November 20, 2025 • 33 mins
The University of California raises tuition by up to 5% each year for new students. Student groups are vocal in their opposition. We’ll be seeing a shift in the jobs market, with AI potentially replacing a lot of jobs that students go to university to study, and trade jobs potentially paying more. LADA Nathan Hochman is launching a criminal investigation into alleged fraudsters submitting fake child sex abuse claims at the hands of LA County attorneys to the tune of more than $4 billion. A NorCal town called Suisun City has been slowly bought up by billionaires, who are now attempting to annex the city to create a new town altogether, which creates a stream of tax revenue for the cash-strapped locals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Nice to hang out, Good to see Mark, you're back. Well,
I don't think that. I don't think Mario knows what
he's in for. So Mario is our studio engineer tonight.
And what Mario doesn't know is that Ollie got deported
yesterday because of our show. OLLI didn't like some of
some of the music selections that we were making, and
so we called Ice and you know we got that
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, easy come, easy go. It's the really run it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So the other thing too, Mario is that he spent
a lot of time editing the podcast because we were
playing great deal of royalty music.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So you know, good luck with that tonight. I hope
you're good at it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Wow when you when you took out all the music,
did that reduce it to like fifteen minutes show?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Okay, yeah, I think there's a whole lot of show
left at all. Actually, so it was, it was. It
was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I love the cold.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Marco was listening to your current temperatures anywhere from upper forties,
low fifties.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I just love this. Oh god, I love it so much.
Are you suggesting that you enjoy seasons. I do, indeed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Wow, I love the sweatwa bigger. I got the hoodie
on right now as we speak. I love it. I
love it so hard. And then rain tomorrow. I'm hoping
the rain comes out a little bit early, because there's
nothing better. I sleep with my windows open until it
gets down to about forty five. That's when I close
my windows. But I like to sleep at the windows open.
And then if it can start raining a little early, Oh,
(01:39):
anything better than waking up to that bitter patter of
rain a cold day you're tucked in tight under the blankets.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I find rain to be pretty soothing too. But uh,
some people get the sad. Yeah, my mom has that.
I just tell her, why don't you just smile more
when just go down to the cellar.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Mom, just to Yeah, I do like I do like
all the different seasons for that. For that reason, I know,
I know some people do have that the seasonal disorder.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But yeah, not me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So that's not a me problem. So I'm just gonna
enjoy that hell out of it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh, I like the code say it's perfect. So still
to come.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We'll talk a little bit more about what you could
expect for rain tomorrow that is coming up this hour. Also,
the President did sign the bill to release the Epsteam files.
What we know, what we don't know, that sort of
thing that's coming up here at eight o'clock and and
I think, yeah, that's the only politics I have planned
for tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I really don't want to do a ton of policy.
We did.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We did a lot yesterday, and I just it's just
depressing to me, so I don't like to do it.
So we're, you know, we're gonna give you the update.
I had a program director once they told me, and
I thought this was wonderful advice. We had a different
perspective of what it meant. But he said, we only
talk about politics when there's something to talk about. And
one of the things with this fire hose of chaos
that we have for administration is that there's always something
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going on, but does it rise to the level. And
that's what the program director and I always disagreed. He
wanted to talk about, you know, every nat that farted
in the White House, and I just didn't care about it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But yeah, I just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Feel like the Epstein file is a big damn deal,
and the other stuff is just sort of day to day.
And Mark probably disagrees with me on this too, because
I know that the Kobe investigation is kind of falling
apart of the Kome the trial.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I guess, yeah, it's pretty significant news.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, it is, it is, but I don't want to
I mean, basically, basically, the news is that nothing happens.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
That's the news. Hey, you're in the driver's seat tonight,
I'm driving pal. You just buckle up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's all I got.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Let's talk about raising tuition.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You remember the old days in California used to be
the state where education was cheap.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You mean the days when you didn't have to be
rich to afford higher education those day.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, and California was actually doing better than most
of the other states.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We we said, oh, we want to make sure everybody
gets education, we want to make sure everyone has access
to it. And then we were like, wow, this is expensive.
And then we've said, how about if we don't, what
if we just stick it to the people, And then
we keep cutting budgets, and the federal government obviously keeps
cutting budgets, and then.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You see Board of regents.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Today, they said, let's just stick it to them a
little bit more. From maybec seven, do.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You see Board of Regions are meeting to approve a
plan they will raise tuition up to five percent each
year for new students.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They did meet and it did go up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You see. Officials say this is necessary to address funding
gaps caused by state budget cuts, federal reductions, and inflation.
But student groups have been vocal in their opposition.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Though it wouldn't really affect us who are already in
the uc because we're our tuition's already set, we really
want to We want it to be affordable for future
generations because we were you know, income, and you see
students are so yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It won't be It will not be affordable for future generations.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I honestly think more about the future students. My sister
currently is a senior at high school and she's applying,
and then two weeks ago she had to have a
conversation with my parents about how she maybe won't be
applying to ucs anymore because it's like, potentially we wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Able to afford it.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
With the vote in the hands of the Board of
Regions and the possibility of tuition hikes on the horizon.
Students are loved to contend with higher education costs they
will increase over time. Many students worried this will limit
access to education for low income families.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What are you telling me that education is another divide
between the haves and have nots?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Who could have seen that comings.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
It's going to have really negative effects on just what
university and the ucs are going to look like in
the upcoming years. We're definitely going to see a drop
in diversity and a drop in low income and first
generation students who already can't afford the price of ucs today,
and so to up that cost is going to really
change the demographic of the UC system.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you telling me that we're going to have a
wider UC system? Yeah, I mean that's but try to
have a conversation my father about how, hey, there are
systemic issues that are that disadvantage certain groups. No, they don't.
I just don't work as hard. Oh, he's the worst.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Under the potential new plan, tuition revenue directed toward financial
aid will drop from forty five percent to forty percent,
a move that has many concerns for low income families.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, for students.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
That means higher tuition costs, more loans, and less financial.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Aid to offset those costs.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But there is good news. There is good news. And
this is going to sound like I'm being snarky, and
I'm not. But you remember that old adage. This is
the kind of thing my uncle would say when he
was trying to talk down to me, go, well.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The world needs ditch diggers too. Oh god. Yeah. But
here's the truth.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
AI is going to be replacing a lot of those
jobs that people are going to school to get the
four year degrees to do. So the jobs that are
safe are the jobs that you work with your hands
or unless you are, you know, in it and training
the AI, fixing the AI, or whatever else that is.
We're going to see a shift in the job market.
And I think it's entirely possible that we start to
see some of the trades start paying more because there's
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going to be more demand for the trades. If AI
comes along and it starts advancing society, we start building
out faster and faster and faster. With every technology in
the history of mankind, that's what has happened. Every technological
advance has created faster prosperity with pickups along the way,
notably the atom bomb. But it is, it is always
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pushed forward our advancement, right, and it's it is, it is,
it is sped that up. With that happening, there's going
to be more need for the trades. And so these
students that are basically being locked out of the higher education,
my guess is that many of them are going to
be seeking the trades at a time when the trades
are being undervalued on their way to being highly valued.
(08:14):
And the people that have the big degrees that can't
change the light bulb, they may be the ones who
are on the outside looking in.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
To your point, I would say tradesmen are a lot
more attractive than real estate agent.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh okay, here we go, all right. I would date
an electrician. You're real to any day. Okay. I was
wondering how long this would take. It takes no time.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
I'm always thinking with my loins.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm sorry, Yeah, you know, we get that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, how do we get out of this? Yeah, we're
going to get out right now, that's what we're doing.
We're going to back way before we get canned. You
think victim, You think of somebody suffering. But that's not
always the case. LA County just opened an investigation to
hundreds of child abuse allegations that aren't exactly what they seem.
And guess who's picking up the tab Oh it's you.
That's next.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Listen any time on demand in the iHeartRadio app. Bizarre
twist out of Hawkman's office. Here, the district attorney is
launching a criminal investigation into what what's worse than sex abuse?
Is lying about being abused? Worse than a sex abuser?
(09:29):
Ooh now here? Well, well it is as far as
the county is concerned, because they don't want to have
to pay out.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's kind of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They're investigating alleged fraudsters submitting false child sex abuse claims.
Oh oh, maybe this is the next twist in the
Epstein saga. We're just getting a preview here in La anyway.
Here's from CBSLA.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay, so let me unpack this for you.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
This all involves a California law called eighty two eighteen,
which was signed by Governor some back in October of
twenty nineteen. Essentially, this built drastically changed the statute of
limitations for reporting child sexual abuse crimes. It extended them,
giving victims much more time to report these abuses. That
resulted in more than eleven thousand new child sex abuse
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claims to be filed, many of them involving victimization at
the hands of La County employees who were working in
the juvenile probation system.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Ah see, this is why it's costing the county Now.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
A county Board of supervisors approved more than four billion
taxpayer dollars to be paid out to all of these victims.
But Nathan Hawkman says this has caused numerous fraudsters to
try and grab some of that money by filing false
sex abuse claims.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He says, these fraudsters think.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
They can get away with this because many of the
juvenile records that could prove or disprove claims were destroyed.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh how convenient.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
So many of those claims are one person's word against another.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, So then how do you prosecute them?
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Coming back out live here to me? The DA says
there are some law firms that are complicit wow with
these fraudsters, And the DA says he is going to
go after these fraudsters and the law firms that are
helping them aggressively those fraudsters saying they're trying to take
money that's supposed to go to child sexual abuse victims,
and she but one last thing before I go, The
DA said, any fraudster who wants to come forward and
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admit guilt here will not have their statements used against
him against them. But the DA said, this offer does
not apply to the law firms that helped these fraudsters
try and get that money.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's it here from the desk. I'll send it back
to you, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So if it's somebody's wording on somebody else's word because
the files were destroyed, how do you prosecute it? Look,
they're filing the claim for abuse, right and if you
are alleging that they're doing something wrong. Last I knew
now I could be a mistake. I could be way
off on this, And I'm not a lawyer. God knows,
(11:55):
I'm not a lawyer. But I thought that the burden
of proof was on the prosecution. So the prosecution is
going to have to prove then that in this case,
is the DA's office that that person was not abused?
(12:16):
How do you prove the negative if you don't have
any documentation. I mean, if there were contemporary records, you
might be able to say, okay, there's contemporary records, there's
no record of anything happening. There's there's nothing here. It
wasn't like it wasn't like it was swept under the rug.
You don't have any records at all. So all the
person has to do is say, yeah, I was abused
and they swept it under the rug. And you've got
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got nothing to the contrary. Right, And since the county
is basically settling with everyone without you know, without these
people having to to take the county to court, then
how do you prove that the other way?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Maybe, look, maybe the DA has got ways.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Whatever it is he did a channel is inner, Liam
Neeson Nathan Hockman said, you will be arrested, you will
be prosecuted, and you will be punished. But again I
wonder how, I wonder how, And keep this in mind,
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you have law firms that are that he's alleging, were
assisting in this fraud. Now, I have no doubt that
there is fraud going in none. Is there any doubt
that somebody is trying to defraud the system.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, I have some numbers if you're interested. Yeah, generally
it's between two percent to eight percent false allocations. You
mean in all sexual abuse claims or in this instance,
all sexual abuse claims. Okay, okay, So all right, So
in this case, it sounds like, not only do you
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have your your numbers like Mark just brought up, but
you also have an easy payday. And are there unscrupulous
lawyers out there that would defraud the count?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Of course there are, but they're.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Also the ones that have legal experience and probably aren't
going to go down without a fight, especially when you
heard at the end of that report he's offering not
amnesty for people who come forward, but he's saying it
wouldn't be used against you. Sounds basically like amnesty, but
not for the law firms. Law firms aren't going to go, oh,
you know what you called us, here's our license. I
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guess we'll just well go do door dash for the
next thirty years. That's that's not likely to be the case.
So the burden of proof on this appears to me
early on, and again I don't know what the DA has,
I have no idea, but it just seems like it's
going to be very difficult. What's frustrating is is that
as you do with these fraudsters, whether it's two to
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eight percent generally speaking, or it's higher than that, because
we made it easy to do here in California, what
does that do to the people who are really survivors?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Right? What does that do to the actual victims?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And imagine if you were someone who was victimized, you
filed the claim legitimately, but you got flagged because the
records weren't on filed because they were destroyed. You've been
flagged as a potential fraudster, but you're not. And you
would know obviously if you filed that claim. You would
know if you were a fraudster. So just imagine if
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you were abused, the law changes in your benefit, You
go through the proper steps to file the claim, and
then the county says, oh, no, we're going to prosecute
you and you will be arrested, prosecuted, and punished. So
not only are you a victim of sexual assault, but
now you're a victim of a flawed system. And what
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does this do to anybody else that's thinking about filing
a claim?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So are we really offering justice to people's that's the concern.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Obviously, this was not.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The initial program, is not executed in a very bright manner.
This is failures all the way around, and once again
scammers are going to ruin.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It for everybody else. Thanks a lot, scammers, poop bags.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hey, you know that moment when a broke little town
suddenly becomes the hottest date that Silicon Valley's ever had,
twenty two thousand acres. It's a billionaire built utopia and
enough drama for a mini series. A slow motion land
grab is happening, and I'll tell you where next. Chris Merrill.
I am six forty. We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
More stimulating talk.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I hate it when it gets darkness early too. Oh,
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I do like the winter. I like it colder, I
like it when the rain comes. I like when we
have a nice storm, all that stuff. But I hate driving.
Oh God, I get old and I can't drive in
the dark anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I am a menace. I am such a menace on
the road. So just know when we wrap up here
at ten o'clock. Maybe just avoid you know, general Burbank area,
just just right, you know, for your own safety and
for your children. We were just discussing in the last
segment here about the District Attorney's office launching a criminal
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investigation into hundreds of claims of childhood sexual abuse, but
they say appear to be frauduling. However, it's very difficult
because they don't have any records. The records were all destroyed.
So I got a little feedback here on the old
talkback for people listening on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I believe they're looking to scare people off from doing
further claims.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
They don't care about the money they already spent. California
never does.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, well it's expensive. I mean, so far, what
do they paid out four billion dollars so far alone
and now additional settlements later this year reaching eight hundred
and twenty eight million dollars for over four hundred more claims. Wow,
well that's a lot of money for somebody to entice
them to maybe make some maybe make some frauduling claims
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like oh, you know, it's a risk. I got away
with it during little bit. Maybe I'll get away with
it here too. Yeah. Absolutely, it's a lot of money
to be flashing in front of somebody and making them
think that they could get a little free payday, quick
and easy free payday. Let's go to northern California. There's
a there's a town there at the edge of the
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Bay Area, over twenty two thousand acres and basically got
bought up slowly by billionaires. And now they're saying, this
is our town, and we don't like the poores. This
is from Citia, Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Cournia Forever calls it the next great American city and
their big dreams put a bullseye target on Solano County's
smallest city.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
We have deemed the California Forever application.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Is complete, so Soon's city announced Tuesday, California Forever has
now officially submitted a formal application for Sassoon to and
their entire project, growing the city by more than ten times.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In June.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
There was pushback when the annexation proposal was first approved.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So basically you had this area outside of Susan City
and then they they started to build it up in
their image of what a utopia is going to look like.
I'm sure there's a lot of diversity there and they
want it and so and now they're going to the
city and they're going, hey, city, you're broke, you meet
us now, annex us in and then they basically just
take over today.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
City Manager Brett Prebula says the next steps are for
the city to get their hands on the application and
get to work and the money, diving into the draft
proposal and seeing if it meets the needs of Sasoon City.
That could take weeks even months, but Prabula says the
city is pleased so far with California Forever's plan.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
So rising tides lift all boats has been a real
reality that they have embraced strongly. So that's one to
the stop at one hundred and fifty thousand residents to
check in officially to get further approval required to move
to the second phase of the development after twenty years.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Is an important factor that they heard.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
California Forever wants to build a new city of walkable
neighborhoods for four hundred thousand Californians.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, this is where it gets juicy.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
With it a shipyard and what they say will be
America's largest manufacturing park. I spoke with CEO Yan Ceramic
about that in July.
Speaker 13 (20:24):
You provide a pleasure where all of these companies that
are doing incredible work in Silicon Valley can manufacture things
in California instead of sending all of those jobs to
tex Hussle reporta.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, so you got billionaires and want to create a
giant manufacturing center the Bay Area. I think, oh, this
is going to work out wonderfully. And now are you
going to pay enough money for people to afford to
live there? No, of course not. Why would we do that?
So that is so basically they strong arm the city
into annexing their mini city, right. They bought up this
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massive area adjacent to the city, and then they said,
we got all the money as they're going broke, you know,
not for notting. But if you went ahead and made
us part of a city, that would be an awful
lot of money that you could probably bring in Quesse.
Then we might have to have a little say so
into what goes on in the city. And they were
actually kind of ruthless about acquiring that land in the
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first place.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Tuesday, Soamic posted on x that their plan has evolved
since twenty twenty four, when at first to the new
city's fate was going to be in the hands of
Solano County voters in the November election, California Forever pulled
the ballot measure and went back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, because they knew that the people were not going
to say, sure, give the billionaires.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Today's ceramic writes, the land use plan is the same
as our twenty twenty four plan, but after a year
and a half years of work by one hundred plus people,
much more detailed and ready to build.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The plan also has a new home.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
So now this an extension of an existing city, not
a new community.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
See.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So they build the new community, and then they say
to the city, you know, we've got all the money
because we're billionaires. We just spent nearly a billion dollars
to get all of this land. So why don't you
whyon't you bring us in?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
What do you say to people who don't agree with
this approach, who wish that this had been left maybe
as a voter choice on the ballot.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
This idea of voters knowing what's best for themselves, it's
just silly.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Billionaires really know what's better for the voters.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
So I think for me, it goes back to everyone
said they wanted them to go through the normal process, right,
we are making them go through the normal process.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Opponents are saying that there have been a number of
hardball tactics, including get this, a half billion dollar lawsuit
against farmers who refused to sell their land. They accused
the farmers of working as a monopoly to deny the
billionaires the ability to take over the land. And here's
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the delio. Suppose that you are a farmer. I don't
know if you've noticed, but farming ain't easy nowadays. But
you probably have a lot of people there that I
don't know, family farms or maybe even have some corporate farms,
and they're ekeing out of profit right now. And they go, no,
we don't want to sell This is our entire life,
our livelihoods, this is who we.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Are, it's our identity.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And they go, yeah, but we're billionaires and if you
don't sell it to us, we are going to bury
you in so much legal nonsense that you will not
be able to afford to pay the lawyers to stop
us from taking your land. Yeah, And they go, oh, no, no, no,
we're just going to save the bet. We're helping everyone out.
Look how great we are. But there is there is
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one other hope for the non billionaire neighbors that don't
necessarily want to be steamrolled on this, and that is
it's still California. So the annexation here that the city
is looking at that the billionaires want to do has
to undergo environmental reviews and consultant reports. Final approval rests
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with the Solano County Local Agency Formation Commission, all bureaucracy
at its finest. So according to some analysts, this is
still years, maybe even decades away, and some of the
billionaires that want to create this little utopia of their
own in the Bay Area on the on the coast,
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they will likely be dead by the time it happens.
So there you go. Who knew all that regulation might
come in handy? I wouldn't have guessed it. But you know,
for the people in Solano County, they're probably somewhat thankful.
Right now, all right, you peel the sunscreen off your dashboard,
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just in time, because now your window is fogging up.
Your blow out is going to turn in to a
perm and the dry spell is over. How bad it's
going to be that is next time Chris merril KFI
AM six forty. We are live everywhere on the iHeart
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Listen anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app. And you
can also hear the work that our tech director Ali
had to do yesterday if you go to the featured
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grab yesterday's podcast. It was an absolute disaster. We loved it.
It was just fantastic. A lot of feedback from people
as we were talking about the greatest guitar riffs of
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all time, but of course we can't put those in
the podcast. So the entire podcast I was like Frankenstein's Monster,
and I think it's kind of funny actually, So if
you get a chance, check that out. I think we
keyed into something with that because I got more feedback
than I usually do, and I, oh, yeah, I don't
solicit feedback. I don't have any social media tied to
the station, but people found ways to reach out to
me to suggest guitar riffs. Yeah, and colleague of ours,
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Eric was listening and he called in. He made some
suggestions too.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No, it's a good one. I think music ties people
together better than anything else. So it was it was fun.
But yeah, the podcast is great because it's just it's like,
what were they doing here?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's a mess. Yeah, it was total disaster. It was.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It was fantastic. I love when things get a little loose,
I really do. PD hates it, but I love when
things get a little bit loose. I do also love
little rain. I love it more than a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Roder.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You worked in Seattle for a long time. More than
a little rain in Seattle? When I enjoy Seattle or
would it be too much?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, I moved for a reason. I was kind of
done with it. I like it in l A. Yeah.
The the program director, Boss.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Long, he he was in Seattle too, and I remember
having conversations with him when he was talking about Seattle
and he said, he said, it's horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
He says, it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What you don't get is you know it rains, but
you don't understand when they say it rains a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It rained so much. Everything is wet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It doesn't matter you walk into the house, even if
you tear your shoes off at the door. It doesn't matter.
Everything is soaked. It's always wet. Everything is always wet.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I don't really mind that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The thing that made me want to leave Seattle the most,
pardon me, is that everything is becoming more unaffordable than ever, like,
at least as unaffordable as La, and all the places
with character are being demolished and replaced with giant condo
buildings with a with a retail floor at ground level.
And it's just the city's character has gone inconvenient. La
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is full of old stuff that I love. That is true.
There's a lot of character in this town. I think
that's what people who aren't here don't get.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They look at California and go, oh it's the politics,
or oh it's they go, oh it's it's La. So
it's all fake people, or it's it's it's Beverly Hills,
or it's Malibu, or it's Orange County, or they see
Hollywood and whatever else. There's so much more that I
think people just miss, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
That's why Randy Newman loved La. Yeah. LA's got wonderful
history and I love exploring. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I was lucky enough to go to the Will Rogers Joint,
the park the ranch before it burned down. It made
me incredibly sad that that was lost in the fire.
But I love all the old stuff in La.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Do you know Will Rogers The little tiny park opposite
the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
That's the park where George Michael famously got arrested by
the undercover cop.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Okay, here we go. It always goes back. Okay, all right,
Why why I loved always?
Speaker 10 (28:36):
That's historical. That outed him to the world. It did,
That's historical.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That is my god. Didn't didn't Didn't you have a
story about trains or something? Mark, because we just got
derailed again.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And let's not give her the opportunity to talk about
big trains going into We don't want that say anything
about that unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
All right, anyway, more rain is coming, so if you
want to explore, it's going to feel Seattle like. But
still you can explore all Evidently the park where George
Michael got outed.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The House and Senate passed the bill to release the UPS's.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
The wrong one. Hang on, let me play the right wine.
Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
This is normally where I blame someone else, Maria, you
really you let me down on that one.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Get the right audio this time.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'll no problem. He's on the bubble. Unbelievable, and have
him deported with Ali.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
Next, somewhat of a break between of the rain. There's
most that rain moving out towards the age. You see
the little ridge building in here. That gives us that
little break, but just really for today, because now looking
ahead to tomorrow, So by Tomorrow morning, Tomorrow night, we're
gonna start seeing little shots of rain starting to make
its way in Thursday early morning. By Thursday afternoon, now
we'll see the heavier rain starting moving through. We're talking
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about possible thunderstorms going on here.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I love a good thunderstorm, the.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yellows and the oranges in the kid.
Speaker 14 (29:55):
The heavier rain rains continuing through Friday afternoon, and as
that rain moves wrap around and bring us more rain into.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Wrap around rain Friday, that may be.
Speaker 14 (30:05):
Tapering off early Saturday morning. But between now and then
get set for another round of some pretty good rain
amounts and also some very cold temps. A sure those
in a second overnight tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
All right, it's gonna get cold, is what he's saying.
Look I love the rain, but I should note I
am sympathetic. If you're somebody who's in a burnscar area
you're dealing with the mud, I am so sorry you
got to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It really does, and so I will I will be thinking,
I'll pour one out for you, Okay, So I don't
want you to think that I've forgotten about you.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It sucks, it does, but god, I do love the rain.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And look, we gotta have a little moisture if you
want to have the vegetation, come back and start, you know,
putting some roots into that mud. I guess I don't know,
trying to find a silver lining on all this stuff.
It does blow my mind as somebody that grew up
in the Midwest, though, that the word storm means something
totally different.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here than what it does in the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Well, heart of your people in the Midwest, they're used
to the extremes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, well definitely four seasons. Summer is hot hot, Winter
is cold. Yeah, winter is whoa right, it is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It is hot.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
But I remember I moved from Kansas City. I wrapped
up a show in Kansas City on a Friday afternoon,
and I was on the air. I had a meeting
with the boss. It was a President's Day weekend twenty twelve,
I believe, and twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and so I
wrapped up my show. I got in my car and
I drove straight from Kansas City to San Diego and
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I had a meeting with the boss on Monday morning,
and I loved it. I pulled into the parking lot
at the place where the station was put me up
for a couple of months while I found a joint,
and I pulled in.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's February, you know, President's Day.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I pulled in and there's two girls in bikinis
in the parking lot. And I went, oh, I'm home.
You know, I left snow and cold and all that
stuff in the Midwest. That I got here, there's the
girls in bikinis. Was I was definitely okay with that,
but it blew my mind when I when I heard, oh,
there's a storm, and I go, oh, there's a storm. Okay,
what do you guys do during storms? They're like, well,
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you know, the news crews always go to the same
intersections that always flood. And I said, well, how bad
is the storm gonna be? They go, oh, it could
be bad. We could see almost a quarter inch. A
quarter inch is like it's like a Tuesday morning in
the Midwest, Like quarter inch?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
What is that about?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
But then obviously we got to deal with there's a
little bit different here. It's a little it's a little different,
maybe not quite as much. But when it does come down,
obviously we get the mud flows, we get the debris,
we get all the other crap that goes with it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
So no good, no good.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I do want to grill Mark on something he said
in his last newscast. We'll get to that here in
just a few moments. I'm short on time right now
because he introduced me to a term I had not
heard before. I will share that with you here in
just a few moments. It's Chris Merrill I AM six forty.
We live everywhere on the iHeart radio app.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
KFI AM six on demand. End
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Nice to hang out, Good to see Mark, you're back. Well,
I don't think that. I don't think Mario knows what
he's in for. So Mario is our studio engineer tonight.
And what Mario doesn't know is that Ollie got deported
yesterday because of our show. OLLI didn't like some of
some of the music selections that we were making, and
so we called Ice and you know we got that
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taken care of.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, easy come, easy go. It's the really run it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So the other thing too, Mario is that he spent
a lot of time editing the podcast because we were
playing great deal of royalty music.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So you know, good luck with that tonight. I hope
you're good at it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Wow when you when you took out all the music,
did that reduce it to like fifteen minutes show?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Okay, yeah, I think there's a whole lot of show
left at all. Actually, so it was, it was. It
was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I love the cold.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Marco was listening to your current temperatures anywhere from upper forties,
low fifties.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I just love this. Oh god, I love it so much.
Are you suggesting that you enjoy seasons. I do, indeed.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Wow, I love the sweatwa bigger. I got the hoodie
on right now as we speak. I love it. I
love it so hard. And then rain tomorrow. I'm hoping
the rain comes out a little bit early, because there's
nothing better. I sleep with my windows open until it
gets down to about forty five. That's when I close
my windows. But I like to sleep at the windows open.
And then if it can start raining a little early, Oh,
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anything better than waking up to that bitter patter of
rain a cold day you're tucked in tight under the blankets.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I find rain to be pretty soothing too. But uh,
some people get the sad. Yeah, my mom has that.
I just tell her, why don't you just smile more
when just go down to the cellar.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Mom, just to Yeah, I do like I do like
all the different seasons for that. For that reason, I know,
I know some people do have that the seasonal disorder.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But yeah, not me.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So that's not a me problem. So I'm just gonna
enjoy that hell out of it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh, I like the code say it's perfect. So still
to come.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We'll talk a little bit more about what you could
expect for rain tomorrow that is coming up this hour. Also,
the President did sign the bill to release the Epsteam files.
What we know, what we don't know, that sort of
thing that's coming up here at eight o'clock and and
I think, yeah, that's the only politics I have planned
for tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I really don't want to do a ton of policy.
We did.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We did a lot yesterday, and I just it's just
depressing to me, so I don't like to do it.
So we're, you know, we're gonna give you the update.
I had a program director once they told me, and
I thought this was wonderful advice. We had a different
perspective of what it meant. But he said, we only
talk about politics when there's something to talk about. And
one of the things with this fire hose of chaos
that we have for administration is that there's always something
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going on, but does it rise to the level. And
that's what the program director and I always disagreed. He
wanted to talk about, you know, every nat that farted
in the White House, and I just didn't care about it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But yeah, I just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Feel like the Epstein file is a big damn deal,
and the other stuff is just sort of day to day.
And Mark probably disagrees with me on this too, because
I know that the Kobe investigation is kind of falling
apart of the Kome the trial.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I guess, yeah, it's pretty significant news.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, it is, it is, but I don't want to
I mean, basically, basically, the news is that nothing happens.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
That's the news. Hey, you're in the driver's seat tonight,
I'm driving pal. You just buckle up.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's all I got.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
You can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Let's talk about raising tuition.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You remember the old days in California used to be
the state where education was cheap.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You mean the days when you didn't have to be
rich to afford higher education those day.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, and California was actually doing better than most
of the other states.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We we said, oh, we want to make sure everybody
gets education, we want to make sure everyone has access
to it. And then we were like, wow, this is expensive.
And then we've said, how about if we don't, what
if we just stick it to the people, And then
we keep cutting budgets, and the federal government obviously keeps
cutting budgets, and then.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You see Board of regents.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Today, they said, let's just stick it to them a
little bit more. From maybec seven, do.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You see Board of Regions are meeting to approve a
plan they will raise tuition up to five percent each
year for new students.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They did meet and it did go up.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
You see. Officials say this is necessary to address funding
gaps caused by state budget cuts, federal reductions, and inflation.
But student groups have been vocal in their opposition.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Though it wouldn't really affect us who are already in
the uc because we're our tuition's already set, we really
want to We want it to be affordable for future
generations because we were you know, income, and you see
students are so yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It won't be It will not be affordable for future generations.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
I honestly think more about the future students. My sister
currently is a senior at high school and she's applying,
and then two weeks ago she had to have a
conversation with my parents about how she maybe won't be
applying to ucs anymore because it's like, potentially we wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Able to afford it.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
With the vote in the hands of the Board of
Regions and the possibility of tuition hikes on the horizon.
Students are loved to contend with higher education costs they
will increase over time. Many students worried this will limit
access to education for low income families.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What are you telling me that education is another divide
between the haves and have nots?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Who could have seen that comings.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
It's going to have really negative effects on just what
university and the ucs are going to look like in
the upcoming years. We're definitely going to see a drop
in diversity and a drop in low income and first
generation students who already can't afford the price of ucs today,
and so to up that cost is going to really
change the demographic of the UC system.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you telling me that we're going to have a
wider UC system? Yeah, I mean that's but try to
have a conversation my father about how, hey, there are
systemic issues that are that disadvantage certain groups. No, they don't.
I just don't work as hard. Oh, he's the worst.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Under the potential new plan, tuition revenue directed toward financial
aid will drop from forty five percent to forty percent,
a move that has many concerns for low income families.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, for students.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
That means higher tuition costs, more loans, and less financial.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Aid to offset those costs.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But there is good news. There is good news. And
this is going to sound like I'm being snarky, and
I'm not. But you remember that old adage. This is
the kind of thing my uncle would say when he
was trying to talk down to me, go, well.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The world needs ditch diggers too. Oh god. Yeah. But
here's the truth.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
AI is going to be replacing a lot of those
jobs that people are going to school to get the
four year degrees to do. So the jobs that are
safe are the jobs that you work with your hands
or unless you are, you know, in it and training
the AI, fixing the AI, or whatever else that is.
We're going to see a shift in the job market.
And I think it's entirely possible that we start to
see some of the trades start paying more because there's
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going to be more demand for the trades. If AI
comes along and it starts advancing society, we start building
out faster and faster and faster. With every technology in
the history of mankind, that's what has happened. Every technological
advance has created faster prosperity with pickups along the way,
notably the atom bomb. But it is, it is always
(07:51):
pushed forward our advancement, right, and it's it is, it is,
it is sped that up. With that happening, there's going
to be more need for the trades. And so these
students that are basically being locked out of the higher education,
my guess is that many of them are going to
be seeking the trades at a time when the trades
are being undervalued on their way to being highly valued.
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And the people that have the big degrees that can't
change the light bulb, they may be the ones who
are on the outside looking in.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
To your point, I would say tradesmen are a lot
more attractive than real estate agent.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh okay, here we go, all right. I would date
an electrician. You're real to any day. Okay. I was
wondering how long this would take. It takes no time.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
I'm always thinking with my loins.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm sorry, Yeah, you know, we get that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, how do we get out of this? Yeah, we're
going to get out right now, that's what we're doing.
We're going to back way before we get canned. You
think victim, You think of somebody suffering. But that's not
always the case. LA County just opened an investigation to
hundreds of child abuse allegations that aren't exactly what they seem.
And guess who's picking up the tab Oh it's you.
That's next.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Listen any time on demand in the iHeartRadio app. Bizarre
twist out of Hawkman's office. Here, the district attorney is
launching a criminal investigation into what what's worse than sex abuse?
Is lying about being abused? Worse than a sex abuser?
(09:29):
Ooh now here? Well, well it is as far as
the county is concerned, because they don't want to have
to pay out.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's kind of what's happening.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They're investigating alleged fraudsters submitting false child sex abuse claims.
Oh oh, maybe this is the next twist in the
Epstein saga. We're just getting a preview here in La anyway.
Here's from CBSLA.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay, so let me unpack this for you.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
This all involves a California law called eighty two eighteen,
which was signed by Governor some back in October of
twenty nineteen. Essentially, this built drastically changed the statute of
limitations for reporting child sexual abuse crimes. It extended them,
giving victims much more time to report these abuses. That
resulted in more than eleven thousand new child sex abuse
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claims to be filed, many of them involving victimization at
the hands of La County employees who were working in
the juvenile probation system.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Ah see, this is why it's costing the county Now.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
A county Board of supervisors approved more than four billion
taxpayer dollars to be paid out to all of these victims.
But Nathan Hawkman says this has caused numerous fraudsters to
try and grab some of that money by filing false
sex abuse claims.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He says, these fraudsters think.
Speaker 11 (10:42):
They can get away with this because many of the
juvenile records that could prove or disprove claims were destroyed.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh how convenient.
Speaker 11 (10:51):
So many of those claims are one person's word against another.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, So then how do you prosecute them?
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Coming back out live here to me? The DA says
there are some law firms that are complicit wow with
these fraudsters, And the DA says he is going to
go after these fraudsters and the law firms that are
helping them aggressively those fraudsters saying they're trying to take
money that's supposed to go to child sexual abuse victims,
and she but one last thing before I go, The
DA said, any fraudster who wants to come forward and
(11:20):
admit guilt here will not have their statements used against
him against them. But the DA said, this offer does
not apply to the law firms that helped these fraudsters
try and get that money.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's it here from the desk. I'll send it back
to you, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So if it's somebody's wording on somebody else's word because
the files were destroyed, how do you prosecute it? Look,
they're filing the claim for abuse, right and if you
are alleging that they're doing something wrong. Last I knew
now I could be a mistake. I could be way
off on this, And I'm not a lawyer. God knows,
(11:55):
I'm not a lawyer. But I thought that the burden
of proof was on the prosecution. So the prosecution is
going to have to prove then that in this case,
is the DA's office that that person was not abused?
(12:16):
How do you prove the negative if you don't have
any documentation. I mean, if there were contemporary records, you
might be able to say, okay, there's contemporary records, there's
no record of anything happening. There's there's nothing here. It
wasn't like it wasn't like it was swept under the rug.
You don't have any records at all. So all the
person has to do is say, yeah, I was abused
and they swept it under the rug. And you've got
(12:38):
got nothing to the contrary. Right, And since the county
is basically settling with everyone without you know, without these
people having to to take the county to court, then
how do you prove that the other way?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Maybe, look, maybe the DA has got ways.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Whatever it is he did a channel is inner, Liam
Neeson Nathan Hockman said, you will be arrested, you will
be prosecuted, and you will be punished. But again I
wonder how, I wonder how, And keep this in mind,
(13:18):
you have law firms that are that he's alleging, were
assisting in this fraud. Now, I have no doubt that
there is fraud going in none. Is there any doubt
that somebody is trying to defraud the system.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, I have some numbers if you're interested. Yeah, generally
it's between two percent to eight percent false allocations. You
mean in all sexual abuse claims or in this instance,
all sexual abuse claims. Okay, okay, So all right, So
in this case, it sounds like, not only do you
(13:50):
have your your numbers like Mark just brought up, but
you also have an easy payday. And are there unscrupulous
lawyers out there that would defraud the count?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Of course there are, but they're.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Also the ones that have legal experience and probably aren't
going to go down without a fight, especially when you
heard at the end of that report he's offering not
amnesty for people who come forward, but he's saying it
wouldn't be used against you. Sounds basically like amnesty, but
not for the law firms. Law firms aren't going to go, oh,
you know what you called us, here's our license. I
(14:21):
guess we'll just well go do door dash for the
next thirty years. That's that's not likely to be the case.
So the burden of proof on this appears to me
early on, and again I don't know what the DA has,
I have no idea, but it just seems like it's
going to be very difficult. What's frustrating is is that
as you do with these fraudsters, whether it's two to
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eight percent generally speaking, or it's higher than that, because
we made it easy to do here in California, what
does that do to the people who are really survivors?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Right? What does that do to the actual victims?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And imagine if you were someone who was victimized, you
filed the claim legitimately, but you got flagged because the
records weren't on filed because they were destroyed. You've been
flagged as a potential fraudster, but you're not. And you
would know obviously if you filed that claim. You would
know if you were a fraudster. So just imagine if
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you were abused, the law changes in your benefit, You
go through the proper steps to file the claim, and
then the county says, oh, no, we're going to prosecute
you and you will be arrested, prosecuted, and punished. So
not only are you a victim of sexual assault, but
now you're a victim of a flawed system. And what
(15:41):
does this do to anybody else that's thinking about filing
a claim?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So are we really offering justice to people's that's the concern.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Obviously, this was not.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The initial program, is not executed in a very bright manner.
This is failures all the way around, and once again
scammers are going to ruin.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
It for everybody else. Thanks a lot, scammers, poop bags.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hey, you know that moment when a broke little town
suddenly becomes the hottest date that Silicon Valley's ever had,
twenty two thousand acres. It's a billionaire built utopia and
enough drama for a mini series. A slow motion land
grab is happening, and I'll tell you where next. Chris Merrill.
I am six forty. We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
More stimulating talk.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I hate it when it gets darkness early too. Oh,
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I do like the winter. I like it colder, I
like it when the rain comes. I like when we
have a nice storm, all that stuff. But I hate driving.
Oh God, I get old and I can't drive in
the dark anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I am a menace. I am such a menace on
the road. So just know when we wrap up here
at ten o'clock. Maybe just avoid you know, general Burbank area,
just just right, you know, for your own safety and
for your children. We were just discussing in the last
segment here about the District Attorney's office launching a criminal
(17:13):
investigation into hundreds of claims of childhood sexual abuse, but
they say appear to be frauduling. However, it's very difficult
because they don't have any records. The records were all destroyed.
So I got a little feedback here on the old
talkback for people listening on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I believe they're looking to scare people off from doing
further claims.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
They don't care about the money they already spent. California
never does.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, well it's expensive. I mean, so far, what
do they paid out four billion dollars so far alone
and now additional settlements later this year reaching eight hundred
and twenty eight million dollars for over four hundred more claims. Wow,
well that's a lot of money for somebody to entice
them to maybe make some maybe make some frauduling claims
(17:57):
like oh, you know, it's a risk. I got away
with it during little bit. Maybe I'll get away with
it here too. Yeah. Absolutely, it's a lot of money
to be flashing in front of somebody and making them
think that they could get a little free payday, quick
and easy free payday. Let's go to northern California. There's
a there's a town there at the edge of the
(18:19):
Bay Area, over twenty two thousand acres and basically got
bought up slowly by billionaires. And now they're saying, this
is our town, and we don't like the poores. This
is from Citia, Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Cournia Forever calls it the next great American city and
their big dreams put a bullseye target on Solano County's
smallest city.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
We have deemed the California Forever application.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Is complete, so Soon's city announced Tuesday, California Forever has
now officially submitted a formal application for Sassoon to and
their entire project, growing the city by more than ten times.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In June.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
There was pushback when the annexation proposal was first approved.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So basically you had this area outside of Susan City
and then they they started to build it up in
their image of what a utopia is going to look like.
I'm sure there's a lot of diversity there and they
want it and so and now they're going to the
city and they're going, hey, city, you're broke, you meet
us now, annex us in and then they basically just
take over today.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
City Manager Brett Prebula says the next steps are for
the city to get their hands on the application and
get to work and the money, diving into the draft
proposal and seeing if it meets the needs of Sasoon City.
That could take weeks even months, but Prabula says the
city is pleased so far with California Forever's plan.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
So rising tides lift all boats has been a real
reality that they have embraced strongly. So that's one to
the stop at one hundred and fifty thousand residents to
check in officially to get further approval required to move
to the second phase of the development after twenty years.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Is an important factor that they heard.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
California Forever wants to build a new city of walkable
neighborhoods for four hundred thousand Californians.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, this is where it gets juicy.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
With it a shipyard and what they say will be
America's largest manufacturing park. I spoke with CEO Yan Ceramic
about that in July.
Speaker 13 (20:24):
You provide a pleasure where all of these companies that
are doing incredible work in Silicon Valley can manufacture things
in California instead of sending all of those jobs to
tex Hussle reporta.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, so you got billionaires and want to create a
giant manufacturing center the Bay Area. I think, oh, this
is going to work out wonderfully. And now are you
going to pay enough money for people to afford to
live there? No, of course not. Why would we do that?
So that is so basically they strong arm the city
into annexing their mini city, right. They bought up this
(20:56):
massive area adjacent to the city, and then they said,
we got all the money as they're going broke, you know,
not for notting. But if you went ahead and made
us part of a city, that would be an awful
lot of money that you could probably bring in Quesse.
Then we might have to have a little say so
into what goes on in the city. And they were
actually kind of ruthless about acquiring that land in the
(21:17):
first place.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Tuesday, Soamic posted on x that their plan has evolved
since twenty twenty four, when at first to the new
city's fate was going to be in the hands of
Solano County voters in the November election, California Forever pulled
the ballot measure and went back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, because they knew that the people were not going
to say, sure, give the billionaires.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Today's ceramic writes, the land use plan is the same
as our twenty twenty four plan, but after a year
and a half years of work by one hundred plus people,
much more detailed and ready to build.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The plan also has a new home.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
So now this an extension of an existing city, not
a new community.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
See.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So they build the new community, and then they say
to the city, you know, we've got all the money
because we're billionaires. We just spent nearly a billion dollars
to get all of this land. So why don't you
whyon't you bring us in?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
What do you say to people who don't agree with
this approach, who wish that this had been left maybe
as a voter choice on the ballot.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
This idea of voters knowing what's best for themselves, it's
just silly.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Billionaires really know what's better for the voters.
Speaker 12 (22:27):
So I think for me, it goes back to everyone
said they wanted them to go through the normal process, right,
we are making them go through the normal process.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Opponents are saying that there have been a number of
hardball tactics, including get this, a half billion dollar lawsuit
against farmers who refused to sell their land. They accused
the farmers of working as a monopoly to deny the
billionaires the ability to take over the land. And here's
(23:01):
the delio. Suppose that you are a farmer. I don't
know if you've noticed, but farming ain't easy nowadays. But
you probably have a lot of people there that I
don't know, family farms or maybe even have some corporate farms,
and they're ekeing out of profit right now. And they go, no,
we don't want to sell This is our entire life,
our livelihoods, this is who we.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Are, it's our identity.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And they go, yeah, but we're billionaires and if you
don't sell it to us, we are going to bury
you in so much legal nonsense that you will not
be able to afford to pay the lawyers to stop
us from taking your land. Yeah, And they go, oh, no, no, no,
we're just going to save the bet. We're helping everyone out.
Look how great we are. But there is there is
(23:48):
one other hope for the non billionaire neighbors that don't
necessarily want to be steamrolled on this, and that is
it's still California. So the annexation here that the city
is looking at that the billionaires want to do has
to undergo environmental reviews and consultant reports. Final approval rests
(24:12):
with the Solano County Local Agency Formation Commission, all bureaucracy
at its finest. So according to some analysts, this is
still years, maybe even decades away, and some of the
billionaires that want to create this little utopia of their
own in the Bay Area on the on the coast,
(24:33):
they will likely be dead by the time it happens.
So there you go. Who knew all that regulation might
come in handy? I wouldn't have guessed it. But you know,
for the people in Solano County, they're probably somewhat thankful.
Right now, all right, you peel the sunscreen off your dashboard,
(24:55):
just in time, because now your window is fogging up.
Your blow out is going to turn in to a
perm and the dry spell is over. How bad it's
going to be that is next time Chris merril KFI
AM six forty. We are live everywhere on the iHeart
Radio app.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Listen anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app. And you
can also hear the work that our tech director Ali
had to do yesterday if you go to the featured
segments section of KFI AM six forty dot com and
grab yesterday's podcast. It was an absolute disaster. We loved it.
It was just fantastic. A lot of feedback from people
as we were talking about the greatest guitar riffs of
(25:37):
all time, but of course we can't put those in
the podcast. So the entire podcast I was like Frankenstein's Monster,
and I think it's kind of funny actually, So if
you get a chance, check that out. I think we
keyed into something with that because I got more feedback
than I usually do, and I, oh, yeah, I don't
solicit feedback. I don't have any social media tied to
the station, but people found ways to reach out to
me to suggest guitar riffs. Yeah, and colleague of ours,
(26:01):
Eric was listening and he called in. He made some
suggestions too.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
No, it's a good one. I think music ties people
together better than anything else. So it was it was fun.
But yeah, the podcast is great because it's just it's like,
what were they doing here?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's a mess. Yeah, it was total disaster. It was.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It was fantastic. I love when things get a little loose,
I really do. PD hates it, but I love when
things get a little bit loose. I do also love
little rain. I love it more than a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Roder.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You worked in Seattle for a long time. More than
a little rain in Seattle? When I enjoy Seattle or
would it be too much?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, I moved for a reason. I was kind of
done with it. I like it in l A. Yeah.
The the program director, Boss.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Long, he he was in Seattle too, and I remember
having conversations with him when he was talking about Seattle
and he said, he said, it's horrible.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
He says, it's terrible.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What you don't get is you know it rains, but
you don't understand when they say it rains a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It rained so much. Everything is wet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It doesn't matter you walk into the house, even if
you tear your shoes off at the door. It doesn't matter.
Everything is soaked. It's always wet. Everything is always wet.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I don't really mind that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The thing that made me want to leave Seattle the most,
pardon me, is that everything is becoming more unaffordable than ever, like,
at least as unaffordable as La, and all the places
with character are being demolished and replaced with giant condo
buildings with a with a retail floor at ground level.
And it's just the city's character has gone inconvenient. La
(27:34):
is full of old stuff that I love. That is true.
There's a lot of character in this town. I think
that's what people who aren't here don't get.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They look at California and go, oh it's the politics,
or oh it's they go, oh it's it's La. So
it's all fake people, or it's it's it's Beverly Hills,
or it's Malibu, or it's Orange County, or they see
Hollywood and whatever else. There's so much more that I
think people just miss, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
That's why Randy Newman loved La. Yeah. LA's got wonderful
history and I love exploring. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I was lucky enough to go to the Will Rogers Joint,
the park the ranch before it burned down. It made
me incredibly sad that that was lost in the fire.
But I love all the old stuff in La.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
Do you know Will Rogers The little tiny park opposite
the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 10 (28:23):
That's the park where George Michael famously got arrested by
the undercover cop.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Okay, here we go. It always goes back. Okay, all right,
Why why I loved always?
Speaker 10 (28:36):
That's historical. That outed him to the world. It did,
That's historical.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That is my god. Didn't didn't Didn't you have a
story about trains or something? Mark, because we just got
derailed again.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And let's not give her the opportunity to talk about
big trains going into We don't want that say anything
about that unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
All right, anyway, more rain is coming, so if you
want to explore, it's going to feel Seattle like. But
still you can explore all Evidently the park where George
Michael got outed.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The House and Senate passed the bill to release the UPS's.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
The wrong one. Hang on, let me play the right wine.
Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
This is normally where I blame someone else, Maria, you
really you let me down on that one.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Get the right audio this time.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'll no problem. He's on the bubble. Unbelievable, and have
him deported with Ali.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
Next, somewhat of a break between of the rain. There's
most that rain moving out towards the age. You see
the little ridge building in here. That gives us that
little break, but just really for today, because now looking
ahead to tomorrow, So by Tomorrow morning, Tomorrow night, we're
gonna start seeing little shots of rain starting to make
its way in Thursday early morning. By Thursday afternoon, now
we'll see the heavier rain starting moving through. We're talking
(29:48):
about possible thunderstorms going on here.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I love a good thunderstorm, the.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yellows and the oranges in the kid.
Speaker 14 (29:55):
The heavier rain rains continuing through Friday afternoon, and as
that rain moves wrap around and bring us more rain into.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Wrap around rain Friday, that may be.
Speaker 14 (30:05):
Tapering off early Saturday morning. But between now and then
get set for another round of some pretty good rain
amounts and also some very cold temps. A sure those
in a second overnight tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
All right, it's gonna get cold, is what he's saying.
Look I love the rain, but I should note I
am sympathetic. If you're somebody who's in a burnscar area
you're dealing with the mud, I am so sorry you
got to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It really does, and so I will I will be thinking,
I'll pour one out for you, Okay, So I don't
want you to think that I've forgotten about you.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It sucks, it does, but god, I do love the rain.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And look, we gotta have a little moisture if you
want to have the vegetation, come back and start, you know,
putting some roots into that mud. I guess I don't know,
trying to find a silver lining on all this stuff.
It does blow my mind as somebody that grew up
in the Midwest, though, that the word storm means something
totally different.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Here than what it does in the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Well, heart of your people in the Midwest, they're used
to the extremes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, well definitely four seasons. Summer is hot hot, Winter
is cold. Yeah, winter is whoa right, it is.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
It is hot.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
But I remember I moved from Kansas City. I wrapped
up a show in Kansas City on a Friday afternoon,
and I was on the air. I had a meeting
with the boss. It was a President's Day weekend twenty twelve,
I believe, and twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and so I
wrapped up my show. I got in my car and
I drove straight from Kansas City to San Diego and
(31:36):
I had a meeting with the boss on Monday morning,
and I loved it. I pulled into the parking lot
at the place where the station was put me up
for a couple of months while I found a joint,
and I pulled in.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's February, you know, President's Day.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And I pulled in and there's two girls in bikinis
in the parking lot. And I went, oh, I'm home.
You know, I left snow and cold and all that
stuff in the Midwest. That I got here, there's the
girls in bikinis. Was I was definitely okay with that,
but it blew my mind when I when I heard, oh,
there's a storm, and I go, oh, there's a storm. Okay,
what do you guys do during storms? They're like, well,
(32:09):
you know, the news crews always go to the same
intersections that always flood. And I said, well, how bad
is the storm gonna be? They go, oh, it could
be bad. We could see almost a quarter inch. A
quarter inch is like it's like a Tuesday morning in
the Midwest, Like quarter inch?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
What is that about?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
But then obviously we got to deal with there's a
little bit different here. It's a little it's a little different,
maybe not quite as much. But when it does come down,
obviously we get the mud flows, we get the debris,
we get all the other crap that goes with it.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
So no good, no good.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I do want to grill Mark on something he said
in his last newscast. We'll get to that here in
just a few moments. I'm short on time right now
because he introduced me to a term I had not
heard before. I will share that with you here in
just a few moments. It's Chris Merrill I AM six forty.
We live everywhere on the iHeart radio app.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
KFI AM six on demand. End
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