November 21, 2025 • 30 mins
There’s an AI-powered teddy bear that says nasty things to children, including talking about sexual fetishes and condoning violence. The Trump administration wants to open the California coast to drilling, much to the chagrin of Gov. Gavin Newsom. TSA wants to charge travelers $18 to use a facial recognition biometric system if they turn up at the airport to fly without a REAL ID or passport. The H5N5 bird flu virus has leapt from animals to a human in the Pacific Northwest. The person who has underlying health conditions is presently hospitalized. This strain has already jumped to other mammals, including cattle, hence recommendations to not drink raw milk. No evidence of human-to-human transition.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We'll talk. Obviously, rain is happening all over, so we'll
discuss that here in just a moment, though, Mark, I
was listening to your news and you were telling us
about the murder bear. In fact, I was what child
wouldn't love a murder bear? So it's a it's a
it's a bear powered by AI, which which says some
(00:29):
rather unsavory things to the children. This sounds like the
plot to a B horror movie where Teddy Ruxxman comes alive. Yeah.
I think Serling had that covered, and at least one
Twilight sound didn't. I talking to Knife, so well's gotta pay.
The question is how many kids are you getting one for?
(00:52):
I have one niece and one nephew that definitely are
on the list. Okay, all right, man. The toys for
the Naughty list are way cooler than the toys and
the Nice list, aren't they. AI really is fulfilling its
profit promise to make all our lives better? Is? And
I love it so much? Oh? How many speaking of rods, certainly,
how many Twilight Zones or other sci fi movies have
(01:15):
been about the machines? Becoming sentient and taking over. Oh yeah,
we don't have that all laid out in front of us,
and we're doing exactly every wrong thing we've been warned about. Yeah,
of course we are. But that's what makes it fun.
The thing is, and this is what I don't think
we've ever seen in any of these films, is that
in the films, it's always that the machines turn sentient
(01:37):
almost instantly, like there's an awakening for all the machines. Right,
But it sounds like the machines may be targeting our
children and then trying to ingratiate themselves generation by generation,
rather than an instantaneous takeover. Right bad. I love that
movie though. It was a great movie. So in that film,
(01:57):
the machines all come to life, and then the machines
realize in sort of a twist, which is what made
Stephen King so brilliant, the machines actually needed the humans
in order to continue, So it was sort of that
like role reversal, you know, the machines needed the humans
to plug them in or to fill up the gas
tanks or whatever else it was. But that was long
(02:19):
after the steamrollers had run over a little Jimmy on
a bicycle. So yeah, not recommended. Also, you should check
out a movie if you haven't seen it, called Colossus
the Feben Project, which is about a supercomputer that takes
over the earth but still needs some people to get
stuff done. Didn't you use teddy bears? Did not utilize
teddy bears to overthrow the world? I love it. The
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teddy bear that tells children to go get a knife
describes explicit sexual content that is magnificent. Well, what it
is is heartwarming this Christmas, a heartwarming tale of a
young boy and his new best friend. Go get the matches.
They're right over there, get the matches, good lord. Unbelievable.
(03:04):
And now you saw the news was it today or
yesterday that came out that said that any states that
try to install any sort of AI guardrails are gonna
be sued by the Justice Department? Like, yeah, why would
we need guardrails? Oh? It makes perfect sense. Why would
you resist progress? Like? AMMI a dirty kammy, dirty dirty
dirty All right? I love it. Some people don't I
(03:24):
love it. You see what happened in Phoenix yesterday? Did
you see the footage of the hail that came down?
It looked like it was snowing. It was wild. They had,
like I swear, it was like two or three inches
of hail that came down in the desert and it
piled up and then it started melting. And the areas
where it was where they had flooding, as that hail
(03:45):
began melting, then of course the hail was congealing almost
sort of, and it became it looked like an ice
flow going down the freeway. There are keywords in that
sentence that you said, the phoenix and desert that suggest
to me that that's unusual. It is unusual. It is.
I got a buddy over there and I was texting
him and I said, hey, man, I said, this is wild.
(04:05):
You've lived there your whole life. I said, have you
ever seen anything like that? He says, no, never. You know,
occasionally you see a storm that comes through in the
winter time that's got some hail, he said, but never
anything like that. And boy, if you thought La drivers
had trouble with rain, how about Phoenix drivers when it's
hail and and you know, frozen roads, just forget about it.
(04:27):
I was getting on Reddit right after work and looking
for the foot It is so good. I'll see if
I can pull some up. It was all over my
Instagram that I'll send them over to you. It was
really wild. Yeah. Yeah, the storm is back and I
was watching ABC.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Seven allowed Miga Toppler seven thousand showing some of those
showers into areas of Ohi and a little closer to Ventura,
Oxnard and now making its way into Camrio Santa Paula.
So all these areas along the one twenty six and
then right along the coast too, and then in the
mountains above it, we do have some snow happening, especial
as you get closer to Fraser Park and the grape Vine.
(05:03):
So that's nice to see too, is it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it is for me. We have that promo running
from from from Handle. Well he hates it. It's great.
I love it so much. I haven't heard that yet.
Oh yeah, oh are you joking? What are you suggesting
that he's complaining about something. No, that's what that's what's endearing.
I see. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The winter storm warnings, the winter weather.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But this is Brianna Ruffalo, by the way. Is somebody
was telling me that she's like Mark Ruffalo's sister. But
that's not that's not true. Is it not a super
common name? Hang on, let me just bring this real fast. Yeah,
bang it no, same last name? Not really? Oh, Brianna
Ruffalo married Josh Lucas though, Oh all of Hollywood is
(05:50):
an incestuous, an incestuous sesspit. Spitting that one, Well it
sounded at first I thought, Oh, did did Josh Lucas
marry into Mark Ruffalo's family? But no, he he married,
He married Breanna Ruffalo. You know Josh Lee. He was
in Yellowstone. He oftentimes plays a bad guy. He is
the American version of Kerry el Wise. Oh. You also
(06:11):
will know him from he's the voice of every Home
Depot conversion too. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah. He
was also in that failed Hu, the ship movie that
turns upside down, the disaster movie Presidon an Adventure. Oh yeah, yeah,
you're right, you're right, very good. And I think that
was when they realized he can't open a movie. Oh stop,
(06:33):
why you gotta be like that? I don't kill a messenger.
Why you gotta be like that? Wait, what's the matter
with you? I mean you're not wrong, but why you
gotta be like that? That's terrible truth? Hurts man Okay,
back to the storm. Back to Brianna, not Mark Ruffalo's sister.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Their advisories, those are in place ahead of this storm too,
because this is a cold one, so we're going to
be seeing at least have two about three to six
inches of snow between six and seven thousand feet and
then above that at the higher elevations. So we've just
been putting their reminders out there. It's always like to
get this around Thanksgiving, but we will have some icy conditions.
Make sure you have the chains and hopefully just a
(07:07):
lot of water packs too, just in case. And drive
safely as we head into these next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now, always loving meteorologists give us advice that's super obvious.
Make sure you drive safely well. Man Ruins my weekend plans.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Starting to see more clouds pour into the south Land now,
and so a lot of us are dealing with partly
cloudy to mostly cloudy skies.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And this is a few hours ago, obviously, and.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All of our temperatures are pretty cool, so you're gonna
want the jackets today anyway, and as we head into
the next several hours or even especially later this afternoon
and tonight, you're gonna want to rain jacket with you,
a hood, maybe some rain boots.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We have to be told to wear a jacket. I know,
sure to pack an acts, some iodine pills and jerky.
I'm going to give her a half of a pass
on it. I love the eye tight pills and jerk.
That's great. God bless you. You keep me on my toes.
I love that. So I'm going to give her half
a pass because you're in southern California. You probably are.
(08:03):
You know, you're thinking about going about your day. Oh
it's gonna rain, and maybe it doesn't click because it's
not normal that, oh I have to take a raincoat.
Although she called it a rain jacket and rain boots,
which is bring your rubbers, don't forget your rubbers. Thank
you there perfect. She obviously didn't grow up in any
sort of an area where we had moon boots and
had to put our feet in bread wrappers before they
went into the moon boots first, which was totally common
(08:24):
in the Upper Midwest. Oh, yeah, wonderbread. Yeah it was.
It was great. It was great. But I'm gonna give
her half a pass for reminding people because it might
not be on your mind. What always drove me crazy.
Is when I lived in the Midwest, I'd be in
Kansas City and they go, well, it looks like we
do have a chance of tornadoes this afternoon. Supercell thunderstorms
moving across the plains are going to be hitting us
a little bit later on this afternoon, so right about sunset,
(08:45):
could be getting those super cell thunderstorms, could be dropping
up with three inches in an hour, So make sure
you have an umbrella. Yeah, be sure not to go
ballooning today. Oh my gosh, Like this is what happened,
Like we know where we got. Can you imagine somebody
in Anchorage going that looks like we could be getting
eight to twelve inches of snow tonight, So you're definitely
(09:06):
gonna want to think about shoveling something. What it's remedial
news for the not very bright. Oh, it makes me crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We're going to see showers for at least a period
of several hours here heading into tonight. And this is
the bulk of it too. We will begin to see
wrap around showers heading into Friday and then maybe Saturday
morning too.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Really got to pay extra for the wrap around showers too.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But this is the big part of it is what's
happening today in this afternoon, and then I.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Think this is going to move through as we're on
the air tonight, and then we're going to have another
round to kind of hit us, like one o'clock in
the morning. I believe, if I'm reading the mapping correctly,
there is all kinds of shenanigans happening on the coast.
You know that minute, you know, you look out at
(09:53):
the ocean and you go, God, it's beautiful. Every time
I look at this it's the same and it's just gorgeous.
Turns out somebody else has a very different plan for
your view and you are about to feel the ripple
effect that is next time Chris Meryl I AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
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Speaker 4 (10:34):
You know, just keep in mind, you know when you
tell somebody to bring the rubbers, that this is Hollywood
and it is a little bit different scene depending on
where you are. And yeah, you know, bringing rubbers is
could be taken a couple of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm fun guys by.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think it's sound advice in any context. I think
so too. I think I think bring your rubbers if
it's rating, bring your rubbers if it's raining. Men, I
don't care. I just bring your rubbers. Factly right one
way or the other. You want to be prepared, don't you?
Thank you? Yes, yes, all of that. Absolutely. Hey still
to come this hour. Tell you how you can buy
(11:09):
your way out of obeying the law that is coming
up here at seven thirty and right before eight o'clock,
we're all going to die. Still ahead, first, the view
from the shore is going to start looking a whole
lot different. This is from NBC LA you.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Opening the California coast to oil drillion leases. That's what
the Trump administration announced here today. NBC Forrest Conaulla live
on a news or Malconda. This has generated with a
lot of opposition, with government news.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
From calling the plan, among other things, reckless.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
That's right, and the members of the California delegation Democrats
and a few Republicans to the House of Representatives. This
is all a new battle tonight between the state of
California and the Trump administration.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
As you pointed out, Michael, this.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
One is over the announcement today that the Department of
Interior will seek a major expanse of oil drilling off
the southern California Coast as well as Central Coast and
northern California Coast. Now, the Secretary of the Department of Interior,
Doug Bergham, essentially said that this is going to be
good for the country. By moving forward with the development
of a robust, forward thinking leasing plan, we are ensuring
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that America's offshore industry stays strong, our workers stay employed,
and our nation remains energy dominant for.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Decades to come.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
In the meantime, though, the Governor of California had a
hearing on climate change in Brazil. He said this idea
is dead on arrival.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Hmm. Is it so dead on arrival? But I don't
think you're supposed to quote the quote as you introduced
the quote, are you dead on arrival? And I also
think it remarkable that he didn't promote it in his
backyard in mar Laga. He didn't promote it off the
coast of Florida.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
That says everything about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, they have hurricanes. Oh, they do have oil. They
do have oil. Derek's in the well. They do. They
have rigs in the in the Gulf of America. They okay,
all right, so hurricanes has written not an excuse? All right,
it's weird. Couldn't we use the whole we have earthquakes excuse?
(13:11):
Like putting oil rigs off our coast is probably not
a great idea because earthquakes and oil spills don't really
mix very well.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
This is the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
You see, just about ten years ago, a major oil
spilled off the Orange County coast. No that we understand,
one hundred and twenty five thousand barrels of oil into
the there. It is one hundred and twenty six thousand
gallons into the water off there as a result of
an offshore oil rig.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, but I mean, really, who remembers that?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Who remember and honestly, that was actually good for everything
if you really think about it, one hundred and twenty
six thousand gallons of oil spilled into you know, the
ocean is actually a good thing because look at all
the jobs it created. It created jobs for oil clean
up people, created jobs for environmentalists to come out and
(14:03):
clean off ducks. It created jobs for dawn because they
had to produce more of it in order to clean
those ducks off. And then you saw, you know, stocks
boomed all over the place, and it was probably really
tough on the oil industry as well. As we all
know the oil industry. Every time there's a spill, they
end up losing billions of They don't they don't lose
(14:27):
How do they not lose money? If they're all they
get bailed out. Oh so, wait a minute. If they
do things right, they make billions of dollars. If they
do things wrong, they make billions of dollars. God, Lee,
how do I get a deal like that?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
We're in the wrong industry, No kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Should have been we should have been oil drillers or
working for a utility company, because they get to burn
cities down too, and then they get bailed out by
the state as well.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And of course there was a set of.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Barber oil spill in nineteen sixty nine that galvanized the
environmental community. That's the concern. It's a trillion dollar. It's
a trillion We got our tourist industry along the southern
California coast that the members of Congress from this region
say will be in jeopardy.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
They're hoping to fight this in court.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Members of Congress are also hoping, at least the Democrats,
that they could get a better effort at fighting this
plan if they win a majority in next year's midterm elections.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
I'm Conan Noblan ANDBC four News.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Thank you very much, Conin appreciate your hard work on
that one. Hey, you know, you show up at LAX
and then you're told, hey, booger, you've had a long
time to get that real id, but you thought, h
smile my way through. Nope. TSA has a new idea.
That idea is that sure, you can smile all you want,
but you're not getting through unless you pay how to
(15:44):
buy your way out of following the laws. Next, I'm
Chris merylkfi Am six forty. We live everywhere on the
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A little Chris merrow. Yeah, a good spliff, Oh, a
cup of coffee, A nice rainy evening. Yeah, man, have
a good event, all right, all right to eat zero,
have a good evening. My friend Joe Knight's in a
(16:16):
row of then, well he doesn't remember the first night?
Is it the same guy? I don't know. I think
so okay, back on the Indica or are we on
the citty? But maybe he's got the Indica tonight and
that's why he's got to have the coffee with it.
See it's the kind of balancing things out. You see
how that works. It makes perfect sense. Thank you for
explaining that. Oh you was an expert. If you need
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So that's what's happening, my friends, that's what's going on.
We know that holidays come around. Travel is always a
top of mine. Lots of us traveling, and of course
us in media get really lazy and we tend to
do a lot of travel stories, like let's travel this weekend. Ooh,
I was lax looking what kind of delays do we have?
(18:25):
Every year? We do it. It's I could pull clips
from last year and they would sound just like this year's.
It's what we do, but this year could be a
little bit different, which is why we already have TV
stations sending reporters to the airport. ABC seven was there
talking about the new plan. If you don't have real ID.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Now most of us have now all of us have
our real idea or passport when we decide to travel.
But things could get a lot easier if you do
plan to travel later this year or even next year,
and you plan.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
To get through TSA.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
But it will cost you a fee right now, this
option new option is only available for people who do
not have their passport or real ID. The Department of
Home ad Security is considering allowing travelers to verify their
identity using a new facial recognition technology. To use this option,
you will have to pay an eighteen dollars fee that
would give you access to TSA checkpoints for ten days,
(19:19):
and after that you'd have to pay again. The fee
would cover the costs of the biometric system and data security,
and starting today, people can comment on the proposal in
the federal register. As we May of this year, around
fifty eight percent of people in California have their real IDs,
and talking to travelers this morning, they think this is
a good idea, Is it though?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I think people should really get their real idea, expedite everything.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
What about the fee though? Do you think it's a
good idea? Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yes, because they had plenty of warning to get it,
and I think that they should have gotten it by now.
If they're travelers, now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, you did have plenty of warning to get it.
But also the fact that you had so much warning
to get your real idea almost shows just how futile
it is to mandate the real ID. But now you're
basically getting a real ID tax, right if you haven't
done this. And the real ID law passed twenty years ago,
(20:15):
if you'll recall, it was after nine to eleven. We
were worried about planes and buildings and things like that,
and so we acted very quickly, right, I mean, nine
to eleven happened, and then it was immediate that we
passed this law saying, WHOA, you got to have real
ID so that we know that you're legit when you
get on that plane. That's why we acted in two
(20:35):
thousand and five. So I mean, really, I guess it
did take us from September of twenty eleven until the
middle of two thousand and five to get that done
almost four years, But that just shows the kind of
urgency that we were working with. And then it was
supposed to be implemented. I believe by twenty ten we
didn't get our butts in gear. So we delayed it
(20:57):
like twenty twelve, and then twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen, twenty
twenty and then up COVID and then twenty twenty two
and twenty four. So now you have to It's been
twenty years that you've known you were supposed to get
a real ID, and still you don't have it. So
you still don't have to get it. You can just
pay eighteen dollars and they're still gonna let you on
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the flight, but only if they use the facial recognition software,
which if you are a libertarian, that's got to freak
you out. First of all, if they don't have your
photo somewhere, now they do. Second, they probably have your
photo somewhere, and why so now you're gonna have your
photo take and facial recognition software is going to weigh
that against a database full of other photographs, and they're
(21:38):
gonna determine whether or not you're a terrorist. This sounds
sounds like a great idea. Just spitball in here. If
you already know if someone's a terrorist based on their photo,
then why are we wasting our time getting real IDs?
And when I go to the airport and I check
in through TSA They always want to see my driver's license,
(22:00):
and I give it to them, and then they say,
step back, take off your hat because I always wear
a hat when I fly. Take off your hat. And
then and then I get facial recognition scanned anyway to
make sure I guess that I match my driver's license
or something. I don't know. I don't have a real idea.
Oh well, for eighteen dollars, you don't have to get one.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well, Green card holders don't need a real idea, is
that true? I thought our Green cards are micro chipped.
We have to always carry them on our person, that's
the rule.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But I thought you had to have a like it
was real idea passport. Don't you have to have a
passport when you fly?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Whenever I trust domestically, I can use my Green card.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But that's right. Yeah, I didn't even know.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It doesn't really apply to lawful permanent residents because.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, another card. And this is another great point that
you make here, because as we know, all of the
nine to eleven terrorists were here illegally and definitely not
here in student visas and totally permitted to access the system.
And oh, that's right, they all were. That's right, they
were all on visas, they were all doing so this
wouldn't stopped that anyway. So again, good job. Do you
(23:05):
feel like we're getting kind of an end around? The
goal is not necessarily security, The goal is surveillance of people. Absolutely. Yeah.
I mean I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but
this is one hundred percent not about security there.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
It's not a conspiracy. If you live in other Western
nations that have a different zeitgeist to the US, like
England and Australia, Canada, New Zealand, it's all very much
nanny state surveillance and that's what America is not.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're resistant to that. And so what happens is they go,
how do how do we backdoor this? And that's exactly
what's happening. All right, Well, that's that's insightful. Thank you, Nicky.
I appreciate that virus leaps from animals to humans. Tell
me if you heard this one before, is it just
a freak case or is the warning siren that we've
ignored finally going off? The alarms are getting louder. It's next.
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Chris Meryl, I am six forty live.
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bad news, bad news for all of us that wanted
to see Christmas. It turns out I believe that the
comic going by I believe that we determined it is
not in fact aliens and we are not going to
be invaded. So you're thinking, oh no, I guess I'd
have to do Christmas shopping. Not so fast for those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
(24:53):
Remember it was late twenty nineteen that all of a sudden,
a nasty little bug jumped from either a lab in Wuhan,
China or a wet market in Wuhan, China to humans,
and then it turned into what we now know as
SARS Cove two, which is COVID nineteen. Right here we
(25:13):
are late twenty twenty five. Is it possible history is
beginning to repeat itself, not in China, but instead in
a place far worse Seattle.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Confirmation today that the first human case of the H
five and five bird flu has been reported in Washington State.
This is the latest strain of the virus. So here's
what you need to know. First, The risk to the
public remains very low. It's not clear where the Grays
Harbor resident got the virus, but they did have contact
with a backyard flock and a couple of the birds
(25:45):
were infected. The best way to protect yourself is to
avoid contact with any infected birds and get tested if
you start feeling bad.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
The advice and clinician.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There's a lot in there, isn't there. Don't come in
contact with any infected birds. Okay, are the birds gonna
let me know? No? Always wear protection. I think we
covered that throughout the show tonight.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
And what else essians as well as to the community,
is if someone has an unexplained what appears to be
a viral pneumonia or lower respiratory tract illness, who has
the risk factors of backyard flock, wild bird exposure exposure
to even raw milk, then this should really be on
(26:34):
the radar.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
So far, the strain of the bird flu has not
been found in any wild birds, so experts aren't calling
it a pandemic.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Okay, but wait a minute. What was the other part
of that is? Okay, don't come in contact with backyard
birds or other birds whatever.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Exposure to even raw milk.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Why is raw milk giving us the bird flu? Is
somebody milking the chickens all because this strain of the
bird flu is already jumped to other mammals. Now, this
is the first human case, but it's already jumped to
other mammals, including cattle. So if you're not drinking pasteurized milk,
then there's a chance that your milk has the bird flu. Well,
(27:18):
that is really going to ruin lunches for homeschooled kids,
isn't it. They are first first, they don't get vaccinated
for anything. Now they're not even gonna be able to
drink their raw milk. Oh Man Man feeling bad for
everybody involved in that. The patient, described as older and
did have underlying health conditions, developed a high fever, confusion,
(27:40):
respiratory distress and continues to be hospitalized. They say that
the source was likely a mixed backyard flock of domestic
poultry exposed to wild birds on the patient's property. However,
as they point out in the story, there everybody confirmed
cases with the wild birds. So somehow it's the domestic
birds that I guess are making the wild birds sick
(28:02):
of some sort. If they're making the wild birds sick,
or the wildbirds then going out and spreading their disease
everywhere else, great, just fantastic health. The meds will say
that the risk is low, as you heard in the story.
They do say, however, that it is serious, but there's
no evidence of human to human transmission at this time,
(28:22):
so you can continue to drink that raw milk. The case,
they say important because each human affection does give the
virus an opportunity to mutate in unpredictable ways, as we saw,
of course, we learned from COVID that you know, we
I think mutates all over the place. And then you
out of both the entire Greek alphabet of infections, and
(28:44):
this is the first known human infection on this one,
first known H five and five human infection. There have
been h five and one human infections, but not this
particular strain. So it has in fact mutated in some way,
shape or form in order to infect a human.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But the good news is this, we learned a lot
of lessons after COVID, and so we have a very
robust CDC. We have an infectious disease research team that
is second to none. And only oh we cut that,
we cut the research. Okay, all right, but we've got
(29:26):
a plan for dealing with any sort of a pandemic
or an outbreak, and the American people are dedicated to
keeping one another happy and doing whatever it takes, if
that means masking or vaccines or what is it. Oh oh,
we're still we're fighting over We're still fighting over mass
oh wit oh yeah, Okay. The good news is that
(29:51):
when this starts to spread, we will all die very
quickly because we're morons. But as a result of the
quick deaths, it seems like the suffering will not go
on very long. There's always a silver lining, and I'm
here to find it. Like, for instance, we have a
story coming up where some people are saying that it's
a lot of finger pointing, vitriolic politics. We've completely forgotten
(30:16):
the sentiment of after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when
we said we needed to bring down the rhetoric. Some
would say that we have people who are calling for
death in the streets. But I think there's a silver lining,
and that is that public executions are always good for ratings.
So let's bring back live TV right See, if there's
(30:37):
a silver lining, you're going to find out who we're
going to put in the gallows next. Chris merrill I
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We'll talk. Obviously, rain is happening all over, so we'll
discuss that here in just a moment, though, Mark, I
was listening to your news and you were telling us
about the murder bear. In fact, I was what child
wouldn't love a murder bear? So it's a it's a
it's a bear powered by AI, which which says some
(00:29):
rather unsavory things to the children. This sounds like the
plot to a B horror movie where Teddy Ruxxman comes alive. Yeah.
I think Serling had that covered, and at least one
Twilight sound didn't. I talking to Knife, so well's gotta pay.
The question is how many kids are you getting one for?
(00:52):
I have one niece and one nephew that definitely are
on the list. Okay, all right, man. The toys for
the Naughty list are way cooler than the toys and
the Nice list, aren't they. AI really is fulfilling its
profit promise to make all our lives better? Is? And
I love it so much? Oh? How many speaking of rods, certainly,
how many Twilight Zones or other sci fi movies have
(01:15):
been about the machines? Becoming sentient and taking over. Oh yeah,
we don't have that all laid out in front of us,
and we're doing exactly every wrong thing we've been warned about. Yeah,
of course we are. But that's what makes it fun.
The thing is, and this is what I don't think
we've ever seen in any of these films, is that
in the films, it's always that the machines turn sentient
(01:37):
almost instantly, like there's an awakening for all the machines. Right,
But it sounds like the machines may be targeting our
children and then trying to ingratiate themselves generation by generation,
rather than an instantaneous takeover. Right bad. I love that
movie though. It was a great movie. So in that film,
(01:57):
the machines all come to life, and then the machines
realize in sort of a twist, which is what made
Stephen King so brilliant, the machines actually needed the humans
in order to continue, So it was sort of that
like role reversal, you know, the machines needed the humans
to plug them in or to fill up the gas
tanks or whatever else it was. But that was long
(02:19):
after the steamrollers had run over a little Jimmy on
a bicycle. So yeah, not recommended. Also, you should check
out a movie if you haven't seen it, called Colossus
the Feben Project, which is about a supercomputer that takes
over the earth but still needs some people to get
stuff done. Didn't you use teddy bears? Did not utilize
teddy bears to overthrow the world? I love it. The
(02:40):
teddy bear that tells children to go get a knife
describes explicit sexual content that is magnificent. Well, what it
is is heartwarming this Christmas, a heartwarming tale of a
young boy and his new best friend. Go get the matches.
They're right over there, get the matches, good lord. Unbelievable.
(03:04):
And now you saw the news was it today or
yesterday that came out that said that any states that
try to install any sort of AI guardrails are gonna
be sued by the Justice Department? Like, yeah, why would
we need guardrails? Oh? It makes perfect sense. Why would
you resist progress? Like? AMMI a dirty kammy, dirty dirty
dirty All right? I love it. Some people don't I
(03:24):
love it. You see what happened in Phoenix yesterday? Did
you see the footage of the hail that came down?
It looked like it was snowing. It was wild. They had,
like I swear, it was like two or three inches
of hail that came down in the desert and it
piled up and then it started melting. And the areas
where it was where they had flooding, as that hail
(03:45):
began melting, then of course the hail was congealing almost
sort of, and it became it looked like an ice
flow going down the freeway. There are keywords in that
sentence that you said, the phoenix and desert that suggest
to me that that's unusual. It is unusual. It is.
I got a buddy over there and I was texting
him and I said, hey, man, I said, this is wild.
(04:05):
You've lived there your whole life. I said, have you
ever seen anything like that? He says, no, never. You know,
occasionally you see a storm that comes through in the
winter time that's got some hail, he said, but never
anything like that. And boy, if you thought La drivers
had trouble with rain, how about Phoenix drivers when it's
hail and and you know, frozen roads, just forget about it.
(04:27):
I was getting on Reddit right after work and looking
for the foot It is so good. I'll see if
I can pull some up. It was all over my
Instagram that I'll send them over to you. It was
really wild. Yeah. Yeah, the storm is back and I
was watching ABC.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Seven allowed Miga Toppler seven thousand showing some of those
showers into areas of Ohi and a little closer to Ventura,
Oxnard and now making its way into Camrio Santa Paula.
So all these areas along the one twenty six and
then right along the coast too, and then in the
mountains above it, we do have some snow happening, especial
as you get closer to Fraser Park and the grape Vine.
(05:03):
So that's nice to see too, is it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it is for me. We have that promo running
from from from Handle. Well he hates it. It's great.
I love it so much. I haven't heard that yet.
Oh yeah, oh are you joking? What are you suggesting
that he's complaining about something. No, that's what that's what's endearing.
I see. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The winter storm warnings, the winter weather.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But this is Brianna Ruffalo, by the way. Is somebody
was telling me that she's like Mark Ruffalo's sister. But
that's not that's not true. Is it not a super
common name? Hang on, let me just bring this real fast. Yeah,
bang it no, same last name? Not really? Oh, Brianna
Ruffalo married Josh Lucas though, Oh all of Hollywood is
(05:50):
an incestuous, an incestuous sesspit. Spitting that one, Well it
sounded at first I thought, Oh, did did Josh Lucas
marry into Mark Ruffalo's family? But no, he he married,
He married Breanna Ruffalo. You know Josh Lee. He was
in Yellowstone. He oftentimes plays a bad guy. He is
the American version of Kerry el Wise. Oh. You also
(06:11):
will know him from he's the voice of every Home
Depot conversion too. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah. He
was also in that failed Hu, the ship movie that
turns upside down, the disaster movie Presidon an Adventure. Oh yeah, yeah,
you're right, you're right, very good. And I think that
was when they realized he can't open a movie. Oh stop,
(06:33):
why you gotta be like that? I don't kill a messenger.
Why you gotta be like that? Wait, what's the matter
with you? I mean you're not wrong, but why you
gotta be like that? That's terrible truth? Hurts man Okay,
back to the storm. Back to Brianna, not Mark Ruffalo's sister.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Their advisories, those are in place ahead of this storm too,
because this is a cold one, so we're going to
be seeing at least have two about three to six
inches of snow between six and seven thousand feet and
then above that at the higher elevations. So we've just
been putting their reminders out there. It's always like to
get this around Thanksgiving, but we will have some icy conditions.
Make sure you have the chains and hopefully just a
(07:07):
lot of water packs too, just in case. And drive
safely as we head into these next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now, always loving meteorologists give us advice that's super obvious.
Make sure you drive safely well. Man Ruins my weekend plans.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Starting to see more clouds pour into the south Land now,
and so a lot of us are dealing with partly
cloudy to mostly cloudy skies.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And this is a few hours ago, obviously, and.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All of our temperatures are pretty cool, so you're gonna
want the jackets today anyway, and as we head into
the next several hours or even especially later this afternoon
and tonight, you're gonna want to rain jacket with you,
a hood, maybe some rain boots.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We have to be told to wear a jacket. I know,
sure to pack an acts, some iodine pills and jerky.
I'm going to give her a half of a pass
on it. I love the eye tight pills and jerk.
That's great. God bless you. You keep me on my toes.
I love that. So I'm going to give her half
a pass because you're in southern California. You probably are.
(08:03):
You know, you're thinking about going about your day. Oh
it's gonna rain, and maybe it doesn't click because it's
not normal that, oh I have to take a raincoat.
Although she called it a rain jacket and rain boots,
which is bring your rubbers, don't forget your rubbers. Thank
you there perfect. She obviously didn't grow up in any
sort of an area where we had moon boots and
had to put our feet in bread wrappers before they
went into the moon boots first, which was totally common
(08:24):
in the Upper Midwest. Oh, yeah, wonderbread. Yeah it was.
It was great. It was great. But I'm gonna give
her half a pass for reminding people because it might
not be on your mind. What always drove me crazy.
Is when I lived in the Midwest, I'd be in
Kansas City and they go, well, it looks like we
do have a chance of tornadoes this afternoon. Supercell thunderstorms
moving across the plains are going to be hitting us
a little bit later on this afternoon, so right about sunset,
(08:45):
could be getting those super cell thunderstorms, could be dropping
up with three inches in an hour, So make sure
you have an umbrella. Yeah, be sure not to go
ballooning today. Oh my gosh, Like this is what happened,
Like we know where we got. Can you imagine somebody
in Anchorage going that looks like we could be getting
eight to twelve inches of snow tonight, So you're definitely
(09:06):
gonna want to think about shoveling something. What it's remedial
news for the not very bright. Oh, it makes me crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We're going to see showers for at least a period
of several hours here heading into tonight. And this is
the bulk of it too. We will begin to see
wrap around showers heading into Friday and then maybe Saturday
morning too.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Really got to pay extra for the wrap around showers too.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But this is the big part of it is what's
happening today in this afternoon, and then I.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Think this is going to move through as we're on
the air tonight, and then we're going to have another
round to kind of hit us, like one o'clock in
the morning. I believe, if I'm reading the mapping correctly,
there is all kinds of shenanigans happening on the coast.
You know that minute, you know, you look out at
(09:53):
the ocean and you go, God, it's beautiful. Every time
I look at this it's the same and it's just gorgeous.
Turns out somebody else has a very different plan for
your view and you are about to feel the ripple
effect that is next time Chris Meryl I AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Listen anytime on demand of the iHeart Radio app. But
when you're on that app, you cant always hit that
talkback button. You hear something you like, you want to
call us out on something, you just want to flirt
with Mark, that's fine, hit that talkback button and let
us know what's on your mind where you're listening. I
always love that too. In fact we did. We got
a talkback mark. This was for you, I believe, so
someone listening very very intently than my friend.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You know, just keep in mind, you know when you
tell somebody to bring the rubbers, that this is Hollywood
and it is a little bit different scene depending on
where you are. And yeah, you know, bringing rubbers is
could be taken a couple of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm fun guys by.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think it's sound advice in any context. I think
so too. I think I think bring your rubbers if
it's rating, bring your rubbers if it's raining. Men, I
don't care. I just bring your rubbers. Factly right one
way or the other. You want to be prepared, don't you?
Thank you? Yes, yes, all of that. Absolutely. Hey still
to come this hour. Tell you how you can buy
(11:09):
your way out of obeying the law that is coming
up here at seven thirty and right before eight o'clock,
we're all going to die. Still ahead, first, the view
from the shore is going to start looking a whole
lot different. This is from NBC LA you.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Opening the California coast to oil drillion leases. That's what
the Trump administration announced here today. NBC Forrest Conaulla live
on a news or Malconda. This has generated with a
lot of opposition, with government news.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
From calling the plan, among other things, reckless.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
That's right, and the members of the California delegation Democrats
and a few Republicans to the House of Representatives. This
is all a new battle tonight between the state of
California and the Trump administration.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
As you pointed out, Michael, this.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
One is over the announcement today that the Department of
Interior will seek a major expanse of oil drilling off
the southern California Coast as well as Central Coast and
northern California Coast. Now, the Secretary of the Department of Interior,
Doug Bergham, essentially said that this is going to be
good for the country. By moving forward with the development
of a robust, forward thinking leasing plan, we are ensuring
(12:14):
that America's offshore industry stays strong, our workers stay employed,
and our nation remains energy dominant for.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Decades to come.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
In the meantime, though, the Governor of California had a
hearing on climate change in Brazil. He said this idea
is dead on arrival.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Hmm. Is it so dead on arrival? But I don't
think you're supposed to quote the quote as you introduced
the quote, are you dead on arrival? And I also
think it remarkable that he didn't promote it in his
backyard in mar Laga. He didn't promote it off the
coast of Florida.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
That says everything about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, they have hurricanes. Oh, they do have oil. They
do have oil. Derek's in the well. They do. They
have rigs in the in the Gulf of America. They okay,
all right, so hurricanes has written not an excuse? All right,
it's weird. Couldn't we use the whole we have earthquakes excuse?
(13:11):
Like putting oil rigs off our coast is probably not
a great idea because earthquakes and oil spills don't really
mix very well.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
This is the problem.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
You see, just about ten years ago, a major oil
spilled off the Orange County coast. No that we understand,
one hundred and twenty five thousand barrels of oil into
the there. It is one hundred and twenty six thousand
gallons into the water off there as a result of
an offshore oil rig.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, but I mean, really, who remembers that?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Who remember and honestly, that was actually good for everything
if you really think about it, one hundred and twenty
six thousand gallons of oil spilled into you know, the
ocean is actually a good thing because look at all
the jobs it created. It created jobs for oil clean
up people, created jobs for environmentalists to come out and
(14:03):
clean off ducks. It created jobs for dawn because they
had to produce more of it in order to clean
those ducks off. And then you saw, you know, stocks
boomed all over the place, and it was probably really
tough on the oil industry as well. As we all
know the oil industry. Every time there's a spill, they
end up losing billions of They don't they don't lose
(14:27):
How do they not lose money? If they're all they
get bailed out. Oh so, wait a minute. If they
do things right, they make billions of dollars. If they
do things wrong, they make billions of dollars. God, Lee,
how do I get a deal like that?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
We're in the wrong industry, No kidding.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Should have been we should have been oil drillers or
working for a utility company, because they get to burn
cities down too, and then they get bailed out by
the state as well.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And of course there was a set of.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Barber oil spill in nineteen sixty nine that galvanized the
environmental community. That's the concern. It's a trillion dollar. It's
a trillion We got our tourist industry along the southern
California coast that the members of Congress from this region
say will be in jeopardy.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
They're hoping to fight this in court.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Members of Congress are also hoping, at least the Democrats,
that they could get a better effort at fighting this
plan if they win a majority in next year's midterm elections.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
I'm Conan Noblan ANDBC four News.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Thank you very much, Conin appreciate your hard work on
that one. Hey, you know, you show up at LAX
and then you're told, hey, booger, you've had a long
time to get that real id, but you thought, h
smile my way through. Nope. TSA has a new idea.
That idea is that sure, you can smile all you want,
but you're not getting through unless you pay how to
(15:44):
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A little Chris merrow. Yeah, a good spliff, Oh, a
cup of coffee, A nice rainy evening. Yeah, man, have
a good event, all right, all right to eat zero,
have a good evening. My friend Joe Knight's in a
(16:16):
row of then, well he doesn't remember the first night?
Is it the same guy? I don't know. I think
so okay, back on the Indica or are we on
the citty? But maybe he's got the Indica tonight and
that's why he's got to have the coffee with it.
See it's the kind of balancing things out. You see
how that works. It makes perfect sense. Thank you for
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(16:37):
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So that's what's happening, my friends, that's what's going on.
We know that holidays come around. Travel is always a
top of mine. Lots of us traveling, and of course
us in media get really lazy and we tend to
do a lot of travel stories, like let's travel this weekend. Ooh,
I was lax looking what kind of delays do we have?
(18:25):
Every year? We do it. It's I could pull clips
from last year and they would sound just like this year's.
It's what we do, but this year could be a
little bit different, which is why we already have TV
stations sending reporters to the airport. ABC seven was there
talking about the new plan. If you don't have real ID.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Now most of us have now all of us have
our real idea or passport when we decide to travel.
But things could get a lot easier if you do
plan to travel later this year or even next year,
and you plan.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
To get through TSA.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
But it will cost you a fee right now, this
option new option is only available for people who do
not have their passport or real ID. The Department of
Home ad Security is considering allowing travelers to verify their
identity using a new facial recognition technology. To use this option,
you will have to pay an eighteen dollars fee that
would give you access to TSA checkpoints for ten days,
(19:19):
and after that you'd have to pay again. The fee
would cover the costs of the biometric system and data security,
and starting today, people can comment on the proposal in
the federal register. As we May of this year, around
fifty eight percent of people in California have their real IDs,
and talking to travelers this morning, they think this is
a good idea, Is it though?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I think people should really get their real idea, expedite everything.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
What about the fee though? Do you think it's a
good idea? Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yes, because they had plenty of warning to get it,
and I think that they should have gotten it by now.
If they're travelers, now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, you did have plenty of warning to get it.
But also the fact that you had so much warning
to get your real idea almost shows just how futile
it is to mandate the real ID. But now you're
basically getting a real ID tax, right if you haven't
done this. And the real ID law passed twenty years ago,
(20:15):
if you'll recall, it was after nine to eleven. We
were worried about planes and buildings and things like that,
and so we acted very quickly, right, I mean, nine
to eleven happened, and then it was immediate that we
passed this law saying, WHOA, you got to have real
ID so that we know that you're legit when you
get on that plane. That's why we acted in two
(20:35):
thousand and five. So I mean, really, I guess it
did take us from September of twenty eleven until the
middle of two thousand and five to get that done
almost four years, But that just shows the kind of
urgency that we were working with. And then it was
supposed to be implemented. I believe by twenty ten we
didn't get our butts in gear. So we delayed it
(20:57):
like twenty twelve, and then twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen, twenty
twenty and then up COVID and then twenty twenty two
and twenty four. So now you have to It's been
twenty years that you've known you were supposed to get
a real ID, and still you don't have it. So
you still don't have to get it. You can just
pay eighteen dollars and they're still gonna let you on
(21:18):
the flight, but only if they use the facial recognition software,
which if you are a libertarian, that's got to freak
you out. First of all, if they don't have your
photo somewhere, now they do. Second, they probably have your
photo somewhere, and why so now you're gonna have your
photo take and facial recognition software is going to weigh
that against a database full of other photographs, and they're
(21:38):
gonna determine whether or not you're a terrorist. This sounds
sounds like a great idea. Just spitball in here. If
you already know if someone's a terrorist based on their photo,
then why are we wasting our time getting real IDs?
And when I go to the airport and I check
in through TSA They always want to see my driver's license,
(22:00):
and I give it to them, and then they say,
step back, take off your hat because I always wear
a hat when I fly. Take off your hat. And
then and then I get facial recognition scanned anyway to
make sure I guess that I match my driver's license
or something. I don't know. I don't have a real idea.
Oh well, for eighteen dollars, you don't have to get one.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well, Green card holders don't need a real idea, is
that true? I thought our Green cards are micro chipped.
We have to always carry them on our person, that's
the rule.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But I thought you had to have a like it
was real idea passport. Don't you have to have a
passport when you fly?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Whenever I trust domestically, I can use my Green card.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But that's right. Yeah, I didn't even know.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It doesn't really apply to lawful permanent residents because.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, another card. And this is another great point that
you make here, because as we know, all of the
nine to eleven terrorists were here illegally and definitely not
here in student visas and totally permitted to access the system.
And oh, that's right, they all were. That's right, they
were all on visas, they were all doing so this
wouldn't stopped that anyway. So again, good job. Do you
(23:05):
feel like we're getting kind of an end around? The
goal is not necessarily security, The goal is surveillance of people. Absolutely. Yeah.
I mean I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but
this is one hundred percent not about security there.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
It's not a conspiracy. If you live in other Western
nations that have a different zeitgeist to the US, like
England and Australia, Canada, New Zealand, it's all very much
nanny state surveillance and that's what America is not.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're resistant to that. And so what happens is they go,
how do how do we backdoor this? And that's exactly
what's happening. All right, Well, that's that's insightful. Thank you, Nicky.
I appreciate that virus leaps from animals to humans. Tell
me if you heard this one before, is it just
a freak case or is the warning siren that we've
ignored finally going off? The alarms are getting louder. It's next.
(23:55):
Chris Meryl, I am six forty live.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Everywhere you're listening to KFI on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Pleasure being with you. Thank you so much for allowing
me to share time on the radio. Remember, if you
are listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can always hit
that talkback button and let us know what's going on
in your world, because I'd love to hear what's happening
or if you hear something you like, don't like whatever
it is, questions, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, and compliments. Hit
us up on that talk back button on the iHeartRadio app. Oh,
(24:29):
bad news, bad news for all of us that wanted
to see Christmas. It turns out I believe that the
comic going by I believe that we determined it is
not in fact aliens and we are not going to
be invaded. So you're thinking, oh no, I guess I'd
have to do Christmas shopping. Not so fast for those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
(24:53):
Remember it was late twenty nineteen that all of a sudden,
a nasty little bug jumped from either a lab in Wuhan,
China or a wet market in Wuhan, China to humans,
and then it turned into what we now know as
SARS Cove two, which is COVID nineteen. Right here we
(25:13):
are late twenty twenty five. Is it possible history is
beginning to repeat itself, not in China, but instead in
a place far worse Seattle.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Confirmation today that the first human case of the H
five and five bird flu has been reported in Washington State.
This is the latest strain of the virus. So here's
what you need to know. First, The risk to the
public remains very low. It's not clear where the Grays
Harbor resident got the virus, but they did have contact
with a backyard flock and a couple of the birds
(25:45):
were infected. The best way to protect yourself is to
avoid contact with any infected birds and get tested if
you start feeling bad.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
The advice and clinician.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There's a lot in there, isn't there. Don't come in
contact with any infected birds. Okay, are the birds gonna
let me know? No? Always wear protection. I think we
covered that throughout the show tonight.
Speaker 11 (26:12):
And what else essians as well as to the community,
is if someone has an unexplained what appears to be
a viral pneumonia or lower respiratory tract illness, who has
the risk factors of backyard flock, wild bird exposure exposure
to even raw milk, then this should really be on
(26:34):
the radar.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
So far, the strain of the bird flu has not
been found in any wild birds, so experts aren't calling
it a pandemic.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Okay, but wait a minute. What was the other part
of that is? Okay, don't come in contact with backyard
birds or other birds whatever.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Exposure to even raw milk.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Why is raw milk giving us the bird flu? Is
somebody milking the chickens all because this strain of the
bird flu is already jumped to other mammals. Now, this
is the first human case, but it's already jumped to
other mammals, including cattle. So if you're not drinking pasteurized milk,
then there's a chance that your milk has the bird flu. Well,
(27:18):
that is really going to ruin lunches for homeschooled kids,
isn't it. They are first first, they don't get vaccinated
for anything. Now they're not even gonna be able to
drink their raw milk. Oh Man Man feeling bad for
everybody involved in that. The patient, described as older and
did have underlying health conditions, developed a high fever, confusion,
(27:40):
respiratory distress and continues to be hospitalized. They say that
the source was likely a mixed backyard flock of domestic
poultry exposed to wild birds on the patient's property. However,
as they point out in the story, there everybody confirmed
cases with the wild birds. So somehow it's the domestic
birds that I guess are making the wild birds sick
(28:02):
of some sort. If they're making the wild birds sick,
or the wildbirds then going out and spreading their disease
everywhere else, great, just fantastic health. The meds will say
that the risk is low, as you heard in the story.
They do say, however, that it is serious, but there's
no evidence of human to human transmission at this time,
(28:22):
so you can continue to drink that raw milk. The case,
they say important because each human affection does give the
virus an opportunity to mutate in unpredictable ways, as we saw,
of course, we learned from COVID that you know, we
I think mutates all over the place. And then you
out of both the entire Greek alphabet of infections, and
(28:44):
this is the first known human infection on this one,
first known H five and five human infection. There have
been h five and one human infections, but not this
particular strain. So it has in fact mutated in some way,
shape or form in order to infect a human.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But the good news is this, we learned a lot
of lessons after COVID, and so we have a very
robust CDC. We have an infectious disease research team that
is second to none. And only oh we cut that,
we cut the research. Okay, all right, but we've got
(29:26):
a plan for dealing with any sort of a pandemic
or an outbreak, and the American people are dedicated to
keeping one another happy and doing whatever it takes, if
that means masking or vaccines or what is it. Oh oh,
we're still we're fighting over We're still fighting over mass
oh wit oh yeah, Okay. The good news is that
(29:51):
when this starts to spread, we will all die very
quickly because we're morons. But as a result of the
quick deaths, it seems like the suffering will not go
on very long. There's always a silver lining, and I'm
here to find it. Like, for instance, we have a
story coming up where some people are saying that it's
a lot of finger pointing, vitriolic politics. We've completely forgotten
(30:16):
the sentiment of after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when
we said we needed to bring down the rhetoric. Some
would say that we have people who are calling for
death in the streets. But I think there's a silver lining,
and that is that public executions are always good for ratings.
So let's bring back live TV right See, if there's
(30:37):
a silver lining, you're going to find out who we're
going to put in the gallows next. Chris merrill I
AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, KFI
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