December 10, 2025 • 32 mins
The Foosh is back! Following his horrific car accident last August, KFI board op Foosh’s arm is healing, as is nature. LA is getting ready to clean up dangerous, inoperable RVs — if they’re worth under $4,000. Eniola Taiwo, an 8th grader in Connecticut, sent a letter to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce requesting a star on the Walk of Fame for the LAFD. And it worked! Westwood's most hardened criminal has been brought to justice. His crime? Painted over faded crosswalks to make them safer for pedestrians. If you own a cat, there’s a new California law that’s taking away the one thing that’s protected your furniture for decades. Starting Jan. 1, AB 867 comes into effect, banning the practice of declawing cats in the state.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There you go for gratis.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh man, I missed you so much. I missed you, man,
How I missed you so much?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How you did teach you? Really? I really really did,
oh babe. And I will say this though we have
such a we have such an incredible group I know
right now. And you know you've been here a long time.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We were talking about this too, because I think I've
worked with you maybe the first time I ever did
anything with KFI. How long you been You've been here
for like ten or fifteen years? I mean it seems
like it. But no, about four years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, that's not true. Longer than that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, I mean not including the time I was recovering.
But no, no, no, but yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Swear, I swear you and I were doing stuff like
twenty fifteen kind of thing. No, okay, all right, well, whoever,
that's a good sign though, right, Yeah, now that's great.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Whoever that was was a great, great person.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah yeah, all right, So all right, a couple not
which is off for you?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That's good. That's good. Good to hear you and talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Manh buddy, I just missed the heck out of you,
and you know how it is that we have.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We got a really good group of people around us.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Absolutely, but you know, you've been here long enough to
know that it's kind of hit miss. You know, Jerry's
still out on Ali, but generally he's all right. It's
good to know Olli's in the studio tonight too. So
uh no, we we just missed the heck out of you.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I did, Like I went back and listened to
when you were talking about on well when it first happened,
and you were just like, yeah, I don't get I
don't even bother know someone's name, and you're like, within
two times, you already knew who I was and we
were grooving right away, like you didn't even waste time.
I was like, oh that's really nice, Like no, you really,
you know, touched me so that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I got Yeah, I thanks man. I listen.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's that's the testament to you, because the truth is,
we know in this industry, you know right away if
somebody's gonna be worth a darn or not, and you
know whether or not it's worth.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Learning their names.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And like Ollie was like, this guy picked things up
right away. You know, the guy that is in here
tomorrow night. Mario again just just picked things up so
fast and it was just great. And these guys have
been fantastic, but you were the same way. I mean,
as soon as I got going with you, it was like,
all right, this guy's this guy's a good cat.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And yeah, and I know I can rely on him.
And that's it. That's the other things.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You know, you've got to be able to rely on
your coworkers, and you're just one of the guys I
rely on. So oh yeah, you're just fantastic. I'm so
excited that you're back, and I thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I'm so glad that you know that you're here, that
you're all right. A little disappointed that you know, you
don't get the handicapped parking spot. I was kind of
looking forward to you driving, but yeah, it was fine.
It expired, but you know, well, look it's a it's
it's good to hear and I heard you talking with Tim.
You got a new car.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You got a new uh, I sure did another price
new Prius. I still love him. I just love it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, one of those things good not bad, but yeah,
it's it's it's been a long road to recovery. And
there's still more to do, but you have to have
more surgery, and goes No, I'm pretty much done, like
they kind of sewed me up for for good. There's
like a little my thing I have with one of
my with my thumb actually, so they might go in
and mess with that, but that's like way down the road.
(03:06):
Wait a minute, Like you can't you can't, Like I can't.
There's a yeah, there's a tendon where I can't. Like
if you use your hand and give the thumbs up,
I can't do like the thumbs up. Like really yeah,
So that's like the only thing. But other than that,
I have full grip. I can type way better than
when I first left. They got scared of that because
that's a big part of my job is typing. So
(03:28):
but yeah, as time went on, when I actually what
help was talking amongst you was to all the listeners
and everyone that here KF I was typing on the
computer in the hospital, it just strengthened me and I
got stronger.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So by the time I got out it was better.
Well you're welcome, Yeah, that's what we're after. No, we
just got to get your hitchhiking back on. There you go,
sounds like you're having trouble with that. All right, Well,
hopefully get a chance to talk to you a little
bit later on tonight. I want to talk more about
it because I know everybody listening has been super excited
about this.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Fushoo.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
If you missed the story, Tim just told it here
in the last segment. But if you've missed it, fush
has been with the the you know, been with us
now for like fifteen years, as we've established courtesy of
my memory, and a horrendous car accident.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Didn't know what happened to him. Guy doesn't show up
for work.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He's not one of those no show, no call guys,
and so everybody's freaking out and trying to figure it out.
It even it even got Tim Conway Junior out looking
for him. And look, that guy doesn't go out for anything.
It's the horse racing. So that's a that's really outstanding man.
I'm I could not be more excited.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it was really great to hear you and talk
to you. So glad to be back. Thanks man, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
All right, we'll talk more of fush in a little
bit and uh and by the way, behind the scenes,
this is not for him Fush ear muffs. Behind the scenes,
people talk so highly this guy that some of our
new hires, like like Ali, like Mario, these guys that
have come in, they were like, Oh, I can't wait
to meet him. He sounds like such a great dude.
Oh I can't wait to meet him. I mean, just
(04:53):
like the legend of Fush around here and I go,
wait until you see this sexy beast. He's gonna stroll
in here in a pair of cargo shorts, and you're
gonna be like, nobody wears cargo shorts like that. Nobody
just hot. Hey foosh, you hear myself. I incidentally, I
was this close, and I'm not even joking. I was
(05:14):
this close to sending you a pair of cargo shorts
in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Were you really? I really was.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I was like, I bet he lost his shorts in
that in that car accident. So I was this close.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I actually, well this it's funny that well I
don't know actually what happened to them, but the stuff
in my pocket survived.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So that's a testament to cargo shorts.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, there you go. I sure did, and I got
and I got four brand new pairs by the.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Way, how about that everybody knows, they know, they know
Christmas is coming.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You never know what Santa might bring you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yay. Meanwhile, still to come, Westwood's most hardened criminal is
brought to justice. You'll find out who that was and
what it took for the boys in Blue to finally
put cuffs on this Cretan that is ahead hearing about
seven thirty right after mark seven thirty news LA is
getting ready to start cleaning up those hideous RVs. So
(06:08):
there's a law in the books that basically says if
there's a junk RV, that they can take it off
the streets, but that they have to like it has
a value of over five hundred dollars, which incidentally, there
are tents worth more than five hundred dollars, no exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
If there's an RV worth more than.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Five hundred dollars, they had to basically impound it, save it,
try to salvage it, eventually take it to auction.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now they've changed that.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Rule a little bit, so now they can get rid
of any RV that they say is worth up to
four thousand dollars, which has got some people freaking out
right now that are living in RVs because the new
law is if an RV is gross, if it's not working, dilapidated, unsafe,
(06:54):
whatever it might be, they can tow it out of there.
If your RV doesn't move this that he can come
clean it up. And it's got a lot of people
who are living on the streets, kind of a level
three homeless. You know, they're not they're not sleeping in
cardboard boxes, they're not sleeping in their cars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They've got an RV, but it's not a house.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You know, kind of a level three homeless situation, freaking
out that all of a sudden they're gonna lose their
their places. So NBCLA was actually had their chopper going
over some of those areas that we're looking down on
those RVs.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
It was Chopper four flew over East Hollywood and shot
video of several RVs parks near oak Wood and Virgil
south of the one oh one here Jefferson and All
and playa vista. We saw more than a dozen RVs
parked next to several.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Businesses y and in Venice.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Even more are parked up and deck.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, the businesses don't really like that either, by the way.
I think that's the neighborhood my daughter lived in. I
was like, oh, this is nice, sweetheart. She's like, I
love it here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yep, it's pretty nice down Washington Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Frustrated over this growing problem, LA City council Member Tracy
park let an effort to get these RVs off the street.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
The city of Los Angeles is not an RV park.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Today, the Los Angeles City Council passed a measure that
directs the city to destroy dangerous, abandoned and inoperable RVs
that are worth less than four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
This involves a change to dangerous, abandoned and nonoperable I
mean they have to be basically broken down shacks on axles.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
State law which previously required that if an impounded vehicle
had a value of at least five hundred dollars, it
was required to be sent to the auction lot for resale.
This moves that number up to four thousand dollars, which
will help us get some of the most dilapidated, dangerous
(08:48):
vehicles permanently off of our street.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Let's call them iores. Let's call it what it is.
It's an isore.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
But some city leaders are opposed to this effort. They
say it will take away some people's living situation and
force them into a life on the street. Council members
Hugo Soto Martinez and Unices Hernandez voted no. A spokesperson
for council member Hernandez says she wants a thoughtful implementation plan,
ensuring that implementation works alongside expanding safe parking, strengthening outreach,
(09:17):
and creating real pathways to housing.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Today, why don't you just hire a mobile mechanic. I'm
not even joking about this. The city spends so much
money trying to deal with homelessness, and now they're gonna
spend money to take these RVs and then they're gonna
they're gonna they're.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Gonna crush them, basically. And people are.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like, oh, but it's gonna put people on the streets
and then it's gonna cost us money to try to
help that person get off the streets. And I will
say this too, the law requires that anybody who is
removed from the RV, that's gross, he's offered some sort
of assistance, right, some sort of a rehoming whatever it is. Right,
If they're using a dilapidated an abandoned it wouldn't be
(09:57):
abandoned a non operable RV.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Then then try to get them assistance.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
If if the concern is that, all, wait, but then
they're gonna be stuck on the streets and then what then?
Then why don't you spend the money on a mobile
mechanic and help them get the RV running? So now
all of a sudden, he qualifies, let us you do that?
Oh well, you can't do that. Are you're just gonna
give away mechanic services? I mean, if we're just weighing
(10:22):
what the cheapest option is.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, I know. You can't give them a free mechanic.
Everyone's gonna want a free mechanic.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, everyone wants a free cup of soup too, But
we don't give that to anybody that walks into the
soup kitchen.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I guess technically we do. But you get my point.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
If we're gonna spend money on helping it on helping
people to get off the street, why don't we spend
money on making sure they don't get put on the
street in the first place. Oh no, we can't do that.
That would be immoral. That makes no sense to me
at all. Meanwhile, there's an eighth grader in Connecticut who
planted a seed in Hollywood. And the next time you
(11:02):
take a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, you're
going to notice a new honoree and it is nobody
from the silver screen. The surprisingly emotional reveal is next
Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Coming up after Mark seven thirty news, Westwood's most hardened
criminal finally brought to justice and it's about time we
stop these people from defacing our properties. You'll find out
how dastardly this criminal was behaving, coming up right after
Mark's news. In the meantime, LA Fire Department is getting
an award of Excellent Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
(11:41):
which is pretty daggumb cool because normally we think of
celebrities on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, right, we think
of TV, film, radio, All Right, this is these are
the people that we don't think of the firefighters doing that,
but sure enough they are. And it's all because of
an eighth grader across.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Our beautiful nation.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Cruise preparing another star on the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Walk of Fame. It's from ABC.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
However, this star is not honoring a famous actor or singer.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Given that award of Excellent Star to the Los Angeles firefighters.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
So you're probably asking, why is the LA City Fire
Department getting a star on the Hollywood Walker of Fame?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was just thinking, why is the LA Fire Department
getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? But
then I was distracted by someone's extraordinarily loud motorcycle driving
behind the reporter.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Well, it all comes down to a child writing a
letter like Desanta letter addressed to Steve Nissen, President and
CEO the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I opened it.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Up and was from an eighth grade student in Orange, Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I am Anniola Taiwoo.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I am writing to ask for a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and representation of the first responders
of California. Writing the letter for a class assignment.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The assignment was to write a letter about heroes.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Steven pressed the eighth grader, recognizing La City firefighters as heroes.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
She thought that the firefighters were celebrities and heroes and
should get treatment on.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The Walk today. Steve, Okay, enough of the jackhammer sounds
so distracted.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You completely agreed and this Friday morning, LA City Firefighters
will be part of a special ceremony unveiling the star.
Ty Wou, along with her family and teacher will be
part of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Oh fun fact, this will be the only star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a mustache.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Flying them all out to join us for the ceremony.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
This thanks to a contribution from Disney and others.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
The Walt Disney Company was very generous in helping underwrite
the costs to do this.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
The La City Fire Department grateful for the recognition.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, what's the cost? You guys know what the cost is?
I know there's a CA's like three grand or something.
Does anybody that mark? Do you know what the cost
is in the putting a star in the Walk? I
have no idea. I want to say it's like three grand.
Maybe it's more than that. Maybe I've got my numbers
off on that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think it's actually around eighty thousand dollars. Oh is
it that much?
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
According to yes, I did smart eighty grand. Really.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Yeah, it's a large eighty five thousand dollars sponsorship fee
upon selection.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh wow, I didn't realize it was that much.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It really is. Have you ever gone to work to
put that in there? But have you ever gone to one? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
So, my my friend shotgun Tom Kelly got a star
and I was there and that was a very special
moment for him. But I was I was just really
excited to be in attendance for that. And then you know,
it wasn't like I was just going to watch a celebrity.
It was was a friend of mine getting a star
in the Walk of Fame, and I was like, this
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I thought that was so cool for him. I went
to one I went to when Billy Idol got his
was a friend of yours. He's my best friend in
my fantasies.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Yeah, okay, I think that speaks volumes that an eighth
grader would recognize a way of showing her gratitude to
what are firefighters not just here in Los Angeles, but
throughout the country do every single day to provide service,
compassion and care for the people we serve.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
All right, that's awesome, but now don't you feel like
the PD are going to be like, wait a minute,
what I mean, firefighters got a stars? Don't you think
PD is gonna be like, we want to start. But
at some point you think, you think that they go,
we want to start. Yeah, then they start one of
(15:40):
those fundraisers where they stand out there on the corner
holding their boots out asking for cash so they can
get eighty grand to sponsor it. I don't know if
I start saving now, do you think we can get
Mark on the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Walk of Fame.
Speaker 13 (15:52):
It's pocket change for you, just thinking if we do
a little fundraising. No, no, you can afford it. Just
to have the money and the cushions of your country.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You kidding me?
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Just big that up there and Mark Roder and people
are like, yeah, why not, it's way overdue. Let's just
admit it. When what was the friend of yours who
who got in Shotzi Shotgun Tom Kelly. Oh yeah, of course,
Shotgun Tom Kelly.
Speaker 14 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He was on k Earth one oh one for years,
a household.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Name, that's right, Shotsy is uh you know, I had
I had a little brush with with my fate a
few years ago, and and he he and his wife,
who was one of the kind of souls on Earth,
were kind enough to stop by the hospital. I only
had like three people stop by, but Shotgun was nice enough.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Shotgun Tom, Kelly got to see you in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't like what I tell that
story though, Well, I just want to people. He doesn't
want people to know that he goes out. Oh yeah, yeah,
but he did walk in with his big you know,
smoky the bear hat.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Nice. He did come in there with that. You know,
you rarely see Tom without Yeah, there's.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
A restaurant that I mean, my dad go to where
he's wearing the hat and that says, you know, thanks
for the lasagna or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh, he's great, Tom. Tom is one of the coolest guys.
He's just a very genuine individual.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yes, right, I remember that. That's right, Shodka. He reminds me.
I got I gotta reach out and wish him a
merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
All right, we've brought to the worst of the worst
criminals to justice, Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
In Westwood.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You'll find out what they were up to and how
they were really putting the community at risk.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
That is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Next time, Chris Merril, you're listening to KFI AM six
forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
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Speaker 2 (17:34):
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Speaker 3 (17:38):
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Speaker 2 (17:46):
Let me know what you're thinking. Meryl, Thanks show, Thanks usual,
thanks buddy. But I gotta say you straight.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Oh that background noise, I'm fairly certain is like an
Aldi or a bm W All that Burbal motorcycles sound
like that? Doesn't sound like that? So okay, get it right, Brah, Okay,
it right, all right, all right, my apologies. He's what
he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is this from the audio discussing the fire department getting
the star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The reporter from ABC seven was doing it. I heard this.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
You're probably asking why is the La ce Fire Department
getting a star on the Hollywood Walker Fame?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, it all comes down to a child. Yeah, did
you hear it?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Right? It kind of goes where you're probably asking, why
is the La Citi Fire Department getting a star on
the Hollywood Walker.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, I'll give it to you. Yeah, I'm gonna go Audi. Yeah,
somebody put a supercharger or something. I don't know what
it is. Sounds terrible, sounds like the kind of junk
my son used to drive. My son comes to me
one time me. He goes, hey, i'm gonna get a
different I'm gonna I want a new car. And I go, okay, cool,
So let's be smart. Let's get something, you know, practical,
(19:01):
like phoosh. He nearly burns alive in a Prius and
he's like, bring me another Prius. And that's a very
practical vehicle. My son goes, uh, I gotta get something practical.
I said, what a great idea. He said, I'm really
trying to get a good job. I want to I
want people to respect me. He said, this is great.
(19:22):
Drive the car for the job you want. I said,
let's get something modest, good gas mileage, not very expensive.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
He goes, Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna look
for it. So I've got him looking for some you know,
some music, you know, Camerines and Malibus and Pallas and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He's just he's looking for als and he goes, hey, man,
I found a car, and I go, Okay, what'd you get?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
He was, it's a two thousand and four Dodge Neon.
It's got turbo. Oh my gosh, it's goot turbo. Wait,
mar Dodge Neon with turbo. He's like, oh, it's a Neon.
I go. You know, there's a reason they don't make
those anymore. Right, he's he's got turbo. Though.
Speaker 13 (20:01):
That's kind of like telling somebody you've bought a forty
four Magnum but it's a nerve.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, that's that's a really but it's a forty four.
It's a nerve.
Speaker 13 (20:15):
You got a Neon, it's got turbo, got turbo. I
like I like Fush's approach to cars, though. It's like
Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. If you, if you, if
you break his piano or the bust of Beethoven on it,
he just goes to the closet and grabs another one.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It's full of how many prius you got in the
garage there?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You got just a few of them stacked up, like
one for you, one is a backup, and one to
loan out when people want to borrow it?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Is that right? You like what you on hand?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
You know what I like about it, though, Fush is like,
I did not burn up in that car, and so
I feel confident that I will not burn up in
a Prius.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That I get that, man, I get that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's just yeah, no, my aunt was just in a
car accident and she was driving a Toyota Rav four
and it was bad. She's a bad accident, bad accident.
I see you the whole nine yards. She's still This
happened beginning of November, and she just got moved to
a rehab facility. Oh bad deal. Yeah, bad situation, kind
of like you. Yeah, she didn't know her she didn't
(21:18):
catch on fire, she wasn't about to lose her arm.
But I mean it messed her up really bad, like
her ribs had to be rebuilt from scratch kind of thing,
you know. And so the insurance company says, you know,
we're gonna pay out on this, and she says, I
think I should get another RAV four. I mean that
one saved my life. So I get it when you
go bad prius man, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, I mean, and then Conway always makes the
joke it's like it's it's lucky that I didn't drive
like a like a tahoe or a suburban because yeah,
it was on its side. Because I don't remember that part.
I thought the car flipped on its own, but they
did it, so I mean, if it was a big
her car, they might not have been able to do.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, they had to flip it up to get you
out right. Yeah, yeah that's true. That's true. So one
of those things. But yeah, I can't, like you said.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now, if I can, I would like to advise you
to stay out of Westwood with your prius. Very dangerous
in Westwood. Okay, I don't know if you heard about this,
but there is a there is a dude going around
Westwood and he's noticing on the streets where the crosswalks
the paint is completely faded and it's become dangerous for pedestrians.
And so this this do good air goes out there
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and starts painting crosswalks. And he doesn't paint a bunch
of you know, nonsense and graffiti or political messaging. And
he doesn't go out there and paint black Lives Matter
across the whole thing or anything like that. No, he
goes out and he paints something that is fully compliant
with state, federal, and EIGHTYA standards. But you know what
he did. He did it without a permit, and as
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we all know, that's very dangerous. Fox eleven had the story.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
It happened on Sunday morning in Westwood. Jonathan Hale of
the activist group People's Vision.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Zero activists There you go activist group was.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
Handcuffed, urged, entertained. Since May, Hale's group has painted crosswalks
across Los Angeles, saying the city ignored repeated safety requests.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
In twenty fifteen, the city committee Division zero, which is
this idea that we're going to have zero traffic fatalities
by the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
How's that working out? And we failed abysmally.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
So now we've established the People's Vision Zero to draw
attention to the issue.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, we walk our dog all the time and
we cross crosswalks all the time. We want it to
be safe for both of us and our dog and
the children that live around here.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
How safe can it be if no one paid for
a permit.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Some residents call it civic activism. Others see both sides.
Speaker 16 (23:39):
On the one hand, that they are taking metsters into
their own hands and trying to be good citizens. But
on the other hand, on the other hand, it's really
new to their role.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Right.
Speaker 16 (23:52):
The city really should be the one following up with
the requests and do the diligence.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, and they're not so that that that is.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
You remember a few years But was it Schwarzeninger that
was outfilling potholes?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah? It was. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:13):
Did he ever get arrested for not having a permit?
I can't remember how that panned out. But let me
explain something to you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I think when you're the former governor, they give you
a little bit of leeway.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Well, it doesn't matter. You either believe in the law
or you don't believe in the law. You are right, Okay,
we have a rule of We are a country of laws.
We don't like scoff laws.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Either you follow the rule of law or you find
yourself in the huscau.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And let me tell you, you.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Activist painting lines in full compliance with state, federal, and
eighty A standards saving lives, also paying.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
For your own paint. You got my eye on you. Bucco.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
Vigilantes are for comics. We don't really like Batman in
the real world. But yeah, sort of superhero out there.
We're your roller and your blue tape. That's right, Oh
my gosh, and Westward out there, cops out there arresting him.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Golly blows my mind. What a great use of time.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Meanwhile, we are having we have new laws that are
about to be put on the books. And if you
own a cat, you've been putting off a big decision
about how to raise your kiddie, you better get on
it because this new California law is going to take
away one option that cat owners have had for protecting
their furniture for decades. News, your feline friend is going
to love to hear his next Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Ton I remember when you're on that app, you can
hit the talk back button. Anything you say on their
talkback can and will be used against you.
Speaker 17 (25:39):
Hey, Chris, Hey, stuff, Fush stiff fush. It is so
good to hear your voice back there.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You go, foush. A little love for you.
Speaker 17 (25:47):
God bless you, son, It's so wonderful to hear you.
And Jonathan Hale is painting the crosswalks. That man is
doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that Jonathan Hale is the guy, the activist who
was the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
As Mark put at, the scoff law. I love that
was a good pull. I like that word. You like that.
There's the scoff law who.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Was out there painting the sidewalks which were in complete
compliance with state, federal, and eight A standards. But he
didn't have a permit for it, and the city wasn't
taking care of the job, and he and volunteers were
out there doing it exactly right. They charged him with
vandalizing city property without a permit. Evidently you are allowed
to vandalize city property with a permit, so somebody called
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banksy in the meantime. Yeah, he's out there doing that
and as one might imagine, the idea that he's been
arrested for doing the job that the city is not doing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
He is raising a few eyebrows.
Speaker 17 (26:44):
And the city, with Karen brillowhead bass at the head
of it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Can you say that, I think this second, Yeah, I'm
pretty sure it's okay. I don't think you're allowed to
say that.
Speaker 17 (26:54):
Is doing nothing. They're charging the guy and he's doing
the right thing. Come on, people, stop voting these idiots in.
Have a nice Tuesday, all.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Right, have a nice Tuesday, all right? A right, Yeah,
it was nice working with you, Mark, it was great.
In the meantime, how's your kiddie doing, pussy Cat, pussy Cat,
I love you, Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
When you pussy Cat' news. Good news is.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The state of California, while unwilling to take care of
enforcing laws like get the streets painted, is making sure
that they are watching everything you do with your cat
and your dogs. I can't say I'm against this, although
I could my arm could be twisted on the cats,
(27:50):
but I am one hundred percent behind the new laws
when it comes to the dogs, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Here is from ABC seven.
Speaker 14 (27:55):
We love our pets and some new state laws will
make it easier too cat claw and can lead to
chronic pain and nerve damage for cats. It's something AB
eight sixty seven will make illegal in California.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah. Great for the cat, bad for the sofa.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
So if it has to be done, the veterinarians are
now required to document why, the reasons and the procedures
and any alternatives that failed.
Speaker 14 (28:20):
Perhaps the Pet Broker Band aims to close down puppy
mills and promote adoption.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
You think we're gonna end up with black market cat
declining vans cruising the streets at night out there selling
cat declining services.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
You think there's a big you think there's a big, big,
big public need for them.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, big demand. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I always had my cat's to claude. But did you
really yeah, I know, I look, did I just admit
to like the worst thing ever?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (28:52):
I think about you differently as of right now. I've
let a lot of stuff go, but not thet you
kind of found my red Finally, Well, look, I guess, look,
I haven't had a cat in like ten years. You
didn't find that to be horrific animal cruelty? No, I
did not at the time.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean I guess maybe I just was uninformed ignorant,
but I always felt I mean, it was always like, oh, yeah,
it's like a docking a dog's tail, you know, Like
I always looked at that and went, oh my gosh,
you cut that dog's tail off. But then people are like, oh, no,
you have to cut it off for this reason or
that reason that other people say, no, you should never
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So it just seemed like it was one of those
arguments over you know, people just wanted to fight about
animal treatment, and I was like, yeah, but this cat
was tearing everything up.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So right as well?
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Done? Young?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. No.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It wasn't like I was taking twelve year old cats
and having them to claude.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
No, but I mean like your kids were younger at
the time, so the cats could be like scratching the kids.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Oh yeah, and giving my kids some sort of feline leukemia.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, and you got a couch story about you.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
You can't be worrying about the horrific pain of animal
cat never said anything about it, No, no, they if they,
if they had bothered them, they'd tell you in English.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
They well, they certainly would have said something like how
it hurts. They never did, they licked their paws or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Are fine besides as a cat more of a dog guy.
Speaker 13 (30:15):
Yeah, you can just go to the closet and get
another one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Making me feel sad about myself.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
I don't want you to feel sad. I want you
to feel like a sociopath. Well good, it wasn't like
I was doing it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
We went to We went to someone who claimed to
be a licensed professional. I mean, no, no, as long as
it has plastic down on the floor and everything. So
I felt probably good.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The cats sound like ingraates.
Speaker 13 (30:42):
What more could anybody ask is as long as the
person wielding the scalpel wasn't you?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I mean? Or what was it a cigar cutter? What
are they use it? We just used clean plers, that's all.
It was. All right, Well, put them in an autoclave.
We'll call it good.
Speaker 14 (30:55):
ABE five nineteen prohibits the sale of dogs, cats, and
rabbits by third party sellers. The Pet Sales Regulations Law
will give pet buyers new protections. It requires sellers to
disclose the animal's health history. It also expands consumer protections
another bill protecting consumers SB three twelve, the Pet Sales
Transparency Bill. This law will also give consumers more information
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about the pets they're buying.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
We're trying to make sure.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I'm all for that. I just wonder about enforcement. That's
that's the only thing. I just I worry about enforcement.
Speaker 13 (31:27):
Now, let me tell you something. If they have like
an ice version of cat Police, I'm signing.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Up like you're gonna do it.
Speaker 13 (31:32):
If they give me fifty grand off my student loans
to be a cat police guy. Okay, I'm first in line.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Remember when Texas passed the anti abortion laws and they
were like anybody that tried to go to another state
that were trying to track them down. Uh huh Right,
if I adopt the cat, I'm gonna take it to
Nevada and get it to Claude and.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
You're kicking down doors take me down. Yeah, I'm so
excited about that. I'm buying a a a gross of
zip ties from Amazon tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I just imagine you've got little torture chamber in your
basement and you're like, oh, no, this is this is
my how do you like it now?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Chamber. It's not a it's not a torture chamber.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's just I just pull fingernails out and let people know,
Oh this is you think your cat likes it?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You're not gonna like using the litter box either, I'll
tell you that. All right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, the robots are undoubtedly taking over, and as a result,
you thought the roads were gonna be safer, but nope.
But the cars evidently can't handle something so basic, and
it means your kids are at risk. Regulators want to answers,
parents want those answers yesterday.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
What WEIMO was fixing now is next.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There you go for gratis.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh man, I missed you so much. I missed you, man,
How I missed you so much?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How you did teach you? Really? I really really did,
oh babe. And I will say this though we have
such a we have such an incredible group I know
right now. And you know you've been here a long time.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We were talking about this too, because I think I've
worked with you maybe the first time I ever did
anything with KFI. How long you been You've been here
for like ten or fifteen years? I mean it seems
like it. But no, about four years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
No, that's not true. Longer than that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, I mean not including the time I was recovering.
But no, no, no, but yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Swear, I swear you and I were doing stuff like
twenty fifteen kind of thing. No, okay, all right, well, whoever,
that's a good sign though, right, Yeah, now that's great.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Whoever that was was a great, great person.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah yeah, all right, So all right, a couple not
which is off for you?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That's good. That's good. Good to hear you and talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Manh buddy, I just missed the heck out of you,
and you know how it is that we have.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We got a really good group of people around us.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Absolutely, but you know, you've been here long enough to
know that it's kind of hit miss. You know, Jerry's
still out on Ali, but generally he's all right. It's
good to know Olli's in the studio tonight too. So
uh no, we we just missed the heck out of you.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I did, Like I went back and listened to
when you were talking about on well when it first happened,
and you were just like, yeah, I don't get I
don't even bother know someone's name, and you're like, within
two times, you already knew who I was and we
were grooving right away, like you didn't even waste time.
I was like, oh that's really nice, Like no, you really,
you know, touched me so that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I got Yeah, I thanks man. I listen.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's that's the testament to you, because the truth is,
we know in this industry, you know right away if
somebody's gonna be worth a darn or not, and you
know whether or not it's worth.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Learning their names.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And like Ollie was like, this guy picked things up
right away. You know, the guy that is in here
tomorrow night. Mario again just just picked things up so
fast and it was just great. And these guys have
been fantastic, but you were the same way. I mean,
as soon as I got going with you, it was like,
all right, this guy's this guy's a good cat.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And yeah, and I know I can rely on him.
And that's it. That's the other things.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You know, you've got to be able to rely on
your coworkers, and you're just one of the guys I
rely on. So oh yeah, you're just fantastic. I'm so
excited that you're back, and I thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I'm so glad that you know that you're here, that
you're all right. A little disappointed that you know, you
don't get the handicapped parking spot. I was kind of
looking forward to you driving, but yeah, it was fine.
It expired, but you know, well, look it's a it's
it's good to hear and I heard you talking with Tim.
You got a new car.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You got a new uh, I sure did another price
new Prius. I still love him. I just love it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, one of those things good not bad, but yeah,
it's it's it's been a long road to recovery. And
there's still more to do, but you have to have
more surgery, and goes No, I'm pretty much done, like
they kind of sewed me up for for good. There's
like a little my thing I have with one of
my with my thumb actually, so they might go in
and mess with that, but that's like way down the road.
(03:06):
Wait a minute, Like you can't you can't, Like I can't.
There's a yeah, there's a tendon where I can't. Like
if you use your hand and give the thumbs up,
I can't do like the thumbs up. Like really yeah,
So that's like the only thing. But other than that,
I have full grip. I can type way better than
when I first left. They got scared of that because
that's a big part of my job is typing. So
(03:28):
but yeah, as time went on, when I actually what
help was talking amongst you was to all the listeners
and everyone that here KF I was typing on the
computer in the hospital, it just strengthened me and I
got stronger.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So by the time I got out it was better.
Well you're welcome, Yeah, that's what we're after. No, we
just got to get your hitchhiking back on. There you go,
sounds like you're having trouble with that. All right, Well,
hopefully get a chance to talk to you a little
bit later on tonight. I want to talk more about
it because I know everybody listening has been super excited
about this.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Fushoo.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
If you missed the story, Tim just told it here
in the last segment. But if you've missed it, fush
has been with the the you know, been with us
now for like fifteen years, as we've established courtesy of
my memory, and a horrendous car accident.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Didn't know what happened to him. Guy doesn't show up
for work.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He's not one of those no show, no call guys,
and so everybody's freaking out and trying to figure it out.
It even it even got Tim Conway Junior out looking
for him. And look, that guy doesn't go out for anything.
It's the horse racing. So that's a that's really outstanding man.
I'm I could not be more excited.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it was really great to hear you and talk
to you. So glad to be back. Thanks man, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
All right, we'll talk more of fush in a little
bit and uh and by the way, behind the scenes,
this is not for him Fush ear muffs. Behind the scenes,
people talk so highly this guy that some of our
new hires, like like Ali, like Mario, these guys that
have come in, they were like, Oh, I can't wait
to meet him. He sounds like such a great dude.
Oh I can't wait to meet him. I mean, just
(04:53):
like the legend of Fush around here and I go,
wait until you see this sexy beast. He's gonna stroll
in here in a pair of cargo shorts, and you're
gonna be like, nobody wears cargo shorts like that. Nobody
just hot. Hey foosh, you hear myself. I incidentally, I
was this close, and I'm not even joking. I was
(05:14):
this close to sending you a pair of cargo shorts
in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Were you really? I really was.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I was like, I bet he lost his shorts in
that in that car accident. So I was this close.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I actually, well this it's funny that well I
don't know actually what happened to them, but the stuff
in my pocket survived.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So that's a testament to cargo shorts.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, there you go. I sure did, and I got
and I got four brand new pairs by the.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Way, how about that everybody knows, they know, they know
Christmas is coming.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You never know what Santa might bring you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yay. Meanwhile, still to come, Westwood's most hardened criminal is
brought to justice. You'll find out who that was and
what it took for the boys in Blue to finally
put cuffs on this Cretan that is ahead hearing about
seven thirty right after mark seven thirty news LA is
getting ready to start cleaning up those hideous RVs. So
(06:08):
there's a law in the books that basically says if
there's a junk RV, that they can take it off
the streets, but that they have to like it has
a value of over five hundred dollars, which incidentally, there
are tents worth more than five hundred dollars, no exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
If there's an RV worth more than.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Five hundred dollars, they had to basically impound it, save it,
try to salvage it, eventually take it to auction.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now they've changed that.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Rule a little bit, so now they can get rid
of any RV that they say is worth up to
four thousand dollars, which has got some people freaking out
right now that are living in RVs because the new
law is if an RV is gross, if it's not working, dilapidated, unsafe,
(06:54):
whatever it might be, they can tow it out of there.
If your RV doesn't move this that he can come
clean it up. And it's got a lot of people
who are living on the streets, kind of a level
three homeless. You know, they're not they're not sleeping in
cardboard boxes, they're not sleeping in their cars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They've got an RV, but it's not a house.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You know, kind of a level three homeless situation, freaking
out that all of a sudden they're gonna lose their
their places. So NBCLA was actually had their chopper going
over some of those areas that we're looking down on
those RVs.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
It was Chopper four flew over East Hollywood and shot
video of several RVs parks near oak Wood and Virgil
south of the one oh one here Jefferson and All
and playa vista. We saw more than a dozen RVs
parked next to several.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Businesses y and in Venice.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Even more are parked up and deck.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, the businesses don't really like that either, by the way.
I think that's the neighborhood my daughter lived in. I
was like, oh, this is nice, sweetheart. She's like, I
love it here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yep, it's pretty nice down Washington Boulevard.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Frustrated over this growing problem, LA City council Member Tracy
park let an effort to get these RVs off the street.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
The city of Los Angeles is not an RV park.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Today, the Los Angeles City Council passed a measure that
directs the city to destroy dangerous, abandoned and inoperable RVs
that are worth less than four thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
This involves a change to dangerous, abandoned and nonoperable I
mean they have to be basically broken down shacks on axles.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
State law which previously required that if an impounded vehicle
had a value of at least five hundred dollars, it
was required to be sent to the auction lot for resale.
This moves that number up to four thousand dollars, which
will help us get some of the most dilapidated, dangerous
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vehicles permanently off of our street.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Let's call them iores. Let's call it what it is.
It's an isore.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
But some city leaders are opposed to this effort. They
say it will take away some people's living situation and
force them into a life on the street. Council members
Hugo Soto Martinez and Unices Hernandez voted no. A spokesperson
for council member Hernandez says she wants a thoughtful implementation plan,
ensuring that implementation works alongside expanding safe parking, strengthening outreach,
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and creating real pathways to housing.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Today, why don't you just hire a mobile mechanic. I'm
not even joking about this. The city spends so much
money trying to deal with homelessness, and now they're gonna
spend money to take these RVs and then they're gonna
they're gonna they're.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Gonna crush them, basically. And people are.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like, oh, but it's gonna put people on the streets
and then it's gonna cost us money to try to
help that person get off the streets. And I will
say this too, the law requires that anybody who is
removed from the RV, that's gross, he's offered some sort
of assistance, right, some sort of a rehoming whatever it is. Right,
If they're using a dilapidated an abandoned it wouldn't be
(09:57):
abandoned a non operable RV.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Then then try to get them assistance.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
If if the concern is that, all, wait, but then
they're gonna be stuck on the streets and then what then?
Then why don't you spend the money on a mobile
mechanic and help them get the RV running? So now
all of a sudden, he qualifies, let us you do that?
Oh well, you can't do that. Are you're just gonna
give away mechanic services? I mean, if we're just weighing
(10:22):
what the cheapest option is.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, I know. You can't give them a free mechanic.
Everyone's gonna want a free mechanic.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, everyone wants a free cup of soup too, But
we don't give that to anybody that walks into the
soup kitchen.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I guess technically we do. But you get my point.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
If we're gonna spend money on helping it on helping
people to get off the street, why don't we spend
money on making sure they don't get put on the
street in the first place. Oh no, we can't do that.
That would be immoral. That makes no sense to me
at all. Meanwhile, there's an eighth grader in Connecticut who
planted a seed in Hollywood. And the next time you
(11:02):
take a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, you're
going to notice a new honoree and it is nobody
from the silver screen. The surprisingly emotional reveal is next
Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Coming up after Mark seven thirty news, Westwood's most hardened
criminal finally brought to justice and it's about time we
stop these people from defacing our properties. You'll find out
how dastardly this criminal was behaving, coming up right after
Mark's news. In the meantime, LA Fire Department is getting
an award of Excellent Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
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which is pretty daggumb cool because normally we think of
celebrities on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, right, we think
of TV, film, radio, All Right, this is these are
the people that we don't think of the firefighters doing that,
but sure enough they are. And it's all because of
an eighth grader across.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Our beautiful nation.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Cruise preparing another star on the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Walk of Fame. It's from ABC.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
However, this star is not honoring a famous actor or singer.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Given that award of Excellent Star to the Los Angeles firefighters.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
So you're probably asking, why is the LA City Fire
Department getting a star on the Hollywood Walker of Fame?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I was just thinking, why is the LA Fire Department
getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? But
then I was distracted by someone's extraordinarily loud motorcycle driving
behind the reporter.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Well, it all comes down to a child writing a
letter like Desanta letter addressed to Steve Nissen, President and
CEO the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I opened it.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
Up and was from an eighth grade student in Orange, Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I am Anniola Taiwoo.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
I am writing to ask for a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and representation of the first responders
of California. Writing the letter for a class assignment.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The assignment was to write a letter about heroes.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Steven pressed the eighth grader, recognizing La City firefighters as heroes.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
She thought that the firefighters were celebrities and heroes and
should get treatment on.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The Walk today. Steve, Okay, enough of the jackhammer sounds
so distracted.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You completely agreed and this Friday morning, LA City Firefighters
will be part of a special ceremony unveiling the star.
Ty Wou, along with her family and teacher will be
part of it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Oh fun fact, this will be the only star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a mustache.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Flying them all out to join us for the ceremony.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
This thanks to a contribution from Disney and others.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
The Walt Disney Company was very generous in helping underwrite
the costs to do this.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
The La City Fire Department grateful for the recognition.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, what's the cost? You guys know what the cost is?
I know there's a CA's like three grand or something.
Does anybody that mark? Do you know what the cost
is in the putting a star in the Walk? I
have no idea. I want to say it's like three grand.
Maybe it's more than that. Maybe I've got my numbers
off on that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think it's actually around eighty thousand dollars. Oh is
it that much?
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
According to yes, I did smart eighty grand. Really.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Yeah, it's a large eighty five thousand dollars sponsorship fee
upon selection.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh wow, I didn't realize it was that much.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It really is. Have you ever gone to work to
put that in there? But have you ever gone to one? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
So, my my friend shotgun Tom Kelly got a star
and I was there and that was a very special
moment for him. But I was I was just really
excited to be in attendance for that. And then you know,
it wasn't like I was just going to watch a celebrity.
It was was a friend of mine getting a star
in the Walk of Fame, and I was like, this
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I thought that was so cool for him. I went
to one I went to when Billy Idol got his
was a friend of yours. He's my best friend in
my fantasies.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
Yeah, okay, I think that speaks volumes that an eighth
grader would recognize a way of showing her gratitude to
what are firefighters not just here in Los Angeles, but
throughout the country do every single day to provide service,
compassion and care for the people we serve.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
All right, that's awesome, but now don't you feel like
the PD are going to be like, wait a minute,
what I mean, firefighters got a stars? Don't you think
PD is gonna be like, we want to start. But
at some point you think, you think that they go,
we want to start. Yeah, then they start one of
(15:40):
those fundraisers where they stand out there on the corner
holding their boots out asking for cash so they can
get eighty grand to sponsor it. I don't know if
I start saving now, do you think we can get
Mark on the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Walk of Fame.
Speaker 13 (15:52):
It's pocket change for you, just thinking if we do
a little fundraising. No, no, you can afford it. Just
to have the money and the cushions of your country.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You kidding me?
Speaker 13 (16:02):
Just big that up there and Mark Roder and people
are like, yeah, why not, it's way overdue. Let's just
admit it. When what was the friend of yours who
who got in Shotzi Shotgun Tom Kelly. Oh yeah, of course,
Shotgun Tom Kelly.
Speaker 14 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He was on k Earth one oh one for years,
a household.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Name, that's right, Shotsy is uh you know, I had
I had a little brush with with my fate a
few years ago, and and he he and his wife,
who was one of the kind of souls on Earth,
were kind enough to stop by the hospital. I only
had like three people stop by, but Shotgun was nice enough.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Shotgun Tom, Kelly got to see you in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't like what I tell that
story though, Well, I just want to people. He doesn't
want people to know that he goes out. Oh yeah, yeah,
but he did walk in with his big you know,
smoky the bear hat.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Nice. He did come in there with that. You know,
you rarely see Tom without Yeah, there's.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
A restaurant that I mean, my dad go to where
he's wearing the hat and that says, you know, thanks
for the lasagna or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh, he's great, Tom. Tom is one of the coolest guys.
He's just a very genuine individual.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Kelly.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yes, right, I remember that. That's right, Shodka. He reminds me.
I got I gotta reach out and wish him a
merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
All right, we've brought to the worst of the worst
criminals to justice, Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
In Westwood.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You'll find out what they were up to and how
they were really putting the community at risk.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
That is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Next time, Chris Merril, you're listening to KFI AM six
forty on demand.
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Speaker 10 (17:53):
Oh that background noise, I'm fairly certain is like an
Aldi or a bm W All that Burbal motorcycles sound
like that? Doesn't sound like that? So okay, get it right, Brah, Okay,
it right, all right, all right, my apologies. He's what
he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is this from the audio discussing the fire department getting
the star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The reporter from ABC seven was doing it. I heard this.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
You're probably asking why is the La ce Fire Department
getting a star on the Hollywood Walker Fame?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, it all comes down to a child. Yeah, did
you hear it?
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Right? It kind of goes where you're probably asking, why
is the La Citi Fire Department getting a star on
the Hollywood Walker.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, I'll give it to you. Yeah, I'm gonna go Audi. Yeah,
somebody put a supercharger or something. I don't know what
it is. Sounds terrible, sounds like the kind of junk
my son used to drive. My son comes to me
one time me. He goes, hey, i'm gonna get a
different I'm gonna I want a new car. And I go, okay, cool,
So let's be smart. Let's get something, you know, practical,
(19:01):
like phoosh. He nearly burns alive in a Prius and
he's like, bring me another Prius. And that's a very
practical vehicle. My son goes, uh, I gotta get something practical.
I said, what a great idea. He said, I'm really
trying to get a good job. I want to I
want people to respect me. He said, this is great.
(19:22):
Drive the car for the job you want. I said,
let's get something modest, good gas mileage, not very expensive.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
He goes, Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna look
for it. So I've got him looking for some you know,
some music, you know, Camerines and Malibus and Pallas and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He's just he's looking for als and he goes, hey, man,
I found a car, and I go, Okay, what'd you get?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
He was, it's a two thousand and four Dodge Neon.
It's got turbo. Oh my gosh, it's goot turbo. Wait,
mar Dodge Neon with turbo. He's like, oh, it's a Neon.
I go. You know, there's a reason they don't make
those anymore. Right, he's he's got turbo. Though.
Speaker 13 (20:01):
That's kind of like telling somebody you've bought a forty
four Magnum but it's a nerve.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay, that's that's a really but it's a forty four.
It's a nerve.
Speaker 13 (20:15):
You got a Neon, it's got turbo, got turbo. I
like I like Fush's approach to cars, though. It's like
Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. If you, if you, if
you break his piano or the bust of Beethoven on it,
he just goes to the closet and grabs another one.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It's full of how many prius you got in the
garage there?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You got just a few of them stacked up, like
one for you, one is a backup, and one to
loan out when people want to borrow it?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Is that right? You like what you on hand?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
You know what I like about it, though, Fush is like,
I did not burn up in that car, and so
I feel confident that I will not burn up in
a Prius.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That I get that, man, I get that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's just yeah, no, my aunt was just in a
car accident and she was driving a Toyota Rav four
and it was bad. She's a bad accident, bad accident.
I see you the whole nine yards. She's still This
happened beginning of November, and she just got moved to
a rehab facility. Oh bad deal. Yeah, bad situation, kind
of like you. Yeah, she didn't know her she didn't
(21:18):
catch on fire, she wasn't about to lose her arm.
But I mean it messed her up really bad, like
her ribs had to be rebuilt from scratch kind of thing,
you know. And so the insurance company says, you know,
we're gonna pay out on this, and she says, I
think I should get another RAV four. I mean that
one saved my life. So I get it when you
go bad prius man, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, I mean, and then Conway always makes the
joke it's like it's it's lucky that I didn't drive
like a like a tahoe or a suburban because yeah,
it was on its side. Because I don't remember that part.
I thought the car flipped on its own, but they
did it, so I mean, if it was a big
her car, they might not have been able to do.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, they had to flip it up to get you
out right. Yeah, yeah that's true. That's true. So one
of those things. But yeah, I can't, like you said.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now, if I can, I would like to advise you
to stay out of Westwood with your prius. Very dangerous
in Westwood. Okay, I don't know if you heard about this,
but there is a there is a dude going around
Westwood and he's noticing on the streets where the crosswalks
the paint is completely faded and it's become dangerous for pedestrians.
And so this this do good air goes out there
(22:24):
and starts painting crosswalks. And he doesn't paint a bunch
of you know, nonsense and graffiti or political messaging. And
he doesn't go out there and paint black Lives Matter
across the whole thing or anything like that. No, he
goes out and he paints something that is fully compliant
with state, federal, and EIGHTYA standards. But you know what
he did. He did it without a permit, and as
(22:45):
we all know, that's very dangerous. Fox eleven had the story.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
It happened on Sunday morning in Westwood. Jonathan Hale of
the activist group People's Vision.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Zero activists There you go activist group was.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
Handcuffed, urged, entertained. Since May, Hale's group has painted crosswalks
across Los Angeles, saying the city ignored repeated safety requests.
Speaker 15 (23:08):
In twenty fifteen, the city committee Division zero, which is
this idea that we're going to have zero traffic fatalities
by the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
How's that working out? And we failed abysmally.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
So now we've established the People's Vision Zero to draw
attention to the issue.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I mean, we walk our dog all the time and
we cross crosswalks all the time. We want it to
be safe for both of us and our dog and
the children that live around here.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
How safe can it be if no one paid for
a permit.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Some residents call it civic activism. Others see both sides.
Speaker 16 (23:39):
On the one hand, that they are taking metsters into
their own hands and trying to be good citizens. But
on the other hand, on the other hand, it's really
new to their role.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Right.
Speaker 16 (23:52):
The city really should be the one following up with
the requests and do the diligence.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, and they're not so that that that is.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
You remember a few years But was it Schwarzeninger that
was outfilling potholes?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah? It was. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:13):
Did he ever get arrested for not having a permit?
I can't remember how that panned out. But let me
explain something to you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I think when you're the former governor, they give you
a little bit of leeway.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Well, it doesn't matter. You either believe in the law
or you don't believe in the law. You are right, Okay,
we have a rule of We are a country of laws.
We don't like scoff laws.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Either you follow the rule of law or you find
yourself in the huscau.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And let me tell you, you.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Activist painting lines in full compliance with state, federal, and
eighty A standards saving lives, also paying.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
For your own paint. You got my eye on you. Bucco.
Speaker 13 (24:49):
Vigilantes are for comics. We don't really like Batman in
the real world. But yeah, sort of superhero out there.
We're your roller and your blue tape. That's right, Oh
my gosh, and Westward out there, cops out there arresting him.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Golly blows my mind. What a great use of time.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Meanwhile, we are having we have new laws that are
about to be put on the books. And if you
own a cat, you've been putting off a big decision
about how to raise your kiddie, you better get on
it because this new California law is going to take
away one option that cat owners have had for protecting
their furniture for decades. News, your feline friend is going
to love to hear his next Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Ton I remember when you're on that app, you can
hit the talk back button. Anything you say on their
talkback can and will be used against you.
Speaker 17 (25:39):
Hey, Chris, Hey, stuff, Fush stiff fush. It is so
good to hear your voice back there.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You go, foush. A little love for you.
Speaker 17 (25:47):
God bless you, son, It's so wonderful to hear you.
And Jonathan Hale is painting the crosswalks. That man is
doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that Jonathan Hale is the guy, the activist who
was the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
As Mark put at, the scoff law. I love that
was a good pull. I like that word. You like that.
There's the scoff law who.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Was out there painting the sidewalks which were in complete
compliance with state, federal, and eight A standards. But he
didn't have a permit for it, and the city wasn't
taking care of the job, and he and volunteers were
out there doing it exactly right. They charged him with
vandalizing city property without a permit. Evidently you are allowed
to vandalize city property with a permit, so somebody called
(26:30):
banksy in the meantime. Yeah, he's out there doing that
and as one might imagine, the idea that he's been
arrested for doing the job that the city is not doing.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
He is raising a few eyebrows.
Speaker 17 (26:44):
And the city, with Karen brillowhead bass at the head
of it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Can you say that, I think this second, Yeah, I'm
pretty sure it's okay. I don't think you're allowed to
say that.
Speaker 17 (26:54):
Is doing nothing. They're charging the guy and he's doing
the right thing. Come on, people, stop voting these idiots in.
Have a nice Tuesday, all.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Right, have a nice Tuesday, all right? A right, Yeah,
it was nice working with you, Mark, it was great.
In the meantime, how's your kiddie doing, pussy Cat, pussy Cat,
I love you, Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
When you pussy Cat' news. Good news is.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The state of California, while unwilling to take care of
enforcing laws like get the streets painted, is making sure
that they are watching everything you do with your cat
and your dogs. I can't say I'm against this, although
I could my arm could be twisted on the cats,
(27:50):
but I am one hundred percent behind the new laws
when it comes to the dogs, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Here is from ABC seven.
Speaker 14 (27:55):
We love our pets and some new state laws will
make it easier too cat claw and can lead to
chronic pain and nerve damage for cats. It's something AB
eight sixty seven will make illegal in California.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah. Great for the cat, bad for the sofa.
Speaker 8 (28:10):
So if it has to be done, the veterinarians are
now required to document why, the reasons and the procedures
and any alternatives that failed.
Speaker 14 (28:20):
Perhaps the Pet Broker Band aims to close down puppy
mills and promote adoption.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
You think we're gonna end up with black market cat
declining vans cruising the streets at night out there selling
cat declining services.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
You think there's a big you think there's a big, big,
big public need for them.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, big demand. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I always had my cat's to claude. But did you
really yeah, I know, I look, did I just admit
to like the worst thing ever?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (28:52):
I think about you differently as of right now. I've
let a lot of stuff go, but not thet you
kind of found my red Finally, Well, look, I guess, look,
I haven't had a cat in like ten years. You
didn't find that to be horrific animal cruelty? No, I
did not at the time.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean I guess maybe I just was uninformed ignorant,
but I always felt I mean, it was always like, oh, yeah,
it's like a docking a dog's tail, you know, Like
I always looked at that and went, oh my gosh,
you cut that dog's tail off. But then people are like, oh, no,
you have to cut it off for this reason or
that reason that other people say, no, you should never
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So it just seemed like it was one of those
arguments over you know, people just wanted to fight about
animal treatment, and I was like, yeah, but this cat
was tearing everything up.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
So right as well?
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Done? Young?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. No.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It wasn't like I was taking twelve year old cats
and having them to claude.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
No, but I mean like your kids were younger at
the time, so the cats could be like scratching the kids.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Oh yeah, and giving my kids some sort of feline leukemia.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, and you got a couch story about you.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
You can't be worrying about the horrific pain of animal
cat never said anything about it, No, no, they if they,
if they had bothered them, they'd tell you in English.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
They well, they certainly would have said something like how
it hurts. They never did, they licked their paws or anything.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Are fine besides as a cat more of a dog guy.
Speaker 13 (30:15):
Yeah, you can just go to the closet and get
another one.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Making me feel sad about myself.
Speaker 13 (30:24):
I don't want you to feel sad. I want you
to feel like a sociopath. Well good, it wasn't like
I was doing it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
We went to We went to someone who claimed to
be a licensed professional. I mean, no, no, as long as
it has plastic down on the floor and everything. So
I felt probably good.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The cats sound like ingraates.
Speaker 13 (30:42):
What more could anybody ask is as long as the
person wielding the scalpel wasn't you?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I mean? Or what was it a cigar cutter? What
are they use it? We just used clean plers, that's all.
It was. All right, Well, put them in an autoclave.
We'll call it good.
Speaker 14 (30:55):
ABE five nineteen prohibits the sale of dogs, cats, and
rabbits by third party sellers. The Pet Sales Regulations Law
will give pet buyers new protections. It requires sellers to
disclose the animal's health history. It also expands consumer protections
another bill protecting consumers SB three twelve, the Pet Sales
Transparency Bill. This law will also give consumers more information
(31:19):
about the pets they're buying.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
We're trying to make sure.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I'm all for that. I just wonder about enforcement. That's
that's the only thing. I just I worry about enforcement.
Speaker 13 (31:27):
Now, let me tell you something. If they have like
an ice version of cat Police, I'm signing.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Up like you're gonna do it.
Speaker 13 (31:32):
If they give me fifty grand off my student loans
to be a cat police guy. Okay, I'm first in line.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Remember when Texas passed the anti abortion laws and they
were like anybody that tried to go to another state
that were trying to track them down. Uh huh Right,
if I adopt the cat, I'm gonna take it to
Nevada and get it to Claude and.
Speaker 13 (31:48):
You're kicking down doors take me down. Yeah, I'm so
excited about that. I'm buying a a a gross of
zip ties from Amazon tonight.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I just imagine you've got little torture chamber in your
basement and you're like, oh, no, this is this is
my how do you like it now?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Chamber. It's not a it's not a torture chamber.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's just I just pull fingernails out and let people know,
Oh this is you think your cat likes it?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You're not gonna like using the litter box either, I'll
tell you that. All right.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, the robots are undoubtedly taking over, and as a result,
you thought the roads were gonna be safer, but nope.
But the cars evidently can't handle something so basic, and
it means your kids are at risk. Regulators want to answers,
parents want those answers yesterday.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
What WEIMO was fixing now is next.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.