May 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Memorial Day travel is projected to beat a 20-year-old record high this year, according to newly released AAA data. Quit flying off to exotic places. Stay closer to home. The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law. In the days following missing camper Tiffany Slaton’s rescue from the Sierra National Forest, what began as a heartwarming tale of a woman surviving against all odds has been tinged by a chorus of online skeptics questioning the hiker and her family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're that friend. Great to be with you on a
Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I hope you have a chance to spend some time
with family, save a bunch on mattresses, and of course,
most of all, have a chance to just remember our
fallen It is it is in that vein. I'm just
going to jump right into it today and I'll tell
you more about our talkback question here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But I wanted to start with this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Every year we see the same story come out, but
I take something else away from it this year, and
that is that you are going to hear so many
stories throughout the rest of this year, next year, the
year after, probably for the next five or even ten
years about how terrible gen Z is. Everything about gen
Z is how lazy they are, how demanding they are,
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about how they have no prospects but don't care. They're unmotivated.
Nobody wants to work these days. It is a refrain
that you hear about every new generation. It drives me crazy.
But I wanted to take an opportunity and present to
you a class of gen Zers who are doing something
today that I think is incredibly special that they continue
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on this tradition from our friends at NBCLO.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We are seeing volunteers from all across southern California making
it out here to Los Angeles National Cemetery. And two
very special people are joining us now, Bella and Jayden.
Thank you so much, guys. They are Eagle Scouts. They
have been part of the Scouts group for now for
years and they tell me that they've been taking part
in this ceremony Michelle for quite some time now and
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they today have the honor of being MC's Bella, Jayden,
thank you so much for joining us. So why is
this so important to you guys?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, Scouting really is a family to me, and it's
been the community that's been my homeway from home. I
love it with all my heart and coming out here
today I think what makes us so in cutable.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
These are Eagle Scouts. These are seventeen eighteen year olds.
These are not They're not older generations that are out
there putting flags down. These are young people.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Pedible is seeing the six to eight thousand Scouts that
spend their early Saturday mornings coming out here to honor
our veterans, and it shows just how much Scouting is
a community and how much we love our country and
how much we just want to serve our community.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And we're talking about six to eight thousand volunteers. Jaden,
you guys are going to be placing close to ninety
thousand flags this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, yes, we are.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
There's about ninety thousand people here and it's got a
really big day and I think it's really good.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Ninety thousand people, but you've got six or eight thousand
just Scouts alone.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
It is celebrated because it's kind of a day to
commemorate our fallen soldiers and it's really important that we
give them a day and show them respect that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Thank you so much, guys.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Again, that's like a seventeen year old saying that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Don't tell me that we don't have hope for the
future when we've got those kids leading the way.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So really appreciate your time. And you know, Michelle, this
is something that is done on Memorial Day, but also
on Veterans Day. We also see a lot of volunteers
showing up and doing this wonderful can. It means so
much for the families of those veterans to know that
their sacrifice is still being honored.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All right, So you get the point anyway, right, So
placing flags love to hear those stories. That's great, especially
when we can highlight that the next generation cares. Now
that said, here is another survey that is going to
make you go, kids these days. But wait a minute,
because what we know is that younger generations are always
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less informed, all right, So here's the story. How many
know the true meaning of Memorial Day?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For gen Z, only twenty seven percent of gen Zers
know that Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen soldiers,
all right, Only twenty seven percent. And you go, how
that means seventy three percent don't even know. But across
all generations, based on Talker's research and a survey that
they did, fewer than half of all Americans know that
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Memorial Day is specifically for those who died while serving
their country. I saw a great breakdown online and I
wish I could remember who had it. But it's I'm
sure it's a I'm sure it's one of those things
that gets repeated often enough, and it was something along
the lines of this Armed Services Day is to honor
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those in uniform. Veterans Day is to honor those who
wore the uniform. Memorial Day is to honor those who
never took off the uniform.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I thought that was brilliant, just brilliant. Thirty five
percent of.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Americans think that Memorial Day is about honoring all military veterans,
both living and dead.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, that's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Five percent think it's about remembering all public servants who
died on the job.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So that would include the police.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
For instance, right, which actually I believe it was last
week that we just had the the Peace Officers Remembrance Day.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So yeah, gen z the worst at it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They're also the youngest, They've had the least amount of
time to get the to get the truth behind it,
or to hear a segment like this. But I also
think it goes to what are we teaching, what's being
taught in class, what's being retained when it's being taught
in class? And I think far too many, far too
many times, the actual story, actual you know, the education
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that should be passed on to the kids is either
not being passed on or it's not being retained, and
I think that's tragic. So when I get a story
like I do from NBCLA about all the Eagle Scouts
that are out there putting the all the Scouts actually
that are all putting the flags of the graves.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I think that's just tremendous. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And to all the high school bands who are getting
up early to go to a ceremony tomorrow at a cemetery,
I think you are you are an incredibly important piece
of our memorial that you probably don't even realize. Probably
don't I know that When I was in marching band
and we had to be at the school early in
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the morning on Monday, I mean, we knew what it
was for. We just knew that we had to do
it because it was required for class. But looking back
on it now, I realized how important that was for
everyone that went and everyone that gathered. Okay, I don't
want to sound too sappy here. I'm not trying to
milk this for emotion or anything like that, but I
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wanted to make sure we open the show and.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Talked about that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
There are You're going to hear a number of stories
today and tomorrow about travel and about how gas prices are.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Down big Lee, But are they?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Gas prices are going down nearly everywhere except California. Bugger
Ass Buddy reports that the national average prices expected to
be three dollars and eight cents on Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
This would be oh remember the old days of three
dollars gas remember that?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Remember? Yeah, I mean neither.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
The lowest gas price on Memorial Day since twenty twenty one. However,
experts for gas prices here in California will actually go
up this weekend because of some refineries are down.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Of course, it just happens to go up this weekend
because of those refineries.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, it's a busy travel weekends. Oh manh the refineries.
It just happens to be a time that we can
make more money. And nobody's going to cancel their plans
because gas goes up twenty sis.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So yeah, we'll just say it was the.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Refineries for maintenance. Also, remember there was a refiner.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, and then we close those refineries for maintenance.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Yeah, some refineries are down for maintenance.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, I mean, how are we supposed to know that
we were gonna have to maintain our refineries.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It really snuck up on it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We could only do it during Memorial Day weekend. It
was the only possible time we could possibly do it.
This is just crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So also remember there was a refinery fire in the
Bay Area earlier this month. The average price of gas
in California today four dollars ninety cents. Triple A expects
nearly forty million people to travel by car this weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right, forty million buy car. I actually like that.
I do, and you're gonna go it is bad for
pollution and all this. Nah, there's a there's a good
thing about traveling by car. And I'll tell you why
you should stop flying and just stay closer to home.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'll tell you why this is. This is not great
for the environment, but it is. It is. It is
better for you, and I'll share with you why that
is here in a minute. Now. I told you I
was going to get back to this.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
If you're listening on the app, or hell, if you're
listening in your car and you can open the app,
do it. When you listen on the iHeartRadio app, you'll
see a little microphone icon you can click on that.
That's our talk back that allows you to record a
little message and it comes to us. And if we
like what you have to say, or we think it's interesting,
or we can poke fund at you, merciless, we will
and we'll play it on the air. The question this
week because I have a wonderful story about how to
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die in the apocalypse. If the apocalypse happens, where are
you going? Okay, if there's an apocalypse, and more specifically,
drill down here if it's a zombie apocalypse. But I'll
allow you to answer any question. If the apocalypse happens,
where are you going? It's very important survey because if
you get this wrong, your brains are food. That's how
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it's gonna work out. Okay, all right, why you need
to stay close and drive instead of hopping out a flight.
I'll tell you what that is, and I'll also get
your feedback on the apocalypse that is next. Chris Merril,
I am six forty, will live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Chris Marrel, I AM six forty. More stimulating talk. Always
a pleasure to be with you. And of course, on
a Memorial Day weekend when an awful lot of people
are focused on what they have going on for the
Memorial Day, we'll discuss in just a moment. I did
ask this question, because I have a story coming up
that if you if the zombies get us, and there's
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there's grounded science to why we would go through this exercise.
But if the zombies come and we have a zombie apocalypse,
where are you going? If you go to one place
in southern California that many people will think of, you're
probably toast. So we asked the question on the talkback.
If you're listening on the appf I am six forty
hit that talk back, let us know where you would
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go and your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Hey, Chris, he if the apocalypse happens, I hope I'm
underneath the warhead or the epicenter.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
This place is crazy and it will only get crazier.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Love the show.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, that's actually a really great point. I mean, the
last thing you want to do, like if it's if
it's a nuclear attack, the last thing you want to
be is like a radioactive survivor just go quick, just
end the pain, just be done with it. One hundred
percent with you on that not the answer I was
necessarily looking for, But I might join you. Maybe we
drink ourselves a little. Jim Jones kol aid Cock till
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and enjoy the last few minutes we have. Okay, yep,
I'm okay with that. All right, Memorial Day is here,
which means if you have tried to screwed out of
town at all, it's been difficult. Of course, if you're listening,
you're either out of town and listening on the app
or you're still around and then you didn't have to travel.
So if that's the case, you probably saw the stories
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about Memorial they travel being rotten.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
It's projected more than forty five million Americans will travel
at least fifty miles from home over the weekend, the
majority by car, almost ninety percent. And that's one point
four million more than last year, which could mark a
new record, so passing the two thousand and five high
of forty four million.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All right, tons of people going on vacation. So are
we really worried about the economy?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Kind of. I'll give you more on that here in
about an hour, but continue.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And this marks the first holiday since that real ID
requirement for domestic flights went into effect back on May seven.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The government's tracking US man Security officials say those who
haven't gotten there's yet will still be able to fly
for now. But they'll be subject to an additional screening process,
and the FAA expects record travel with flights peaking today
and back out here live as our local freeways start
to get busier and busier into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, it was a Friday. I think they'll.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Notice more officers on our local freeway. CHP says it's
increasing controls as part of a maximum enforcement period that
starts tomorrow at six pm.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But they still won't rache you a ticket for speeding
because they just don't. For now, live and somorrow A
Mario Ramirez will see it. Back to you. Thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you. Marow I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The people that are getting on plane though, like I
get traffic is a pain. I get that it's backed up.
I get the gas prices are higher here than anywhere else.
And while the rest of the country saw gas prices
drop by something like fifty cents, they're not here, which
we covered in our first segment, is because of maintenance.
As though they didn't know they were going to have
to maintain the refineries, they just decided to schedule it
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during a time that we would have peak travel. Great,
somebody's really thinking ahead, But if you follow my instagram,
what is my what is it?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Roll? Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Chris on the Air? Is that my Instagram? I can't
keep up. Yep, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I got it. Yeah, that's the one, all right, Chris
on the Air on the Instagram.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm a big fan of shorter vacations, things you can
drive to, and yet people love to fly off to
exotic places. And I really started thinking about what is
the draw? Why are you going someplace exotic when you
don't even know what's around you? How many people do
we know that just they don't have an idea of
what's even available. They haven't gone out and spent the
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tank of gas to go figure out what's near them.
They hear us talking about these different places. We say
things like Big Bear, Arrowhead Lake, and they go, who
is it? I think I give a shout out to Julian.
I love Julian. When I lived in San Diego, it
was about forty five minutes to an hour drive. Julian
is a fantastic place to go a little out intown.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Love it. I just love it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Anywhere that you can go and kind of scoot out
of town for a little bit, enjoy it. But I
was trying to think, why wouldn't you, And it dawned
on me that we have some different social pressures now.
First of all, you may have in this internal desire
to go further. You've got wanderlust, right, The more exotic
the better. But I think in many cases it's a
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certain case of naivete.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You just don't know what we have.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
That's a half day's drive from US, and California is
about as rich as any state when it comes to
cool things nearby. There's also another aspect that is different
now than it has been in previous generations, and that
is that people want their They want their Instagram photos,
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they want to go someplace to get better picks for
the gram more of a look at me, I'm a traveler.
They want bragging rights. Look what I did. I'm important.
I'm an influencer. I make you who want to do
these things. You too could be special like me. But
there is something else, and that is the shared experience.
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The reason people may jump on a plane instead of
going nearby is that they feel like, well, if I
go to New York, I can talk to everybody else
that's been to New York. If I go to Cabo.
I can go, I can talk with other people that
have been to Cabo. I will have that Cabo in common.
So they want that shared experience with other travelers. We're
all so exotic, we're unique. For some people. The reason
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that they may say, forget it, I'm not driving, I
am flying, and I'm going as far away as possible.
I think some of that is esteem. I think some
of it boils down to I want to feel accomplished,
and the only way that I can feel accomplished is
if I do big things. The same people that go
I'm not buying a Hyundai, I'm buying a Mercedes. I'm
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not buying a Volkswagen. I'm buying an Audi, even though
it's the same company. It's that feeling of accomplishment. And
I think when it comes to travel, planning and enjoying
a Caribbean trip gives a greater high than packing up
for a tour of.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Something closer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Well, why would I go to Julian when I could
go to the Caribbean Because Julian's awesome and you're missing out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
By the way, Julian does not pay me, but they
should freaking love that town. There's something else too, and
that is maximizing time. Some of the reasons that people
get on a plane instead of driving some places because
time logged in transit feels like a wasted vacation. You're
stuck in You're stuck on the five right, Oh my gosh,
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I'm so stuck on the five.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Ugh.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
What a waste of my vacation.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm sitting in traffic, and we think, why am I
going to spend six hours with traffic each way before
traffic even really kicks in? So six hours if there's
no traffic, why am I going to do that driving
to Yosemite when I can hop on a plane and
I can be in in under four hours. So we say, well,
this seems like a much better use of my time.
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Is Cabo any better than San Diego? No, and I
will die on that hill. But Cabo sounds more exotic.
It sounds like you're mister world. Why I went to Cabo?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You guys just went to Sea World.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Bad, look at me?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Who is it better? No?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And you go because either you're on spring breaker or
a grown ass adult who didn't get to go on
spring break when you were in college. You know, you're
just a creeper, and some feel like it's not a vacation.
If you can do it in a day, a day
trip is not a vacation.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Wrong. Are you at work? No?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you engaging in your normal routine no? Are you
refreshing your batteries and doing something new? Yes, then it's
a vacation. Go enjoy the places nearby. Check out San Diego,
go to Big Bear, see Earra, take a weekend, go
to Yosemity, whatever it is, go to.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Go to Tahoe, whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Enjoy the California around you instead of putting it behind you.
It's a pretty great place, all right. The lawmakers, the
law breakers of the times that there ought to be
a law. That's next. Chris Merrill kfi AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand by
there Chris.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Merril, kfi AM six forty more.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Stimulating talk on demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app and
the Seffnran Show. We'll be up on the featured segments
for the podcast a little bit later. Always looking forward
to your talkbacks or question if the Apocalypse happens, Where
are you going?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
If the apocalypse were to happen, more specifically, like a
Last of Us style or a Walking Dead style apocalypse,
where are you going? The reason I bring this up
this week is because there was a study that came
out from a gamblings that was listing the best NFL
stadiums in case of a zombie apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All right, so I'm asking where would you.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Go, mister Marrow. I just got out of roup, sat
down and read my chapter for the day, and thought,
oh my goodness, your show's on. So yeah, here I
am sitting in my car, going to roll me a joint,
listen to part of your show on my road home.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Thanks man.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
All right, well he's being he's getting eaten, any question
about that. No, dude is gonna get eaten.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
All right, Hey, Chris, just so you know, Yeah, the
CHP is writing tickets today.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I did make mention that they don't write speeding tickets.
They just don't like to do it. That's why everybody
wants to go one ten.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I just passed a task force Southern style where they
have one.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Guy on the light ar gun, yeah, and four guys
ready to chase him.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Write the tickets.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
All right, welcome to comedy for you.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No, that's not Commy's that's rule of law. We're forcing
the rule of law. That's how it should be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Slow down.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Everybody have any ideas and where they want to go
for a zombie apocalypse. That's a fun question this week.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Good afternoon, Chris. Hey, this is Tohilia and Hima, California.
My location would be Catalina Island. Once we got rid
of the zombies on that island, I'm thinking the seclusion.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yep, we would be very safe. Yeah, what do you
think about that? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Listen, Catalina Island is on my list of maybes, and
I'll tell you why. Catalina Island is a great idea
in case of a zombie apocalypse. Zombies can't swim. When
was the last time you saw Michael Phelps style zombie?
Never do you see a zombie represented in a speedo ever? So, yes,
an island is a great idea. Catalina Island is pretty
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good idea because Catalina Island you can plant crops on
it and it has wildlife that you could eat. The
downside Catalina Island is that it is nearby a major metropolis,
and as a result, you're gonna have a lot of
people trying to get to Catalina Island. And if society
breaks down, you may have people that create these different factions,
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and that could be a problem. But Catalina Island is
on my list of maybees. There are far worse suggestions
than that. That's not bad at all. Okay, what else
are we talking? Oh, we're talking about travel and gas
and everything else.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
You wonder why the gas prices are so high in California.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, they told us because the refinery had maintenance.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They couldn't they couldn't possibly do maintenance any other time
than a busy holiday weekend.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Just listen to John Cobalt. He'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, he's never shy of opinions. That's for sure.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
We have to get recruit oil from other countries because
the restrictions on drilling for oil in California. Restrictions there's
what's causing the refineries to shut down. Okay, that part
there's no pipeline coming to California.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That part's true.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
It's all Newsom's fault. He's tied into all this. We
need more oil.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, Well, I'm not gonna blame Newsom because it's not
like it's a new problem, but you can blame him
for not fixing it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
As far as we need more oil, No, they're drilling less.
That's that. That doesn't really hold water.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Ever since Trump came into office, all we heard was
we're gonna drill, baby drill, and how much new drilling
are they doing.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
They're backing off on their new drillings. So that doesn't
really hold water either. All right, one more than we're
going to get into Ellie law. All right, what's our
what's our final talk?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Back?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Kayla?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Hi, Chris, thank you. This is Stephanie from Redondo Beache.
Love your show, love you and your topics. Yep, I
really appreciated your explanation of Veteran's Day, Memorial Day and
Armed Forces Day.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Please remind others that is not a happy Memorial Day.
Oh yeah, nothing happy about today.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Please tell Tiffany that too. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, thank you. So here's the deal. I'm not
gonna hold it against Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I've made that mistake before, and I think the reason
that we do it is that it's a holiday, and
it's the only holiday that we celebrate by not wishing well, right,
And there really isn't a convenient Hey, hope you have
a solemn day, right. And I think a lot of
the reason that people don't even know the difference between holiday,
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between Memorial Day and Veterans Day or Armed Forces Day
Armed Services Day, which I saw this this week and
I thought it was great. Armed Services or Armed Forces
Day is to sell it is to recognize those in uniform.
Veterans Day is to recognize those who wore the uniform,
and Memorial Day is to recognize those who will never
take off the uniform. That it was just a really
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great way to remember that. But I can't really hold
it against anybody. There really is no way. For instance,
I'll give you I'll give you another example. So my
my grandmother passed away. This is years and years and
years ago. My grandmother passed away and my uncle found her,
and I know that had to have been one of
the most traumatic experiences of his life.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And so the.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Whole family got word and we went over to my
grandmother's house because that was always where we congregated anyway,
So Aldy went over there, my uncle showed up and
I said, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And why is that? Because that's how you agreet somebody.
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It was the worst day of his life. How's he doing?
He's doing horrible. He just found his mother naked and
dead on a bed, which is actually how he replied.
He goes, well, I found my mother naked and dead
on a bed, so not great.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I didn't mean to reopen the wound. She didn't know
how to say anything else. I just defaulted back to
how you doing right, and the same way I think
when it comes to Memorial Day, we kind of default
back to saying happy, but you're right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I've made that mistake.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
And then I got a program director who reminded me
to never say it again. And I appreciated that reminder,
so thank you. It is a good reminder. Every week
we do it, we talk about the lawmakers, the law breakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
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Let's start with the good cop, bad cop out of Westminster.
ABC seven had the news of the cop con.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Former Westminster police officer Nicole Brown faces serious prison time
for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands in fraudulent workers compensation
payments after telling her department she was unable to work
due to an injury she suffered while on duty. In
March twenty twenty two.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
She suffered a small abrasion to her head. She went
to the emergency room that day. The doctor cleared her
without any restrictions on duty. She took a couple days
off after that, and then told her department that she
had been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury by a
doctor who put her on temporary disability.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't you have to have a note?
Speaker 12 (26:06):
The Orange County District Attorney's office claims Brown collected more
than six hundred thousand dollars tax free, including all medical bills.
Speaker 13 (26:14):
Wow, she was engaged in an incredibly active lifestyle where
she was running, skiing, going to Disneyland doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
It's the happiest place on earth.
Speaker 13 (26:22):
Doing all these things that she said she could not
do all she was working as a police officer.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
The DA's office launched an investigation.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, everybody knows if you're gonna get that, If you're
to do that kind of nonsense, you have to get
a job that allows you to work from home, and
then you can skip out.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's how that works.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
The DA's office launched an investigation after Brown was caught
dancing and drinking at Stagecoach Country music festival.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh god, there's your problem. Everywhere you go. It's gotta
be like no phones. People, no phones, no phones.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
People who knew that she was on full disability witnessed
her behaving in a way that was not consistent with
what she was telling her apartment.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Somebody knew and they snitched. Yeah, I would too, kisses
me off. I gotta go to work every day, and
you're just scamming things.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
No.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Brown stepfather, Peter Gregory Schuman, a license attorney practicing workers
compensation defense for insurance carriers. It's charged with helping the
stepdaughter orchestraate the fraud.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Ah, he was in on it.
Speaker 13 (27:24):
He was representing her at some of the meetings with
the department and her case manager, where he was describing
what she was prohibited from doing.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So he knew all along. How come nobody had to
have a note. You gotta have a note for everything.
If I'm off work for more than three days, I
gotta have a note more than two days. Yeah, three
days or more. I have to have a note from
the doctor that says Chris really can't work, He really
does have like a bad case of throat rash or something.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, Yeah, nonsense, that irks me.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If the apocalypse happens, where are you going? That is
the talkback question today. If you're listening on the iHeart
Radio app, just click on the talkback button and let
us know if the apocalypse were to happen, and you
can pick the scenario, the scenario that's been kicked around
as a zombie apocalypse. But there's value to doing this exercise.
What you'll hear about later on the show where are
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you going? If the apocalypse happens, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And from a.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Miracle to skepticism? Is it possible we've all been duped?
That is next Chris Merril I AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm gonna have a new.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. All right,
before we get into this making missing hiker or could
it be a hoax? That is in just a moment,
the question for the talkback tonight. If the apocalypse happens,
where are you going? Got a story coming up here?
About six thirty, and I know it's a little ways
away from that, but I always like getting your feedback
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throughout the show. If an apocalypse were to happen, and
you can decide nuclear fallout, invasion by another country, disease
and pandemic, or zombies, which is the most fun.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
There was a survey that came out that was talking
about the NFL stadiums that you should or should not
go to if the apocalypse were to happen, And I'll
tell you how so FI ranked on that a little
bit later on tonight. But looking forward to your thoughts.
If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, just hit out
of that talk back button let me know.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Hey there, Chris Zombie Apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yes, sir, what are you doing?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Stan put I've got a fully equipped fallout shelter right
under my house.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh, I have a great afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well do you suppose that's a new fallout shelter or
do you think that that might be one that was
like left over from the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know, it's hard to say, man, people are into that.
It's like a big industry now.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, survivalist kind of thing, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, preppers.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't know that he's a prepper.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I always sell the fallout shelters, and I thought, how
would make a killer man cave? You know, I could
have I could have some can goods in the corner,
but otherwise I'm turning that into an underground man cave
mean escape tunnel totally. Yeah, it sounds like fun anyway, right,
And you know I would put the I would put
the stairway behind a bookshelf so that nobody knew it
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was there, and then you have to push a button
in the bookshlf would swing open like I was in
clue or something.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Fun.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Nobody has any secret passages in their homes anymore. Kind
of a tragedy.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
Hey, Chris, Hey, in case of a zombie apocalypse or
something like that, I've got the perfect solution, all right,
And so when people die, yeah, tie their shoelaces together.
Oh that way, when the zombie apocalypse happened, it would
be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It'd be more of a fun apocalypse. Okay, that's the
best answer yet. All right, I love the fallout shelter.
We had the gentleman that suggested Catalina Island, which I
think is not a bad idea. But also tying the
shoelaces together, it's kind of great. I don't know who's
gonna just at the funeral home. We just start tying
everybody shoelas this together. That's fun, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So last week we had a story about this missing
woman and it seemed like it was a miracle. She
survived three weeks and through snowstorms to be found in
a cabin that was left unlocked just in case a
situation like that had arisen.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This was the story last week.
Speaker 15 (31:21):
A hiker found alive three weeks after going missing in
the Sierra Mountains in California. She has gone so long
police pulled back on the massive search they've been doing
for her. Yeah, it's because the owner of a wilderness
resort found this woman, Tiffany Slayton, sheltering in a cabin
her family in Georgia, celebrating what is now a happy
ending after concerns, obviously of potentially a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Listen, she called me on her way down from the mountain.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's her dad, I think as soon as they were
able to get sales signal.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
She said, Dad, I'm alive and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Ah, it's heartbreaking a hike.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
To be clear, I want to believe the story, and
to be clear, I am still leaning toward I believe
the story, but there were some questions raised.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I don't know if you saw La Times was sort.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Of publishing these things, and they did that sneaky thing
that reporters do where they say some people are saying.
In other words, it gives them cover to cast doubt
on a story without saying we're suspicious, right, so they
don't have to say, well, we did an investigation, we
looked into this. Instead, what they report is here's what
some people are saying. But there are some questions, and
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she has not spoken to the media since her rescue.
Her family set up a GoFundMe account and they shut
her down. They had raised more than twenty thousand dollars.
And the reason they shut it down they cited negative
feedback that has arose from these events. That's a direct quote.
So I would have said a risen, but they said
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a rose. According to her mother, it has taken a
lot to endure all of the attacks and attention asking
for help that has has brought us. So just asking
for help has got people that are like, Okay, now
you're asking for money?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Is this a grift?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
There was a detail though that was pointed out, and
I thought it was really really interesting, and here's what
the La Times article says, and I okay, call her
me interested. Another detail that many Internet sleuths have fixated
on is Slaton's experience. This was tifty Slaton. Slaton's experience
with her phone. She said she was unable to contact
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nine one one, but got GPS information for a Starbucks location.
Tony Body, who is a spokesperson at the Fresno County
Sheriff's office, said that the department does not yet have
a clear understanding of all aspects of her survival story,
such as the exact route that she traveled while missing,
or how her phone could not contact nine one one
but directed her to a Starbucks. He said, we can
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only work with the information she told us because there
are no other independent witnesses. If there are inaccuracies or embellishments,
we really can't do anything about it. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You can't. I mean, you could investigate if there's inconsistencies.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We've had stories before of someone who claimed to be
kidnapped and then showed up a week later and miraculously escaped,
only to find out that she had set up the
whole kidnapping. Right, I mean, these stories do happen, But again,
to be clear, I'm still leaning toward I want to
believe her. According to the mother, at this time, we're
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not taking any interviews. We are focusing on Tiffany's health
and well being. Bobby Slayton, Tiffany's father, defended his daughter's
survival tale, writing on the GoFundMe believe it or not.
We even think those who have questioned the merit of
the events, that's what makes miracles so unbelievable. We heard
from survival experts to say, we get stories like this,
and you'll have somebody who survives three, five, maybe seven days.
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But three weeks, yeah, three weeks is completely unheard of.
So it is remarkable and it would be a miracle.
I think that's what makes us want to believe it,
but it's also what would lead us to be skeptical.
I'm not so sure about that whole There's nothing we
can do about it, especially if she's used it to
make money with it go fundme, right, Okay, again, I'm
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not saying she's faking it. But the Internet has raised
some questions that I think are reasonable. All Right, we'll
talk politics as usual because California is being told by
the Feds, Nope, you're going to do what we say.
Where they're doing that and how it's affecting you is next.
Chris Merril I AM six forty. We live everywhere on
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the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're that friend. Great to be with you on a
Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I hope you have a chance to spend some time
with family, save a bunch on mattresses, and of course,
most of all, have a chance to just remember our
fallen It is it is in that vein. I'm just
going to jump right into it today and I'll tell
you more about our talkback question here in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But I wanted to start with this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Every year we see the same story come out, but
I take something else away from it this year, and
that is that you are going to hear so many
stories throughout the rest of this year, next year, the
year after, probably for the next five or even ten
years about how terrible gen Z is. Everything about gen
Z is how lazy they are, how demanding they are,
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about how they have no prospects but don't care. They're unmotivated.
Nobody wants to work these days. It is a refrain
that you hear about every new generation. It drives me crazy.
But I wanted to take an opportunity and present to
you a class of gen Zers who are doing something
today that I think is incredibly special that they continue
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on this tradition from our friends at NBCLO.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We are seeing volunteers from all across southern California making
it out here to Los Angeles National Cemetery. And two
very special people are joining us now, Bella and Jayden.
Thank you so much, guys. They are Eagle Scouts. They
have been part of the Scouts group for now for
years and they tell me that they've been taking part
in this ceremony Michelle for quite some time now and
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they today have the honor of being MC's Bella, Jayden,
thank you so much for joining us. So why is
this so important to you guys?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, Scouting really is a family to me, and it's
been the community that's been my homeway from home. I
love it with all my heart and coming out here
today I think what makes us so in cutable.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
These are Eagle Scouts. These are seventeen eighteen year olds.
These are not They're not older generations that are out
there putting flags down. These are young people.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Pedible is seeing the six to eight thousand Scouts that
spend their early Saturday mornings coming out here to honor
our veterans, and it shows just how much Scouting is
a community and how much we love our country and
how much we just want to serve our community.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And we're talking about six to eight thousand volunteers. Jaden,
you guys are going to be placing close to ninety
thousand flags this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, yes, we are.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
There's about ninety thousand people here and it's got a
really big day and I think it's really good.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Ninety thousand people, but you've got six or eight thousand
just Scouts alone.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
It is celebrated because it's kind of a day to
commemorate our fallen soldiers and it's really important that we
give them a day and show them respect that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Thank you so much, guys.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Again, that's like a seventeen year old saying that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Don't tell me that we don't have hope for the
future when we've got those kids leading the way.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So really appreciate your time. And you know, Michelle, this
is something that is done on Memorial Day, but also
on Veterans Day. We also see a lot of volunteers
showing up and doing this wonderful can. It means so
much for the families of those veterans to know that
their sacrifice is still being honored.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
All right, So you get the point anyway, right, So
placing flags love to hear those stories. That's great, especially
when we can highlight that the next generation cares. Now
that said, here is another survey that is going to
make you go, kids these days. But wait a minute,
because what we know is that younger generations are always
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less informed, all right, So here's the story. How many
know the true meaning of Memorial Day?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For gen Z, only twenty seven percent of gen Zers
know that Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen soldiers,
all right, Only twenty seven percent. And you go, how
that means seventy three percent don't even know. But across
all generations, based on Talker's research and a survey that
they did, fewer than half of all Americans know that
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Memorial Day is specifically for those who died while serving
their country. I saw a great breakdown online and I
wish I could remember who had it. But it's I'm
sure it's a I'm sure it's one of those things
that gets repeated often enough, and it was something along
the lines of this Armed Services Day is to honor
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those in uniform. Veterans Day is to honor those who
wore the uniform. Memorial Day is to honor those who
never took off the uniform.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I thought that was brilliant, just brilliant. Thirty five
percent of.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Americans think that Memorial Day is about honoring all military veterans,
both living and dead.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, that's Veterans Day.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Five percent think it's about remembering all public servants who
died on the job.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So that would include the police.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
For instance, right, which actually I believe it was last
week that we just had the the Peace Officers Remembrance Day.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So yeah, gen z the worst at it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They're also the youngest, They've had the least amount of
time to get the to get the truth behind it,
or to hear a segment like this. But I also
think it goes to what are we teaching, what's being
taught in class, what's being retained when it's being taught
in class? And I think far too many, far too
many times, the actual story, actual you know, the education
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that should be passed on to the kids is either
not being passed on or it's not being retained, and
I think that's tragic. So when I get a story
like I do from NBCLA about all the Eagle Scouts
that are out there putting the all the Scouts actually
that are all putting the flags of the graves.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I think that's just tremendous. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And to all the high school bands who are getting
up early to go to a ceremony tomorrow at a cemetery,
I think you are you are an incredibly important piece
of our memorial that you probably don't even realize. Probably
don't I know that When I was in marching band
and we had to be at the school early in
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the morning on Monday, I mean, we knew what it
was for. We just knew that we had to do
it because it was required for class. But looking back
on it now, I realized how important that was for
everyone that went and everyone that gathered. Okay, I don't
want to sound too sappy here. I'm not trying to
milk this for emotion or anything like that, but I
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wanted to make sure we open the show and.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Talked about that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
There are You're going to hear a number of stories
today and tomorrow about travel and about how gas prices are.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Down big Lee, But are they?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Gas prices are going down nearly everywhere except California. Bugger
Ass Buddy reports that the national average prices expected to
be three dollars and eight cents on Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
This would be oh remember the old days of three
dollars gas remember that?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Remember? Yeah, I mean neither.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
The lowest gas price on Memorial Day since twenty twenty one. However,
experts for gas prices here in California will actually go
up this weekend because of some refineries are down.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Of course, it just happens to go up this weekend
because of those refineries.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, it's a busy travel weekends. Oh manh the refineries.
It just happens to be a time that we can
make more money. And nobody's going to cancel their plans
because gas goes up twenty sis.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So yeah, we'll just say it was the.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Refineries for maintenance. Also, remember there was a refiner.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, and then we close those refineries for maintenance.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Yeah, some refineries are down for maintenance.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Well, I mean, how are we supposed to know that
we were gonna have to maintain our refineries.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It really snuck up on it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We could only do it during Memorial Day weekend. It
was the only possible time we could possibly do it.
This is just crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So also remember there was a refinery fire in the
Bay Area earlier this month. The average price of gas
in California today four dollars ninety cents. Triple A expects
nearly forty million people to travel by car this weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right, forty million buy car. I actually like that.
I do, and you're gonna go it is bad for
pollution and all this. Nah, there's a there's a good
thing about traveling by car. And I'll tell you why
you should stop flying and just stay closer to home.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'll tell you why this is. This is not great
for the environment, but it is. It is. It is
better for you, and I'll share with you why that
is here in a minute. Now. I told you I
was going to get back to this.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
If you're listening on the app, or hell, if you're
listening in your car and you can open the app,
do it. When you listen on the iHeartRadio app, you'll
see a little microphone icon you can click on that.
That's our talk back that allows you to record a
little message and it comes to us. And if we
like what you have to say, or we think it's interesting,
or we can poke fund at you, merciless, we will
and we'll play it on the air. The question this
week because I have a wonderful story about how to
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die in the apocalypse. If the apocalypse happens, where are
you going? Okay, if there's an apocalypse, and more specifically,
drill down here if it's a zombie apocalypse. But I'll
allow you to answer any question. If the apocalypse happens,
where are you going? It's very important survey because if
you get this wrong, your brains are food. That's how
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it's gonna work out. Okay, all right, why you need
to stay close and drive instead of hopping out a flight.
I'll tell you what that is, and I'll also get
your feedback on the apocalypse that is next. Chris Merril,
I am six forty, will live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Chris Marrel, I AM six forty. More stimulating talk. Always
a pleasure to be with you. And of course, on
a Memorial Day weekend when an awful lot of people
are focused on what they have going on for the
Memorial Day, we'll discuss in just a moment. I did
ask this question, because I have a story coming up
that if you if the zombies get us, and there's
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there's grounded science to why we would go through this exercise.
But if the zombies come and we have a zombie apocalypse,
where are you going? If you go to one place
in southern California that many people will think of, you're
probably toast. So we asked the question on the talkback.
If you're listening on the appf I am six forty
hit that talk back, let us know where you would
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go and your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
Hey, Chris, he if the apocalypse happens, I hope I'm
underneath the warhead or the epicenter.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
This place is crazy and it will only get crazier.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Love the show.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, that's actually a really great point. I mean, the
last thing you want to do, like if it's if
it's a nuclear attack, the last thing you want to
be is like a radioactive survivor just go quick, just
end the pain, just be done with it. One hundred
percent with you on that not the answer I was
necessarily looking for, But I might join you. Maybe we
drink ourselves a little. Jim Jones kol aid Cock till
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and enjoy the last few minutes we have. Okay, yep,
I'm okay with that. All right, Memorial Day is here,
which means if you have tried to screwed out of
town at all, it's been difficult. Of course, if you're listening,
you're either out of town and listening on the app
or you're still around and then you didn't have to travel.
So if that's the case, you probably saw the stories
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about Memorial they travel being rotten.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
It's projected more than forty five million Americans will travel
at least fifty miles from home over the weekend, the
majority by car, almost ninety percent. And that's one point
four million more than last year, which could mark a
new record, so passing the two thousand and five high
of forty four million.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All right, tons of people going on vacation. So are
we really worried about the economy?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Kind of. I'll give you more on that here in
about an hour, but continue.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And this marks the first holiday since that real ID
requirement for domestic flights went into effect back on May seven.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
The government's tracking US man Security officials say those who
haven't gotten there's yet will still be able to fly
for now. But they'll be subject to an additional screening process,
and the FAA expects record travel with flights peaking today
and back out here live as our local freeways start
to get busier and busier into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, it was a Friday. I think they'll.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Notice more officers on our local freeway. CHP says it's
increasing controls as part of a maximum enforcement period that
starts tomorrow at six pm.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But they still won't rache you a ticket for speeding
because they just don't. For now, live and somorrow A
Mario Ramirez will see it. Back to you. Thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you. Marow I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The people that are getting on plane though, like I
get traffic is a pain. I get that it's backed up.
I get the gas prices are higher here than anywhere else.
And while the rest of the country saw gas prices
drop by something like fifty cents, they're not here, which
we covered in our first segment, is because of maintenance.
As though they didn't know they were going to have
to maintain the refineries, they just decided to schedule it
(12:58):
during a time that we would have peak travel. Great,
somebody's really thinking ahead, But if you follow my instagram,
what is my what is it?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Roll? Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Chris on the Air? Is that my Instagram? I can't
keep up. Yep, that's the one.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I got it. Yeah, that's the one, all right, Chris
on the Air on the Instagram.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm a big fan of shorter vacations, things you can
drive to, and yet people love to fly off to
exotic places. And I really started thinking about what is
the draw? Why are you going someplace exotic when you
don't even know what's around you? How many people do
we know that just they don't have an idea of
what's even available. They haven't gone out and spent the
(13:42):
tank of gas to go figure out what's near them.
They hear us talking about these different places. We say
things like Big Bear, Arrowhead Lake, and they go, who
is it? I think I give a shout out to Julian.
I love Julian. When I lived in San Diego, it
was about forty five minutes to an hour drive. Julian
is a fantastic place to go a little out intown.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Love it. I just love it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Anywhere that you can go and kind of scoot out
of town for a little bit, enjoy it. But I
was trying to think, why wouldn't you, And it dawned
on me that we have some different social pressures now.
First of all, you may have in this internal desire
to go further. You've got wanderlust, right, The more exotic
the better. But I think in many cases it's a
(14:23):
certain case of naivete.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You just don't know what we have.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
That's a half day's drive from US, and California is
about as rich as any state when it comes to
cool things nearby. There's also another aspect that is different
now than it has been in previous generations, and that
is that people want their They want their Instagram photos,
(14:48):
they want to go someplace to get better picks for
the gram more of a look at me, I'm a traveler.
They want bragging rights. Look what I did. I'm important.
I'm an influencer. I make you who want to do
these things. You too could be special like me. But
there is something else, and that is the shared experience.
(15:08):
The reason people may jump on a plane instead of
going nearby is that they feel like, well, if I
go to New York, I can talk to everybody else
that's been to New York. If I go to Cabo.
I can go, I can talk with other people that
have been to Cabo. I will have that Cabo in common.
So they want that shared experience with other travelers. We're
all so exotic, we're unique. For some people. The reason
(15:33):
that they may say, forget it, I'm not driving, I
am flying, and I'm going as far away as possible.
I think some of that is esteem. I think some
of it boils down to I want to feel accomplished,
and the only way that I can feel accomplished is
if I do big things. The same people that go
I'm not buying a Hyundai, I'm buying a Mercedes. I'm
(15:54):
not buying a Volkswagen. I'm buying an Audi, even though
it's the same company. It's that feeling of accomplishment. And
I think when it comes to travel, planning and enjoying
a Caribbean trip gives a greater high than packing up
for a tour of.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Something closer.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Well, why would I go to Julian when I could
go to the Caribbean Because Julian's awesome and you're missing out.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
By the way, Julian does not pay me, but they
should freaking love that town. There's something else too, and
that is maximizing time. Some of the reasons that people
get on a plane instead of driving some places because
time logged in transit feels like a wasted vacation. You're
stuck in You're stuck on the five right, Oh my gosh,
(16:40):
I'm so stuck on the five.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Ugh.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
What a waste of my vacation.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm sitting in traffic, and we think, why am I
going to spend six hours with traffic each way before
traffic even really kicks in? So six hours if there's
no traffic, why am I going to do that driving
to Yosemite when I can hop on a plane and
I can be in in under four hours. So we say, well,
this seems like a much better use of my time.
(17:08):
Is Cabo any better than San Diego? No, and I
will die on that hill. But Cabo sounds more exotic.
It sounds like you're mister world. Why I went to Cabo?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You guys just went to Sea World.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Bad, look at me?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Who is it better? No?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And you go because either you're on spring breaker or
a grown ass adult who didn't get to go on
spring break when you were in college. You know, you're
just a creeper, and some feel like it's not a vacation.
If you can do it in a day, a day
trip is not a vacation.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Wrong. Are you at work? No?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you engaging in your normal routine no? Are you
refreshing your batteries and doing something new? Yes, then it's
a vacation. Go enjoy the places nearby. Check out San Diego,
go to Big Bear, see Earra, take a weekend, go
to Yosemity, whatever it is, go to.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Go to Tahoe, whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Enjoy the California around you instead of putting it behind you.
It's a pretty great place, all right. The lawmakers, the
law breakers of the times that there ought to be
a law. That's next. Chris Merrill kfi AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand by
there Chris.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Merril, kfi AM six forty more.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Stimulating talk on demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app and
the Seffnran Show. We'll be up on the featured segments
for the podcast a little bit later. Always looking forward
to your talkbacks or question if the Apocalypse happens, Where
are you going?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
If the apocalypse were to happen, more specifically, like a
Last of Us style or a Walking Dead style apocalypse,
where are you going? The reason I bring this up
this week is because there was a study that came
out from a gamblings that was listing the best NFL
stadiums in case of a zombie apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All right, so I'm asking where would you.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Go, mister Marrow. I just got out of roup, sat
down and read my chapter for the day, and thought,
oh my goodness, your show's on. So yeah, here I
am sitting in my car, going to roll me a joint,
listen to part of your show on my road home.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Thanks man.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
All right, well he's being he's getting eaten, any question
about that. No, dude is gonna get eaten.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
All right, Hey, Chris, just so you know, Yeah, the
CHP is writing tickets today.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I did make mention that they don't write speeding tickets.
They just don't like to do it. That's why everybody
wants to go one ten.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I just passed a task force Southern style where they
have one.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Guy on the light ar gun, yeah, and four guys
ready to chase him.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Write the tickets.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
All right, welcome to comedy for you.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
No, that's not Commy's that's rule of law. We're forcing
the rule of law. That's how it should be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Slow down.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Everybody have any ideas and where they want to go
for a zombie apocalypse. That's a fun question this week.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Good afternoon, Chris. Hey, this is Tohilia and Hima, California.
My location would be Catalina Island. Once we got rid
of the zombies on that island, I'm thinking the seclusion.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yep, we would be very safe. Yeah, what do you
think about that? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Listen, Catalina Island is on my list of maybes, and
I'll tell you why. Catalina Island is a great idea
in case of a zombie apocalypse. Zombies can't swim. When
was the last time you saw Michael Phelps style zombie?
Never do you see a zombie represented in a speedo ever? So, yes,
an island is a great idea. Catalina Island is pretty
(20:50):
good idea because Catalina Island you can plant crops on
it and it has wildlife that you could eat. The
downside Catalina Island is that it is nearby a major metropolis,
and as a result, you're gonna have a lot of
people trying to get to Catalina Island. And if society
breaks down, you may have people that create these different factions,
(21:12):
and that could be a problem. But Catalina Island is
on my list of maybees. There are far worse suggestions
than that. That's not bad at all. Okay, what else
are we talking? Oh, we're talking about travel and gas
and everything else.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
You wonder why the gas prices are so high in California.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, they told us because the refinery had maintenance.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They couldn't they couldn't possibly do maintenance any other time
than a busy holiday weekend.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Just listen to John Cobalt. He'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, he's never shy of opinions. That's for sure.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
We have to get recruit oil from other countries because
the restrictions on drilling for oil in California. Restrictions there's
what's causing the refineries to shut down. Okay, that part
there's no pipeline coming to California.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That part's true.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
It's all Newsom's fault. He's tied into all this. We
need more oil.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Okay, Well, I'm not gonna blame Newsom because it's not
like it's a new problem, but you can blame him
for not fixing it.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
As far as we need more oil, No, they're drilling less.
That's that. That doesn't really hold water.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Ever since Trump came into office, all we heard was
we're gonna drill, baby drill, and how much new drilling
are they doing.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
They're not.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
They're backing off on their new drillings. So that doesn't
really hold water either. All right, one more than we're
going to get into Ellie law. All right, what's our
what's our final talk?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Back?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Kayla?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Hi, Chris, thank you. This is Stephanie from Redondo Beache.
Love your show, love you and your topics. Yep, I
really appreciated your explanation of Veteran's Day, Memorial Day and
Armed Forces Day.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (22:45):
Please remind others that is not a happy Memorial Day.
Oh yeah, nothing happy about today.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Please tell Tiffany that too. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, thank you. So here's the deal. I'm not
gonna hold it against Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I've made that mistake before, and I think the reason
that we do it is that it's a holiday, and
it's the only holiday that we celebrate by not wishing well, right,
And there really isn't a convenient Hey, hope you have
a solemn day, right. And I think a lot of
the reason that people don't even know the difference between holiday,
(23:22):
between Memorial Day and Veterans Day or Armed Forces Day
Armed Services Day, which I saw this this week and
I thought it was great. Armed Services or Armed Forces
Day is to sell it is to recognize those in uniform.
Veterans Day is to recognize those who wore the uniform,
and Memorial Day is to recognize those who will never
take off the uniform. That it was just a really
(23:45):
great way to remember that. But I can't really hold
it against anybody. There really is no way. For instance,
I'll give you I'll give you another example. So my
my grandmother passed away. This is years and years and
years ago. My grandmother passed away and my uncle found her,
and I know that had to have been one of
the most traumatic experiences of his life.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And so the.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Whole family got word and we went over to my
grandmother's house because that was always where we congregated anyway,
So Aldy went over there, my uncle showed up and
I said, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And why is that? Because that's how you agreet somebody.
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It was the worst day of his life. How's he doing?
He's doing horrible. He just found his mother naked and
dead on a bed, which is actually how he replied.
He goes, well, I found my mother naked and dead
on a bed, so not great.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I didn't mean to reopen the wound. She didn't know
how to say anything else. I just defaulted back to
how you doing right, and the same way I think
when it comes to Memorial Day, we kind of default
back to saying happy, but you're right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I've made that mistake.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
And then I got a program director who reminded me
to never say it again. And I appreciated that reminder,
so thank you. It is a good reminder. Every week
we do it, we talk about the lawmakers, the law breakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
(25:22):
Let's start with the good cop, bad cop out of Westminster.
ABC seven had the news of the cop con.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Former Westminster police officer Nicole Brown faces serious prison time
for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands in fraudulent workers compensation
payments after telling her department she was unable to work
due to an injury she suffered while on duty. In
March twenty twenty two.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
She suffered a small abrasion to her head. She went
to the emergency room that day. The doctor cleared her
without any restrictions on duty. She took a couple days
off after that, and then told her department that she
had been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury by a
doctor who put her on temporary disability.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't you have to have a note?
Speaker 12 (26:06):
The Orange County District Attorney's office claims Brown collected more
than six hundred thousand dollars tax free, including all medical bills.
Speaker 13 (26:14):
Wow, she was engaged in an incredibly active lifestyle where
she was running, skiing, going to Disneyland doing it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
It's the happiest place on earth.
Speaker 13 (26:22):
Doing all these things that she said she could not
do all she was working as a police officer.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
The DA's office launched an investigation.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, everybody knows if you're gonna get that, If you're
to do that kind of nonsense, you have to get
a job that allows you to work from home, and
then you can skip out.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's how that works.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
The DA's office launched an investigation after Brown was caught
dancing and drinking at Stagecoach Country music festival.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh god, there's your problem. Everywhere you go. It's gotta
be like no phones. People, no phones, no phones.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
People who knew that she was on full disability witnessed
her behaving in a way that was not consistent with
what she was telling her apartment.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Somebody knew and they snitched. Yeah, I would too, kisses
me off. I gotta go to work every day, and
you're just scamming things.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
No.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Brown stepfather, Peter Gregory Schuman, a license attorney practicing workers
compensation defense for insurance carriers. It's charged with helping the
stepdaughter orchestraate the fraud.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Ah, he was in on it.
Speaker 13 (27:24):
He was representing her at some of the meetings with
the department and her case manager, where he was describing
what she was prohibited from doing.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So he knew all along. How come nobody had to
have a note. You gotta have a note for everything.
If I'm off work for more than three days, I
gotta have a note more than two days. Yeah, three
days or more. I have to have a note from
the doctor that says Chris really can't work, He really
does have like a bad case of throat rash or something.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, Yeah, nonsense, that irks me.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If the apocalypse happens, where are you going? That is
the talkback question today. If you're listening on the iHeart
Radio app, just click on the talkback button and let
us know if the apocalypse were to happen, and you
can pick the scenario, the scenario that's been kicked around
as a zombie apocalypse. But there's value to doing this exercise.
What you'll hear about later on the show where are
(28:19):
you going? If the apocalypse happens, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And from a.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Miracle to skepticism? Is it possible we've all been duped?
That is next Chris Merril I AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I'm gonna have a new.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. All right,
before we get into this making missing hiker or could
it be a hoax? That is in just a moment,
the question for the talkback tonight. If the apocalypse happens,
where are you going? Got a story coming up here?
About six thirty, and I know it's a little ways
away from that, but I always like getting your feedback
(28:59):
throughout the show. If an apocalypse were to happen, and
you can decide nuclear fallout, invasion by another country, disease
and pandemic, or zombies, which is the most fun.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
There was a survey that came out that was talking
about the NFL stadiums that you should or should not
go to if the apocalypse were to happen, And I'll
tell you how so FI ranked on that a little
bit later on tonight. But looking forward to your thoughts.
If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, just hit out
of that talk back button let me know.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
Hey there, Chris Zombie Apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yes, sir, what are you doing?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Stan put I've got a fully equipped fallout shelter right
under my house.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Oh, I have a great afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well do you suppose that's a new fallout shelter or
do you think that that might be one that was
like left over from the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know, it's hard to say, man, people are into that.
It's like a big industry now.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, survivalist kind of thing, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, preppers.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't know that he's a prepper.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I always sell the fallout shelters, and I thought, how
would make a killer man cave? You know, I could
have I could have some can goods in the corner,
but otherwise I'm turning that into an underground man cave
mean escape tunnel totally. Yeah, it sounds like fun anyway, right,
And you know I would put the I would put
the stairway behind a bookshelf so that nobody knew it
(30:19):
was there, and then you have to push a button
in the bookshlf would swing open like I was in
clue or something.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Fun.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Nobody has any secret passages in their homes anymore. Kind
of a tragedy.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
Hey, Chris, Hey, in case of a zombie apocalypse or
something like that, I've got the perfect solution, all right,
And so when people die, yeah, tie their shoelaces together.
Oh that way, when the zombie apocalypse happened, it would
be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It'd be more of a fun apocalypse. Okay, that's the
best answer yet. All right, I love the fallout shelter.
We had the gentleman that suggested Catalina Island, which I
think is not a bad idea. But also tying the
shoelaces together, it's kind of great. I don't know who's
gonna just at the funeral home. We just start tying
everybody shoelas this together. That's fun, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
So last week we had a story about this missing
woman and it seemed like it was a miracle. She
survived three weeks and through snowstorms to be found in
a cabin that was left unlocked just in case a
situation like that had arisen.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This was the story last week.
Speaker 15 (31:21):
A hiker found alive three weeks after going missing in
the Sierra Mountains in California. She has gone so long
police pulled back on the massive search they've been doing
for her. Yeah, it's because the owner of a wilderness
resort found this woman, Tiffany Slayton, sheltering in a cabin
her family in Georgia, celebrating what is now a happy
ending after concerns, obviously of potentially a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Listen, she called me on her way down from the mountain.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's her dad, I think as soon as they were
able to get sales signal.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
She said, Dad, I'm alive and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Ah, it's heartbreaking a hike.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
To be clear, I want to believe the story, and
to be clear, I am still leaning toward I believe
the story, but there were some questions raised.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I don't know if you saw La Times was sort.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Of publishing these things, and they did that sneaky thing
that reporters do where they say some people are saying.
In other words, it gives them cover to cast doubt
on a story without saying we're suspicious, right, so they
don't have to say, well, we did an investigation, we
looked into this. Instead, what they report is here's what
some people are saying. But there are some questions, and
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she has not spoken to the media since her rescue.
Her family set up a GoFundMe account and they shut
her down. They had raised more than twenty thousand dollars.
And the reason they shut it down they cited negative
feedback that has arose from these events. That's a direct quote.
So I would have said a risen, but they said
(32:57):
a rose. According to her mother, it has taken a
lot to endure all of the attacks and attention asking
for help that has has brought us. So just asking
for help has got people that are like, Okay, now
you're asking for money?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Is this a grift?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
There was a detail though that was pointed out, and
I thought it was really really interesting, and here's what
the La Times article says, and I okay, call her
me interested. Another detail that many Internet sleuths have fixated
on is Slaton's experience. This was tifty Slaton. Slaton's experience
with her phone. She said she was unable to contact
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nine one one, but got GPS information for a Starbucks location.
Tony Body, who is a spokesperson at the Fresno County
Sheriff's office, said that the department does not yet have
a clear understanding of all aspects of her survival story,
such as the exact route that she traveled while missing,
or how her phone could not contact nine one one
but directed her to a Starbucks. He said, we can
(33:59):
only work with the information she told us because there
are no other independent witnesses. If there are inaccuracies or embellishments,
we really can't do anything about it. That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You can't. I mean, you could investigate if there's inconsistencies.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
We've had stories before of someone who claimed to be
kidnapped and then showed up a week later and miraculously escaped,
only to find out that she had set up the
whole kidnapping. Right, I mean, these stories do happen, But again,
to be clear, I'm still leaning toward I want to
believe her. According to the mother, at this time, we're
(34:41):
not taking any interviews. We are focusing on Tiffany's health
and well being. Bobby Slayton, Tiffany's father, defended his daughter's
survival tale, writing on the GoFundMe believe it or not.
We even think those who have questioned the merit of
the events, that's what makes miracles so unbelievable. We heard
from survival experts to say, we get stories like this,
and you'll have somebody who survives three, five, maybe seven days.
(35:04):
But three weeks, yeah, three weeks is completely unheard of.
So it is remarkable and it would be a miracle.
I think that's what makes us want to believe it,
but it's also what would lead us to be skeptical.
I'm not so sure about that whole There's nothing we
can do about it, especially if she's used it to
make money with it go fundme, right, Okay, again, I'm
(35:31):
not saying she's faking it. But the Internet has raised
some questions that I think are reasonable. All Right, we'll
talk politics as usual because California is being told by
the Feds, Nope, you're going to do what we say.
Where they're doing that and how it's affecting you is next.
Chris Merril I AM six forty. We live everywhere on
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