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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
I have there my friends Chris merrilf I AM sixty
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App's been a long, long night. I was out late
last night. I was a Coldplay that was awkward. It
was weird.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
That's a good one. That's actually funny, which you're never funny.
But you started the show with a banker. Yeah, I
appreciate that joke, Chris good job.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Appreciate that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, I'm curious about the cold Play thing because and
we'll discuss later in a little more detailed the latest
on this. I heard Mark Thompson talking about this. Uh
and again if you're missing it, there was a CEO
and an HR director, although I think she was like
the director of People or something whatever. It was one
of those made up, corporate stupid names. And so they're
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having an affair with each other. They go to the
cold Play concert, kiss cam shines on them, and then
they duck try to get away from the camera, and then.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
The Coldplay calls him out, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So then it becomes this big thing and it's funny
and we're all laughing at them. And poking fun at them,
And I was thinking, what is the worst decision you
ever made? Because that one's going to be costly for
both of them, but especially for I mean financially, going
to be very costly for the CEO because he's about
to lose half its crap.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I honestly thought that they were trying to hide because
they were too embarrassed about being seen at a Coldplay concert.
I didn't know that this was about in an unfair yeah. Well,
and then but then.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Cold Boy was like, Wow, either they're really shy or
they're having an affair. Nice job, nice job, well done.
So yeah, what is the worst decision that you ever made? Well,
if you're on the app, just hit the talk back button.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And let me know. Love to hear what is the
worst decision you ever made? And I was thinking, what
is the.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Worst decision I ever made? I've had some real bonehead decisions.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Can you can you dwindle them down to just like
top seven.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Or top seven? Very good?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
He's very good.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I've made some career moves that, looking back on it,
I shouldn't have done that. It seemed like the right
thing at the time, but and I also don't know
what would have happened if I went the other way?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The joke would be The worst decision I ever made
was saying I do, but that's not true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I got in trouble with my wife for not saying
enough nice things about her on the air. She says,
I don't mind when you poke fun, but you have
to say some nice stuff every now and again.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah. Then she's never listening when I say nice things though.
That drives me nuts. Yeah, yeah, I don't. Oh, you
know what I was thinking this my first day in radio,
I got in trouble so.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I It was on the air, a real small station
in my hometown, and I was doing news and I
was bantering with the morning show guy and he said, oh,
Toby Keith, how do you like me?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Came out and the whole there was a thing on
there about you know, now you're waking up with me
on the radio or whatever the lyrics are, And I said, yeah,
that's that's like me. My whole goal in life is
too is for all of my ex girlfriends to have
to get together. And and the worst mistake I ever
made was dumping Chris Meryl fan Club.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It wasn't really all that funny, but it seemed at
the time because I was twenty two and the ex
girlfriend was listening and she called to complain that I
was poking fun at her on the air.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, I know right, I'm happy, right, Yeah, Well joke's
on me, because you know, radio was cool when I
got into it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now everybody's like, do you have a podcast? Are you youtubing?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Go away? So yeah, yeah, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I wasn't a huge mistake, but definitely did not like
getting in trouble my first day on the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That was good.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Anyway, if you're if you're on the app, got to
hear what is the worst decision you ever made?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Could be your biggest.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Mistake, could be oh god, you know I invested in
this startup that was crap.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
My wife.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I used to be into crypto in like twenty sixteen,
seventeen eighteen, and my wife is like, you're losing money.
It's costing us money, and she made me sell everything.
So I sold all my equipment and all that stuff,
and then you see what's happened with crypto.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So I would probably have.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm gonna say, I would probably have fifty grand in
crypto right now had she not made me sell it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So listening to my wife, I guess was a bad
I already said one nice thing about her. At least
I can say one bad thing, right balance, Yeah, thank you.
I think that's the rule.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
She said, say bad things, say a good thing.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh, speaking of bad decisions, what happened? Do we know
what happened with the dude that drove through the crowd
in East Hollywood last night?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
He got shot?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
He got shot in the in the keyster.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, they pulled him out the car, beat him up
and shot him.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But he was in the hang on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
ABC's got the story. Let me see if they tell
us what the story, because I think he got kicked
out of the club.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Pure chaos on a sidewalk in East Hollywood, as a
man who was kicked out of a nightclub. We turned
in a car and drove it into the crowd, leaving
the club.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
All timing city, the sidewalk curve and everything, everything.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And then when you got out here, what'd you see?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
At least thirty bodies on over floor?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Does it was left bloodied on North Vermont Avenue just
south of Santa Monica Boulevard, some with broken bones. One
victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I got the stones flying out your hand. You see
shoes flying, You see like change money. There's hot dog
stands that were outside the bar, I mean the club.
They got hit.
Speaker 8 (05:41):
It was like a movie and all twenty nine people
on the sidewalk outside the club Vermont Hollywood were hurt.
But those who weren't injured immediately took aim at the
man behind the wheel, the driver.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now, oh, this is what you were saying. They went
after him. I love that.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Now, identified by Lapd as twenty nine year old Fernando Ramirez,
was yang from the driver's seat by the rest of
the crowd. He got punched, kicked, and even shot by
one of those witnesses, but.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Mob justice right right.
Speaker 9 (06:08):
Instantly security attempted from the club, attempted to detain him
and handcuffed him, at which time an additional suspect, not
related to our driver, came from across the street armed
with a firearm and then shot our suspect in the bottoms.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay, you can't shoot the dude, and I love that.
The police are now looking for the guy with the gun,
because you're not supposed to be carrying a handgun around Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
This is just nope, can't do that. No. But also.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
There is this moment and I've been around bar fights before.
Fortunate I've never been in a bar fight, but I've
broken a couple up, and there's this feeling of moral
superiority when the bar fight breaks out and you can
pretty much do anything you want to the aggressor, and
you go, I was just defending somebody else's safety. So
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when this guy goes through the crowd, everybody drags him
out of the car and they start whooping his ass
and then he got shot in it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And it's not like.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The police are like, whoa, we got to take a
look at these people for assault.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean at that point police show up and it's basically, well,
he had it coming situation. So that was the whole
deal on that one person in critical though, so everybody
else with broken bones. And they said that he was
I think they said he was unconscious when he was
when they pulled him out of the car when he
went through. So did he get kicked out of the club?
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Was he just hammered and then passed out in the
car while he was driving. I guess we're gonna have
to wait for the investigation to play out on that. Meanwhile,
the other has been a busy couple of days. The
other big news was this East ll A explosion at
the the the bomb training facility.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
A tearful salute to the three La County Sheriff's deputies
killed in an explosion at their training facility Friday morning
and tonight. We now know the names of the three
members of the revered Arson and Explosive Detail who died
from that blast. Detective Joshua Kelly Ecklund, who leaves behind
his wife and their seven children.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my gosh, Oh my heart, my heart for them.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Detective Victor Leeb.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I can't imagine she has to go home and tell
her seven kids daddy died. Oh my gosh, is there
any greater nightmare?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Detective Victor Limis, whose wife now a widow, is also
a detective in the Sheriff's Department. And Detective William Osborne,
who became a deputy in the early nineties and mentored
newly assigned investigators.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
With a heavy heart.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Shriff Robert Luna delivered the heartbreaking news to their families.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
And as you can imagine, those were extremely challenging conversations.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I bet it appears the deputies were handling some kind
of explosive which was believed to be inactive at the
department's East La facility around seven thirty this morning when
it exploded. Sheriff Luna says, this specialized explosive unit responds
to about eleven hundred calls a year, but it's unclear
what went wrong this morning.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
This is unfortunately, the largest loss of life for us
as the La County Sheriff's Department since eighteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Wow, oh my gosh, I mean that, wow, just so
many things swirl through my head, like I'm shocked that
we haven't over the course of the last one hundred
and seventy five years or sixty five year whatever. It
is bad of math that there haven't been more right incidents,
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even if there were accidents, but then to have to
go through this is just heartbreaking all the way around.
But they think that they think it might have been
somebody in Santa Monica that had this this explosive device.
Speaker 11 (10:03):
An intense investigation at the Santa Monica apartment building, the
FBI atf LAPD bomb technicians and sheriff's detectives trying to
determine if devices found in the building are connected to
this morning's tragic explosion at the LASD Trading facility. The
three deputies who were killed responded to a bomb squad
call at the building Thursday.
Speaker 12 (10:25):
The bomb squad went into the parking garage and recovered
several grenades and we didn't have to evacuate. Then today,
around two o'clock a lot of officers showed up again.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
This time investigators ordering residents to evacuate while they searched
a storage locker and at least one apartment.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, and of course now they know that even those
explosive they thought were inert may not be.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
The Only thing I remember from yesterday is getting this
weird email from our HOA president saying that inert grenades
had been found in the garage.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
The HOA president telling a resident a former tenant who
had been in the military may have left the explosive
devices behind, the current resident discovering them in her storage
locker thursdays.
Speaker 12 (11:09):
Oh my gosh, woman who's lived there for years now
has never seen them before, and that they kind of
fell as she was she went in to look for something.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Oh my gosh, numerous law enforcement officers seen going in
and out of the garage for hours.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
I'm really thankful for the Sheriff's Department, for all the
law enforcement people who are doing their job.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah safe, no kidding.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You know, sometimes that is a dangerous task.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh, based on what she just saw with the detectives
losing their lives, and then she has a grenade fall
in her storage unit while she's cleaning things, can you imagine.
I mean, she's feeling like she just got she just
used up one of her.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Nine lives, right, wow. Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Anyway, my heart to the whole family, everybody involved with
that whole situation. It's just a just horrific. I wanted
to make sure we paid tribute when we opened show today.
Just a terrible situation. The President is sparring with the
governor and here's one where honestly, it's just time to
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stick a fork in this one. It is a project
that the President says, no more, no more good money
after bad, and the state of California says, oh no,
watch us waste money billions more down the drain. What
this project is all about? Next Chris merril KF. I
am six forty. I am six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
In the last segment there before, we paid homage to
the sheriff's deputies who died in the explosion yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We excuse me. On Friday, we.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Asked, in light of the Coldplay Kiss cam ceo HR
affair debacle this week, which was big news, what is
the worst decision you ever made? If you're listening on
the app, feel free to hit their talk back button.
If you're not listening on the app, get it, then
hit that tuckback button and let us know.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
What is the worst decision you ever made?
Speaker 13 (13:04):
Yeah, the worst decision I ever made so far, at
least is listening to this friggin program.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh WHOA, what a happy fella.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I guess he doesn't like sheriff's deputies.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Happy Sunday to hen.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Here, I am trying to pay homage to some people
who lost their lives trying to protect southern California, and
this guy's all hammered on PBR telling me all kinds
of things. You can almost smell the alcohol and his
pores when he speaks, can't.
Speaker 13 (13:28):
Yeah, the worst decision I ever made so far at least,
is listening to this friggin program.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, I can smell.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It smells a lot like family to me. Uh oh,
how about the worst decision we ever made, thinking that
we could build a bullet train from Sacramento to San
Diego and not see the price skyrocket?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Who do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Our bullet train continues to face cost overruns and delays,
and it looks like now it could be I don't
know what they say. We're really hoping to be able
to get from Bakersfield and Merced by twenty thirty two
or something like that at a cost which comes in
greater than the initial projection for the entire project. Can't
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wait for this so anyway, the President says, No, We're
not going to keep throwing money at this project.
Speaker 14 (14:36):
We have some breaking news justin moments ago, President Trump
saying that he is ending government funding for California's high
speed rail project. The President says the rail that was
promised does not exist and never will. The bullet train
was supposed to connect to La to the Bay Area.
It was originally expected to cost thirty three billion dollars,
but now estimates range between thirty Excuse me, eighty nine
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billion and one d and twenty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It'll be two hundred.
Speaker 14 (15:04):
Governor news Have responded saying California is putting all options
on the table to fight this legal action.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well those options are suing for the money. So there's
four billion dollars that we're allocated. Four billion dollars we're
allocated for the high speed rail project. The president says, no,
you're not getting that money. And then Newsom, who of
course is definitely not running for president in twenty eight,
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claims that determination of the agreement is petty political retribution
motivated by President Donald Trump's personal animates toward California in
high speed rail project. This from MAYBC seven, Trump's termination
of federal grants for California high speed rail reeks of politics.
It is yet another political stunt to punish California. In reality,
this is just a heartless attack on the Central Valley
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that will put real jobs and livelihoods on the line.
We're suing to stop Trump from derailing America's only high
speed rail actively under construction. Wow, all right, so I
don't think that the president is heartlessly attacking the Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Those are actually his voters.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I do think it probably has an awful lot to
do with politics, because in Texas they're talking about high
speed rail between Houston and Dallas. I don't think that
the Trump administration would withhold money from that project. That said,
neither project should ever start. We shouldn't have started this
project here. They shouldn't start the project in Texas. It
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is a giant waist, a massive boondoggle. You and I
are never going to ride a bullet train in California.
We're never gonna do it. Because even if they do
get this initial segment from Bakersfield to Mercede done, I'm
not driving to Bakersfield to get on a train to go.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
To merced The only people who's using this farmers. You're
gonna put your sh keep on there.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No nobody's riding the bullet train, especially the initial segment.
I mean, ridership is going to be so abysmal. And
then what's going to happen is that you're going to
have reporters who are going to simply do the math
and they're going to say that this project from Bakersfield
and are said, which came in over thirty billion dollars
more than the initial estimate for the entire project, and
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then they're going to divine that money by the number
of riders they have on an annual basis, and they're
going to say, Wow, it only costs US four million
dollars per rider or four million feels like it might
be nice.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's going to be forty million dollars a rider. It
is a disaster. It's been a disaster for event.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is ambitious, it was it was lofty, all that stuff,
all the good reasons to say, yeah, let's give it
a shot. When it became clear that's when we should
have folded. What does Kenny Rodgers say?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You got to know when to hold them no, when
to fold him, no, when to walk away, no, when
to run? Right now, running running would go a lot
faster than this bullet train. I could run them, or
said before the bullet train could get me there at
this point, because the bullet train won't be done for
another nine years.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Unbelievable, all right, The lawmakers, the law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law la laws.
Next Chris Merril I am six forty. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (18:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on DEMANDFIM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right, in light of the cold Plate Kiss cam
Ceo hr director debacle, I'm curious about what is the
worst decision perhaps you've ever made, Okay, worst decision you've
ever made, Caylen, did you want to jump in on this?
You asked me about mine. I couldn't think of any
really good Well, you know what I did. I made
some really poor decisions. I got in trouble with the
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law when I was like nineteen.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Oh, you want to tell that one. I could think
a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
My buddies and that's sorry.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
My buddies and I we broke into some vacation homes
and we stole a truck.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Whoa, yeah, that's not like a minor thing. That's actually
pretty big.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That's pretty big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, Now I got to go to one of those
those boot camps for delinquent people.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Were you jeled? Oh oh drink? Oh yeah, okay, so
you were jaeled?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah you were.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
You are a felon.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
It's probably my most shameful life experience.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No doubt, you're criminal. You're a criminal.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah yeah, not proud of that at all. It is
I'm not, but it is it is what it is.
You know, I can't do anything about it now. So yeah,
that actually that's the that's the worst decision I ever
made in my life. Yeah, did you have one that
came to mind?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Well, I have some some law ones. When I was
a younger girl. Well, I guess it wasn't really law.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I was a younger girl and me and my friend
were smoking weed for the first time in New Jersey
when it was illegal, and we had the car running
the entire time. Yeah, the ac one and the lights
one or something like that, and the car wouldn't stop start.
And then if we were in a shady area, shady
characters around the car, that was a little scary.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You're hot boxing it, yeah, hot.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Boxing it, and then the cart I got paranoid. I
don't remember how we got out of the situation. It
was so many years ago, but I know the car.
The car needed to be jumped, and I think I
called a random person to help. That was a pretty
bad decision. And also, I am or I was a
bridge burner back in my day, so whenever I lost
a job, I always made a point to tell the
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manager exactly what I thought.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Every single time. Every single time not decisions.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean, that's that's for you, right, That doesn't actually
help you out at all. It's just you're angry and.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Right right, you kind of want to release it, put
it on to somebody else, but it's just what.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
If you need them later? I never did.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
But not cool?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Not cool, Kayla.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of burning bridges.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, all right, your thoughts if you're listening on the app,
just sit that talkback button. What's the worst decision you've
ever made?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
How is it that China could have multiple bullet train
China and China U States or California kids China and
the bullet train could.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Barely or can't even build one.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
The worst decision I've made is believing politicians.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, amen, I hear you there.
Speaker 15 (21:18):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
We do it every week, the lawmakers, the law breakers
of the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Still trying to figure out.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
The motivation behind our first story. Oftentimes, when somebody breaks
the law, you know what the motivation is, they're you know,
part of a gang, or you know, they they're trying
to better themselves. I don't know what the motivation is
behind the executive who lives in Brentwood, who bought a
fire truck.
Speaker 16 (21:48):
This fire truck, which authorities ceased, seemingly has a fake
registration to the Santa Morte Fire Department and a fire
officials trying to determine if this is the same unauthorized
truck reported entering the Palisades fire zone last January. LAPD
confirming that Hospitality executive Steve Farzam was taken into custody
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suspected of impersonating a first responder, committing firearms violations, and
government fraud.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
The COVID blizzard is here.
Speaker 16 (22:20):
Here is Firexam during the height of COVID speaking about
mobile testing centers. He operated as the head of nine
to one to one COVID testing.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
We have been in a full tax bowlert since Tuesday.
Speaker 16 (22:32):
The COVID testing business does not seem to be part
of the present investigation, although Farsom has also been named
in complaints like this one from twenty nineteen, one of
the count's counterfeiting an LA County Superior Court seal to
supposedly file a false court order demanding internet providers takedown
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stories about his past having to do with impersonating or
serving probation for impersonating a police officer.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
So the guy, he's like a serial impersonator.
Speaker 16 (23:02):
Now this latest case is you know, that was a
thing still unraveling. But one of the things investigators maybe
looking at is, and this is weird, the impounded fire.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Trucks, fake registration.
Speaker 16 (23:14):
Well, the Santa Morte department name was also used on
uniforms seized as part of a twenty eleven Sampuran at
the investigation where a different person was arrested for supposedly
impersonating a law enforcement officer. They don't know if there's
any connection, but far Ezam's neighbors worry about the possibility
of a cereal impersonator.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
We just said that. I don't even know that was
the thing. How much is a fire truck?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean, I don't know what his point is when
he wanted to go toward the fires with his fake firetruck,
but that is a lot.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
It's not cheap to go through. I'm looking this up.
Did you know that there was a used fire trucks
unlimited dot com?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Did you have any idea? I didn't either. Let's see,
I don't know if these operate. You can get a
used fire truck for under ten grand. They look kind
of crappy. This one's not bad. It's fifteen grand. It's
got a ladder on it. All right, I'm gonna give
you this. It would be kind of cool to have one,
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but you could never use it unless you're what washing
windows that you're very tall building? What are you using
an old fire truck for? It's making any sense to me?
All well, let me see, uh, trying to see if
you actually have to be on a department in.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Order to buy a fire truck. Oh, the facilities in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
H yeah, it could be delivered to your station or
delivered by a haul or Kayla, let's start a GoFundMe.
Who wants to give us money for a fire truck
for research purposes only?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Of course, I don't know. I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
The dude is wealthy, he's a CEO in Brentwood, and
he just keeps impersonating people. It sounds like there's some
like a there's a mental illness thing in there, right,
There's like there's something going on upstairs. It's not coming together,
and it just happens to have enough money to get
away with all this crap. All right, Other lawmakers, law
(25:21):
breakers times there ought to be a law. Oh I
thought this was a distraction thing, but I guess we're
coming back to it, and that is reopening the.
Speaker 17 (25:29):
Rock Alcatraz Prison. The Rock an infamous symbol of law
and order in American history, and President Trump wants it reopened.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
It could hold anything. This is a terrific facility. Needs
a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay, that sounds like a bad realtor. Oh this is
a beautiful fixer upper. Oh okay, how much is this
going to be? Oh way more than it's worth, but
just beautiful.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Use your imagination.
Speaker 17 (25:56):
Fox News joined Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary
Doug Bergham for an exclusive tour of the Rock, now
part of a national park.
Speaker 18 (26:05):
Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being
a effective at housing people that are in incarceration.
Speaker 17 (26:16):
The uphill climb to turn this rotting facility back into
a working prison far steeper than the hill tourists sea
when they step on the island.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
All right, I get the metaphor, but there is no
way you can get this thing. Tearing it down and
rebuilding on site would be the most efficient way to
reopen the Rock. But if you have to tear it
down and then bring in plumbing and whatnot. Why don't
you just find another place to build your max security prison.
Speaker 17 (26:47):
The island itself has no symbolism.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Of course, it's no direct.
Speaker 17 (26:51):
Water or electricity from the mainland across the bay in
San Francisco. But that's not stopping these two cabinet officials
from getting cost out states and other information to bring
back to the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Okay, so you gotta I guess you gotta dig. Wells
must be what they did to begin with. You're gonna
have to have wells and then generators on site.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Why it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 14 (27:18):
We need beds.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
We need to make California safe and all of America
the eye.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
We have land that's not being used. Why do we
have to put come on people?
Speaker 17 (27:27):
And then first held military prisoners in the eighteen fifties,
but became famous after it opened in nineteen thirty four.
Its residents included mobsters al Capone and machine gun Kelly.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yeah. Why'd they close it?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I know, because it was costing an arm and a leg.
Speaker 17 (27:44):
Prisoners that were sent here to Alcatraz were already serving
time in other federal prisons, but were so bad. It
was believed that this building, surrounded by the shark infested
frigid waters of San Francisco Bay, would do the trick.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Okay, but then Clint East would escape and for the
rest is history. By the way, I keep hearing about
this whole shark infested waters of the San Francisco Bay.
If the waters are on San Francisco Bay are so
shark infested, why is everybody out there paddle boarding the
shark infested frigid waters that are gonna kill everyone.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
That sets foot in the bay. I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
There's only one species of shark that you think of
as being a man eater that ever goes into the bay.
Occasionally a great white will make its way into the bay.
Otherwise it's mostly the like the bottom sharks, you know,
have some good sized ones, salmon shark, thresher shark, beautiful fish.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The spiny dogfish is a shark. The blunt No. Six
gill shark, which is also Kila's nickname for.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Me who thank you word gets run So you're not
gonna get eaten by a shark.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
If you try to swim across the bay, the sharks
will eat you. Shark infested be more worried about the
the frigid waters, and I would be. The sharks don't.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Escape dressed like a seal, and you're fine. Unbelievable, all right,
there's just better ways. We talked in the last segment
about the waste, the boondoggle that is the bullet train
to nowhere. This is a prisoner or noway, this is
a complete mess to spend money on Alcatraz.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Let it keep being a monument, a museum. Let the
lore live alone. There is no reason to spend a
dollar trying to bring that thing back up to snuff
as an actual prison. What a waste.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's all about the symbolism, total symbolism.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
All right. The spat continues between our governor and the president,
and I think I know the reason. It's a real brainbuster.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Let's see if you were able to come up with
such deep thoughts as I did.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Chris Merril caf I AM six forty were live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app on Heather Chris Merril Cafi AM
six forty more stimulating talk. I'm trying to find Hey, Kila,
did I lose my audio for this story?
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I think I did. H boned this up, didn't I
I'll just I'll wing it. I'll just wing this one.
I think I can do it. Yep, no problem, no problem,
real quick.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
In light of the cold Play kiss cam slash ceo
hr director debacle where the CEO of this AI company
got caught having an affair with the hr director when
they were shown on the kiss camp with the cold
Play concert and now it looks like both of their
their marriages are toast and it's just a total mess.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
What is the biggest mistake you've ever made?
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Hey, Chris, speaking of your mishaps and crypto.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I was talking about how I had crypto in like
twenty eighteen, and my wife said, you know, this is
costing us money.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
You're losing money. Get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
So, you know, happy wife, happy life, but now poor.
So I sold it all off. I don't have a
whole lot, but it would have been worth a little
bit today, like fifty grand.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Instead, I just I took a bath on it, sold
a bunch of crap off, and now I think it's
worth like five hundred bucks.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
I put a good portion of my crypto in these
companies called Celsius and Blockfi, to earn interest on it,
and in twenty twenty two they both went bankrupt. Oh no,
and even though I got a Celsius, I got a
bigger hit. But bitcoin is valued at sixteen thousand dollars
at that time, and that's what I got dollar adjusted back.
(31:46):
And now you look where bitcoin is now. Yeah, good times.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I think it's like one fifteen twenty something like that.
One thousand.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I remember doing a story about crypto, about bitcoin, and
I want to say it was like twenty thirty, twenty fourteen,
and it hit a new record high six hundred dollars.
Now it's worth one hundred and sixteen thousand. It's telling
my buddies at the time ago, I think I might
want to buy one of these coins that'd be worth
six hundred dollars. I just have one, hang on to it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I just didn't know how. At the time. I was like,
how do you even buy that stuff? I didn't know,
so I never did it. Oh. I know, I feel dumb,
very very dumb. I'm a very very stupid man.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
All Right, the governor is slamming the president, and you
have to wonder, why is newsome all of a sudden
pivoting from pacification of the president to get what he
wants to confrontation.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Hum, wonder why he would do that.
Speaker 19 (32:44):
Pedigon announced a drawdown of two thousand California National Guard
troops that President Trump had deployed to Los Angeles. The
governor says those soldiers and another two thousand who remain
were never needed. That most spent their time at their loss.
Let me go space training for civil unrest that never happened.
Speaker 15 (33:03):
They're just under now jurisdiction of someone who's unhinged by
the name of Donald Trump. Uh. The utilization rate of
our National Guard less than five percent. Wasted hundreds of
millions of dollars on this.
Speaker 19 (33:18):
The governor's condemnation of the president and the immigration rates
now growing more personal. Earlier in the day, President Trump
suggested he could remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell due
to cost overruns on renovations to the Federal Reserve building
in Washington.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Yeah, they used marble in there when they did those renovations.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Jerome Powell didn't want to, but somebody at the administration
said you should put marble in here.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
That administration happened to be Trump one point zero. Well,
I think he's already under investigation.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
He spent far more money than he was opposed.
Speaker 15 (33:53):
To Donald Trump waxing on about the fed chair today
and cost overruns on a new building. How about the
hundreds of millions of dollars he's burned just to try
to see her in your mind that he's some tough
guy because he didn't get enough hugs from his parents
growing up.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Wow, did he just hit him with some psychology stuff? Oh,
my goodness, really really going at him there? Oh, he's
so angry because his parents didn't love him. Liberal attacks
lack teeth, don't they.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Oh, he's so here. Here was a guy that didn't
get hugged. Well, you burned him there, gav way to go.
Huh Okay, here's what I know about insults.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
They you can't they can't be cerebral insults cannot be
an on a high intellectual plane. It doesn't play. It
just looks like you're trying to talk to you're already
elitist base. You can't do that. But that's sorry. He's
(35:12):
just not gonna he's not gonna get it.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Gloves are off.
Speaker 19 (35:14):
Mister Newsom tailored his comments today, not just the Californians
but to the nations saying that what is happening in
southern California will soon be rolled out to the rest
of the nation.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
That's from LA.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
So uh, wait a minute, what do you mean he's
he's talking to the rest of the country too.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Are you telling me that it's hold on? Now? Where
was Newsom last week? Well? Well, he was in Well
he was SC is what they said?
Speaker 13 (35:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I thought there was southern California. Oh it wasn't Southern Californa.
He was in South Carolina, was the SC.
Speaker 19 (35:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I do the same thing with Louisiana and Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's the LA Right. So I saw the SC. I
thought he was in southern California, but he was in
South Carolina. Okay, why would he be in South Carolina?
Speaker 11 (36:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Early early voting, that's right, the early That's right. They
do the early primaries there, don't they.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Yeah. So why would he be tailoring a message where
he's attacking the president to the whole country? Oh? Yeah,
I bet.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh it's starting to look like maybe Gavin Newsom might
run for president. Huh, guys, got any insight on that?
Has anybody thought about that? Is anybody considered he might
be thinking about running for president? Is that dawned on anybody?
Am I the first one to come up with that?
I probably am probably the very first person to think
that the governor has his eyes on the White House
(36:41):
and uh seems to be worried about politicking now more.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Than more than governing.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, I'm probably the first person to say that. Probably
nobody else has ever come to that conclusion. So you're welcome.
That's the kind of insight you can't get anywhere else.
So that's a You're welcome. It's real brainbustering going on there.
All right, we'll continue with our worst decision you Ever made?
Speaker 4 (37:03):
And let of the.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Coldplay kiss cam, the CEO hr director debacle. What is
the worst decision you ever made? Hit us up on
the talkback on the iHeart Radio app. And then Epstein
won't die. As much as Trump really wants him to die,
he just won't die.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
That's next. Chris Merril AM six forty WeLive everywhere in
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