@Chrisontheair - Chris Merrill - Chris Loves Doggos

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Chris Merrill, pleasure to be with you every Sunday.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
The I believe it was bank Rate that did a survey,
and the American people have spoken. They've determined what the
ideal salary is. Oh, it's talker research.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
They did. At my apologies, talker research did it.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
They've identified what the perfect salary is for Americans. I
don't think they talk with anybody that lives in southern California.
So if you are on the iHeartRadio app, just clicking
that talkback button. Our question for you today, what is
the perfect salary for somebody living in southern California? All right,
you want to live in a safe neighborhood, you want
to have enough bedrooms for all the kids. In other words,

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give me kind of like American dream type salary. What
would it take for you. I don't care about another survey,
I don't care about a lesson. I want to know
what you think, all right, and then if it's good,
we'll plan on the air. And if it's bad, we'll
probably mock you off here maybe even on the here.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
That happens. So big news this.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Week in the world of politics, and I hate talking
about politics, but this one is national hits local.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So we're going to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
And that is you're gonna have an opportunity to decide
if you've had way too much freedom in choosing your own.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Congressional representatives. So again we go back.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm sure you're up on this, but for those that aren't,
Texas had decided that they were going to redraw the
maps so that it would give the Republicans an advantage
pick up five seats, based on demographics, based on voting history,
based on registrations, this sort of thing. You can't obviously
tell people how to vote, at least that's what they say.
And we know Vladimir Putin said that if you vote

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by phone or using those machines, then you can't possibly
have a legitimate election, which makes us all wonder if
we have legitimate elections anyway. But Texas said, normally we
wait until the census comes out, but what if we
just redraw this stuff now just to give our party
an advantage. Is that in the best interest of the

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people of Texas. No, is that in the best interest
of the party. Yes, the party's job, of course is
to protect the party, raise money, protect the power. That's
a party's job, Republican Democrat. If you think that the
Democrats the Democratic Party, let me say that, and I
mean this not as a collection of Democrats, but rather
the operation that is the party. If you're a Californian

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and you think the Democratic Party is looking out for you, you
are mistaken. They are looking out for the party. Now,
if you align with the party, maybe you're okay with that.
But their whole mission is not about ideology. It is
not about this is the right way that we should
be living our lives. No, no, no, no, It's about getting people
with a D next the names elected. For the Republicans,
it's about getting the person with an R next to

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their name elected.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
That is the party's only job. That's it.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
So if they can manipulate the rules to maintain power
in a midterm election where historically the party and the
minority loses control, they're gonna do what they have to do.
So what happens California then says well, Texas, we're gonna
We're gonna do it back, even though of course we

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have our own independent group that decides what the congressional
lines are. Now the state of California says, hey, why
don't we just suspend that for a little while so
that we can strike back at Texas. I don't know,
is this an opening salvo in our political civil war?
Maybe that political civil war has been going on for

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a while. Just feels like it's a lot closer to
the streets.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
This was the news as that ABC was covering Newsom
signing the bill that will send it to you to
vote on as to whether or not you want to
read rather the maps.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Governor Newsom making the November fourth special election official after
the California State Legislature passed the new congressional maps.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, a special election. So we're spending millions of dollars
on this nonsense. Yeah, it's great. I mean, what in
the world were we going to do with all that money?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Anyway? Right?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
What help people? What cut taxes? Improve literacy? Now, we're
not going to do that. No, no, not when we
can play tittley wings with Texas.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
The ballot measure will be known as Prop fifty and
could force out Republicans in Congress.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
We got here because the President of the United States
is struggling. We got here because the President of the
United States is one of the most unpopular presidents in
US history. We got here because he recognizes that he
will lose the election. Congress will go back into the
hands of the Democratic Party next November.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
After hours of debate in both chambers and Sacramento and
an all out effort by Republicans to stop the jerrymandering,
it overwhelmed past the State Assembly and State Senate.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, it's weird. How come?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
How come the how come the Texas Democrats aren't complaining
about California doing this? Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Because they look at it as revenge.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
How come the California Republicans aren't screaming that the Texas
Republicans are doing Oh because the party's job is to
maintain power, and they looked at that as a good
thing for them. It's not about your best interest, my friends.
What is really interesting about the California response to Texas
redrawing their maps is that it wasn't serious to start with.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
This was a lark that the whole idea was, Hey.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Texas, if you're going to go through with that, maybe
we'll just do the same thing. And then Texas went, well,
we're going to so then California said crap. They called
our bluff, and then all of a sudden, the Democrats
in California went, well, I guess we're gonna do it.
Then it was all a bluff. It was never serious

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until Texas called the bluff. Texas always calls bluff. They
always call your bluff. Texans always go down swinging. That's
why you can't play poker with Texans. Texas Hold him
is like playing chicken. Nobody ever, nobody ever backs off
of bluff.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
Evan or NEWSIM hosting a Danish delegation Friday, tuck.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh, Kayla, that's what we need.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
A Danish delegation, maybe some bear Claw delegations, some Long
John's delegation, delegations. Mmm, hell, I'll even take a donut
hold delegation.

Speaker 7 (06:44):
Fucking tech and climate but looming large November's unprecedented special
election over redrawing California's congressional map set into motion just
twenty four hours ago. A Danish reporter posing this question
to news him, do you like strawberries?

Speaker 2 (07:02):
You're like raspberry. I'm sorry, I'm STI hung up in
the Danish thing. Will you be the.

Speaker 8 (07:07):
Lead Democrat candidate to run against Trump?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And I don't know, have you been watching my twitter feed.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I doing what I can. Oh, okay, well, I mean
he basically says, yes, he's gonna run for president.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
If you've been watching my twitter feed, you.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Know, speaking of a twitter feed, Newsom is Oh incidentally,
just anybody that's listening right now, you're probably picking up
on from my tone that the Shenanigans between Texas and
California irritate me to no end. And I'm gonna talk
a little bit more about Newsom and his mimicry of

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Trump here in a moment. I just want to point
out that if you're still listening at five o'clock, I'm
gonna talk about some national stuff where I will not
be painting Trump and a Rosie sign.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
A Rosie I don't know, you know, but just mark
my words.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
We will get many, many, many and many angry, angry
phone calls when I do that. Just I would encourage
you to listen for another hour and just see how
this goes, because it's about as predictable as the sunrise. Anyway,
Newsome has decided he's not trumpy enough and so he's
going full Trump.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's next. It's Chris Merrild Cafi AM six forty live everywhere.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
If you are listening on the app, hit that talkback
fight in our question tonight, what is the perfect salary
for living in southern California? What is the perfect salary
for living in other words, what would you need to
make for for things to be comfortable? American dream kind
of thing? What is the perfect salary? When you find
out what the rest of America thinks? I think your

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jaw is going to hit the floor. That's coming up
in the five o'clock hour. Also, La law.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Segment is up next.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
And what one one dude did in the middle of
a car chase that I don't think anyone has ever
seen before. That's coming up here after four thirty. All right,
let's hit the talk back. What is the perfect salary
for living in Southern California? Kayla, I say, we've got
the talkbacks? Are they all on topic?

Speaker 9 (09:18):
Now? You know?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay? Great? Okay, great?

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Hey Chris, as a mom who just sent her kid
off to college, I just wanted to let you know
that there's a few places on Facebook dorm room Mama's
Parents of twenty twenty five and the dorms that are
out of control are predominantly black families, So you might
want to check your facts before you go the Ashton
as white folks, because I think I spent about six
hundred bucks.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
All right, Wait a minute.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
First of all, hang on, hang on, hold on, Kayla,
before you get upset, hang on, all right. First of all,
this this harkens back to when I was talking with
Tiffany Hobbs and she was talking dorm rooms and people
spending up to ten thousand dollars, and I said, God,
white people are the worst. After hearing from this person,
I will double down. White people are the worst. They

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have no sense of humor. My god, Well you can't.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Also six hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Okay, Well hold on, I'm trying to remember, well, my
wife took care of our kids. I'm just thinking back
and when I went to college, what do you get?
What do you do with six hundred dollars? So you
gotta have things like hangars, laundry baskets, mini fridge. Trying
to think of what you're spending six hundred dollars on,
because I know it adds up pretty quickly. I don't

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think six hundred dollars. Is that outrageous? But I'm just
trying to think of what you're getting for six hundred dollars.

Speaker 10 (10:43):
TV college is expensive lunch money.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know, I don't no, No, that's all separate,
just dorm room stuff.

Speaker 10 (10:51):
But don't some universities like have a card that you
can use in certain eateries around campus. Yeah, but that's
on that card, so that isnt that's not included the
six hundred dollars spending fore you? Okay, so expensive betting obviously.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Being yeah, god your dainty?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh man, all right, Gavin Newsom is he's celebrating because, uh,
Texas called California's bluff, and California then decided, Okay, well,
I guess we are going to try to do some
redistricting and it's gonna head to you.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
You're gonna have an opportunity to vote on that.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
By the way, the voters right now are a plurality supported.
In other words, it's not a majority of California's to
support redistricting, but it's forty eight percent, which is more
than the people that oppose it. So they have a plurality.
The majority of a minority is what they have, right
now in the redistricting fight, Newsom has raised what six
point two million dollars online?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
People want him to run for president. What do you
think about that?

Speaker 9 (11:55):
Chuck?

Speaker 11 (11:55):
He's in that day.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Richard Q came on, Oh thank you there, hang on,
there's more.

Speaker 11 (12:04):
This is Julianne's important but bully politics. I just can't
stand you. Wow, he said, you don't like talking politics
top politics?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, something else, yes, yes, I will.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
People switch up so quickly there I will. So Gavin Newsom,
if you've noticed this stuff online, he's gone. He's gone
full Trump and people are mad at him, and he's
getting responses. In other words, he's getting under the skin
of MAGA. It's not hard for Gavin Newsom to get

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under maga's skin. It's like saying Nancy Pelosi irritates the right.
Of course she does. Newsom irritates the right. But now
he's he's aping President Trump's style, and the the hardcore
magas are becoming apoplectic. They are very upset with him
for doing so. The Democrats are looking at this like, oh,

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finally we've got a fighter.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
Yay.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Ron Brownstein was don with NBCLA and he was talking
about sort of this new tone.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Hold on go.

Speaker 12 (13:17):
I mean, there's just kind of endemic frustration among Democratic
activists around the country that the party leadership, in the
view of most Democrats, has been kind offfeckless, and has
failed to find ways to push back against Trump. Newsom
is doing it both substantively and stylistically, I mean substantly,
over three dozen lawsuits, moving much faster and more aggressively

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than any other Democratic blue state governor in responding to
the gerrymander in Texas.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, one thing about what's happening in the political world
is that the practical opposition doesn't get headlines. You have
to be a real wont to be paying attention to that. Oh,
the Attorney general in Maryland has fired and filed another lot.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Nobody cares.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh, Newsom is is suing the government for the National
Guard deployed. Nobody really pays attention to that. But if
Newsom puts out a meme of Milania hugging him viral.
I mean, that's the world of politics that we're in
right now, just what it is. People don't pay attention
to the substance. It's all about the sizzle, not the state.

Speaker 12 (14:20):
And at the same time, you know, pursuing this very
kind of mocking omnipresence strategy on social media, of needling Trump.
I actually think that you can take that too far.
You know, that he pushed too far. That kind of
undermines the gravity of the case that he is making
against Trump, that he is an authoritarian, aspiring authoritarian, undermining democracy.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
But there's no doubt that it has.

Speaker 12 (14:46):
Helped Newsom cat the catch the attention of Democrats around
the country. You know, if you look at polling in
third states, I mean states where you know he's not there,
and these other democratic governors are out there, like North
Carolina or Texas, or early polling ofocrats on twenty twenty eight,
the other potential governor candidates like Josh Shapiro, Gretcha Whitmer,
Andy Basher, j D Prince, grow Westmore, they're all at

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one two three percent New Susan double digits. He is
succeeding in capturing the attention of democratic voters, and at
this without necessarily taking positions that he might be hard
to defend in a general election if he got that phone.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, as he was talking about this, I was thinking
about him defending positions that sort of thing. What happens
if the special election comes around on November fourth and
Californians go, no, we don't want you to mess with
our redistricting process.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
What if it doesn't pass.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
What if this entire charade to lash out at Texas
fails in California? What does that do? I mean that
he's he's done right. Newsom can't run for president if
he doesn't get this redistricting thing done. I mean, that
would look like an absolute colossal failure from a guy
that the Democrats are saying, saying, you know, he's the fighter,

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he's gonna get things done. If this doesn't work toast right,
there's really no coming back from that. I am reading
a number of op eds that I think are really
interesting and was reading one from OC Register. Stephen green

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Hut was talking about the Newsom versus Trump trolling war,
and he just talked about how it speaks so poorly
for the nation. Now he articulates very well, what summarized
is a race to the bottom, right that we are
we're not focusing on what that leadership should be doing,
what the leader should be doing, what the leadership should

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look like. We're not focusing on those things. Instead, we're
focusing on who gets more barbs, more jabs, more gotchas
on the other person. It's kind of like, and this
was pointed out by green Hut, It's kind of like
when you watch the debates and nobody remembers all the
wonkish replies. We only remember the singers because they stand out, right,
So as all of these politicians are trying to stand out,

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and they're trying to get these singers, and now they're
making up these memes and they've got their AI stuff.
And look, Trump was a pioneer of this better than
anybody else, But now others are starting to catch up.
They're starting to just in Newsom's case, it's sort of
mimicry as satire.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
But not everyone is doing that.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Some people are adopting Trump's very aggressive tactics and they're saying,
this is how you do it. Now, this is the
new way of communicating in America. He has pioneered this,
for better or for worse. What does this say about
us that we don't pay attention to the meat and potatoes,
that we only seem to want the dessert when it

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comes to political discourse. Really interesting takes, and I appreciate
everybody looking at that, I would have to agree. I
don't know what the Democrats can do because they're getting
smoked everywhere, and their registrations are down nationwide. They're getting toasted.
They got to do something. So it looks like they're

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completely shifting gears, changing.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Tactics, and I can't say that.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I that I think it's a real great look for
either party kind of makes me sad. It's Chris Merril
I AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
The lawmakers, the law breakers, and the times that there
ought to be a law. Usually when you look at
an awful lot of today's show is about that, especially
when we talk about redistricting and getting around the laws
of redistricting.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
And blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
We'll talk about the Menendai coming up here at about
four point fifty as well, But first let's start with this.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
You probably have never seen it before. I certainly have not.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
ABC seven was doing one of those, you know, the
law coverage of a police chase, and the police pulled
off the chase because I guess things were getting a
little too hairy.

Speaker 13 (19:07):
Suspect is out and on the loose after a very
wild pursuit that, among other things, saw the suspect stop
for gas at a.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Point where.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Time out.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Guy, is that going to fill the tank.

Speaker 13 (19:24):
Where the police pursuing agencies had backed off. That's video
we have from earlier too. He actually stopped at this
gas station, got out, filled up the tank, it would appear,
and during that time there were no police around him,
no police behind him, no apparently officers above him that
we know of, and so he very casually filled up

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the car with gas, covering his face at the time.
But you get a good look now at who this
person is.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Who does that.

Speaker 13 (19:54):
Even though you don't get to see his face, you
get a pretty good description of what he looks like.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Somebody knows who it is.

Speaker 13 (20:01):
And he fills up the tank and then drives off.
And what got him rein hold on, hang on, time out?

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
How did he pay for the gas?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I mean, it sounds like he just ran up and
he ran a credit card and maybe the credit card
was still I'm gonna I mean, we just get a
receipt and find out who the guy is.

Speaker 13 (20:27):
Gauged Here was the fact that he continued to drive
so erradically after he had filled up his tank. For
this entire time, there were no officers behind him. He
could have walked away from this car and would have
gotten away scott free. He chose not to do that,
instead getting back on the freeways, getting driving in high speeds,
basically forcing police to continue to pursue him, and getting

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to the point where he is now under the ten
Freeway where that pursuit ended with him getting into another vehicle.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
We'll try to have more information. That's crazy, that's wild.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
So he just drives and then I don't know if
he had somebody meet him, parked under the freeway, jumped
out of one car, got into another, and went.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Out and took off. He had some good friends. I'll
tell you that. Oh my gosh. Is he just on
the phone going, hey man, I boosted this car.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
We got to just meet under a freeway. I'll dump
the car because the cops are.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
On me, and the friends like, yeah, Paul, I got you.
I'm in that area. That's really that's a rider die.

Speaker 10 (21:22):
That's a rider die.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
That is wild.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
See to the lawmakers, the Trump administration has said, no, California,
you don't need that twelve million dollars because we don't
like the way you're teaching about sex.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
So happening now, The HHS has just ended federal funding
for California's sex education program. Just minutes ago. Andrew Gradison,
Oh no.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Wait a minute, we've ended. We've been in a federal grant
for sex education. Do we need people who are dumber
about sex?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Is that what we need?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
We don't need that.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
No, no, I mean, I'm not even gonna touch it.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I just uh, I was gonna make a joke, but
there's no joke.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
We do not need any people that are dumber about
how things work.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Distant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families announced
the suspension of the money in a letter to state
officials that reads, in part, quote, California has failed to
modify its state prep content to remove all references to
gender ideology consistent with the additional conditions imposed by ACF.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Okay, all right, so this from Fox News, the report
the sex education grant has been pulled because we our
education system has references to gender identity and transgender I
don't know equipment. So we said, okay, that's it. We're
not gonna teach anybody about anything.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, I got issues with this.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I mean, yes, isn't that just circumcising your nose despite
your face?

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, just a little bit.

Speaker 14 (23:04):
Yeah, it's for me as a person who's getting a
PhD in human sexuality, I'm a little worried about the
fact that, you know, stuff that I study, and I
research and I have a good amount of knowledge with
is going to be forcibly kept from people. I cannot
teach certain things that are actually true because it doesn't
line up with the ideology that one group wants to push.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
It's only true if you believe it. The big problem
here is a lot of people are believing the truth
and we're gonna put a stop to that. So yeah,
but this is another one of those situations too, where
how much control does the president have over the purse
strings if there's one thing that comes out of this administration.
And there's gonna be lots of things to come out

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of this administration, for for for good or for bad
and all.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Depending on your perspective on each individual case.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
But the challenges to the separation of powers are being
tested did more than they ever have, and I think
that we are going we're.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
At a watershed moment.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Now where the country will go Okay, the way the
guardrails we had were good and this guy violated them,
or we're at this moment where we're gonna go, whoa,
the guardrails we had were too much and now we're
going to give more power to the executive branch, and
then moving forward, future executives are also going to have
that kind of power. This is the watershed moment. This
is the everything's being put to the test.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
And as much as.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Every party complains about the other party testing the and
challenging the powers of the presidency, it's happening more now
than it even did during.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Trump's first term.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Now, Sam, have you considered getting a different degree, perhaps plumbing.

Speaker 14 (24:41):
I'm a little too far into this one, and I
haven't seen too many doctor plumbers out there.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I'm dating one Kayla. There's a a PhD In plumbing.

Speaker 10 (24:51):
Well, no, he has a medical license but owns a
plumbing company.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh so you can do anything. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 13 (24:58):
Isn't that funny?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I met Kayla's boyf and he's super cool and he's
a nice guy. He's kind of he's definitely he's got
like that doctor like type A not in a bad way,
but like very type a right. I mean, I don't
want to say you think disparaiting it. I don't mean
it to be that way. But it's so funny when
you're said, I know a lot of doctor plumbers and
I was like, oh, you know, I've only known one.

Speaker 14 (25:20):
Well, yeah, I mean I can be like a doctor
and an air conditioning guy I can find to get into.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Actually, Kyle's wait.

Speaker 14 (25:29):
A minute, I'm a doctor radio medic guy.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah you are.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
You're like doctor Wendy. I'm versatile. That's exactly what it is.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Uh No, I'll be curious to see how this one
plays out.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
And with your with your degree? Are you?

Speaker 3 (25:46):
And I apologize, Sam, we've had this conversation, but the
audience doesn't know. So are you going to be teaching
then or are you practicing?

Speaker 14 (25:52):
Well, I'm a marriage and family therapist and it gives
me more specialization as far as sex and sexuality goes.
But I can be I'm fully qualified to be a
professor in college or whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, hey, how does that work? If somebody forget the
law and order segment that we're doing here, How does
that work? If you're a therapist? Do people come into
you and they say, our sex life is bad? Or
does somebody come in and they go, I'm questioning my sexuality?
I mean, what does that look like for a typical patient.

Speaker 14 (26:20):
It depends if they're married and they have some kind
of imbalance as far as sexual desire or sexual needs go,
we go after that. If it's someone who's got some issues,
like an individual who's got issues reconnecting themselves, they may
have gone through some trauma and sometimes they just need
to reconnect with their body and you know, before they
can actually focus on anything sexual.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Interesting, is it? Is it awkward?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Because I imagine I imagine having a third party that you're
opening up to if it's my wife, and I'm just
imagining my wife and I conversing with you, and fortunately
she says that our sex life is okay, because I'm
convinced that she's incredibly disappointed.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's not a joke, that's true. It is funny.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
She says, no, it's fine, which sounds even worse like
when a woman says it's fine.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
But if if I were to come to you, I
would be really embarrassed by saying, well, you know, she
likes it when I do this, or I she doesn't
like it when I do. I mean, does it get
graphic like that or is it more about understanding the
psychology behind desire and such.

Speaker 14 (27:27):
It does get graphics sometimes, but it's also done from
a place where you know, I tend to bring a
lot of humor to it that's appropriate for the moment.
So it makes it a lot easier to have conversations
about stuff that makes people blush in general. But usually
they're coming to me for stuff like anxiety or depression,
and then they find out I have a speciality in

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sex and sexuality, and they're like, yeah, I'm going to
jump in and talk to you about this, and it
turns out that a lot of their anxiety manifests in
ways that affect them sexually.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
That is so fascinating.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
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about dogs because they're great, although some people are not
so great with their dogs. I'm not gonna hold the
dog responsible for this one. I'm gonna hold the lady
responsible because this is this was an interesting take on

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voter fraud.

Speaker 9 (28:40):
Tonight at custom mesa woman from Fox eleven. Tonight, custom
mesa woman is accused of registering her dog to vote
and then casting mail in ballots. Prosecutors say sixty two
year old Laura Lee Yorex used her dog Maya to
vote in the twenty twenty one recall election. Twenty twenty two.

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Ballot was rejected, but investigators found social posts showing the
ballot and.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
And I voted sticker.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
She down faces five felonies in up to six years
in prison.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Okay, it's a lot to unpack here, not the least
of which is they didn't tell us who the dog
voted for. Don't post your voter fraud on social media, right.
I think that's the first, probably the first lesson we're
going to take away here is that if you are
committing voter fraud, don't brag about it.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's a good way to get caught. I want to
know who the dog voted for. Also, that's my question.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
How did the dog sign the mail in ballot? Did
the dog like a pawprint? Because I'm all in on that.
I saw a sign last year. It was my favorite
political sign and it might be the only sign I
would ever put in my yard.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
And it was not mine. I wish it were, but
I loved it.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
And it said vote dogs twenty twenty four because people suck,
and I thought, yes, absolute.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Uh just I mean, what is it? What is it?
What has the dog ever done to bring about war? Nothing?
So I vote dogs.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I have other stories that are not quite so I'm
trying to figure out timing on this.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
You've got time.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, I'm trying to think do I want to do
I want a sad dog story before I cap it
with the good dog story.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I just want to take more time with a good
dog story.

Speaker 10 (30:22):
Yeah no, it's too sat and then end on a
higher note.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Okay, okay, all right. So LA Animal Services are trying
to get dogs.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Adopted, but there are critics that are saying this is
not a great way to get dogs adopted, it's a
great way to get dogs euthanized.

Speaker 15 (30:39):
This pup's case is an example of LA Animal services
new transfer initiative, moving dogs who've been in one shelter
more than three months into a different one In hopes
of boosting their chances of adoption.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Of this is place.

Speaker 16 (30:50):
He has been at the West LA Shelter for eight
months and he is also being transferred to.

Speaker 15 (30:54):
It's designed to increase the pup's exposure to new potential
forever homes.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
But also normally have call out the reporter for referring
to an adult dog as a pup, but I fully
condone it. Normally, I'm very critical of these things, but
I fully condone this one. Yes, it's always a pup,
it's always baby.

Speaker 15 (31:12):
Rescuers, volunteers and advocates say it's a terrible idea.

Speaker 16 (31:16):
Well, even if you do get new eyes on them,
they're going to be looking at a stressed dog that
no one at that shelter knows anything about. No one
can advocate for that dog.

Speaker 15 (31:25):
Oh she was Scott Astrov with Animal Rescue Mission says
dogs need time, patience, and familiar faces to really open up.
She argues that moving them wipes away that progress and
sets them back.

Speaker 16 (31:35):
You're moving a dog that has volunteer staff that are
familiar with that dog, that have trained that dog. That
dog now is comfortable, and you know, isn't a place
where they can get adopted, and now you're going to
move that dog to another shelter. It's going to get
stressed out. No one there can advocate for him because
they just met him, and they are factually putting these

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dogs on kill us right away.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Ah no, I like the obligatory dog barking soud effect.

Speaker 15 (32:05):
She and other critics are now sounding the alarm on
social media.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
These dogs are going to be in unfamiliar place.

Speaker 16 (32:11):
They are going to experience fear, anxiety, stress, the number
one reason our city shelters kill dogs.

Speaker 15 (32:17):
In an email sent out to volunteers and staff, representatives
insist the goal is to get more eyes on overlooked pets. Yeah,
the rescuers like Astrov say, it's just downright wrong.

Speaker 16 (32:27):
Aside from being so cruel to the dogs, it's so
cruel to these saints that are dedicating their lives to
these dogs.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
All volunteers are the saints. Oh, I mean it makes
me sad, it breaks my heart, But then well you
really want to bring tears my eye. Imagine that something
horrible happened to you. Would your dog care. My current

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dog would not care. My current dog would care. Something
happened to my wife would not care for anything.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
The dog would be like, Dad's not coming back. That's cool.
I a treat, But I've had dogs that are very loyal.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
In one case, an owner is lost and the dog
is beside itself. Story of Unconditional.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
It's from NBCLA did a nice job on this one.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
Love.

Speaker 17 (33:17):
A man is killed in a hit and run in
South La.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Okay, it is a little weird how they're like, oh,
what a wonderful story.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Let's start with the hit and run. No hang on.

Speaker 17 (33:26):
Story of Unconditional Love. A man is killed in a
hit and run in South La. His loyal dog just
sits right by his side for hours as police investigate.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Now for the.

Speaker 17 (33:37):
First time, we are hearing from the man who stepped
in to save that dog from being turned over to
a shelter. And Alex Choi and his beautiful dog, Join
us Lived, Join us Live right now.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
I had a little feedback there, so I don't know,
maybe you saw the photos of this where the guy's
and the dog's just laying there.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Police tape all around and the dog is just lying
by his side.

Speaker 17 (34:01):
Thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate
you being here. First of all, tell me you were
on scene. So you saw this and you.

Speaker 10 (34:08):
Saw how distressed he was.

Speaker 18 (34:09):
It was really sad. It was really really sad, and
he didn't want to leave the owner's body. I had
to pull him on some forest to get him away
from him.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was pretty sad, and he was crying.

Speaker 18 (34:20):
He was whining and howling. Like the whole way home,
he was howling and whining. When I got to my house.
He wasn't eating food, he wasn't drinking water like he
probably thought I was kidnapping him. Yeah, yeah, I don't
think he realized that his owner.

Speaker 17 (34:35):
Yeah, but since you've had him, Alex, you've seen a
tremendous change.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Tell me he's a sweet pup, isn't he.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (34:41):
No, it only took me like four or five days
to for him to get loyal to me. I take
him on walks now he I don't have to pull
him on a leash. Actually, I took him on a
walk like three days ago and like took the leash
off and he falls.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
He just follows you around.

Speaker 18 (34:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Making me want to cry here, I know, that's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Like I feel all the other dog stories, this one
just made me like weep. I can't imagine my dog
going through that.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
No, nor care about me.

Speaker 15 (35:13):
I care about my dog, right, It's okay, but not
my I don't want my dog.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Granted, I don't want to go because I have fear
of missing out.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
I you know, I'd hate to hate to miss out
of whatever is ahead, and you know obviously the rest
of my.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
My lotto inuity payments. But I would feel.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Horrible about what my dog would experience. Terrible. But this
guy adopted the dog too, He was on scene. He
adopted the dog, and he says, just fantastic dog people.
So many great dogs in those shelters. Just have have
a gander. Have a gander our best. We don't deserve them.

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