Caylatells me how old I am. I
I guess mother means like you,you own it, you slay? Is
that right? Yes, Yes,that's right, that's right. Am I
using the terms correctly? You slay? Yeah, that's like m uva like
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move mother one bad mother? No, no, could that's just a little
bit making it a little lame whenyou do it that way. Yes,
I'm trying try listen. I'm nota cultural journey this weekend. Okay,
I'm proud of you. Thank you. I appreciate that. In your lap,
so my route off, my bigthree lap, my route off.
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Last night, I thought this wasgreat. This is my lady, the
gentlemen, Jesus give to you motherthe house. She's the mother of the
House of Rockefeller. Is that likebeing the Queen Bee? Is that?
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Are we? Am I getting fartheraway? I suppose they're they're similar.
Yeah, they similar. You're notso far off. So Beyonce would be
like the mother mother. Well yeah, yeah, it's a different division though.
That's that's music. This is comedy. Yes, and Beyonce is Queen
Bee because her name is b jonce. So oh yeah, but isn't she
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like isn't she like the best ofall of it? Well, I mean
she's only done like a couple actingroles, So I mean music is her
lane. Okay, I was givingher more credit than you guys want to.
Okay, that's cool, let's justkeep that in mind. Great,
I'm your matha, Why y'all,Latha may? Yeah? Oops, I
made you dance. Remember in thatmovie when I pooped my pants, when
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you maybe you pooped your pants andnot change your diaper. I'm your mother,
pokin sweater wather and you don't geta call, min did? I
also said clean your room? I'myour masa. That was great, It
was great, I laughed. Shewas fantastic. People asked me about watching
Saturday Night Live, which used tobe a religion back in the day before
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we had the DVR and the YouTube, and yeah, man, you had
to watch. You had to watchSaturday Night Live so that you could talk
about it on Monday. If youwere tired. You better hope that it
was going to be a rerun becauseyou didn't want to be on the outs
at the at the cool kid tablein the cafeteria because they were all going
to be talking about Saturday Night Live. So people say, do you watch
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Saturday Live? Nope, I reallycan't tell you the last time I watched
it live. It's been a coupleof years anyway, But man, I
love watching the clips the next dayand she she's slay. She was she
was a slayer. She was slaying. There was slash happening. All right,
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okay, all right. Have youseen her show Loot? I have
not. Is it awesome? Ireally like it? I really do,
And and I think it appeals tome in many cases because it's sort of
her having the same trouble relating topeople that I have, not because of
my billions of dollars, but ratherbecause there she's got the young people working
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in the office and she's just tryingto keep up and trying to be relevant
and trying to be cool. SoI definitely I really that. Yeah,
I relate, Yeah, I relatehard on that one. What does mom
want for Mother's Day? Oh?Here's so. My mother lives in northern
Michigan, and she is kind oftough to shop for because she's retired and
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they're retired comfortably. My parents aren'twealthy, but they're comfortable, and so
when she wants something, she goesand gets it. She doesn't really want
a whole lot, you know.They she goes, Oh, I'm going
to plant the garden, so Ineed some bulbs. I need some fertilizer,
I need some top soil. Likethat's it, right. She's not
out saying oh I need a Mercedes. That's not my mom. But I
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thought, what am I going toget my mother? I don't know what
she needs. I don't have anyidea. She doesn't have a lot of
hobbies. She's not like a makeupor a jewelry kind of person. She
just kind of does her thing.So I sent her a gift card to
Amazon. I figured, can't gowrong. Fair all right, So I
sent her a gift card fifty bucks. And she called and she said,
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I got the gift card. Thankyou. It was very nice. I
said, you're very welcome. Loveyou, mom, have a great day
whatever my wife, I said,sweetheart, did did we get something for
your mother? And she said no, what did you do? For years?
And I said, I send herfifty dollars. She goes, okay,
send mine a hundred. Does that? And I did. She wasn't
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kidding. She thought it was funnythat she said it out loud, but
she wasn't kidding. Her mother's verysocial, likes to go out as friends
will go. She bingoes like threetimes a week, this kind of thing.
Right, loves to go out andis very social, and also loves
to buy things for her grandkids.That kind of thing. But does that
seem a little weird? Is thatwrong? Shouldn't if you're married? Shouldn't.
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Shouldn't her mother get the same amountas my mother? Well? Would
your mother be content with just thefifty that you sent her? Yeah?
I think my mother's just happy thatI thought of her and I did something.
Then the then the value means nothing. You sound like my wife,
she says. Don't worry about whatyour mother wants. She doesn't need it.
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So, but what if we'd onlygive it her mother fifty dollars?
Would her mom be upset with justfifty dollars? What am I gonna do
with this? This doesn't even payfor a whole session of my bingo?
Well, then you would have donetwenty five for your mother, that's how
that works. Then I would havefelt cheap. Yeah, you should.
At that point all right, well, hopefully mom's napping today and not listening.
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What do moms want for Mother's Day? I always laugh at these these
stories that talk about what they reallywant most mothers. One third just be
taken out for drinks her meal.Another third want flowers, the hard one
for me, as always, theywant something handmade by the giver, kid,
husband, whatever it is, right. Some just want a gift card
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that was me, and some wouldbe happy with a greeting card. All
right, so that's good, right, that's solid. What I found that
I thought was really interesting. Sixtypercent want to spend time with their children,
and twenty percent say they just wantto be left alone. I thought
that's the easiest Mother's Day gift ofall because you can wrap that up like
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you're thinking of Mom, listen forthis Mother's Day. I want you to
relax. I don't want you haveto worry about anything. We're going to
leave you alone for the day,which is the lowest maintenance Mother's Day gift
there is. And I love that. I'm a big fan of that,
huge fan. Go enjoy your nap. I'm gonna enjoy not having to worry
about what I got you and whetherit was good enough or on par with
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what we got my mother in law. Next, we've got the power California's
has some problems. You may havealready known this. Every time you get
your power bill, you know yougot some problems. And even if you're
trying to make things better on yourend, you've got more problems. I'll
tell you why that is. Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
(10:58):
on demand. The Northern Lights maymake another appearance. They'll tell me about
that coming up here this hour.We've also got La Law right after Andrews
News at two thirty. I didhappen to catch with the dag Gum Corporation,
the the the cup whatever it is, so the uh, the Utilities
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Corporation, right whatever. So Ihappen to catch with these turds were doing.
And the regulators then decided that whatwe should do. The California Public
Utilities Commission, what I call thema cup they're yeah anyway, what they
did is they decided we're going tolower your energy rates. And who can
(11:43):
argue with lowering the energy rates?Doesn't that sound great? It's what's really
weird is that you had Pgenie SoCalEdison and SDG and E. So you
got PGENI up North SoCal here andthen SDGENIE in San Diego County and they
said, let lower our rates.Great, I love that idea. So
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what is that? What? Thatseems strange though, doesn't it? Yeah,
it does seem strange because when wasthe last time you heard the power
company say we want to lower yourrates? Okay, what they did is
an accounting trick. They're not loweringrates. Never in the history of ever
has the utility company said we'd liketo lower our profits. Ever. No,
(12:28):
what they did is they put ina fixed charge. So instead of
your rate dropping by I don't know, ten to fifteen percent, your rate
drops that much, but then youpay another twenty four twenty four dollars.
Yeah, twenty four dollars for mostcustomers, but lower income households who already
(12:50):
qualify for diskind of electric rates willsee fees of either six or twelve dollars.
So here's where this stinks. It'sreally good if you make good money
and you use a bunch of power, it's great. You're gonna save on
average. According to the study fromthe California Public Utilities Commission, you're gonna
save twenty bucks a month. Great, love it. However, excuse me,
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that's in San Diego County. Ifyou're a high user in a sokel
Edison customer, you're gonna say aboutfive bucks a month whatever, same thing,
PGENI. However, if you arenot a high energy user, a
high consumer, your bill is gonnago up overall because you're gonna get a
base charge and you don't use enoughpower to make that percentage off set with
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the with the lower rates elsewhere.Ain't that a booker? So yeah,
they're they're changing the numbers up.And you might think, well, why
did the Public Utilities Commission do this? And the answer is probably because they're
bought and paid for by the powercompanies. A lot of people spoke out
against it, and they said thenew flat fee is gonna be regressive and
it's bad. And they said,oh no, this is gonna be great.
(14:00):
And if we just charge a higherfixed charge, which just means if
you are a customer, you haveto pay you have to pay them to
be a customer before you use onewant you gotta pay them twenty four dollars
and they go, right, Butif we lower the rates. We encourage
people then to convert more of theirgas stoves to electric, more of their
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gas furnaces to electric, more oftheir gas water heaters, to electric,
more of their gas cars to electric, because we want them to use more
power, and this is a wayto reduce the burden on the high energy
users. Okay, all right,I get it. But what if I'm
not somebody that makes a lot ofmoney. Now my bill just went up,
(14:50):
and how am I supposed to takemoney and set it aside for a
new stove, a new water heater, a new furnace, a new are
You're not You're not. So thisis a move that benefits those with money.
But you might say, well,wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Meryl, that doesn't make any sense, because what if they get what
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they want and everybody converts all oftheir stuff over to electrics, so everyone
is a high energy user. Andif everyone is a high energy user,
then everyone's gonna start saving money.And won't that reduce profits? Good question,
No, no, because you're gonnahave more use. So think of
it more like wholesale versus retail.When you buy a costco, you spend
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a lot of money. Right,You might buy a gallon of nacho cheese.
Okay, I might buy a gallonof nacho cheese. I'm saving on
the price per ounce by buying agallon of it. Does Costco look like
they're going broke? No? Costcois doing very very well. Here's where
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else this might might jump in.Happen to see another article, and I'd
like to find the common threads whenI'm reading news. So I read an
article from cal Matters talking about ratesgoing up, and to be honest,
I can't stand power companies. Whateverthey do. I'm going to criticize them
because I just I hate them.I can't stand them. But I read
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another article from the New York Timesand this says giant batteries are transforming the
way the US uses energy. Ofcourse, we know that solar power peaks
mid morning to mid afternoon. Right. Peak demand, however, is later
on. That's when we all gethome from work, and that's when the
sun has been baking us all dayand things get really hot and we turn
(16:45):
the air up and we want tocool the house down before we go to
bed. So peak demand is morelike closer to like eight pm. So
what's happening is a lot of peopleare starting to use those power walls,
those power batteries, right, Soa lot of not only individuals using the
power walls and the power batteries.So they're collecting solar during the day,
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they're not at home, they're notusing as much power. They're collecting more
power than they're using. It getsstored into a battery, and then at
night, when rates go up becauseof time of use charges, it discharges
from the battery. So you're notpaying that high time of use rate,
right, A great plan, andthen look you're able to lower your bill
and also you're taking pressure off thegrid. Seems like a win win,
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so much so that the power companieshave begun doing that. So California's installed
more giant batteries than anywhere in theworld save for China. So the power
companies they're using a ton of batteriestoo. It's actually turned into a huge
supply source, especially during those peakhours. Massive supply source. But now
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I want you to consider this.Suppose that you are a power company and
you see that more and more peopleare starting to use powerwall batteries, and
they're not paying you your high timeof use charges, and they're not getting
up into the high use rates.So how do you recoup your How do
you recoup that money that you thinkyou have, that you think you should
have. Right, it's not lostmoney, it's just money you believe people
(18:15):
should be giving you. How doyou do that? You institute a fixed
use charge so that if people reducetheir usage and start using batteries and actually
cost them more money. Slimy sonsa gun, slimy sons of guns.
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Can't stand those guys. Hey,look I reduced my cost. Oh and
now they just penalized me for reducingmy cost. Thanks power companies, Thanks
Public Utilities Commission. You really giveus a hand up there, didn't you.
That's wonderful. All right, we'lltalk La law, including racist city
haullers and gas prices. Stuck forgood. Next, you're listening to KFI
(19:00):
AM six forty on demand. Laterout of the program and tell you about
when you stop being cool? Kylasays, it's a for me. It's
every Sunday at about two o'clock.It's when I stopped being cool. She's
giving me fashion advice off there,and I appreciate that. Caleb, what's
the deal now I'm wearing I haveno shows on right now. But that's
(19:21):
not cool any longer. No shoes. Yeah, yeah, apparently if you
wear inkle socks these days, theycan tell that you are over thirty.
You are supposed to wear high socksnow, high thick socks are now and
if you were like an old man, Yeah, the fashion has changed.
The fashion has changed. Now youget made fun of for the inkle socks.
It's a whole article and in yourNew York Times about it. It's
(19:42):
a whole trend on TikTok. Youcannot, well, you can. You
can do whatever you want. I'mwearing inkle sox still because whatever. I'm
thirty and I don't care over thirty. I'm thirty three. There you go.
Hey man, let me be coolif I want to be cool.
But yeah, I'm gonna wear myinkle socks until I until I change my
mind. Yeah you know what,Okay, Cayla, There's going to come
(20:04):
a time in your life when thetrend is going to change to being what
it was back when you were inhigh school. Happening. Evidently that is
happening to me right now. Well, that we used to wear socks that
would I mean, not the bigtube socks up to our the middle of
our calves, but certainly to thebottom of our calves. And that's that's
(20:26):
what it was when I was inhigh school. In fact, I remember
at the tail ent of high school, one of the guys on our basketball
team came out wearing black athletic socks, and we thought, he's lost his
mind. Why is he wearing blacksocks. This guy's absolutely bonkers. He's
lost his dad gum mind, becauseyou didn't do that. You wore white
socks. You could have a logoNike or Adidas or something like that,
(20:48):
but you didn't wear black socks whenyou were playing. You don't wear black
socks. You wore black socks.He was just way ahead, way ahead
of us, way ahead of us. I grew up in such a backwards
area. It's possible that the blacksocks were already halfway through their movement.
We just hadn't seen it yet.Yeah, totally possible. All right,
let's talk La law. All right, Maybe you recall the story of the
(21:19):
recording from the city Hall. Sothere was an La County Federation of Labor
recording. Excuse me. One employeewith the La County Federation of Labor was
recording a conversation. Let me see, it was help me out here.
City Council President Nari Martinez and councilmembers Gil Sidillo and Kevin dal Leone and
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Labor Federation boss Ron Herrare. Doesthat sound familiar? This is this is
a few years back. So whathappened was they recorded this and there were
some unkind racisty things that were beingsaid. Remember that, you remember that,
Okay. So one of the issuesis this is sort of what's the
legal term fruit from a fruit froma poison tree? Is that right?
(22:10):
Does that someun I've heard that beforethat something of that story. So what
happens is we find out there's thisshady stuff going on. People are being
super racist, nasty, but you'renot allowed to surreptitiously record people. That's
against the law. But what ifI'm recording somebody who's doing something really horrible?
(22:34):
Should the person who recorded that beprosecuted? I mean, after all,
they did break the law, butthey broke the law for the quote
unquote greater good. Well this isalways a tough one, isn't there like
a good Samaritan law or something likethat. You would think, but not
in this case. Would not becovered by that not covered by a whistleblower
(22:56):
law either. It's not like somebodythat was in there said, hey,
listen, I want to blow thewhistle on this. This was recorded by
somebody on the outside, according topolice. So police investigation looks into it
and finds out that, let mesee a couple of Yeah, at least
one former employee of the Ala CountyFederation of Labor was in connection with that.
(23:17):
Uh. The prosecutor said that SantosLeone and Carla Vasquez lived at a
resident a residence tied to an Internetservice provider address that was in turn linked
to an email account associated with socialmedia posts that highlighted the audio. In
other words, they followed the internetback to where it came from. Okay,
so in this we know that therecording was made that was illegal.
(23:41):
LAPD investigated and found that the recordingwas posted to Reddit that amplified on Twitter
by accounts that have been recently created. Both of these went back to these
couple of people. Prosecutors said thata crime was committed by one or both
of these individuals, but police couldn'tdetermine how the audio was made. They
couldn't identify a device us to makeit or determine who uploaded it to Reddit.
(24:02):
And since neither suspect was willing toprovide a statement and each are represented
by separate council, it sounds likethey're not going to be charged because snitches
get stitches. Don't forget that theLAPD did recommend charges, but it is
going to be up to the LaCounty City attorney. Excuse me that it's
going to be up to the cityattorney whether not have to charge those employees
(24:23):
with misdemeanors. And I'm kind ofwith you, Kayla. It feels like
there ought to be some sort ofa good Samaritan provision in here if I
catch somebody doing something really nasty andI especially in the world of government,
and I am transparent about it,feels like that ought to be. Feels
(24:44):
like that's exactly what the founding fatherswould have wanted, right. It's kind
of the whole thing. Don't trustthe government, and if somebody is in
government, don't trust them. Butif you do trust them, they should
be trustworthy and you should always beon the lookout. That's why we have
freedom of the press. That's thewhole deal. People we're supposed to be
watching to make sure that the governmentis doing right on us, and to
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me, if you're not, thensomebody outs you tough. Maybe we talk
to legislators and see if we getsomething like that. Speaking of well,
not legislators so much as Newsom.Do you remember Newsom was fighting for US.
Governor Batman was stepping up and hesaid, listen, we're not gonna
take it. We are. Whatis it I am. I'm not the
(25:34):
hero you deserve, but I'm thehero you need. Something like that.
So Governor Batman signs a bill thatis supposed to look at oil companies who
have been price gouging. Prices goup, we see that the price of
oil is dropping, and yet theprice of the pump stays very high,
and then eventually slowly starts coming down. And then at the end of the
(25:57):
quarter we get an update that saysmade more money than they ever had before.
Look, BP's got so much moneythey started soaking up their oil spills
with dollar bills. It's cheaper thankidty litter for them. It's so miserable
profit margins. As we were payinga buttload at the pump. It still
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are profit margins have gone up bymore than two hundred percent when prices of
the pump spike over the last twoyears. So what do we do.
We say we are going to investigate, and what do we find when we
investigate? Oh, it's super duperbillionaires. I mean, we investigated,
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but we really couldn't find any wrongdoing. Oh you couldn't huh, Nope,
couldn't find any wrongdoing. And Ilooked all over with my new Bugatti,
A new Bugatti. I thought youwere a government employee. Yeah. I
saved for a really long time tobefore that Bagatti. And now I don't
find any problems with the billionaires.It's weird and it's daring. This thing
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strange. We're those billionaires now,Mari Lago, Oh, very good.
None of the according to the CaliforniaEnergy Commission chair telling the panel that's supposed
to be watching our butts, noneof the industry representatives and our good faith
discussions dispute that during these times theirprofits go up a lot. So who's
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to decide how high you can goduring those times? That's what we're trying
to through as of right now.However, there's no clear evidence that there's
price gouging taking place. Oh good. In other words, we're going to
keep taking it. You think pricesare gonna come down, they are not.
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And the reason prices are not goingto come down is because somehow we
can't find that there's any sort ofcorrelation between high pump prices and outrageous profits
by the oil company. But don'tworry, Governor Batman, he says,
he's watching it. Yeah, Ifeel better already. All right, we'll
discuss the lights, all of thelights next. You're listening to KFI AM
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six forty on demand. Well,they were saying we had a chance at
absolute calamity, and I would saywe dodged that bullet. We did not
have absolute calamity. Hey, it'sChris Meryl AM six forty. More stimulating
talk. We did not have allof our cell phones die, the power
grids didn't crash, the computers didn'treset to December thirty first, nineteen ninety
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nine, nothing of that sort.We just didn't have the Y two K
type disaster that some people were afraidof. Almost surprised when didn't have more
doomsdairs come out. But we didhave massive, massive solar flares, huge
solar storm which had an awful lotof people looking at the lights, all
of the lights. So the northernlights are not something that you think you're
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going to be able to see insouthern California? Is that fair to say?
Never did I dream that we'd havenorthern lights that would be visible in
San Diego County, that there wouldbe people in Alabama looking at the northern
lights. Did not think that wasgoing to be a thing. Didn't think
we'd get shots of the northern lightsfrom El Paso. But we did see
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it. We saw it, andthat's great. That's because of the massive
solar storm. And it's a Gfive solar storm, not to be confused
with the G six, which Ibelieve is a private jet. So the
G five solar storm meant that peoplewere heading to the hills to get away
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from the city lights so they couldsee the northern lights. It's like Alaska
and places like that. Along theWindy Mountain Road, families were camping just
after dusk to witness what many sayis at the top of their bucket list
otherworldly. I think, you know, it just did be so different,
it would be really cool, boring. Did people really say it's at the
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top of their bucket list. Ifeel like that's one you can click off
pretty easily. I mean, insouthern California, you're not really planning a
trip to Alaska anytime soon, SoI mean if it's on your bucket list
though, No, I don't know. I just think of a bucket list
meaning that you plan on Listen.I'm gonna have to move my butt to
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go see some of this stuff,like the Great Wall of China. That
would be a bucket list. Ican see the Northern Lights also being on
that list, right, But don'tyou then say I have to go to
China to see the Great Wall ofChina. We don't say, well,
it's a bucket list item. Iguess I'm gonna have to go to Whittier.
No, it's not, no,okay, anyway, the Aurora Borelli's
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typically see the what Aurora Borellies.Oh no, Aurora Borelli. Oh no,
he's got like the Hispanic accent.I think it's it's not Aurora Borealis,
is it? Andrew helped me outhere. I don't want to sound
like a giant racist. I've neverheard that terminology before. That helps,
Thank you. Aurora Borelli's typically seenin the polar regions of our planet are
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making a surprise appearance across the USand as far south as Los Angeles because
of a rare strong solar storm.This particular storm that's hit us is so
big that it's sending so many particlesdown to us that it's pushing that circle
of light. You know, there'ssome tinfoil hat wears out there that are
talking about sun particles that are bombardingus. Ah Man, I love crazies
(31:55):
all the way down as far southas Florida, possibly even Hawaii. Back
on Mount Wilson. These families arehoping to catch this rare moment that they
hope to cherish for a lifetime.What we've been seeing is like pinks and
greens and stuff. We've been doinglike long shots on our cameras. See
if you can pick up anything.But if not, then I mean Ellie's
(32:15):
always pretty. Oh l A isalways pretty? Did you look it up,
Andrew? Yeah, I mean itBorelli's Borelli is I don't know,
it's laden. Look, if you'vebeen listening to my reports today with that
whole Eurovision thing, I know it'sgreat. Foreign language I is not on
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on on like the top of thelist here, it's on my bucket list.
What to me is the funniest part. Let's see if I can find
that spot in the audio here?Is that the top of their bucket right
to witness? What many say isthat no, no, no, no,
wait we got a bucket listes yeah, okay? What is the harder
word to pronounce? Right? What? The aurora? Borealist? Borealis doesn't
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seem that difficult. Aurora is theone that can be a little challenging,
the aurora at least. Have youever been someplace where aurora is rural?
Have you ever served on a juryand Aurora and a jury? And have
you ever been a juror? Ajuror in rural Aurora? Only when Sally
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sells seashells. Anyway, they saidthat it could happen again. Ah,
sweet, because I missed it.Oh, I can't wait to fight traffic
if you missed it. The Sunwill continue to send more activity to Earth
tonight and earlier this week. Aseries of very fast eruptions on the Sun
expected to slam into Earth through tonight, triggering another round of severe to extreme
(33:50):
geomagnetic storms. Oh crap, whichone is worse severe or extreme. I
can never keep these straight. Okay, if we're having a severe drought,
that's not as bad as an extreme, So extreme is worse? Right,
extreme is worse than severe. Accordingto scientists, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration NOAH
says severe to extreme geomatic magnetic stormstoday predicted to offer the best chance for
(34:15):
Arora chasing before this round of solaractivity diminishes Sundays, geomagnetic storms could reach
this From the Washington Post level Gfour or G five, Pontiac made one
of those. It's very intense.If the forecast holds, tonight could produce
a repeat of Friday night, whensimilar storm levels brought arora sightings down to
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Florida and Mexico. It could happenagain tonight. They say. It could
chill out a little bit before dawntomorrow morning, but after dark tonight there
you may, you may ro ray. There could be a borealities out there
for you to go witness. Theysaid that aurors could be spotted as far
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south as Illinois and Oregon with thenaked eye, even pre dawn, but
cameras could capture the dancing lights evenfurther south. So here we go.
You want the really great news.I'm looking at the cloud cover map because
I went full geek on this todayand it's looking good for us. We
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shouldn't have a lot of issues withcloud cover. Our issue as per USU.
Anybody that's looking up to the heavensat night is going to be he's
going to be light pollution, potentiallysmog. But listen, if you're an
area that's got smog, you've gottoo many lights to be able to see
things really well. So you're gonnahave to get out to someplace dark,
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which means you're gonna have to drive. And it's terrible for the environment.
Really, the Aurora Bore alleys arekilling the environment because it's sending everybody in
their SUVs to the high country andthat's difficult. I guess that the issue
did actually cause some radio outages inthe Eastern Hemisphere according to some reports.
(36:06):
Sounds like some places that were inIndia, Russia, China, even parts
of East Africa had some issues withsome radio blackout conditions, but we did
not. However, could happen tonight. You'll know if all of a sudden,
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