December 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Today, the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coat of Venezuela, with Navy personnel swooping in and swarming the ship. Trump said it was the biggest tanker ever seized. AG Pam Bondi said the tanker was headed to Cuba with Venezuelan oil it was sending to Iran, which is presently under sanction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Look, this is not a great time for you to
take a little trip in the Caribbean. It's just not
a good time for it at all. Either we have
fishing boats or drug trafficking boats that are being blown up,
and the kill them all orders which are not kill
them all orders.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We have no idea what's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The most transparent administration in history doesn't seem to know
what's going on. They're not being very forthcoming on what
happened with the double tap strike of the vessel. But
now we've seized an oil tanker today, which I thought
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seizing an oil tanker seems like a real.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Escalation tonight, the dramatic escalation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The up just said that this from maybec News.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Whos seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Navy helicopter swooping in, swarming the ship, US Coast Guard
forces propelling down onto the deck, armed with long guns,
meticulously searching the ship. Late today, President Trump, before the cameras.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We've just said, and what are what were they searching for?
She's a tanker? Oh okay, why on the coast of
Venezuela large tanker, very large.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh okay, all right, large tanker, all right, but it
probably wasn't like the largest tanker ever seized.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Largest one ever seees actent, wow, and other things are happening.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Attorney General Pam Bondi tonight says the tanker was used
to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran and is
part of an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
All right, So the idea here is that Venezuela was
sending oil to Iran. But you're not supposed to send
oil to Iran because they're sanctions on oiled to a runner.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Guests, sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So it was Iran sending No, it was carrying Venezuelan
oil from a state owned oil company.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
A federal judge issued a seizure warning roughly two weeks
ago because the ship's past activities smuggling illicit Iranian oil.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Prosecutor said that Iran uses oil sales to fund its
armed forces, which the US is designated to terroriced entity,
all right, now, I understand, not really.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It was sized for very good reason.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No good reason today seizure marking the first time the
US has overtly interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source
of revenue.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Did you hear the question, the reporter said, what happens
to the oil on the ship? That's a good question,
not like it's our oil.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well we keep it. I guess it is now and.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That feels like that would be in violation of some
sort of international and we're just we just take it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's a little odd.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Until now, the US has been targeting boats they say
are carrying drugs, striking at least twenty two boats and
killing nearly ninety people, including two survivors. At the heart
of the latest controversy, a growing number of Republicans now
demanding the video of that second strike on survivors be released.
But so far the administration hasn't budged.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, they haven't, and a House panel is now saying
they're going to end the probe, They're going.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To stop looking into that. Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday
that he planned to end the inquiry into the US
military strike that killed the two survivors. Mike Rodgers, Alabama,
telling reporters that he had received all of the information
he needed after launching the probes less than two weeks ago.
Spokesperson for Rodgers confirming his plans no timeline though for
winding things down. That was a rather abrupt announcement, casting
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doubt on what has perhaps been the most muscular oversight
effort from Congress during Pete Hegsith's tenure as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Tonight's seizure of that oil tanker marks a new chapter
in the pressure campaign on Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So how far would you go.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
To take Maduro out of office?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I don't want to say that, but.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But you want to see him out?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
His days are numbered.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So, I mean everything we've talked about has been about
getting the Duro out right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I mean, it's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean we say, oh, we're going after the We're
going after these boats because they're drug boats.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's the justification.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But then there's pardoning going on of the former Hunt
Durant president who was convicted of.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Drug smuggling, drug trafficking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
There's far more drug trafficking that happens on the Pacific
side of the America's then on the Caribbean side of
the Americas. If our goal is to go after a
drug Oh and Venezuela is not a source for fentanyl, right,
that's coming from Mexico, but through Mexico from China. If
our goal really is drugs, this is about the least
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effective way to go about it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This is like saying, I'm saving for a down payment
on my house. How you doing that? Well, I'm putting
spare change in a jar. I mean, yeah, yess.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You could say that that is saving, but that's probably
not the most effective way to save for a down
payment on a house. Right, So yeah, you could say
we're we're going after the drugs, but that's really this
is really not the most effective way to go after
the drugs, right, right? Can you rule out an American
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ground invasion?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't want to rule in or out. I don't
talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Late today Venuzuela calling the seizure of the tanker a
blatant robbery, and David, make no mistake, the US seizure
of that oil tanker off Venezuela is a significant escalation
you saw those images of the US Navy helicopter storming
that tanker.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, they released that footage.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We would have the footage of the double tap on
the fishing boat, but we've got the We've got this
footage that came out right away.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The US now has fifteen thousand forces in the region,
and it's not just Venezuela. Late today, President Trump warning
Colombia's president that he better wise up or he'll be
next David.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, all right, there you go. So are we going
to war? Well, who are the biggest allies?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Uh, you're probably gonna You're probably thinking like China or Russia. Right, Yes,
I don't think that we're I don't think that we're
launching some sort of a proxy I.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Don't think we're getting into You remember.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The proxy wars that happened during the Cold War, right,
I don't think we're getting into that situation because we
we still have a we have a we have an
open relationship with Russia right now. I mean, the President
can pick up the phone and call Putin and he'll
take his call. It's not as though we we I
don't think we're in a cold war with Russia. I mean,
KA Kamala Harris been elected, then maybe the relationship with
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Russia would have been more tense.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Maybe you could have sold me on that. But it's Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Trump is like, oh, I'll call Putin and I'll work
out a deal with with Zelensky right, which was favorable
to the first deal it was pitching. It was favorable
to Russia is supposed to get back with another deal
very shortly here with a counter proposal. But I don't
like what what's the advantage.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't see the I don't see the advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't I don't know why we would want to
start a proxy war with Russia.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
China is also a supporter of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, that's what I mean. That's why I said China
or Russia. Now the China thing makes a little more
sense to me. That does make a little more sense.
But I honestly think that this is more about Venezuela.
I really think that this is just direct on Venezuela.
I think this is about Maduro from UPI, the oil
taker seizure in the presence of US military and international
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waters near Venezuela are likely to discourage oiler companies from
transporting Venezuelan crude.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oil shippers will likely be much.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
More cautious and hesitant about loading Venezuelan crude going forward. That,
according to an oil analyst telling CNBC, Yeah, I'm just
I'm not I'm not sold on the proxy war thing. Well,
I think you kind of have to factor in that
Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So are we getting are we getting involved in another
war for oil? Could be?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I mean, when have we ever been successful with stuff
in Central and South America. Oh, we're gonna We're gonna
go after the drug No war on drugs we lost. Oh,
let's send the CIA into the jungles of Nope doesn't work.
Gorilla what Nope doesn't work? Why don't we fund the gorillas?
Nope doesn't work. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I don't know. I don't I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I feel like we're I feel like we're picking a
fight we don't need to pick. But I'm not in
those security meetings. Maybe somebody with the far more brains
than I have says, no, we have to do this.
But I also know that when we were talking about
the American elections being stolen, it was like Venezuela did
it like wuit a minute, Shamas put those machines in,
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Like Shama has been dead for eight years. No, no,
but he did the machines. Why are we playing at Venezuela?
What's the fascination there? And this I get the feeling
that this is one of those situations where we're gonna
find out a decade later. This is gonna be like
the Pentagon papers for Vietnam, Like a decade later, we're
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gonna learn what the justification is. But right now it's
just gonna be a lot of uh terras drugs And
we're all, oh, yeah, well, you know, we hate terrorists,
we hate drugs, so sure, go ahead. There's something else
going on, but I can't put the two and two
together quite yet. All right, you're back to tariffs. You
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thought that was gonna protect the family farm, but it didn't.
So now we've got a solution to clean things up,
which is also a bit of a head scratcher.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
We're gonna shovel out the barn.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Next, Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What is the coolest scar that you have on your
entire body?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll see how that compares coming up here after marks
nine o'clock news that is a.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Little less than an hour away.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And there's a chance that if you are on the
GLP ones full disclosure, I am, if you're on the
GLP ones, could have those taken away. You'll find that
out here coming up at eight thirty five. But we
were just talking about the seizure of the the oil
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tanker vessel off the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean. The
Christian is why do we do that? I mean, are
we picking a war, We're trying to have regime change?
Are we enforcing sanctions and ran this is all about
the war on drugs. I mean, there's just a lot
going on, and the story keeps shifting around, and I
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think we're gonna learn what the truth is. I just
don't know how long it's gonna take before we learn
the truth. This is gonna be a situation like the
Pentagon papers, where it leaks out ten years later, or
is this something where you know, finally you know, something
happens and then someone addresses American goes, Okay, everybody, you've
been watching it happen, Here's what's really going on, right
that's what we would love to have from the talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Hey, Chris, this is Gary.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Hey Gary, Hey man, isn't that piracy sort of like
what the Somalis were doing.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I am the captain now, and we're going after them
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, okay, I mean it's not not We're not. If
we're keeping the oil, then yeah, it's not not piracy.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah. Yeah, you make a good point.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Yeah, baby, it's all about the oil. That and he's
gonna get kickbacks from Chevron and everybody else that wants
a piece of that oil. Oh yeah, How is he
secretly getting kickbacks from all these people he's pardoning too?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
If it's secret, then I don't have another thing to
back it up. I mean, I hear you. I understand
your suspicions. I just don't have any evidence to say it. So,
you know, I gotta be a little bit careful before
I start using the microphone to start throwing those accusations out.
I don't like to be the flamethrower host, you know,
I like, I like to deal with the facts, But.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I mean, I don't have any evidence to the contrary.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Hey, guys, enjoying the show, and I thank you here's
my two cents on Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Three things Number one on one, Venezuela and Russia our buddies. Okay,
Russia wants to take Ukraine, We take Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
We get the oil from Venezuela, so the gas prices
come down, like Trump promise, all right, what's number two?
Number three? If we start a world war, then he
doesn't need to leave the presidency.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Three reasons why that invade Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I feel like we skipped one, all right, that's fine.
So are we Are we taking land one way or another?
I mean, we didn't get green Land, we didn't get Canada.
Are we taking Venezuela? Is that gonna be the new
vacation spot? Cheap tickets to get there?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Maybe? Maybe Venezuela has beef.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know, we sent the like twenty billion dollars to
Argentina because our cattle herds are down here and we
wanted to try to lower the price on beef. So
then the American farmers went, what are you doing? You said,
a bunch of money over to Venezuela, and farmers are like,
that's not cool. So then basically the White House went oh, whoa,
you know what, You're right, we sent twenty billion dollars
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to Argentina. We should be helping out American farmers. And
so yesterday we got that work.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
One of the farmers actually sitting next to the president
and said that Christmas has come early for them. Many
have been feeling the impact from the trade war with
China and dealing with high costs for things like fertilizer, fuel,
and seeds.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
All right, so trade war, which is basically the tariffs
kind of in the middle of all that, right, has
driven up the cost and that's hurt the local farmers.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Farm Bureau analysis of USA data found American farmers are
in the red for a third year in a row,
with farmers spending one hundred and seventy nine billion dollars
to produce just one hundred and forty four billion dollars
worth of crops.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm no mathematician, and I feel like that's not great business.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
The current crop years twenty eight billion dollars shortfall will
push losses to more than fifty billion dollars since twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
All right, so it's not like this is a new problem.
This was this is going on under Biden as well.
But I mean, we're short twenty billion dollars. Why do
we send twenty billion dollars to Argentina.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
From what it costs us to grow a crop is
not getting any cheaper.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
It's getting more expensive every day, but what we're selling
is getting cheaper every day. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rowlin says
farmers could get money in their pockets as soon as February.
Eleven billion dollars will go out to farmers immediately, and
another one billion dollars we put aside for specialty crop farmers.
While some of the money will come from tariffs, Roland
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says that that's not the reason for the aid.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
There is almost zero evidence, if any evidence, that what
they are doing and the challenges that our farm economy
is facing in road crops, has anything to do with
these trade renegotiations.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Then what h okay? All right, I guess I'll take
your word for it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Just feels funny to me that the price of the
crops and the seeds and the fertilizers that all come
from overseas now have tariffs, those prices have all gone up.
We don't have the markets to sell to overseas. Because
of the trade war that's going on. It feels like
a really strong correlation going on there. I mean kind
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of feels like causation. So I don't know if I'm
if I'm buying it. But then we're using the money
from the tariffs to reimburse the farmers for the money
that they lost because of the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It feels kind of like a circular firing squad, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But we used to have this really nice old man
that will come in every Sunday afternoon. He get out
of church, he'd come in, he sit down at that
piano and he played. He played piano for like four
hours every Sunday. So when I hear those those nice
little jazz tunes. That's what I think of. Got like
nice OTLTD man sitting there playing piano. Oh they loved him,
they loved him. Why don't we just do Christmas music
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the rest of the night. I just do that, so down,
let's do that. Play the Christmas the Charlie Brown album.
Oh God, I hate that Charlie Brown Christmas music? No
you like to you do like that one? I cannot stand.
This is the worst Christmas song ever. And that's saying
a lot. And I love the Charlie Brown Specials, but
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I hated this song. God, it's so bad.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I love this one.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Oh, oh so bad for all, so so bad.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
It's so American.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh I take that as an insult. Han't you're deported.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's like it was written by a sixth grader and
then recorded by a bunch of first graders in their
their classroom.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I couldn't get those kids to a studio. Help.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Somebody walks in there with an old, dirty microphone and
a tape recorder and they're like, okay, kids, we're gonna
lay it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Down business time.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Imagine being like six years old and they go, okay, kids,
well we out. We have to memorize this song and
we're gonna sing it a hundred times until they get
the right take to put in the TV special Christmas Time.
That's when, uh, that's when we saw an uptick in
uh mental health crisis for for children in schools is
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when those kids, those kids.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Started it because the Christmas time is in the sixties. Yeah,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And then they grew up and they didn't know how
to be good parents because their entire lives were like
their parents thought, this was good. No, this is terrible,
and it just it ruined. It ruined America. It ruined us,
just ruined America, just terrible all the way around.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Uh So, truth, what was the Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Coming up here a nine o'clock, we'll talk about the
coolest scar. What's your coolest scar? Because I think you're
gonna be hard pressed to beat the one that we've
got here on staff.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
But the coolest scar I have is my open heart
surgery scar.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Bam, she's got the zipper. She's got the zipper scar.
That's pretty cool scar. That's a scar that tells the story.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I always love a good scar that tells the story. Nick,
you got any scars that tell stories.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I mean, I've got a skin Kansas scar, and I've
got the scar on my knee from the time I
tried to jump over the open dishwasher and I fell
and I got stabbed with a fork right my knee.
I've got a fork print.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, it looks like a fork.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Yes, yeah, because I was. I was clumsy. I thought
it was fun and I didn't make the jump and
the dish washer was open, nearly broke the dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The dishwasher was okay, right, yeah, okay, So you've got
a fork scar, a scar that's wonderful. Okay, Mark, don't
you just I just want to kind of observe Nikki
one night.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
No, I love that she says because I was clumsy.
I absolutely don't, because you know what, I spelled clumsy differently.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Mark loves it when I'm not in his room with
him annoying him.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, that's probably true.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, I mean, I don't want to be mean about it.
But yes, so I know that the American spelling for
clumsy is c l U M s Y. Right, is
the Australian spelling d r U n K.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
We have silence in there, I gotcha.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's perfect, that's exactly right. So a few years back, I, uh,
I got tired.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Of being fat, and I went on this diet and
I did a I did a pretty intense, heavy duty diet,
and I lost some weight. I'm still at where I
want to be, but I lost some weight, and uh
and and I was like, okay, this is good.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm gonna I'm in a pretty good spot. But then
I got to that point.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Anybody's ever gone on a weight loss journey knows, you
get to a point where you feel like, Okay, I
am plateauing and I am not getting through this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And and to get through this means.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Sacrificing more than I am really prepared to sacrifice that
I already been doing it. This diet, it's pretty intense
to after like six or eight months, and it's like,
I can't just eat, you know, peas and water for
the next year until I lose another twenty or thirty pounds.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So that's when I first reached out and I thought,
you know what, let's see what these weight loss drugs
are doing. I was making okay money, my wife's making
okay money. We go, okay, that's money that we can spend,
Let's do it. And so so I started with the
ozempic and I was doing the oce empic for a
while and I didn't lose any weight, but I didn't
gain any weight. But I was telling my provider, I said,
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you know, I'm a little frustrated. I feel like I'm
at the MAXI dos I'm not really losing any weight.
I'm very happy that I'm not putting any on. I'm
happy that I'm maintaining, but it's kind of expensive for
me to be maintaining. And you also fall into this
trap where when the when you're on the drug and
and you feel like the drug is not working, it
is you go, oh, I still have these cravings.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I was still getting the cravy.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You know, I'd still have cravings at the end of
the night, but but I was still maintaining, and so
the drug was working. And I know this because just
recently I ran out of Switch providers, and so I've
got this a couple of week lull and all of
a sudden, it's like, oh boy, I just want to
I just want to eat, like like crazy. All of
a sudden, I feel those urges that I had when
I when I put on weight in the first place,
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and so I went to the tears epetide, which is
a GLP one that's basically works on two different receptors,
and that's been that's been good. But like I said,
I got expensive, so I switch providers, find a provider
that was a little bit cheaper, and I'm resuming that regiment.
The thing is, we could start seeing access to those
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drugs get limited even further because they're so effective in
a multitude of applications that other countries are looking at
it and saying why can't we get our hands on that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
The WHO wants.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
To step in asideally the World Held Organization is saying,
first of all, GLP one drugs are not a magic
bullet to take by themselves. And also this cannot just
be a rich country or rich people drug.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Everyone needs access.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We have to have some fair use.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Okay, I get what you're saying, and I know the
WHO wants to be very egalitarian about this, But.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Also we're the richest country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We're also the fattest country, and I think there's some
causation there too, So doesn't it make sense that we
would have access to this drug easier access to the
GLP ones than say, Aerotrea. Look, if your country has
won the Boston Marathon of the last twenty years, you're
kind of in last in line. For those of us
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that have won things like curling in the last twenty years,
we're first in line.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
We must work together on strategies like pool procurement and
tier pricing to make these medicines affordative and for all.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
In addition to recognizing the effectiveness of GLP one drugs,
the World Health Organization is really stating that obesity is
a growing, complex medical condition and requires comprehensive management that's
also fair and accessible to all.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Right, I know it needs to be fair and accessible
to me. Right now.
Speaker 12 (24:49):
According to the World Health Organization, there are a billion
people living with obesity. Yeah, me, and this number is
projected to rise to two billion by twenty thirty a
very real production.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Wow, we're doubling obesity in five years. Like, how bad
is world hunger?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Then it's an issue that the World Health Organization is
raising is at right now? GLP one drugs can really
only cover about ten percent of the global obese population.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, as long as it's me, I'm fine.
Speaker 12 (25:17):
That's not nearly enough. If we're going to be addressing
this complex, growing chronic medical condition.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
All right, we'll tell those other countries to get on it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What all is that Spain should have access to it? No,
go run with some bulls for a while. You're fine.
In the meantime, give me my wigovi.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Do you know what the fattest country in the world is?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It's us isn't No? What is it?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
It's actually closer to Minica the woods. It's Samoa. Oh yeah,
followed by Tonga. Why be as beautiful in the South Pacific?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh? Is that what it is? Yes? Have you seen
the cultural really? Is it a cultural thing?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
So cultural? I think it was the king of Samoa
he had to tell the people not to because the
food they like to eat, they like they get a
loaf of bread and they hollow it out and put
ice cream in it and maple syrup and they eat
that sort of thing because big is beautiful. The king
was massive, and he had to tell the people they
needed to be healthier, otherwise it wouldn't be good for
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them long term.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well, plus, they head of those girl scale cookies, the Samoas.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
It's not my that's not my Wheelhouse.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
No, that's what they were. That was the issue. But
the rest, the rest thin mince, right, we got thin mince,
they got Samoa's. So look what happened.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
The rest of the South Pacific is also quiet.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hey, you know your appetite shifted when he started eating less.
But now we've got the ripple effects that are hitting
other parts of our obesity tailored economy.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Who is hurting because you're feeling better? That's next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
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I told you that there's plenty of Christmas songs I
don't like. Hey, any Christmas song by Wham, throw it out,
just put it right in the train.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We don't need that. Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, good job, great pipes, overdone, that's it, just brilliant.
Just give me the Frank Sinatra Christmas album. That's all
I want. That's fine. But the worst has got to
be that Charlie Brown Christmas Day is.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So bad, so so bad.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
The voice actor that played Charlie Brown, Yeah, he had
he went, he was parade sizophrenic.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Let me see what else.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Had bipolar disorder and was incarcerated at the California Institution
for Men and Chinos.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, good point.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm with you, Mike. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Actually, I remember that I had just moved to San
Diego and that was I remember that story breaking.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
And now I think he had trouble again. So let's see.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I got there in like twenty twelve, and I got
to say it was within the first year that I
was there, and then I think he got picked up again.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hang on, let me bring this real fast. Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
January twenty thirteen, arrested by San Diego County Sheriff's Department
at the Santy Cedar report of entry for counts of
making a threat bout of the injury. And then he
ended up doing sentence to a year in jail for
stalking a former girlfriend in twenty thirteen. Yeah, there you go,
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stalking a plastic surgeon. He was allowed to log time
and treatment instead, and then oh he ended up he
ended up taking his own life in twenty twenty two.
That's a tragedy. It was Charlie Brown actor. That is
a real tragedy.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I like that. Oh that's uplifting. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I was just telling about the GLP ones and how
the World Health Organization wants to make sure that we
have access that can go everywhere. I mean, these drugs
really are incredible. Most people respond to them. They are
effective at, you know, helping you lose weight. Obviously, they
are type two diabetes tailored drugs, that's what they were
made for in the first place. But the weight loss
has so many other you know benefits, staving off heart disease,
(29:08):
lowering blood pressure, all the other benefits of losing weight,
which is why if you're heavy and you go to
the doctor, the doctor always says.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You want to lose weight. I get it. You go
to lose weight, Okay, I get it. Doc.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I used to have this really fat doctor when I
was little in Eastgo. He used to walking, he waddling.
You got to lose weight.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You can't be serious. You can't be serious.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You can't be But actually, these GLP one drugs are
actually having an effect on the economy, not just because
people are buying a lot of GLP one drugs, but
as a result, they're not buying well girl Scout cookies
or other things.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I'd say right now, this is from a podcast called
The Dark Side of Dining.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
There is one disrupting force that is slowly emerging. This
is the doctor, by the way, that is likely going
to change how we sell food to people. And that's
the whole issue of GLP one drugs, weight loss drugs
like ozembic. It's it's really the quiet destructor.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
This week we learn from McDonald's that they're acknowledging that
ozembic is.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
A problem for them.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
Wow, because they know that in a few years from now,
you'll have they'll have millions fewer people going to McDonald's
because they don't necessarily.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They don't. They don't long for McDonald's. They don't.
Speaker 13 (30:32):
They don't look for fast food at all. Yeah, they don't.
They don't want to snack. It makes them ill. It's
so there's there's likely to be almost thirty million Americans
using a JLP one drug to lose weight by twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And then McDonald suffers from it. Wow, millions and millions
not served. Think about Ronald Think about Ronald Ah. So
we didn't used to be this that as a country.
With the addition of seed oils and high fructose corn
syrup and everything that we eat. That's part of what's
caused us to blimp out. It's worth your time to
google the foods that we eat here that are banned
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in Europe. On what I take it back, look, I
think I think you're right about her to chime in there.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, she couldn't. She couldn't hold back up.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I kind of help with you, totally with you on
I got to do more research into the seed oils
because I still like my my olive oil, but.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Every time I get out that's not seed oil, my skun.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Oh it's not good because my son always scoffs and
he's like, oh, I know what it is. I drink
almond milk. That's what he's like, sheeed milk milk, And
I'm like, sounds dirty. Yeah whatever, I'm like, however they
milk the almond I'm in, I'm in tiny little almond nipples.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
But uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm with you on
what you're saying there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I also think the the high processed food, not just
the high fructose corn syrup. I think just the high
processed food and everything else are contributing to it as well.
And then you've got McDonald's too, I mean, let's add
as many things into our foods as we can to
try to get people to come back. In other words,
you've got companies that intentionally make you addicted to their
their junk food.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
So yeah, I'm with you, all right. What is the
gnarliest scar that you have? The coolest scar that you have?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't think it's going to hold a candle, although
we've had a few people that have wighed in already
and they do have some pretty cool ones. We'll see
how We'll see how it stands up to the coolest
scar we have on staff. That is next Chris Merril
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Look, this is not a great time for you to
take a little trip in the Caribbean. It's just not
a good time for it at all. Either we have
fishing boats or drug trafficking boats that are being blown up,
and the kill them all orders which are not kill
them all orders.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We have no idea what's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The most transparent administration in history doesn't seem to know
what's going on. They're not being very forthcoming on what
happened with the double tap strike of the vessel. But
now we've seized an oil tanker today, which I thought
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seizing an oil tanker seems like a real.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Escalation tonight, the dramatic escalation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The up just said that this from maybec News.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Whos seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Navy helicopter swooping in, swarming the ship, US Coast Guard
forces propelling down onto the deck, armed with long guns,
meticulously searching the ship. Late today, President Trump, before the cameras.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We've just said, and what are what were they searching for?
She's a tanker? Oh okay, why on the coast of
Venezuela large tanker, very large.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh okay, all right, large tanker, all right, but it
probably wasn't like the largest tanker ever seized.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Largest one ever seees actent, wow, and other things are happening.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Attorney General Pam Bondi tonight says the tanker was used
to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran and is
part of an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
All right, So the idea here is that Venezuela was
sending oil to Iran. But you're not supposed to send
oil to Iran because they're sanctions on oiled to a runner.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Guests, sources telling ABC News it was headed for Cuba,
capable of carrying up to two million barrels of oil.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So it was Iran sending No, it was carrying Venezuelan
oil from a state owned oil company.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
A federal judge issued a seizure warning roughly two weeks
ago because the ship's past activities smuggling illicit Iranian oil.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Prosecutor said that Iran uses oil sales to fund its
armed forces, which the US is designated to terroriced entity,
all right, now, I understand, not really.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It was sized for very good reason.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
No good reason today seizure marking the first time the
US has overtly interfered with oil exports, Venezuela's main source
of revenue.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Did you hear the question, the reporter said, what happens
to the oil on the ship? That's a good question,
not like it's our oil.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well we keep it. I guess it is now and.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That feels like that would be in violation of some
sort of international and we're just we just take it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's a little odd.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Until now, the US has been targeting boats they say
are carrying drugs, striking at least twenty two boats and
killing nearly ninety people, including two survivors. At the heart
of the latest controversy, a growing number of Republicans now
demanding the video of that second strike on survivors be released.
But so far the administration hasn't budged.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, they haven't, and a House panel is now saying
they're going to end the probe, They're going.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To stop looking into that. Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday
that he planned to end the inquiry into the US
military strike that killed the two survivors. Mike Rodgers, Alabama,
telling reporters that he had received all of the information
he needed after launching the probes less than two weeks ago.
Spokesperson for Rodgers confirming his plans no timeline though for
winding things down. That was a rather abrupt announcement, casting
(04:07):
doubt on what has perhaps been the most muscular oversight
effort from Congress during Pete Hegsith's tenure as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Tonight's seizure of that oil tanker marks a new chapter
in the pressure campaign on Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So how far would you go.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
To take Maduro out of office?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I don't want to say that, but.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But you want to see him out?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
His days are numbered.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So, I mean everything we've talked about has been about
getting the Duro out right.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I mean, it's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean we say, oh, we're going after the We're
going after these boats because they're drug boats.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's the justification.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But then there's pardoning going on of the former Hunt
Durant president who was convicted of.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Drug smuggling, drug trafficking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
There's far more drug trafficking that happens on the Pacific
side of the America's then on the Caribbean side of
the Americas. If our goal is to go after a
drug Oh and Venezuela is not a source for fentanyl, right,
that's coming from Mexico, but through Mexico from China. If
our goal really is drugs, this is about the least
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effective way to go about it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This is like saying, I'm saving for a down payment
on my house. How you doing that? Well, I'm putting
spare change in a jar. I mean, yeah, yess.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You could say that that is saving, but that's probably
not the most effective way to save for a down
payment on a house. Right, So yeah, you could say
we're we're going after the drugs, but that's really this
is really not the most effective way to go after
the drugs, right, right? Can you rule out an American
(05:55):
ground invasion?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I don't want to rule in or out. I don't
talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Late today Venuzuela calling the seizure of the tanker a
blatant robbery, and David, make no mistake, the US seizure
of that oil tanker off Venezuela is a significant escalation
you saw those images of the US Navy helicopter storming
that tanker.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, they released that footage.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We would have the footage of the double tap on
the fishing boat, but we've got the We've got this
footage that came out right away.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The US now has fifteen thousand forces in the region,
and it's not just Venezuela. Late today, President Trump warning
Colombia's president that he better wise up or he'll be
next David.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, all right, there you go. So are we going
to war? Well, who are the biggest allies?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Uh, you're probably gonna You're probably thinking like China or Russia. Right, Yes,
I don't think that we're I don't think that we're
launching some sort of a proxy I.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Don't think we're getting into You remember.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The proxy wars that happened during the Cold War, right,
I don't think we're getting into that situation because we
we still have a we have a we have an
open relationship with Russia right now. I mean, the President
can pick up the phone and call Putin and he'll
take his call. It's not as though we we I
don't think we're in a cold war with Russia. I mean,
KA Kamala Harris been elected, then maybe the relationship with
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Russia would have been more tense.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Maybe you could have sold me on that. But it's Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Trump is like, oh, I'll call Putin and I'll work
out a deal with with Zelensky right, which was favorable
to the first deal it was pitching. It was favorable
to Russia is supposed to get back with another deal
very shortly here with a counter proposal. But I don't
like what what's the advantage.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't see the I don't see the advantage.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't I don't know why we would want to
start a proxy war with Russia.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
China is also a supporter of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, that's what I mean. That's why I said China
or Russia. Now the China thing makes a little more
sense to me. That does make a little more sense.
But I honestly think that this is more about Venezuela.
I really think that this is just direct on Venezuela.
I think this is about Maduro from UPI, the oil
taker seizure in the presence of US military and international
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waters near Venezuela are likely to discourage oiler companies from
transporting Venezuelan crude.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oil shippers will likely be much.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
More cautious and hesitant about loading Venezuelan crude going forward. That,
according to an oil analyst telling CNBC, Yeah, I'm just
I'm not I'm not sold on the proxy war thing. Well,
I think you kind of have to factor in that
Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So are we getting are we getting involved in another
war for oil? Could be?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I mean, when have we ever been successful with stuff
in Central and South America. Oh, we're gonna We're gonna
go after the drug No war on drugs we lost. Oh,
let's send the CIA into the jungles of Nope doesn't work.
Gorilla what Nope doesn't work? Why don't we fund the gorillas?
Nope doesn't work. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I don't know. I don't I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I feel like we're I feel like we're picking a
fight we don't need to pick. But I'm not in
those security meetings. Maybe somebody with the far more brains
than I have says, no, we have to do this.
But I also know that when we were talking about
the American elections being stolen, it was like Venezuela did
it like wuit a minute, Shamas put those machines in,
(09:34):
Like Shama has been dead for eight years. No, no,
but he did the machines. Why are we playing at Venezuela?
What's the fascination there? And this I get the feeling
that this is one of those situations where we're gonna
find out a decade later. This is gonna be like
the Pentagon papers for Vietnam, Like a decade later, we're
(09:54):
gonna learn what the justification is. But right now it's
just gonna be a lot of uh terras drugs And
we're all, oh, yeah, well, you know, we hate terrorists,
we hate drugs, so sure, go ahead. There's something else
going on, but I can't put the two and two
together quite yet. All right, you're back to tariffs. You
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thought that was gonna protect the family farm, but it didn't.
So now we've got a solution to clean things up,
which is also a bit of a head scratcher.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
We're gonna shovel out the barn.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Next, Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What is the coolest scar that you have on your
entire body?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll see how that compares coming up here after marks
nine o'clock news that is a.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Little less than an hour away.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And there's a chance that if you are on the
GLP ones full disclosure, I am, if you're on the
GLP ones, could have those taken away. You'll find that
out here coming up at eight thirty five. But we
were just talking about the seizure of the the oil
(11:02):
tanker vessel off the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean. The
Christian is why do we do that? I mean, are
we picking a war, We're trying to have regime change?
Are we enforcing sanctions and ran this is all about
the war on drugs. I mean, there's just a lot
going on, and the story keeps shifting around, and I
(11:26):
think we're gonna learn what the truth is. I just
don't know how long it's gonna take before we learn
the truth. This is gonna be a situation like the
Pentagon papers, where it leaks out ten years later, or
is this something where you know, finally you know, something
happens and then someone addresses American goes, Okay, everybody, you've
been watching it happen, Here's what's really going on, right
that's what we would love to have from the talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Hey, Chris, this is Gary.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Hey Gary, Hey man, isn't that piracy sort of like
what the Somalis were doing.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I am the captain now, and we're going after them
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, okay, I mean it's not not We're not. If
we're keeping the oil, then yeah, it's not not piracy.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah. Yeah, you make a good point.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Yeah, baby, it's all about the oil. That and he's
gonna get kickbacks from Chevron and everybody else that wants
a piece of that oil. Oh yeah, How is he
secretly getting kickbacks from all these people he's pardoning too?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
If it's secret, then I don't have another thing to
back it up. I mean, I hear you. I understand
your suspicions. I just don't have any evidence to say it. So,
you know, I gotta be a little bit careful before
I start using the microphone to start throwing those accusations out.
I don't like to be the flamethrower host, you know,
I like, I like to deal with the facts, But.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I mean, I don't have any evidence to the contrary.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Hey, guys, enjoying the show, and I thank you here's
my two cents on Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Three things Number one on one, Venezuela and Russia our buddies. Okay,
Russia wants to take Ukraine, We take Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
We get the oil from Venezuela, so the gas prices
come down, like Trump promise, all right, what's number two?
Number three? If we start a world war, then he
doesn't need to leave the presidency.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Three reasons why that invade Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I feel like we skipped one, all right, that's fine.
So are we Are we taking land one way or another?
I mean, we didn't get green Land, we didn't get Canada.
Are we taking Venezuela? Is that gonna be the new
vacation spot? Cheap tickets to get there?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Maybe? Maybe Venezuela has beef.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You know, we sent the like twenty billion dollars to
Argentina because our cattle herds are down here and we
wanted to try to lower the price on beef. So
then the American farmers went, what are you doing? You said,
a bunch of money over to Venezuela, and farmers are like,
that's not cool. So then basically the White House went oh, whoa,
you know what, You're right, we sent twenty billion dollars
(14:04):
to Argentina. We should be helping out American farmers. And
so yesterday we got that work.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
One of the farmers actually sitting next to the president
and said that Christmas has come early for them. Many
have been feeling the impact from the trade war with
China and dealing with high costs for things like fertilizer, fuel,
and seeds.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
All right, so trade war, which is basically the tariffs
kind of in the middle of all that, right, has
driven up the cost and that's hurt the local farmers.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
Farm Bureau analysis of USA data found American farmers are
in the red for a third year in a row,
with farmers spending one hundred and seventy nine billion dollars
to produce just one hundred and forty four billion dollars
worth of crops.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm no mathematician, and I feel like that's not great business.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
The current crop years twenty eight billion dollars shortfall will
push losses to more than fifty billion dollars since twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
All right, so it's not like this is a new problem.
This was this is going on under Biden as well.
But I mean, we're short twenty billion dollars. Why do
we send twenty billion dollars to Argentina.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
From what it costs us to grow a crop is
not getting any cheaper.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
It's getting more expensive every day, but what we're selling
is getting cheaper every day. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rowlin says
farmers could get money in their pockets as soon as February.
Eleven billion dollars will go out to farmers immediately, and
another one billion dollars we put aside for specialty crop farmers.
While some of the money will come from tariffs, Roland
(15:30):
says that that's not the reason for the aid.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
There is almost zero evidence, if any evidence, that what
they are doing and the challenges that our farm economy
is facing in road crops, has anything to do with
these trade renegotiations.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Then what h okay? All right, I guess I'll take
your word for it.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Just feels funny to me that the price of the
crops and the seeds and the fertilizers that all come
from overseas now have tariffs, those prices have all gone up.
We don't have the markets to sell to overseas. Because
of the trade war that's going on. It feels like
a really strong correlation going on there. I mean kind
(16:16):
of feels like causation. So I don't know if I'm
if I'm buying it. But then we're using the money
from the tariffs to reimburse the farmers for the money
that they lost because of the tariffs.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It feels kind of like a circular firing squad, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All Right, you keep hearing about all those miracle weight
loss shots, right, but now the world's top health agency says,
we gotta get to we gotta get the the ozempics
out to everybody because most people still can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's the drug that changes.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
How you eat and how you live, and it's starting
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But we used to have this really nice old man
that will come in every Sunday afternoon. He get out
of church, he'd come in, he sit down at that
piano and he played. He played piano for like four
hours every Sunday. So when I hear those those nice
little jazz tunes. That's what I think of. Got like
nice OTLTD man sitting there playing piano. Oh they loved him,
they loved him. Why don't we just do Christmas music
(17:28):
the rest of the night. I just do that, so down,
let's do that. Play the Christmas the Charlie Brown album.
Oh God, I hate that Charlie Brown Christmas music? No
you like to you do like that one? I cannot stand.
This is the worst Christmas song ever. And that's saying
a lot. And I love the Charlie Brown Specials, but
(17:53):
I hated this song. God, it's so bad.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I love this one.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Oh, oh so bad for all, so so bad.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
It's so American.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh I take that as an insult. Han't you're deported.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's like it was written by a sixth grader and
then recorded by a bunch of first graders in their
their classroom.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I couldn't get those kids to a studio. Help.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Somebody walks in there with an old, dirty microphone and
a tape recorder and they're like, okay, kids, we're gonna
lay it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Down business time.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Imagine being like six years old and they go, okay, kids,
well we out. We have to memorize this song and
we're gonna sing it a hundred times until they get
the right take to put in the TV special Christmas Time.
That's when, uh, that's when we saw an uptick in
uh mental health crisis for for children in schools is
(19:05):
when those kids, those kids.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Started it because the Christmas time is in the sixties. Yeah,
that's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And then they grew up and they didn't know how
to be good parents because their entire lives were like
their parents thought, this was good. No, this is terrible,
and it just it ruined. It ruined America. It ruined us,
just ruined America, just terrible all the way around.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Uh So, truth, what was the Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Coming up here a nine o'clock, we'll talk about the
coolest scar. What's your coolest scar? Because I think you're
gonna be hard pressed to beat the one that we've
got here on staff.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
But the coolest scar I have is my open heart
surgery scar.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Bam, she's got the zipper. She's got the zipper scar.
That's pretty cool scar. That's a scar that tells the story.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I always love a good scar that tells the story. Nick,
you got any scars that tell stories.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I mean, I've got a skin Kansas scar, and I've
got the scar on my knee from the time I
tried to jump over the open dishwasher and I fell
and I got stabbed with a fork right my knee.
I've got a fork print.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, it looks like a fork.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Yes, yeah, because I was. I was clumsy. I thought
it was fun and I didn't make the jump and
the dish washer was open, nearly broke the dishwasher.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The dishwasher was okay, right, yeah, okay, So you've got
a fork scar, a scar that's wonderful. Okay, Mark, don't
you just I just want to kind of observe Nikki
one night.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
No, I love that she says because I was clumsy.
I absolutely don't, because you know what, I spelled clumsy differently.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Mark loves it when I'm not in his room with
him annoying him.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, that's probably true.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, I mean, I don't want to be mean about it.
But yes, so I know that the American spelling for
clumsy is c l U M s Y. Right, is
the Australian spelling d r U n K.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
We have silence in there, I gotcha.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's perfect, that's exactly right. So a few years back, I, uh,
I got tired.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Of being fat, and I went on this diet and
I did a I did a pretty intense, heavy duty diet,
and I lost some weight. I'm still at where I
want to be, but I lost some weight, and uh
and and I was like, okay, this is good.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm gonna I'm in a pretty good spot. But then
I got to that point.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Anybody's ever gone on a weight loss journey knows, you
get to a point where you feel like, Okay, I
am plateauing and I am not getting through this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And and to get through this means.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Sacrificing more than I am really prepared to sacrifice that
I already been doing it. This diet, it's pretty intense
to after like six or eight months, and it's like,
I can't just eat, you know, peas and water for
the next year until I lose another twenty or thirty pounds.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I just can't do it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So that's when I first reached out and I thought,
you know what, let's see what these weight loss drugs
are doing. I was making okay money, my wife's making
okay money. We go, okay, that's money that we can spend,
Let's do it. And so so I started with the
ozempic and I was doing the oce empic for a
while and I didn't lose any weight, but I didn't
gain any weight. But I was telling my provider, I said,
(22:09):
you know, I'm a little frustrated. I feel like I'm
at the MAXI dos I'm not really losing any weight.
I'm very happy that I'm not putting any on. I'm
happy that I'm maintaining, but it's kind of expensive for
me to be maintaining. And you also fall into this
trap where when the when you're on the drug and
and you feel like the drug is not working, it
is you go, oh, I still have these cravings.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I was still getting the cravy.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
You know, I'd still have cravings at the end of
the night, but but I was still maintaining, and so
the drug was working. And I know this because just
recently I ran out of Switch providers, and so I've
got this a couple of week lull and all of
a sudden, it's like, oh boy, I just want to
I just want to eat, like like crazy. All of
a sudden, I feel those urges that I had when
I when I put on weight in the first place,
(22:53):
and so I went to the tears epetide, which is
a GLP one that's basically works on two different receptors,
and that's been that's been good. But like I said,
I got expensive, so I switch providers, find a provider
that was a little bit cheaper, and I'm resuming that regiment.
The thing is, we could start seeing access to those
(23:14):
drugs get limited even further because they're so effective in
a multitude of applications that other countries are looking at
it and saying why can't we get our hands on that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
The WHO wants.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
To step in asideally the World Held Organization is saying,
first of all, GLP one drugs are not a magic
bullet to take by themselves. And also this cannot just
be a rich country or rich people drug.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Everyone needs access.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We have to have some fair use.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Okay, I get what you're saying, and I know the
WHO wants to be very egalitarian about this, But.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Also we're the richest country.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We're also the fattest country, and I think there's some
causation there too, So doesn't it make sense that we
would have access to this drug easier access to the
GLP ones than say, Aerotrea. Look, if your country has
won the Boston Marathon of the last twenty years, you're
kind of in last in line. For those of us
(24:17):
that have won things like curling in the last twenty years,
we're first in line.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
We must work together on strategies like pool procurement and
tier pricing to make these medicines affordative and for all.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
In addition to recognizing the effectiveness of GLP one drugs,
the World Health Organization is really stating that obesity is
a growing, complex medical condition and requires comprehensive management that's
also fair and accessible to all.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Right, I know it needs to be fair and accessible
to me. Right now.
Speaker 12 (24:49):
According to the World Health Organization, there are a billion
people living with obesity. Yeah, me, and this number is
projected to rise to two billion by twenty thirty a
very real production.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Wow, we're doubling obesity in five years. Like, how bad
is world hunger?
Speaker 12 (25:06):
Then it's an issue that the World Health Organization is
raising is at right now? GLP one drugs can really
only cover about ten percent of the global obese population.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, as long as it's me, I'm fine.
Speaker 12 (25:17):
That's not nearly enough. If we're going to be addressing
this complex, growing chronic medical condition.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
All right, we'll tell those other countries to get on it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What all is that Spain should have access to it? No,
go run with some bulls for a while. You're fine.
In the meantime, give me my wigovi.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Do you know what the fattest country in the world is?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
It's us isn't No? What is it?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
It's actually closer to Minica the woods. It's Samoa. Oh yeah,
followed by Tonga. Why be as beautiful in the South Pacific?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh? Is that what it is? Yes? Have you seen
the cultural really? Is it a cultural thing?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
So cultural? I think it was the king of Samoa
he had to tell the people not to because the
food they like to eat, they like they get a
loaf of bread and they hollow it out and put
ice cream in it and maple syrup and they eat
that sort of thing because big is beautiful. The king
was massive, and he had to tell the people they
needed to be healthier, otherwise it wouldn't be good for
(26:17):
them long term.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well, plus, they head of those girl scale cookies, the Samoas.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
It's not my that's not my Wheelhouse.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
No, that's what they were. That was the issue. But
the rest, the rest thin mince, right, we got thin mince,
they got Samoa's. So look what happened.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
The rest of the South Pacific is also quiet.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Buddy.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hey, you know your appetite shifted when he started eating less.
But now we've got the ripple effects that are hitting
other parts of our obesity tailored economy.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Who is hurting because you're feeling better? That's next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
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I told you that there's plenty of Christmas songs I
don't like. Hey, any Christmas song by Wham, throw it out,
just put it right in the train.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We don't need that. Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, good job, great pipes, overdone, that's it, just brilliant.
Just give me the Frank Sinatra Christmas album. That's all
I want. That's fine. But the worst has got to
be that Charlie Brown Christmas Day is.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So bad, so so bad.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
The voice actor that played Charlie Brown, Yeah, he had
he went, he was parade sizophrenic.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Let me see what else.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Had bipolar disorder and was incarcerated at the California Institution
for Men and Chinos.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Yeah, good point.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I'm with you, Mike. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Actually, I remember that I had just moved to San
Diego and that was I remember that story breaking.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
And now I think he had trouble again. So let's see.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I got there in like twenty twelve, and I got
to say it was within the first year that I
was there, and then I think he got picked up again.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hang on, let me bring this real fast. Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
January twenty thirteen, arrested by San Diego County Sheriff's Department
at the Santy Cedar report of entry for counts of
making a threat bout of the injury. And then he
ended up doing sentence to a year in jail for
stalking a former girlfriend in twenty thirteen. Yeah, there you go,
(28:26):
stalking a plastic surgeon. He was allowed to log time
and treatment instead, and then oh he ended up he
ended up taking his own life in twenty twenty two.
That's a tragedy. It was Charlie Brown actor. That is
a real tragedy.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I like that. Oh that's uplifting. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I was just telling about the GLP ones and how
the World Health Organization wants to make sure that we
have access that can go everywhere. I mean, these drugs
really are incredible. Most people respond to them. They are
effective at, you know, helping you lose weight. Obviously, they
are type two diabetes tailored drugs, that's what they were
made for in the first place. But the weight loss
has so many other you know benefits, staving off heart disease,
(29:08):
lowering blood pressure, all the other benefits of losing weight,
which is why if you're heavy and you go to
the doctor, the doctor always says.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You want to lose weight. I get it. You go
to lose weight, Okay, I get it. Doc.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I used to have this really fat doctor when I
was little in Eastgo. He used to walking, he waddling.
You got to lose weight.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You can't be serious. You can't be serious.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You can't be But actually, these GLP one drugs are
actually having an effect on the economy, not just because
people are buying a lot of GLP one drugs, but
as a result, they're not buying well girl Scout cookies
or other things.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I'd say right now, this is from a podcast called
The Dark Side of Dining.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
There is one disrupting force that is slowly emerging. This
is the doctor, by the way, that is likely going
to change how we sell food to people. And that's
the whole issue of GLP one drugs, weight loss drugs
like ozembic. It's it's really the quiet destructor.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I think.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
This week we learn from McDonald's that they're acknowledging that
ozembic is.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
A problem for them.
Speaker 13 (30:18):
Wow, because they know that in a few years from now,
you'll have they'll have millions fewer people going to McDonald's
because they don't necessarily.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They don't. They don't long for McDonald's. They don't.
Speaker 13 (30:32):
They don't look for fast food at all. Yeah, they don't.
They don't want to snack. It makes them ill. It's
so there's there's likely to be almost thirty million Americans
using a JLP one drug to lose weight by twenty thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And then McDonald suffers from it. Wow, millions and millions
not served. Think about Ronald Think about Ronald Ah. So
we didn't used to be this that as a country.
With the addition of seed oils and high fructose corn
syrup and everything that we eat. That's part of what's
caused us to blimp out. It's worth your time to
google the foods that we eat here that are banned
(31:13):
in Europe. On what I take it back, look, I
think I think you're right about her to chime in there.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, she couldn't. She couldn't hold back up.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I kind of help with you, totally with you on
I got to do more research into the seed oils
because I still like my my olive oil, but.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Every time I get out that's not seed oil, my skun.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Oh it's not good because my son always scoffs and
he's like, oh, I know what it is. I drink
almond milk. That's what he's like, sheeed milk milk, And
I'm like, sounds dirty. Yeah whatever, I'm like, however they
milk the almond I'm in, I'm in tiny little almond nipples.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
But uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm with you on
what you're saying there.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I also think the the high processed food, not just
the high fructose corn syrup. I think just the high
processed food and everything else are contributing to it as well.
And then you've got McDonald's too, I mean, let's add
as many things into our foods as we can to
try to get people to come back. In other words,
you've got companies that intentionally make you addicted to their
their junk food.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
So yeah, I'm with you, all right. What is the
gnarliest scar that you have? The coolest scar that you have?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't think it's going to hold a candle, although
we've had a few people that have wighed in already
and they do have some pretty cool ones. We'll see
how We'll see how it stands up to the coolest
scar we have on staff. That is next Chris Merril
KFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere on the
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