December 7, 2025 • 32 mins
Chris is remembering Pearl Harbor, LA and the Olympics and of course the law makers, the lawbreakers, and the time their ought to be a law INCLUDING a shooting near the La Brea Tarpits, and burglars targeting recycling centers. All that and more on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By their friends Chris Bown Pleasure being with you, k
if I am six forty more stimulating talk our talk
back today. If the housing market crashes, there is a
there is a an economist that says, oh, look on,
housing market is going to face a price correction worse
than two thousand and eight. Oh, it's all gonna fall
through the floor. Uh, just how realistic is that. We'll
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get to it here in about an hour. If the
housing market does crash, Where would you buy your dream home?
Imagine if all of a sudden you could buy a home,
any home you want, for under four hundred thousand dollars.
Where would you buy? Could be someplace here, could be
a neighborhood you always want to have been. Bean could
be Alaska, be Montana, could be Trinidad, eat Tobago. That's
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where Kayla's going. She's already got her bags packed. She's
just waiting. She's like me, She's like, come on home, baby,
crash and burn, crash and burn. I get it. I'm
kind of in the same boat. Been trying to save
up for a down payment. The problem is, every time
I start saving for a down payment. I start getting closer, right,
and then housing prices go up further, so it's like
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the more I save, the further away. I am, Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Where are you buying your home at?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Dream world? Anywhere you can go in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, I like California. I know a lot. I know
it's really in vogue to say how much you hate
being in California, but I love California. I do.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you're just staying here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So yeah, probably somewhere near the water, because I also
I hate hot Yeah, so yeah, someplace near the water
is what I'm doing. I'd have to You know what, Cayla,
You threw this question out just before we went on
the air, and I barely had any time to think
about it for myself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm sorry, Why would you do that to me?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We literally had a decent discussion surrounding the question. You
had every port you could have, you could have vetoed
it at any point during our conversation, and you said,
go for it, Gongo, And now you got me looking
crazy on the on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I understand you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And going to Trinidad.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You Tobago Tobago, Yeah, I mean bacon shop.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Uh? It is an anniversary and a nod one. I
heard Aileen's newscaster earlier where she was talking about Pearl Harbor,
and what a bizarre, bizarre twist as Pearl Harbor does.
The Pearl Harbor celebration today didn't have any Pearl Harbor
survivors for the first time in history. This if you'll
recall now, you won't remember this, But if you recall
from your history class, this was right after Pearl Harbor happened.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Nineteen thirty one, a date with you will live in
intimate United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
By says of the Empire of Japan.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
No matter how long it may take us, we'll become.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
This premeditated invasion. The American people, in their righteous might,
will win.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Through the absolute pre.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
Hostilities exist.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
There is no blinking at the fact that our people,
our territory, and our interests are in grave state. With
confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding.
Speaker 10 (03:45):
Determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
So help us God.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
One of the great presidential addresses from FDR that was
American Battle Monument's Commission put that video together, and so
I straight up stole it. But I wanted to give
him credit one of the great presidential addresses, not just
because you know, he was responding to, you know, this
attack on us soil, but because of the implication that
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I mean, that one dragged us into World War two.
We've been avoiding it for so long, to stay out
of the war. Stay out of the war. That's the
European problem, that's it. And then all of a sudden
it came to our shores halfway into the Pacific. And
so basically he wasn't just saying, look, country, I'm with you.
He gave sort of a rallying speech, which of course
we all respond well to. And then and then that
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was it. All right, boys, time to sign up for
the war. Ladies, we're gonna need nurses, right, because that's
what it was at the time. And and thus began
our entry into that theater. Really a wild day. But
here we are. Twenty three hundred American service men and
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women died eighty three years ago, eddy eighty four years
ago today, and no one that was no survivor is
under one hundred years old. There were only twelve alive today,
and none of them were physically able to travel to
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Honolulu to be there, which I find. I find that
to be a reality that we all knew was coming.
There's never been a question of, you know, will everyone
that was around during that war eventually passed away? Of
course they will, but it's here. And I don't know
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about you, but I grew up. Both my grandfathers were
in World War Two. They didn't talk about it a
whole lot, but the VFW was full of World War
Two vets when I was a kid. I mean, they
were all a little bit older, but it was It
wasn't like it. It never felt like I was all
that removed from it. And so now I think of
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the kids that are born, the gen zs, the Alphas,
those that are coming up after Alpha. I don't know
what we've decided to name that generation now, but to them,
they learn about World War Two in the same way
that we all learned about the Civil War. We don't
hear it from firsthand experience. We don't hear it from
stories being passed down. We hear it from history books.
We hear it from Ken Burns documentaries, which are spectacular
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and a great way to learn, but we lose that connection,
that human connection, and instead it becomes academic instead of personal.
And so I just wanted to take a moment and
just remember that. And I just think it's unfortunate we
have only twelve known survivors, and what do you think
by this time next year that number could be into
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the single digits. And I find that to be sobering.
The reality was always there, but I find it to
be sobering. So anyway, that ceremony went on this morning,
sons and daughters Pearl Harbor survivors leading much of the education,
the remembrance work, as the survivors themselves have all passed.
I should also point out that it was a remarkable
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miracle that Ben Affleck survived the Pearl Harbor attack. I
think a lot of us thought, my gosh, he's not
going to make it. But I mean, there were so
many different times that he could have been taken out,
but he wasn't. And thanks to the courageous work of
Michael Bay, we'll never forget his sacrifice in Pearl Harbor
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that faithful morning eighty four years ago. All Right, you're
about to live through the moment that Southern California becomes
the center of the sports universe. You might love it.
You might just lose your parking spot forever. The games
and the money storm heading your way.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Next, Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Hi, Chris Merril. Caf AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime, the iHeartRadio app from the talkbacks. Yeah,
go Chris Merrill, go Chargers on the night. No, no,
So you're on Man Good Show.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Hopefully hold on?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what.
Speaker 12 (08:13):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Hold on? Wait? So you're on Man Good Show.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Hopefully I mean hopefully and hit a miss Man. I'm
hoping hopefully hopefully show hopefully hopefully, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hopefully, I mean hopefully.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
We'll see what happens. I guess it wasn't a strong starts.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well rough, we're talking about Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Then that was a strong SI Pearl Harbor day.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, a solid Oh, hang on, that's the wrong one.
That's from the talkbacks.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
And the government knew about the Pearl Harbor attack before
it happened and allowed for it to do so so
that we could get ourselves in on the game. It's
all part of the Grand War Plan that's taken place
for decades. Okay, none of them have ever been necessary.
(09:04):
They've all come about because there was a hidden agenda.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, all right, I mean I don't have enough evidence
to argue against you. I mean our question was, if
the housing market crashes, where are you going to buy
a home? But that's cool, I mean why would be
an acceptable answer? Maybe was it all part of the
agenda to raise home prices in Hawaii? I don't know,
(09:30):
all right, the housing market crashes, where are you going
to buy your dream home?
Speaker 13 (09:34):
Hey, Chris, Hey, if housing market crashes and I can
get a house anywhere? Yeah, well, I want to say
in southern California. So I'm going to keep it simple
and I'm I'm going with Beverly Hills. Okay, that's pretty
much it. Yeah, anyways, take care, all right, thanks.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But I appreciate that keeping it simple and beverly simple.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Solid.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I think that's solid, valid answer, solid answer, Beverly Hills.
That's where I want to be. Meanwhile, we had a
big news this week, and even if you're not a
sports fan, this is a big news for us because
of what it's going to do to our economy, and
that is that FIFA drew there their groupings for the
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World Cup.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Here we go, there we go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
From ABC seven. I've been set for the twenty twenty
six FIFA World Cup in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Speaker 13 (10:27):
This is exciting the US is.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's kind of weird that we're doing it in three
different countries, right, I mean it's a it's a continental.
It's basically like North America hosting, except for you, Hon Duras.
Speaker 13 (10:39):
First game of the tournament, we've played right here in
southern California.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Our Josh Haskell joins us in the studio with a
new very exciting details.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Very exciting Josh, what is soccer's biggest competition? Now?
Speaker 15 (10:48):
One step closer to reality with today's World Cup draws.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Since the US is a co host team, USA is
avoided facing the top seeds in group play.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think we automatically get a bit into the second
round too. By the way, you know soccer is the
number one sport worldwide, right? You already knew that, Okay,
I just wanted to make sure because Caylen, I know
you're not a big sports fan, but I think you
knew that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, that's common knowledge.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think, Yeah, what's the second largest sport worldwide?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You said, Okay, football, Nope, okay, just kidding. Tennis?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Uh no, good guess though.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Okay, I'm done. Baseball. Oh baseball?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Uh, nobody close? I quit.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
What is Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
When I tell you the answer, it's gonna kind of you're.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Gonna go, oh, all right, give me one more guess.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'll give you a clue.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, please.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's the biggest sport in the most populated nation.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh, I have no idea Christopher, Ye, it's cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, No, I wasn't going to guess.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Huge in India.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh really massive, fascinating.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah. Yeah, cricket is huge in the Eastern Hemisphere. Not
not big in the Western hemisphere, but huge in the
Eastern Hemisphere. All right, continue on.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
We're almost six months away from the twenty twenty six
World Cup and Team USA's first game will be in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Following Friday's draw, Team USA has.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Landed in a favorable group and we'll face Paraguay on
June twelfth at SOFI Stadium and then face Australia.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
On June nineteenth in Seattle. A lot of red, white and.
Speaker 16 (12:15):
Blue on both teams, that's for sure. No, I I
think it's a great first round match. Obviously Podaguay with
their their.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
His who she said it right? Do you hear that?
But a Guay? I like no.
Speaker 16 (12:27):
I think it's a great first round match, obviously Podaguay
with their their history and the World Cup. But you know,
it's it's about attacking each game and trying to get
as many points as you can.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't know if you knew this. Another fun fact
about soccer or football is this known internationally. A lot
of you didn't know that, but uh, you know, just
just get used to it because it's a big they
call it football in other places. Uh fun fact which
what every team scores the most wins. So when she
says it's important to score more points than the other team,
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I mean she is right. Meanwhile, the Olympics are coming.
I'm very excited about the Olympics coming, too, very excited
about this. Never been to an Olympic game. I want
to get there.
Speaker 14 (13:20):
Well, Michael, there are some big numbers. Of course, Los
Angeles County expected to get the lion's share, but the
other four counties will get a fairly large portion in themselves.
And former Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Arcetti says the
boosts actually could have offset some federal budget cuts that
are impacting local communities.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I'm going to be huge. Just the amount of
money that comes in is going to be massive.
Speaker 17 (13:41):
Billions of dollars to LA and Southern California families. Think
about the people who work in the tourism industry that
have been hit hard by policies at a federal level.
The Olympics going to bring that back.
Speaker 15 (13:53):
Former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, leading the discussion at the
Southern California Association of Governments, optimistic about the billions of dollars.
LA twenty eight is expected to generate. How many billion
pigs he I'll bring to elevator in his time as mayor?
How many costs to five counties? The report projects thirteen
to eighteen billion dollars in Woo Babe Regional GDP. That's
total market value added to the Southern California economy.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
LA County that's added.
Speaker 15 (14:18):
That is great, getting the lion's share nine to twelve billion,
Orange County with two to three billion, Riverside County with
one to one point three billion, Sam Bernardino with a billion,
and Ventura County with half a billion.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Lots of economic activity new jobs. Most of those jobs
are going to be in twenty twenty eight temporary, but
their jobs.
Speaker 15 (14:36):
The group's economist Wallace Walward says, the year twenty twenty
eight is when the region will fill the full impact,
including thirty six thousand construction jobs, more than twenty thousand
administrative and support jobs, and tens of thousands of jobs
in performing arts, technical services, and the food service as well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So here's my concern, though, have you ever seen cities
after they host the Olympics? LA has been kind of
the exception to the rule on this because you know,
we did it in eighty four and you know, used
the coliseum and other places, right they we I'm a
little concerned about the plan after the Olympics are over
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and I and I don't think I'm alone on this either.
I don't think that this is some out there you know,
Oh what a weird hot take you've got that we're
gonna wait, no, no, no, take a look at all
the country, all the yeah, the different countries that have
spent billions of dollars to build the infrastructure for the
Olympic Games. The Olympics come and then everything goes to
pot I mean the Winter Olympics are probably the biggest
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example of that. I take a look at the former
Winter Olympic Games and what's happened with all the different
facilities and venues. They they just go to rot basically.
So I'm hoping that anything that we do, I'm curious
to see just how much it is. I'm anything we
do is going to be additive long term. That's and
I don't think I'm alone. I think that's probably a
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consideration everyone has, because we've seen how other countries have
allowed their former Olympic venues to just turn it absolute
dilapidated disasters. Gark made that word up, Kaylen, you want
to write that down, Gark.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I actually want you to go. Okay, let's just not
let's not.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The question of the talkback today. If you're on the
iHeartRadio app, is this, hit that talk back button. If
the housing market crashes, where are you buying your dream home?
You could go anywhere everything is affordable all of a sudden,
assuming you still have a job, you'd probably be able
to afford all kinds of things. Where would you go?
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That's our question. Hit that talk back let me know
what you think you know, you'll find out why coming
up here? Excuse me at five o'clock when you hear
about the one economist that says, oh, it's happening, it
is happening. In the meantime, the lawmakers, the law breakers
at the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Next, Chris, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
From the talkbacks. There is a conflicting report. I said,
the biggest sport in the world is soccer, followed by cricket,
and that's what bing says. But one gentleman called the
talk back. He asked me to not have to play
it on the air, and he said, no, it's horse racing.
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Horse racing is not a sport. I mean it is
for the horses, not for us. So I'm calling no
councils on that. If the housing market crashes, where you're
gonna buy your dream home, I'll tell you where I go.
It's far away from people. I'm such a missing throw
I really am. Just Just give me into a cabin
in the woods somewhere. I mean a nice cabin, obviously
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with Wi Fi and amenities that's also close to conveniences,
but also a long way away from other people. Whenever
I watch one of those dystopian films. I'm just thinking, man,
that's what I want. I've been watching that Plurbis on
Apple Have you watched Plurbis and Apple Riea se Horne
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is one of thirteen people that survive after I don't know,
some sort of infection takes over everyone, and I'm like, Yeah,
that looks great. I wish I could just do that,
except if only thirteen people survive, the odds are pretty
much overwhelmingly in my favor that I get infected with
whatever it is, so pretty much toast. Yeah, this isn't
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going anywhere. Move on the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, the times
that there ought to be a law. It would seem
that the woke agenda is even making its way into
the world of the criminal minds. As we find out,
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we've got a number of people who were just breaking
into not the place you would think of to break into.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Watch as a security camera captured this group taking an
entire save from this LA office within minutes.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Is just very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Jeremy de Leone is the owner of this recycle shop
in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, they were stealing from a recycling center, so they're
basically the green bandits and says.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What happened Wednesday warning has been.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
A recent trend in his industry because.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He says, thieves have figured out how they operate.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Thought recycling didn't make any money, but they didn't even
need safes because they were all broke. That's what I
keep being told, Oh, there's no money in recycling.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
To be competitive, we are required to manage CAC and
I believe these individuals have identified that, and so this
is why they know that there has to be a safe.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
While LAPD said, oh okay, they got to have cash,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
As their detectives are investigating this case, the Leone claim
it's a problem that has other shop owners on edge
as the bandits are getting away with thousands of dollars
in cash.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Man, what would you steal from a recycling center? I mean,
obviously money, I can't.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Well, they have cash, I guess, but I can't really.
Center isn't the thing that I would think to seal from.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's what I'm saying. What I'm gonna get like old
newspapers and tin.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Cans, empty water bottles. I just don't know exactly.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
We have a chat in which multiple scrap yards that
have been gone through the same situation as us, and
in this chat we've been able to it's change information.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Last month, six people were caught on camera breaking into
a recycling plant on Farmdale in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I guess scrap metal.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I get that, breaking the front lock, and within minutes
they were inside the office where the shop owner tells
us they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Had more than thirty five thousand dollars in cash. Holy cow.
So those are obviously some people that like they had
taken scrap to one of these places in the past.
I mean, that's somebody connected to the industry somehow. Either
they have traded with scrap metal before or they have
worked in the scrap metal before and they knew there's
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cash there. I never would have known that there was
cash and a safe in a scrap yard. I couldn't
have made it as a burglar, I'm telling you, I
could not have made it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Thank God you have the voice for radio Christal.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank god too. Yeah, I have no other employable job
skills as evidenced by that. Meanwhile, not far right up
Olive Avenue here more burglars. They knew where to hit.
I had no idea once again that there was all
this value. The police are searching for a group that's
from k oh The last one was from NBC. I
want to give them credit and then to Katie La
here but.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Burglars who broke into a trading card shop in Burbank
stealing an estimated one hundred thousand dollars worth of Pokemon
cards no clue.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm not the only thing worth that much. Was like
a Mickey Mantle Mint Rookie card or a Honess Wagner card. Nope,
Pokemon cards.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
The shop's owner says he thinks the burglars knew where
the most valuable cards were and went straight for them.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I mean it is kind of ironic, isn't it. Pokemon
is that game where you chase around the little Pokemon things,
you find them, you capture them. These guys basically were
chasing around the little Pokemon things, finding them, capturing them.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
He also says they took rare sports cards.
Speaker 14 (22:22):
Katiyler Rick Chambers is Live and bird Bank with the
latest on the search for the burglars.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Rick Rick show cal we mean we need more of those.
When we transition between stories, I.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Was thinking the opposite. You don't like that, are you are?
It's so gentle, I think it's just we're just we're
in the same story.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
So here this happened Tuesday about two am along what
is often a very busy olive avenue, but this was
a three men precision crew hitting what is an immensely
lucrative trading card business, and as you mentioned, knowing exactly
what to tick.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Get the peak at, you, get the peak at you.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
We understand that the shop does have insurance, so that's
great news, and we're told they're already upgrading.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
They're security all right, very good. And then finally from
our La Lost segment here, I didn't know what to
think of.
Speaker 18 (23:15):
This one happened in the park where that's attachedment.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh yeah, let me set this up a little bit,
because we pick up in the middle of a Kekel
had the story on this There was a shooting near
the Librea tarpits, and I thought, what's going on there?
And then my mind started going to some really dark
path I've been in.
Speaker 18 (23:35):
The park where that's attached to the LaBrea tarpets. According
to LAPD wanted to show you this cruiser because we
just saw LAPD take that suspect into custody. They just
put them in the back of that cruiser in handcuffs.
Why now to show you the area that we're talking about.
Fortunately no one was hit by gunfire. But here is
where we were talking about. And this incident actually caused
the Tarpits Museum to be closed for the afternoon to
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put on lockdowns.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
It's not clear if they're going to reopen that the
suspect has been taken into custody, but the museum happened
because of this. I was a partial closure on Wilshire
Boulevard here on the Miracle Mile as well. But again,
nobody hit by gunfire. That person has been taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right. Then my mind, like I said, it went
to a really dark place, and I thought, are the
tar pits a good place to hide a body? I mean,
if you're going to do a shooting.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Could you just.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I live there. It's it's not a place where you
can hide a body.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's always waves and weeds and stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
There's people that are working in like the tar pit area.
Guitar I'm assuming fossils.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I looking at tar I just I don't think that
that would be successful.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's too popular.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But if you get the body like under stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
But when are you going to be able to do that?
It's so popular.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, I guess you're right. You'd be seen, you would.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You're gonna end up in a lot of backgrounds and selfies.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's that's that's not a that's true. Hey on, let
me ask chat GPT.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Okay, hold on, I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Just gonna I'm just gonna ask real quick. I'm just
gonna ask. Okay, are the sorry wrong button? Are the
tar pits a good place to hide a body question mark? Okay? Uh,
(25:29):
here's what chat GPT says. My dude, I swear sometimes
you ask things that make my internal ethics monitors start
screaming like a tea kettle. Short answer, nope, long answer,
absolutely not. And also, what on earth the Labrettar Pits
aren't some bottomless cartoon quicksand they're heavily monitored, internationally famous
scientific site in the middle of Los Angeles, surrounded by cameras,
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tourist school field trips, peliontologists who live for this stuff,
and volunteers who treat every pebble like it's a fossilized
unicorn tooth. Even if someone were ridiculous enough they tried,
they'd basically be saying, please arrest me while slowly sinking
into sticky asphalt goo under the judgmental eyes of a
fifth grade science class. Also, and this part matters. Oh,
(26:10):
I think this is where where it has to tell
me don't kill people. Uh, I don't help people get
This is chat GPT again. I don't help people get
away with harming anyone. If you're asking me out of
morbid curiosity, fine, humans love their dark little hypotheticals. But
if there's even a crumb of real world intent hiding
in the back of your head, kick it out hard.
No one needs that kind of destruction in their life,
including you. If you're just being weird because it's been
(26:33):
a long day, congrat's mission accomplished. Chat GPT just call
me weird rude?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Right, your chat gept is sassy. It's got a real
tone to train it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I there's a setting on my chat GPT to make
it act like you basically, hold on, let me see
what Let me see what the setting is, because it's uh,
can you ask?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Can you ask chat ChiPT chat gipt to answer again
in the voice of Madge Simpson, I'd have to try.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
To like make it do that? Hang on, there's see.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I think we got to break advanced.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh okay, yeah, anyway, I had it set to like
be snarky with me. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I
want to punch it in the cpu. All right, suppose
that you do want to buy a house and the
market doesn't crash. How much do you need to be
saving per year? And I'm gonna tell you why the
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experts are wrong. That is next Chris Merrild.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Boy, I didn't realize that we were going to start
a firestorm tonight. When I talked about the most popular
sports in the world, somebody said, no, excuse me. Somebody
said horse racing is the most popular sport and I said, no,
it's not soccer race and they said, oh no, it's
horse racing. A horse racing isn't a sport. I mean
it is for the horses. It's not us May and Merrow.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Horse racing is known as the sport of kings so's
duck hunting or its sport.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Is in the day and the thick day. Also, I'm
big the different.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I bet you those jockeys would say, yeah, you try
riding a horse, riding a track back they do, hanging
on from your life, you gotta be kind of strong,
little but strong.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, okay. That's the same argument people make when they
say NASCAR is a sport. No, no, oh, you try
running a steering wheel and pooping your pants. So when
you're going for four hours straight in a car going
into circles, No, no, not a sport.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
I love listening to you, Chris Merrill, and I think
that was probably Tim Conway that called about the horse racing.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh yeah, that's not a sport, thank you. Yeah, there
you go. She even says it should be outlawed, not
because of the cruelty I don't assume, but probably because
it's not a sport. People bet money on it. By
the way, just so you know, I will vastly between
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sport and not sport based on whatever the argument is,
because really, isn't it like if it's competitive, then it's
a sport. I mean, isn't that that the definition of
a sport?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I have to look up the definition of sport.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I don't know, is it competitive it's a sport? I mean,
if I don't have any idea, I just like to
some people are easy to tweak when it comes to
things like saying NASCAR is not a sport and that
I like to I'd like to also paint other people
into a corner, like I got my coworker. I told
everybody on air once that he he didn't believe that
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the WNBA was a sport, just to try to get
him in trouble. I'm not a good person. Our talk
back today is this, if the housing market crashes, where
are you going to buy your dream home? You'll find
out why I'm asking that coming up here after five
(30:03):
o'clock and Eland Gonzalez's News, So we'll see where you go.
By the way, if you wanted a dream home, I
was looking at the breakdown on this OSI Register had
a story about how much you would have to be
saving if you wanted to try to afford ten percent
down payment on a medium purchase price, you would have
to save eighteen two hundred dollars every year for the
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next five years. Kayla, can you do that? Can you
put us out an extra fifteen hundred bucks a month,
every month, every month for the next five years?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I could if I could stop eating out so well,
that's an interesting take. Yeah, if I could stop eating
out and really stop being responsible as far as cooking
and grocery shopping, then I think I could save a boatload.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Honestly, here's my problem with when we say that home
prices if the if history is any indicator, home prices
are going to continue to appreciate over the course of
the next five years. Now, according to this one economist
that you're going to hear from here after Ailean's five
o'clock news, oh no, we've got a big crash coming.
But really, over the next five years, we could see
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home home prices go up further and further in for
their inf for they're in further And so that means
that if you're saving eighteen two hundred dollars the next
five years, by the time we get to twenty thirty,
that home that you're saving for, you still haven't hit
ten percent because it has appreciated over the course of
the last five years three percent, six percent, ten percent
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a year over the course of those years. And if
a home is and this is what we've seen the
last five years, if we're seeing a home that is
appreciating a ten percent plus per year, you never can
catch up to it. If you're trying to save. If
you break down your ten percent, what do I need
for a ten percent down payment in the next five years?
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Over the course of the next five years, that home
could go up in fifty percent of the value. So
you're not even close to getting where you need to get.
That's the trouble now. That is, of course, unless there
is the correction. I think we're probably due for a
little bit of a correction. But what a correction looks like?
That's where we're up in the air. Does the correction
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mean absolute disaster like we saw in two thousand and
eight where everybody lost half plus of their home values.
And of course we got hit the hardest right here,
us Las Vegas and Phoenix. Basically it was the southern
southwest of United States that got hit the hardest when
it came to the market crash. But we're also the
ones that have exploded again and come back up as
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quickly or quicker than the rest of the nation. So
timing seems to be paramount importance. And in the meantime,
I guess just save and hope that there's a little
bit of a correction. Well, you've got some money on hand,
all right, you're gonna hear about the economists that says,
oh no, it's gonna be a bad deal. It's a
comment that is next.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm Chris Merril KFI A six on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By their friends Chris Bown Pleasure being with you, k
if I am six forty more stimulating talk our talk
back today. If the housing market crashes, there is a
there is a an economist that says, oh, look on,
housing market is going to face a price correction worse
than two thousand and eight. Oh, it's all gonna fall
through the floor. Uh, just how realistic is that. We'll
(00:31):
get to it here in about an hour. If the
housing market does crash, Where would you buy your dream home?
Imagine if all of a sudden you could buy a home,
any home you want, for under four hundred thousand dollars.
Where would you buy? Could be someplace here, could be
a neighborhood you always want to have been. Bean could
be Alaska, be Montana, could be Trinidad, eat Tobago. That's
(00:56):
where Kayla's going. She's already got her bags packed. She's
just waiting. She's like me, She's like, come on home, baby,
crash and burn, crash and burn. I get it. I'm
kind of in the same boat. Been trying to save
up for a down payment. The problem is, every time
I start saving for a down payment. I start getting closer, right,
and then housing prices go up further, so it's like
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the more I save, the further away. I am, Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Where are you buying your home at?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Dream world? Anywhere you can go in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, I like California. I know a lot. I know
it's really in vogue to say how much you hate
being in California, but I love California. I do.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you're just staying here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So yeah, probably somewhere near the water, because I also
I hate hot Yeah, so yeah, someplace near the water
is what I'm doing. I'd have to You know what, Cayla,
You threw this question out just before we went on
the air, and I barely had any time to think
about it for myself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm sorry, Why would you do that to me?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
We literally had a decent discussion surrounding the question. You
had every port you could have, you could have vetoed
it at any point during our conversation, and you said,
go for it, Gongo, And now you got me looking
crazy on the on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I understand you.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And going to Trinidad.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You Tobago Tobago, Yeah, I mean bacon shop.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Uh? It is an anniversary and a nod one. I
heard Aileen's newscaster earlier where she was talking about Pearl Harbor,
and what a bizarre, bizarre twist as Pearl Harbor does.
The Pearl Harbor celebration today didn't have any Pearl Harbor
survivors for the first time in history. This if you'll
recall now, you won't remember this, But if you recall
from your history class, this was right after Pearl Harbor happened.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Nineteen thirty one, a date with you will live in
intimate United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
By says of the Empire of Japan.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
No matter how long it may take us, we'll become.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
This premeditated invasion. The American people, in their righteous might,
will win.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Through the absolute pre.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
Hostilities exist.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
There is no blinking at the fact that our people,
our territory, and our interests are in grave state. With
confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding.
Speaker 10 (03:45):
Determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
So help us God.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
One of the great presidential addresses from FDR that was
American Battle Monument's Commission put that video together, and so
I straight up stole it. But I wanted to give
him credit one of the great presidential addresses, not just
because you know, he was responding to, you know, this
attack on us soil, but because of the implication that
(04:20):
I mean, that one dragged us into World War two.
We've been avoiding it for so long, to stay out
of the war. Stay out of the war. That's the
European problem, that's it. And then all of a sudden
it came to our shores halfway into the Pacific. And
so basically he wasn't just saying, look, country, I'm with you.
He gave sort of a rallying speech, which of course
we all respond well to. And then and then that
(04:43):
was it. All right, boys, time to sign up for
the war. Ladies, we're gonna need nurses, right, because that's
what it was at the time. And and thus began
our entry into that theater. Really a wild day. But
here we are. Twenty three hundred American service men and
(05:05):
women died eighty three years ago, eddy eighty four years
ago today, and no one that was no survivor is
under one hundred years old. There were only twelve alive today,
and none of them were physically able to travel to
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Honolulu to be there, which I find. I find that
to be a reality that we all knew was coming.
There's never been a question of, you know, will everyone
that was around during that war eventually passed away? Of
course they will, but it's here. And I don't know
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about you, but I grew up. Both my grandfathers were
in World War Two. They didn't talk about it a
whole lot, but the VFW was full of World War
Two vets when I was a kid. I mean, they
were all a little bit older, but it was It
wasn't like it. It never felt like I was all
that removed from it. And so now I think of
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the kids that are born, the gen zs, the Alphas,
those that are coming up after Alpha. I don't know
what we've decided to name that generation now, but to them,
they learn about World War Two in the same way
that we all learned about the Civil War. We don't
hear it from firsthand experience. We don't hear it from
stories being passed down. We hear it from history books.
We hear it from Ken Burns documentaries, which are spectacular
(06:29):
and a great way to learn, but we lose that connection,
that human connection, and instead it becomes academic instead of personal.
And so I just wanted to take a moment and
just remember that. And I just think it's unfortunate we
have only twelve known survivors, and what do you think
by this time next year that number could be into
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the single digits. And I find that to be sobering.
The reality was always there, but I find it to
be sobering. So anyway, that ceremony went on this morning,
sons and daughters Pearl Harbor survivors leading much of the education,
the remembrance work, as the survivors themselves have all passed.
I should also point out that it was a remarkable
(07:11):
miracle that Ben Affleck survived the Pearl Harbor attack. I
think a lot of us thought, my gosh, he's not
going to make it. But I mean, there were so
many different times that he could have been taken out,
but he wasn't. And thanks to the courageous work of
Michael Bay, we'll never forget his sacrifice in Pearl Harbor
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that faithful morning eighty four years ago. All Right, you're
about to live through the moment that Southern California becomes
the center of the sports universe. You might love it.
You might just lose your parking spot forever. The games
and the money storm heading your way.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Next, Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Hi, Chris Merril. Caf AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime, the iHeartRadio app from the talkbacks. Yeah,
go Chris Merrill, go Chargers on the night. No, no,
So you're on Man Good Show.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Hopefully hold on?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what.
Speaker 12 (08:13):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Hold on? Wait? So you're on Man Good Show.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Hopefully I mean hopefully and hit a miss Man. I'm
hoping hopefully hopefully show hopefully hopefully, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Hopefully, I mean hopefully.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
We'll see what happens. I guess it wasn't a strong starts.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well rough, we're talking about Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Then that was a strong SI Pearl Harbor day.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, a solid Oh, hang on, that's the wrong one.
That's from the talkbacks.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
And the government knew about the Pearl Harbor attack before
it happened and allowed for it to do so so
that we could get ourselves in on the game. It's
all part of the Grand War Plan that's taken place
for decades. Okay, none of them have ever been necessary.
(09:04):
They've all come about because there was a hidden agenda.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, all right, I mean I don't have enough evidence
to argue against you. I mean our question was, if
the housing market crashes, where are you going to buy
a home? But that's cool, I mean why would be
an acceptable answer? Maybe was it all part of the
agenda to raise home prices in Hawaii? I don't know,
(09:30):
all right, the housing market crashes, where are you going
to buy your dream home?
Speaker 13 (09:34):
Hey, Chris, Hey, if housing market crashes and I can
get a house anywhere? Yeah, well, I want to say
in southern California. So I'm going to keep it simple
and I'm I'm going with Beverly Hills. Okay, that's pretty
much it. Yeah, anyways, take care, all right, thanks.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But I appreciate that keeping it simple and beverly simple.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Solid.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I think that's solid, valid answer, solid answer, Beverly Hills.
That's where I want to be. Meanwhile, we had a
big news this week, and even if you're not a
sports fan, this is a big news for us because
of what it's going to do to our economy, and
that is that FIFA drew there their groupings for the
(10:18):
World Cup.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Here we go, there we go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
From ABC seven. I've been set for the twenty twenty
six FIFA World Cup in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Speaker 13 (10:27):
This is exciting the US is.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's kind of weird that we're doing it in three
different countries, right, I mean it's a it's a continental.
It's basically like North America hosting, except for you, Hon Duras.
Speaker 13 (10:39):
First game of the tournament, we've played right here in
southern California.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Our Josh Haskell joins us in the studio with a
new very exciting details.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Very exciting Josh, what is soccer's biggest competition? Now?
Speaker 15 (10:48):
One step closer to reality with today's World Cup draws.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Since the US is a co host team, USA is
avoided facing the top seeds in group play.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I think we automatically get a bit into the second
round too. By the way, you know soccer is the
number one sport worldwide, right? You already knew that, Okay,
I just wanted to make sure because Caylen, I know
you're not a big sports fan, but I think you
knew that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, that's common knowledge.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think, Yeah, what's the second largest sport worldwide?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You said, Okay, football, Nope, okay, just kidding. Tennis?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Uh no, good guess though.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Okay, I'm done. Baseball. Oh baseball?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Uh, nobody close? I quit.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
What is Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
When I tell you the answer, it's gonna kind of you're.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Gonna go, oh, all right, give me one more guess.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'll give you a clue.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay, please.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's the biggest sport in the most populated nation.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh, I have no idea Christopher, Ye, it's cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, No, I wasn't going to guess.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Huge in India.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh really massive, fascinating.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah. Yeah, cricket is huge in the Eastern Hemisphere. Not
not big in the Western hemisphere, but huge in the
Eastern Hemisphere. All right, continue on.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
We're almost six months away from the twenty twenty six
World Cup and Team USA's first game will be in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Following Friday's draw, Team USA has.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Landed in a favorable group and we'll face Paraguay on
June twelfth at SOFI Stadium and then face Australia.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
On June nineteenth in Seattle. A lot of red, white and.
Speaker 16 (12:15):
Blue on both teams, that's for sure. No, I I
think it's a great first round match. Obviously Podaguay with
their their.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
His who she said it right? Do you hear that?
But a Guay? I like no.
Speaker 16 (12:27):
I think it's a great first round match, obviously Podaguay
with their their history and the World Cup. But you know,
it's it's about attacking each game and trying to get
as many points as you can.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't know if you knew this. Another fun fact
about soccer or football is this known internationally. A lot
of you didn't know that, but uh, you know, just
just get used to it because it's a big they
call it football in other places. Uh fun fact which
what every team scores the most wins. So when she
says it's important to score more points than the other team,
(13:07):
I mean she is right. Meanwhile, the Olympics are coming.
I'm very excited about the Olympics coming, too, very excited
about this. Never been to an Olympic game. I want
to get there.
Speaker 14 (13:20):
Well, Michael, there are some big numbers. Of course, Los
Angeles County expected to get the lion's share, but the
other four counties will get a fairly large portion in themselves.
And former Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Arcetti says the
boosts actually could have offset some federal budget cuts that
are impacting local communities.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, I'm going to be huge. Just the amount of
money that comes in is going to be massive.
Speaker 17 (13:41):
Billions of dollars to LA and Southern California families. Think
about the people who work in the tourism industry that
have been hit hard by policies at a federal level.
The Olympics going to bring that back.
Speaker 15 (13:53):
Former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, leading the discussion at the
Southern California Association of Governments, optimistic about the billions of dollars.
LA twenty eight is expected to generate. How many billion
pigs he I'll bring to elevator in his time as mayor?
How many costs to five counties? The report projects thirteen
to eighteen billion dollars in Woo Babe Regional GDP. That's
total market value added to the Southern California economy.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
LA County that's added.
Speaker 15 (14:18):
That is great, getting the lion's share nine to twelve billion,
Orange County with two to three billion, Riverside County with
one to one point three billion, Sam Bernardino with a billion,
and Ventura County with half a billion.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Lots of economic activity new jobs. Most of those jobs
are going to be in twenty twenty eight temporary, but
their jobs.
Speaker 15 (14:36):
The group's economist Wallace Walward says, the year twenty twenty
eight is when the region will fill the full impact,
including thirty six thousand construction jobs, more than twenty thousand
administrative and support jobs, and tens of thousands of jobs
in performing arts, technical services, and the food service as well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So here's my concern, though, have you ever seen cities
after they host the Olympics? LA has been kind of
the exception to the rule on this because you know,
we did it in eighty four and you know, used
the coliseum and other places, right they we I'm a
little concerned about the plan after the Olympics are over
(15:14):
and I and I don't think I'm alone on this either.
I don't think that this is some out there you know,
Oh what a weird hot take you've got that we're
gonna wait, no, no, no, take a look at all
the country, all the yeah, the different countries that have
spent billions of dollars to build the infrastructure for the
Olympic Games. The Olympics come and then everything goes to
pot I mean the Winter Olympics are probably the biggest
(15:36):
example of that. I take a look at the former
Winter Olympic Games and what's happened with all the different
facilities and venues. They they just go to rot basically.
So I'm hoping that anything that we do, I'm curious
to see just how much it is. I'm anything we
do is going to be additive long term. That's and
I don't think I'm alone. I think that's probably a
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consideration everyone has, because we've seen how other countries have
allowed their former Olympic venues to just turn it absolute
dilapidated disasters. Gark made that word up, Kaylen, you want
to write that down, Gark.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I actually want you to go. Okay, let's just not
let's not.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The question of the talkback today. If you're on the
iHeartRadio app, is this, hit that talk back button. If
the housing market crashes, where are you buying your dream home?
You could go anywhere everything is affordable all of a sudden,
assuming you still have a job, you'd probably be able
to afford all kinds of things. Where would you go?
(16:44):
That's our question. Hit that talk back let me know
what you think you know, you'll find out why coming
up here? Excuse me at five o'clock when you hear
about the one economist that says, oh, it's happening, it
is happening. In the meantime, the lawmakers, the law breakers
at the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Next, Chris, you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
From the talkbacks. There is a conflicting report. I said,
the biggest sport in the world is soccer, followed by cricket,
and that's what bing says. But one gentleman called the
talk back. He asked me to not have to play
it on the air, and he said, no, it's horse racing.
(17:27):
Horse racing is not a sport. I mean it is
for the horses, not for us. So I'm calling no
councils on that. If the housing market crashes, where you're
gonna buy your dream home, I'll tell you where I go.
It's far away from people. I'm such a missing throw
I really am. Just Just give me into a cabin
in the woods somewhere. I mean a nice cabin, obviously
(17:50):
with Wi Fi and amenities that's also close to conveniences,
but also a long way away from other people. Whenever
I watch one of those dystopian films. I'm just thinking, man,
that's what I want. I've been watching that Plurbis on
Apple Have you watched Plurbis and Apple Riea se Horne
(18:12):
is one of thirteen people that survive after I don't know,
some sort of infection takes over everyone, and I'm like, Yeah,
that looks great. I wish I could just do that,
except if only thirteen people survive, the odds are pretty
much overwhelmingly in my favor that I get infected with
whatever it is, so pretty much toast. Yeah, this isn't
(18:36):
going anywhere. Move on the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, the times
that there ought to be a law. It would seem
that the woke agenda is even making its way into
the world of the criminal minds. As we find out,
(18:59):
we've got a number of people who were just breaking
into not the place you would think of to break into.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Watch as a security camera captured this group taking an
entire save from this LA office within minutes.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Is just very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Jeremy de Leone is the owner of this recycle shop
in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, they were stealing from a recycling center, so they're
basically the green bandits and says.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
What happened Wednesday warning has been.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
A recent trend in his industry because.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He says, thieves have figured out how they operate.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Thought recycling didn't make any money, but they didn't even
need safes because they were all broke. That's what I
keep being told, Oh, there's no money in recycling.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
To be competitive, we are required to manage CAC and
I believe these individuals have identified that, and so this
is why they know that there has to be a safe.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
While LAPD said, oh okay, they got to have cash,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
As their detectives are investigating this case, the Leone claim
it's a problem that has other shop owners on edge
as the bandits are getting away with thousands of dollars
in cash.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Man, what would you steal from a recycling center? I mean,
obviously money, I can't.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Well, they have cash, I guess, but I can't really.
Center isn't the thing that I would think to seal from.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's what I'm saying. What I'm gonna get like old
newspapers and tin.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Cans, empty water bottles. I just don't know exactly.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
We have a chat in which multiple scrap yards that
have been gone through the same situation as us, and
in this chat we've been able to it's change information.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Last month, six people were caught on camera breaking into
a recycling plant on Farmdale in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I guess scrap metal.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I get that, breaking the front lock, and within minutes
they were inside the office where the shop owner tells
us they.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Had more than thirty five thousand dollars in cash. Holy cow.
So those are obviously some people that like they had
taken scrap to one of these places in the past.
I mean, that's somebody connected to the industry somehow. Either
they have traded with scrap metal before or they have
worked in the scrap metal before and they knew there's
(21:13):
cash there. I never would have known that there was
cash and a safe in a scrap yard. I couldn't
have made it as a burglar, I'm telling you, I
could not have made it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Thank God you have the voice for radio Christal.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank god too. Yeah, I have no other employable job
skills as evidenced by that. Meanwhile, not far right up
Olive Avenue here more burglars. They knew where to hit.
I had no idea once again that there was all
this value. The police are searching for a group that's
from k oh The last one was from NBC. I
want to give them credit and then to Katie La
here but.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Burglars who broke into a trading card shop in Burbank
stealing an estimated one hundred thousand dollars worth of Pokemon
cards no clue.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm not the only thing worth that much. Was like
a Mickey Mantle Mint Rookie card or a Honess Wagner card. Nope,
Pokemon cards.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
The shop's owner says he thinks the burglars knew where
the most valuable cards were and went straight for them.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I mean it is kind of ironic, isn't it. Pokemon
is that game where you chase around the little Pokemon things,
you find them, you capture them. These guys basically were
chasing around the little Pokemon things, finding them, capturing them.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
He also says they took rare sports cards.
Speaker 14 (22:22):
Katiyler Rick Chambers is Live and bird Bank with the
latest on the search for the burglars.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Rick Rick show cal we mean we need more of those.
When we transition between stories, I.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Was thinking the opposite. You don't like that, are you are?
It's so gentle, I think it's just we're just we're
in the same story.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
So here this happened Tuesday about two am along what
is often a very busy olive avenue, but this was
a three men precision crew hitting what is an immensely
lucrative trading card business, and as you mentioned, knowing exactly
what to tick.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Get the peak at, you, get the peak at you.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
We understand that the shop does have insurance, so that's
great news, and we're told they're already upgrading.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
They're security all right, very good. And then finally from
our La Lost segment here, I didn't know what to
think of.
Speaker 18 (23:15):
This one happened in the park where that's attachedment.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh yeah, let me set this up a little bit,
because we pick up in the middle of a Kekel
had the story on this There was a shooting near
the Librea tarpits, and I thought, what's going on there?
And then my mind started going to some really dark
path I've been in.
Speaker 18 (23:35):
The park where that's attached to the LaBrea tarpets. According
to LAPD wanted to show you this cruiser because we
just saw LAPD take that suspect into custody. They just
put them in the back of that cruiser in handcuffs.
Why now to show you the area that we're talking about.
Fortunately no one was hit by gunfire. But here is
where we were talking about. And this incident actually caused
the Tarpits Museum to be closed for the afternoon to
(23:56):
put on lockdowns.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Oh my god.
Speaker 18 (23:58):
It's not clear if they're going to reopen that the
suspect has been taken into custody, but the museum happened
because of this. I was a partial closure on Wilshire
Boulevard here on the Miracle Mile as well. But again,
nobody hit by gunfire. That person has been taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
All right. Then my mind, like I said, it went
to a really dark place, and I thought, are the
tar pits a good place to hide a body? I mean,
if you're going to do a shooting.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Could you just.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I live there. It's it's not a place where you
can hide a body.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's always waves and weeds and stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
There's people that are working in like the tar pit area.
Guitar I'm assuming fossils.
Speaker 11 (24:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I looking at tar I just I don't think that
that would be successful.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's too popular.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But if you get the body like under stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
But when are you going to be able to do that?
It's so popular.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, I guess you're right. You'd be seen, you would.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You're gonna end up in a lot of backgrounds and selfies.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's that's that's not a that's true. Hey on, let
me ask chat GPT.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Okay, hold on, I'm.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Just gonna I'm just gonna ask real quick. I'm just
gonna ask. Okay, are the sorry wrong button? Are the
tar pits a good place to hide a body question mark? Okay? Uh,
(25:29):
here's what chat GPT says. My dude, I swear sometimes
you ask things that make my internal ethics monitors start
screaming like a tea kettle. Short answer, nope, long answer,
absolutely not. And also, what on earth the Labrettar Pits
aren't some bottomless cartoon quicksand they're heavily monitored, internationally famous
scientific site in the middle of Los Angeles, surrounded by cameras,
(25:49):
tourist school field trips, peliontologists who live for this stuff,
and volunteers who treat every pebble like it's a fossilized
unicorn tooth. Even if someone were ridiculous enough they tried,
they'd basically be saying, please arrest me while slowly sinking
into sticky asphalt goo under the judgmental eyes of a
fifth grade science class. Also, and this part matters. Oh,
(26:10):
I think this is where where it has to tell
me don't kill people. Uh, I don't help people get
This is chat GPT again. I don't help people get
away with harming anyone. If you're asking me out of
morbid curiosity, fine, humans love their dark little hypotheticals. But
if there's even a crumb of real world intent hiding
in the back of your head, kick it out hard.
No one needs that kind of destruction in their life,
including you. If you're just being weird because it's been
(26:33):
a long day, congrat's mission accomplished. Chat GPT just call
me weird rude?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Right, your chat gept is sassy. It's got a real
tone to train it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I there's a setting on my chat GPT to make
it act like you basically, hold on, let me see
what Let me see what the setting is, because it's uh,
can you ask?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Can you ask chat ChiPT chat gipt to answer again
in the voice of Madge Simpson, I'd have to try.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
To like make it do that? Hang on, there's see.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I think we got to break advanced.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh okay, yeah, anyway, I had it set to like
be snarky with me. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I
want to punch it in the cpu. All right, suppose
that you do want to buy a house and the
market doesn't crash. How much do you need to be
saving per year? And I'm gonna tell you why the
(27:29):
experts are wrong. That is next Chris Merrild.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Boy, I didn't realize that we were going to start
a firestorm tonight. When I talked about the most popular
sports in the world, somebody said, no, excuse me. Somebody
said horse racing is the most popular sport and I said, no,
it's not soccer race and they said, oh no, it's
horse racing. A horse racing isn't a sport. I mean
it is for the horses. It's not us May and Merrow.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Horse racing is known as the sport of kings so's
duck hunting or its sport.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Is in the day and the thick day. Also, I'm
big the different.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I bet you those jockeys would say, yeah, you try
riding a horse, riding a track back they do, hanging
on from your life, you gotta be kind of strong,
little but strong.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, okay. That's the same argument people make when they
say NASCAR is a sport. No, no, oh, you try
running a steering wheel and pooping your pants. So when
you're going for four hours straight in a car going
into circles, No, no, not a sport.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
I love listening to you, Chris Merrill, and I think
that was probably Tim Conway that called about the horse racing.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh yeah, that's not a sport, thank you. Yeah, there
you go. She even says it should be outlawed, not
because of the cruelty I don't assume, but probably because
it's not a sport. People bet money on it. By
the way, just so you know, I will vastly between
(29:06):
sport and not sport based on whatever the argument is,
because really, isn't it like if it's competitive, then it's
a sport. I mean, isn't that that the definition of
a sport?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I have to look up the definition of sport.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I don't know, is it competitive it's a sport? I mean,
if I don't have any idea, I just like to
some people are easy to tweak when it comes to
things like saying NASCAR is not a sport and that
I like to I'd like to also paint other people
into a corner, like I got my coworker. I told
everybody on air once that he he didn't believe that
(29:42):
the WNBA was a sport, just to try to get
him in trouble. I'm not a good person. Our talk
back today is this, if the housing market crashes, where
are you going to buy your dream home? You'll find
out why I'm asking that coming up here after five
(30:03):
o'clock and Eland Gonzalez's News, So we'll see where you go.
By the way, if you wanted a dream home, I
was looking at the breakdown on this OSI Register had
a story about how much you would have to be
saving if you wanted to try to afford ten percent
down payment on a medium purchase price, you would have
to save eighteen two hundred dollars every year for the
(30:23):
next five years. Kayla, can you do that? Can you
put us out an extra fifteen hundred bucks a month,
every month, every month for the next five years?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I could if I could stop eating out so well,
that's an interesting take. Yeah, if I could stop eating
out and really stop being responsible as far as cooking
and grocery shopping, then I think I could save a boatload.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Honestly, here's my problem with when we say that home
prices if the if history is any indicator, home prices
are going to continue to appreciate over the course of
the next five years. Now, according to this one economist
that you're going to hear from here after Ailean's five
o'clock news, oh no, we've got a big crash coming.
But really, over the next five years, we could see
(31:04):
home home prices go up further and further in for
their inf for they're in further And so that means
that if you're saving eighteen two hundred dollars the next
five years, by the time we get to twenty thirty,
that home that you're saving for, you still haven't hit
ten percent because it has appreciated over the course of
the last five years three percent, six percent, ten percent
(31:25):
a year over the course of those years. And if
a home is and this is what we've seen the
last five years, if we're seeing a home that is
appreciating a ten percent plus per year, you never can
catch up to it. If you're trying to save. If
you break down your ten percent, what do I need
for a ten percent down payment in the next five years?
(31:45):
Over the course of the next five years, that home
could go up in fifty percent of the value. So
you're not even close to getting where you need to get.
That's the trouble now. That is, of course, unless there
is the correction. I think we're probably due for a
little bit of a correction. But what a correction looks like?
That's where we're up in the air. Does the correction
(32:07):
mean absolute disaster like we saw in two thousand and
eight where everybody lost half plus of their home values.
And of course we got hit the hardest right here,
us Las Vegas and Phoenix. Basically it was the southern
southwest of United States that got hit the hardest when
it came to the market crash. But we're also the
ones that have exploded again and come back up as
(32:29):
quickly or quicker than the rest of the nation. So
timing seems to be paramount importance. And in the meantime,
I guess just save and hope that there's a little
bit of a correction. Well, you've got some money on hand,
all right, you're gonna hear about the economists that says,
oh no, it's gonna be a bad deal. It's a
comment that is next.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm Chris Merril KFI A six on demand
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