July 13, 2025 • 39 mins
Dozens of farmworkers were detained and federal agents deployed tear gas at protesters during an immigration raid at a Ventura County agricultural business Thursday. For millions of Americans, the dream of homeownership is becoming increasingly elusive — and in California, the financial barrier is especially high. FBI deputy director Dan Bongino took a day off from work Friday after clashing at the White House with Attorney General Pam Bondi over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, four sources familiar with the conflict told Axios. Christmas shoppers got a gift of sorts from the White House this week when the president pushed the tariff pause to August 1. The shift should give retailers more time to stockpile most goods ahead of the holiday season, potentially pushing some tariff-related price increases to next year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand man.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Chris Maddelki more Skimulven Flot. There's always a pleasure and
honor spending time with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I love it. I love it, I love it, I
love it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Appreciate your patience, those of you that listened on a
weekly basis. So I had a scheduled day off last week,
which was great. The week before was not scheduled. In fact,
I had the whole show put together, and I was
feeling horrible. And one of the stories that I had
that I pulled was the spread of the new COVID nimbus,
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and and I went, boy, those symptoms sounded an awful
lot like what I have. So I went and I
took the COVID test, and sure enough I had it.
And I thought, you know what, I think this is
a good I got a positive test. This is a
good enough reason for me to be able to call
in sick. So I did, and and I was pretty
glad I did, because I felt like crud. I had
the razor blade throat and it felt is no bueno.
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And then I was thinking, well, maybe I should you know,
work that. Like I said, last week, I was scheduled
to be off. I was traveling, but I could have
gotten to my studio and I could have made it happen.
But it just creates a little more stress, which is
why I took the day off. And I thought, well,
maybe I should switch. And then the next thing I know,
Tiffany Hobbs was scheduled and she covered it, and I thought,
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you know what, I'm not gonna argue, this is great.
So Tiffany covered and thank you to Tiffany. She is magnificent.
And so anyway, I love you guys, appreciate everybody that
sent me notes. You guys are fantastic. Thank you so
much for that. So I appreciate it. So we're back
in the saddle and off we go. So an awful
lot has happened this week, especially if you're paying attention
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to what ICE is doing. ICE is focusing on largely California. Now,
there are raids happening all over, but there is a
concentrated focus in California, and there are a couple of
reasons for that. First of all, we have a high
migrant population in especially southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But we have a high migrant population. Part of that
is proximity to the border.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Part of that has to do with the jobs that
are available here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The other reason, of course, is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That we are the bane of the existence of the
rest of the Blues, excuse me, the Red States. So
the Red States, they look at California and New York
and we're always, oh, how terrible they are.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is the worst they're They're horrible.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
In the same way that so many people in the
Blue States complain about Texas and Florida, the Red States
complain about New York and California.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
When the president is trying to score political points and
his primary focus is immigration, it just works out really well.
I mean, it's it's just made for it's made for
a reality president. So off we go, which is why
when we saw the raid at the Glasshouse in Ventura County,
it made headlines not just here but nationwide, headlines all
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over the place.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And the raid goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This is on the heels of what happened at MacArthur Park,
and MacArthur broken went, Oh my goodness, we've got the
National police forces coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Look at them.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
They're they're marching across the lawns can you imagine if
the Biden administration had done this somewhere in Texas and
all the gnashing of teeth and yadda YadA YadA. So
this stuff goes down at this uh at this pot farm,
cannabis farms near Camerio and Carpentera, and they said, what
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three hundred I think were arrested. Which if you're arresting
three hundred people who show up for work, that's a
lot of cars get left behind.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
ABC was there twelth ones people detained by federal agents
lineup outside the front gate to Glasshouse Farm, waiting for
answers they may never get, some of them hoping guards
will give them access to the personal items left behind
by the workers detained.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
That's really hard on everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This woman, who doesn't want to be on camera, is
here to pick up her niece's belongings. She tells me
her niece managed to escape Thursday's ice rate by hiding
on the property.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh dare she eluding law enforcement?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Carmotage has two kids, a two year old and a
six year old?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Are they what's the story? And the two kids were
they born here in the United States? Because the judge
this week said that they can say.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So she was scared she was not going to see
her kids anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Can you imagine being a mother and worried you might
never see your kids, or just worried that, you know,
who's going to take care of my kids if I
get deported? What a nightmare?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Camera capturing personal vehicles being towed away from the marijuana
farm in Camillo in nearby?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wait a minute, so the cars get towed away, and
then what putting an impound lot?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So who's paying the impound fees? That sucks?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Can you imagine being a family member and you're trying
to figure out where your family member is and you're
not getting any answers, and then you get a notice
that your car's been impounded and it's going to cost
you a couple hundred bucks to get that out. But
you have any income because the the the paycheck is
not coming in because they just got deported.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Oxgnar demonstrators peacefully protested the Trump administration's immigration.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Policy, and not all the protests were peaceful.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
The Department of Homeland Security says on Thursday they were
serving a warren at Glasshouse Farms for allegedly hiring and
harboring undocumented workers.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh are we actually going after employers now? Are we
doing that? Or are we just going.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We're just going after the workers, right, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The last thing we're gonna do is crack down on
you know, meat packing plants in the in the Red States.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, we'll arrest the people at the meat packing plants,
just not the people running the meat packing plants. That
would be detrimental to the economy and their share prices.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
The raid, federal agents faced off with protesters. Some threw
rocks at their vehicles as they left.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, that's not peaceful protesting.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
An official with Customs and Water Patrol says at least
ten migrant children were rescued from potential exploitation, forced labor,
in human trafficking.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Rescued from potential See, this is where you got to
be a little bit careful when you're getting the press releases.
The ten migrant children were rescued from potential trafficking and
child labor. And this kind of thing, right, could also
be that the parents didn't have anybody watch their kids
and brought them to work. And maybe there's a I
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mean if this was the corporate world, we would call
it the daycare center at the office. Right, But we
don't know that because we're getting a press release saying
we rescued them from potential bad things.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Now, maybe they did, but maybe they didn't. It's kind
of like when you get.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Those press releases that are like, we seized four pounds
of marijuana, enough for sixty million million people to overdose.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, Glasshouse denied those claims.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's the wrong button. Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Nobody swore haands on social media, saying it has never
knowingly employed minors. DHS is estimating two hundred undocumented immigrants
have been detained from marijuana gross sites here in the area.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Dad that the number one up to three hundred tempolium.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
ABC seven EYEWITNESSNS thank you to appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
US Army veteran George Rettis is among the people loved
ones they are missing after yesterday's ice raate a Glasshouse
farms and camerill.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Wait a minute, US veterans. That can't be right. No, no, no,
now that doesn't there's no mistakes being made.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
His wife, Guadalupe showed up looking for her husband, who
works as a security guard. His vehicle is parked outside,
but Rettis is gone.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well it's been towed. Now you'll owe it in pump fee.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He really did try to leave, but.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So I don't know what's going to happen from here.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I really, Oh, I had a phone call or something
because I'm getting torn APO.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
My kids are asking where their dad is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I keep having the lines that he's at work.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh God, I feel so bad for this woman. I
can't even imagine her pain.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
She says.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
No one, not even local law enforcement, knows where her husband,
George is. His daughter turns three years old tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
All right, so he's got a three year old daughter.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
President Donald Trump responding to scenes like this one in
Camarillo yesterday with a new ICE directive. In a social
media post, he authorized federal officers to protect themselves and
immediately detain anyone they believe is assaulting them.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, anyone they believe is assaulting them. Okay, how
are we defining assault?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
He says, Any officer on the receiving end of throwing rocks, bricks,
or any other form of assault, okay, may stop their
car end quote, arrest these slimeballs using whatever means is
necessary to do so unquote all right.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There you go, So more mite is right going on
in the meantime, there was one guy who was trying
to flee from workers at one of these immigration raids
at the Glasshouse, and this guy took a wrong step.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And now really tragic ending to the story.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Now to the latest in the case of the farm
worker who was critically injured during the immigration raid in
Camerillo this week. Late today, Hime Alanis Garcia's family confirmed
to Eyewitness News that he has passed away.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh my gospital.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
They believe he was fleeing federal agents when he fell
thirty feet off of building, suffering a broken neck and skull.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Howland Security says he was not being chased when he fell.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Wait a minute, what do you mean he was not
being chased when he so what was he pretending he
was a wallenda? Come on now, come on.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
In a statement, his family wrote, Hime was not just
a farm worker. He was a provider, end up human
being who deserved dignity. His death is not an isolated tragedy.
It is the result of a targeted raid at Glasshouse Farms.
Workers were not met with protection, but with chaos and fear.
Some are detained, others were traumatized.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
All right, Lawyer wrote that statement, no doubt, but this
guy was you know, ice shows up, he takes off
because he crossed an imaginary line years ago, and now
all of a sudden he's wanted. In the meantime, imagine,
you don't imagine from all perspectives, and this is gonna
be really tough for some people because either you are
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you're all about these raids.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It seems to be that we're in a very binary society.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're either all about these raids and this is the
best thing that's ever happened to America, or you are
on the other side and you go, my goodness, is
the American Gestapo, or if you're Marjorie Taylor Green, the
Gaspacho police who are coming after just hard working family
people who are trying to provide. And there doesn't seem
to be much in the way in between on these things.
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But imagine if you're an ice worker. I was reading
an article that The Atlantic had today. I was reading
The Atlantic because you know, I'm an elitist and the
ice workers are like Morales.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I had a crap right now, pretty miserable, in fact,
Those are the words one ICE official telling the author
of the Atlantic article, it's miserable. The job is a
mission impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Speaking with a dozen current former ICE agents and officers
about morale at the agency, most spoke on the condition
of anonymity for fear of losing their job or being
subjected to a polygraph exam. They described varying levels of dissatisfaction.
But we're looking to complain. We're not looking excuse me
to complain or expecting any sympathy, certainly not at a
time when many Americans have been disturbed by video clips
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of masked and hooded officers seizing immigrants who were not
engaged in any obvious criminal behavior. The frustration isn't yet
producing any mass resignations or major major internal protests, but
the officers and agents described the workforce on edge, vilified
by broad swaths of the public and bullied by Trump
officials demanding more and more. Like I said, we seem
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to have this binary choice. You're either all about it
or you can't believe America has turned into this. It's
like one or the other. There doesn't be any in
between that says let's go after bad people first, and
YadA YadA YadA. So imagine you are an ice agent,
and even if you like what you do, you're being
told you're a terrible person, and you don't like what
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you do, and you don't like picking people up, and
you're being told that you're a terrible person for not
doing more. I mean, this situation just stinks all the
way around. Doesn't it feel like there ought to be
a better way? It would be my thought. I just
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that's all I gotta say about the immigration stuff today.
We're gonna just get away from that altogether. An awful
lot of people are concerned about the potential for inflation,
although we really haven't seen much in the way of inflation,
even with the tariffs and all the doomsday predictions. But
that doesn't mean that all of a sudden we're all
buying houses and living the American dream.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
How far away is that? That's next?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
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anytime in the iHeart Radio App. I made a mistake.
Oh I hate when I do this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You ever go you ever go on line and start
shopping for things that you can't have. I do this sometimes.
Sometimes my daughter's looking for a car, so I'll go
on some of those car places, you know, those car websites.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Her budgets like ten grand, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So I'm like, okay, and let me see if I
can help find a car that I think is going
to be good for her and reliable for ten grand.
And the next thing, you know, I'm looking at Maserati's. Yeah,
she's not buying a maser right, I'm not buying a Maserati.
I can't afford one. But I'm like, oh, wouldn't it
be nice if I could have that?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh? Look at this Aston Martin. Would it be nice
if I can have that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So I do this sometimes Prime Day rolls around, I
start looking at computer monitors.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'm like, oh, look at.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This as a forty nine inch led monitor, and it's
only fifteen hundred dollars. I don't have fifteen hundred dollars
for a computer monitor. I can't afford that. So I
made this mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
This morning. I went on Zilo. Don't go on Zilo,
just don't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I made this huge mistake because I end up looking
at homes and I go, oh, this is a cute
little place and it's only seven hundred and fifty thousand,
and I have seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and I go, okay,
well you know what I have.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh, here's some place.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Look at this, it's only six hundred twenty five thousand.
I don't have six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. No,
if I wanted to buy a house, it would be
in that neighborhood of like three hundred thousand. The problem
is that I go, oh, I want a house, and
I want to have a two car.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Garage, and I want to have a little bit of
a yard.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wouldn't it be great if I could have a uh,
a pool, would be all right? You know I gotta
have I'd like to have three bedrooms, two and a
half bathrooms. And I go, oh, but I wanted to
be close to the radio station. No, I can't afford
any of that. So I make this mistake and I
keep looking at it at these houses I can't afford,
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and it's the worst here.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Other places are catching up.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Incidentally, other places are starting to see similar actually they're
seeing higher price increases than what we are. In fact,
I was looking at a story earlier that was showing
that LA our home values have gone up I don't know,
like ninety nine percent in the last fifteen years or something.
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But I have this story here, actually, let me see
it seemed like to just find the story, and I
thought I had a handy. Oh yeah, here it is.
You know, let me just do this on the fly.
You think I would have prepped this. Now, over the
past decade, the median home price has increased in Phoenix
by one hundred and thirty four percent, Miami one hundred
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and thirty three percent, Atlanta one hundred and twenty nine
and ninety nine percent in Dallas. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has
seen prices go up by ninety seven percent over the
last decade, which means that that house I saw for
six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars I might have
been able to afford ten years ago, right, that would
have been in that three to three fifty range. No,
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can't afford it now. But other cities are starting to
catch up kind of. I mean, they're just seeing higher
price increases, but their prices were so much lower than ours.
They have a lot of room to go before they're
anywhere close to what we're facing. And actually it's worse here.
If you take a look at the most expensive metros
to buy a home, the most expensive place where you
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have to have the highest income to afford a home,
Nine of the top ten places are California. Number ten
is Honolulu, where you only need to make two hundred
and eighty thousand dollars a year to afford a median home.
What is median right now? In OC it's like one
point two or something like that. The worst in the
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by the way, San Jose you have to make almost
five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. San Francisco
is second, three eighty six. Let me see a little
bit closer to home, Harrison.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Okay La.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
In order to afford the median home price median priced home,
you have to make three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars
a year. Guess who doesn't make three hundred eighteen thousand
dollars a year. This guy also the vast majority of
all of us. San Diego three ten. San Luis obispo
under three hundred thousand. Ox Nard two ninety two. Yeah,
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So I got to tell you, I think the American
dream is toast. I mean, you might be able to
get into you might be able to own some place.
Right if you are making, you know, family household income
of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, you might be able
to afford a place. It's not gonna have that pool,
it's not gonna have that yard. It's probably not gonna
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be a single family detached, or it's probably not gonna
be near the schools you want. It's not gonna have
that two our garage. In other words, all those things
that we were told about owning a home, and here's
the American dream. It's it's married with two point two kids,
a dog, a cat, a white picket fence.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
All this stuff that's toast. That's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And part of that is not just the home prices,
which of course are astronomical, but some of that has
to do with the mortgage rates. And if you're like me,
you've been sitting on the sidelines and you've been saying,
when these mortgage rates come down, then I will look
in earnest because then my monthly payment will be a
little bit lower.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That'll be a little that'll be better.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Right, Yeah, probably not gonna happen anytime soon. Was reading
from I guess this is yeah Yahoo Finance. If you're
waiting for rates to drop more significantly before buying a home,
don't hold your breath. Current financial and housing market data
indicate little interest rate relief in the second half of
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twenty twenty five. If you want to buy, you need
a strong financial footing, a decent sized down payment, and
focus on lower fees to partly compensate for the higher
initial mortgage rate. You can always refinance your mortgage later.
I was reading some tips about how you can lower
your monthly payment and they said you should pay down
your mortgage or put a higher down payment in and
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that'll give you a lower payment.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But if I had a higher down payment, I wouldn't
be complaining about the mortgage rates, would I.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Thanks geniuses, right, the lawmakers, the law breakers at the
times that there ought to be a law la law
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Hey there, Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Uh, Kayla,
amazing producer, Kayla who totally has a very real boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He just doesn't live here. You wouldn't know him. What
the heck?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
C Listen, we had bets going on about whether or
not your boyfriend is real.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Oh man, that's yes.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
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Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
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Kayla's like, oh, I got this boyfriend. He lives in Arizona.
You wouldn't know him. And I'm like, sure he does, Okay,
all right, that yeah, sure he is. I knew he
was real because I saw a picture, so I was like, oh, she.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Gave me a picture too, and it doesn't really look photoshopped. Yeah,
this looks real.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
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Speaker 3 (20:28):
Just because it's not on social media doesn't mean it's
not real. I'm just a private girl. That's great. I
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I'm really happy for you. That's that's excellent.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kayla did remind me that I have yet to throw
out our our question for the talkback, which of course
we'd like to do every week.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So here's our question.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you just hit
that little talkback button and answer this question. You got
thirty seconds. If you talk longer than that, then the
machine hangs up on you.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Uh, have you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Noticed anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
We'll talk about some of the tariffs and wide prices
haven't gone up because everybody was like, oh, it's you know,
the tariffs are going to sink America and we heard
all this doom and gloom, and then stock market has
gone up, Inflation has not increased. So, in the words
of Jerry Seinfeld, what's the deal? Have you noticed anything
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getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So that's the talkback question today. Curious about your experience in.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The meantime the lawmakers, the law breakers, and the times
that there ought to be a law There's something especially
gross about the people who are supposed to be maintaining
law and order becoming the law breakers. And that seems
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to be the case of the dirty cop who said
it's a disability pay me anyway.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
The city of Westminster suing a former police officer who
investigators say stole more than six hundred thousand dollars's compensation.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Wow, that's enough to buy half a house.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
And partied at Stagecoach. The city council voted unanimously to
recover all the funds from Nicole Brown after they say
she betrayed the public's trust. Brown was charged with fifteen
felon accounts. Prosecutors say she claimed a head injury that
prevented her from working, but then did multiple things, including
going to Disneyland, going skiing, and running five k races.
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If she's convicted on all the charges, Brown phases up
to twenty two years in prison.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You would think that the cop would know better. She didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I mean, you would think that the cop would go, Okay,
I've seen enough of these hidden camera expose a's and
I know that there are insurance fraud investigators.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Who look into this exact thing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
To not run a five k is a very public
Don't go to public places to do your partying if
you're collecting your disability fraudulently.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I mean, don't do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But it's just dumb, I mean, ugh, And it's gross
because it's a cop doing it, who of course has
sworn to uphold the law, and then obviously they're breaking
the law, which just irritates me. Extra headline, Los Angeles
magazine Attorney General declaring daily fantasy sports illegal in California.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Oooo.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Attorney General Rob Bonta releasing illegal opinion DFS games are illegal,
says entry fees are essentially the same as placing a
bet on a sports game, which is already illegal in California.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Booooo.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'm not crazy about this.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Daily fantasy sports have been a legal issue as they've
become more popular in recent years. In twenty twenty two,
California voters rejecting a proposition that would have legalized sports betting.
And so now the daily fantasy games people don't like.
If you're unfamiliar with the daily fantasy games, this is
something that Raoul plays all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He's a real degenerate.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And what we've if you haven't played this before, and
what it allows you to do basically is to, according
to Rob bet and actually I agree with that, bet
on the performance of certain players in games each week.
So rather than joining a geeky fantasy football club, right
(24:19):
like I am, this allows you to just play with
other people online every single week. So you lose this week,
that's all right, I can go win next week. You
win some money back, that kind of thing. Anyway, Rob
Bonta said, no, you can't do it. You do have
to pay an entry fee. Bonta says, that's a bet.
He's right, and since this is gambling that is illegal
(24:41):
in California, and again boom, all right, I think I
made myself clear on this one.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
How about a horrible story. You guys want a really
horrible story. Well, the first two weren't great, but that's
too horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, this is this is the horrible, horrible list of
all right, but there is a there is a moment
in the story. ABC seven is reporting on it. There
is a moment where you kind of go, duh.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
This is where police focus their investigation. This morning, the
child was found dead in this area, and police believe
the boys between the ages of three and five years old.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, so they found a toddler, well like they're
calling it a toddler between three and five years old,
dead near a dumpster ina, Panorama City.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Now the corner arrives her earlier today to pick up
the child's body. They will determine how the boy died.
And police believe that this is a suspicious death. They
have called in.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, did you catch that suspicious death? Yeah? The police
believe and.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Police believe that this is a suspicious death.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Normally, when you find a dead child near a dumpster, yeah,
I'd call that a suspicious death. In fact, I was
I was trying to think, how would it not be
a suspicious death? Okay, it wasn't that the child wasn't
in the dumpster, which means the child didn't fall in
and couldn't get back out, right if there was a
kid playing, right like, that's one of those horrible stories,
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kind of like back in the fifties and sixties when
they were all worried about kids getting trapped inside refrigerators.
Remember that. Then you know that could be a tragic accident.
But in this case, it's a child near a dumpster,
So yeah, that's suspicious death unless the kid had a
heart attack and just happened to be in a parking lot.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
They have called in their child abuse detective unit to
handle the case.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
This is horrific and it impacts every single one of
us that comes to these scenes.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, that is not when you're an emergency worker.
That is the last call you want. Really, the absolute worst.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Everyone at home that hears about these scenes. As you said,
we've got mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, anyone. You don't have
to be one of those to know how horrific this is.
I don't know the cause of death of this individual again,
that will be up to the corner to determine. But
no one deserves to be handled in this manner.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, so she kind of tipped her hat right, handled
in this manner? What does that mean? I mean, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It sounds like this investigator believes that it was a
child's body that was dumped and whoever did this, Like
this is where all of our efforts need to be
right now. This is the kind of stuff we got
to stop. We're worried about people in a home depot
parking lot. Now, if you're going after child traffickers, I'm
with you, go get them, go get them. If we're
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talking about murderers, rapists, drug dealers, child sex traffickers, all
this kind of stuff that we were told was going
to be a priority for law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yes, all about it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But you're going after landscapers, you're going after meat packers,
you're going after people working at farms who don't have
any other criminal history, and you've got bodies being dumped
in parking lots.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
This is where all the efforts need to be.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
The scene unfolded around seven am near Van Nuys and
Roscoe Boulevard in Panorama City. Police say a homeless man
found the boy and had someone call for help. Now
it's not clear what condition the boy's body was found in.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Which means they're not releasing that information.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
When strangers are riot here and discovered it. We should
learn more about the child and how they died following
the autops of report, which is yet to be released.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I told you it was a horrible story. I told you.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I told you it was the worst one, worst story
of the day so far. Actually, looking at the rundown,
I think it is the worst story.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Of everything that we have. Pretty sure it's the worst one. Killer.
Are these clean? Killer? Just sent me some of you?
They are clean yet? Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So our talkback question today is have you noticed anything
getting more expensive in light of the terraff anounce? It's
over the last few months on again off against stuff
and I have listening.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
I have noticed the price of the coffee I buy
went from seven ninety nine to now ten ninety nine.
The price of nuts also was seven ninety nine and
now it's about ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Also, Yeah, I don't know. And this is where it's
going to get a little bit difficult. What is tariff
related and what has got a different market pressure that's
driving prices up? Right, So it's coffee going up because
the tariffs. Is coffee going up because there's a shortage
of you know beans?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Hey, Chris, hey, I haven't really noticed tariff prices, but
prices just in general ever since kind of the the pandemic,
you know, bump them, everything just seem up and remained up.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah. I think they're going to remain up too, sadly.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
One thing for sure is I mean, it just seems
like if you're not invested, you know, and technology stocks
like in video or pitcoin, you're kind of being financially
left behind.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You see in video hit the four trillion dollars this week.
Whoo I had in video shares. I bought in video
shares a few years ago, speaking of in video, in crypto.
So in video it makes they're making all the processors
for the AI now, which is why their value was
gone way up. But in video was making and still
does they make video cards for computers and six eight
(30:28):
years ago, I was getting into some of the cryptocurrency mining.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'm out of it now. My wife got mad.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I was spending money and I wasn't making any and
so I but I bought some in video stock because
they couldn't keep their cards on the shelf, right, I mean,
they were selling faster than they could produce them when
I went, this is great. So I bought in video
and then things kind of the crypto craze kind of
died off. But at the same time I jumped out,
which if you're an investing they say, you know, by
(30:55):
low sell high, and I did the opposite, so which
is bad. So anyway, I sold my Nvidia stock and
then AI comes along and all the stock goes through
the roof and now I'm left behind, which is why
I'm working Sunday afternoons.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, well it is what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Curious as to whether or not you have noticed anything
getting more expensive. I do have a story A friend
of mine was telling me about where they do there
is a product that they buy that is getting the
tariff charge and they're getting the tariff surcharge on their receipt.
Most places are not doing that, but some are, so
that is starting to happen.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Curious about whether or not you've noticed anything like that.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
In the meantime, Speaking of law breakers, we still talk about.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
This Epstein thing.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Evidently we are because people are not happy about the
latest news and it could mean some people lose their jobs.
Irresponsible speculation is next. Chris Merrill, I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You're listening to kfi AI on demand.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Chris Merrill, I Am six forty on demand anytime and
the iHeartRadio apps. So have you heard about this fellow
Jeffrey Epstein. I'm old enough to remember this guy.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Now, if you're unfamiliar with Jeffrey Epstein, he's not a
swell dude. So this guy was rumored for a long
time to be a total perv. And then he was
flying dignitaries to his island and there were well, let
me see, according to one report I've got here, he
had a thousand victims.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So these are people that were being trafficked for sex,
many of them under age. So this is like Diddy
times ten.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And so he's got this island, and then he's got
pictures with a bunch of you know, presidents, ex presidents.
There's videos of him and Trump hanging out, Bill Clinton
at the island. Bill Gates was known to go there,
so lots of big people. Who's the Prince Andrew? Is
that the other one? Guys that was got got wrapped
(33:05):
up in the whole thing. So anyway, Epstein gets arrested
finally and goes to prison, and then he dies in
prison and people are like, hey, where's this client list?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Who were his? Who are the people that he was servicing? Right?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And there's been the speculation, is it Bill Clinton? Is
it Donald Trump? Is it Bill Gates? Is it all
these other you know, big names. Who else has been
on this island? Who's on that client list? Where's this
little black book? We have to go after these offenders,
these these people who are you know, making uh they
are enabling sex trafficking and they are raping miners.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We have to do this.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was asked about the
Epstein client list and she's.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Like, oh, it's on my desk.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I got to go through it, as though she's just
sitting around with a diary of sex offenders on her
desk like you and I might have, you know, last
week's Life and Style magazine. I don't know if you
guys have that. You know, obviously I'm I'm a style
So what's the latest on this. Well, now the AG
(34:07):
and the attorney the Department of Justice are like, oh,
client list, there's a client list.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Epstein he just killed himself. Yeah, he wasn't murdered in prison.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Nope, which is contrary to just about everything that the
the MAGA diehards have been saying for the last five
six years. They're like, no, this guy's there's a client list.
Why are they hiding the client list? Why is Joe
Biden hiding the client list? Why didn't Donald Trump release
(34:37):
the client list? Where's the client list? Cash Bettell, who's
now the FBI director, made his bones talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Dan Bongino, who's the deputy FBI director, said there is
a client list. We got to take down these creeps,
we got to take down these rapists.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
And Al was like, oh, no, there's no client list.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, as you might imagine, people who were supportive of
the Mega movement and going after sex traffickers are a
little stunned to find out that everyone in the magaverse
either had been lying to them for the last half decade,
or is now lying to them and telling them there's
nothing to see here. Well, this comes to a head
(35:22):
because the Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, basically said,
it's me or the ag Pambondi.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One of us is out of here over.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
This brewing inside the White House, sources Tel Fox. A
trained General Pam Bondi an FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino,
got into a heated argument Wednesday over the Justice Department's
handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. It comes as DOJ
has been attempting to close the case on the disgrace
sex trafficker. This week, the Department sent out a memo
(35:52):
stating there was no client list for Epstein after all,
despite Bondy teasing its release for months. The maybe releasing
the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Will that really happen?
Speaker 7 (36:05):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
That sent up red flags even among the administration's supporters
who have long sought answers over which, if any, high
profile figures could be implicated in Epstein's crimes. Earlier this week,
President Trump tried to put the discussion to rest.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Are people still talking about this guy?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
This creep?
Speaker 3 (36:26):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
DJ also releasing footage from a security camera outside Epstein's cell.
Then I'd died, But it ended up raising even more
questions when it was observed that a minute of video
was missing.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Tech publication Wired.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Report that's really convenient that he just killed himself during
that one minute words.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
The videos metadata shows it was sticks together with editing software.
Intel officials, including Bongino, have maintained that Epstein took his
own life.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Well, that's interesting because when he was a podcaster and
radio host that was not the case.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that
it was in fact the suicide.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, not what he was saying before he got into
that position. He was darn sure and he was going
to expose the truth. And no one should believe what
this Biden administration and the elitists are saying. They're all
covering it up until he gets there, and then either
he's part of the cover up or he was full
of crap all.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Along to us.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Close to Bongino says he's considering resigning over the memo,
but no final decision has been made. Huh in Washington,
Mike commnnual.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Fox News, all right, Fox News, Mike com Manuel. Now Bonginos, Well,
he's thinking about quitting. Let me tell you something about
Dan Bongino. This guy threatened to quit about every other
month when it came to his radio show.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Oh he's not. Oh, the elites at the corporation don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
They don't understand him, and they're trying to hold him
back and he's going to walk away from his radio
show unless they give him the contract that they want.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I'm really sorry to do this, you gut.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He was apolo and I used to fill in on
a station that I followed him, and he used to
apologize to his audience about we're still working on it,
but this is not looking good and I'm probably gonna
walk away and I'm gonna miss you. I love doing
this show so much, but I'm gonna miss you guys.
And then woo, I'm so glad they finally figured it
out and came to terms. He's not going anywhere. He
(38:20):
does this whole I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna take my
ball and go home, like this is his thing. So
if you think Bongino's gonna quit your nuts. Meanwhile, Alan
Dershowitz claims that he has seen the Epstein list and
that it's being suppressed to protect powerful individuals. So there
(38:41):
it is. He says he's bound by confidentiality. He knows
who's suppressing the list, he knows why they're being suppressed,
and he knows the names of individuals, but he's got
a confidentiality agreement, so he can't He can't expose these
child predators. He can't actually tell anybody about crimes that
he knows are out there, because you know, he's bound
(39:03):
by that confidentiality.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Wow, that's integrity, people. There's a guy who's loyal to
his word. Thank goodness, he is. The last time we
want is justice for victims. You know, I got the
feeling that if there were a client list and Trump
wanted it out there, it would be out there. So
(39:26):
mag is a little confused right now. They don't know
what to believe. I don't blame him.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Speaking of Trump, we've got the tariff tango going on again.
Put your left foot in, take your left foot out.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
That's next. Chris merrilf I am six forty live everywhere
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honor spending time with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I love it. I love it, I love it, I
love it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Appreciate your patience, those of you that listened on a
weekly basis. So I had a scheduled day off last week,
which was great. The week before was not scheduled. In fact,
I had the whole show put together, and I was
feeling horrible. And one of the stories that I had
that I pulled was the spread of the new COVID nimbus,
(00:37):
and and I went, boy, those symptoms sounded an awful
lot like what I have. So I went and I
took the COVID test, and sure enough I had it.
And I thought, you know what, I think this is
a good I got a positive test. This is a
good enough reason for me to be able to call
in sick. So I did, and and I was pretty
glad I did, because I felt like crud. I had
the razor blade throat and it felt is no bueno.
(01:01):
And then I was thinking, well, maybe I should you know,
work that. Like I said, last week, I was scheduled
to be off. I was traveling, but I could have
gotten to my studio and I could have made it happen.
But it just creates a little more stress, which is
why I took the day off. And I thought, well,
maybe I should switch. And then the next thing I know,
Tiffany Hobbs was scheduled and she covered it, and I thought,
(01:23):
you know what, I'm not gonna argue, this is great.
So Tiffany covered and thank you to Tiffany. She is magnificent.
And so anyway, I love you guys, appreciate everybody that
sent me notes. You guys are fantastic. Thank you so
much for that. So I appreciate it. So we're back
in the saddle and off we go. So an awful
lot has happened this week, especially if you're paying attention
(01:43):
to what ICE is doing. ICE is focusing on largely California. Now,
there are raids happening all over, but there is a
concentrated focus in California, and there are a couple of
reasons for that. First of all, we have a high
migrant population in especially southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But we have a high migrant population. Part of that
is proximity to the border.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Part of that has to do with the jobs that
are available here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The other reason, of course, is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That we are the bane of the existence of the
rest of the Blues, excuse me, the Red States. So
the Red States, they look at California and New York
and we're always, oh, how terrible they are.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is the worst they're They're horrible.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
In the same way that so many people in the
Blue States complain about Texas and Florida, the Red States
complain about New York and California.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
When the president is trying to score political points and
his primary focus is immigration, it just works out really well.
I mean, it's it's just made for it's made for
a reality president. So off we go, which is why
when we saw the raid at the Glasshouse in Ventura County,
it made headlines not just here but nationwide, headlines all
(02:55):
over the place.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And the raid goes down.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
This is on the heels of what happened at MacArthur Park,
and MacArthur broken went, Oh my goodness, we've got the
National police forces coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Look at them.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
They're they're marching across the lawns can you imagine if
the Biden administration had done this somewhere in Texas and
all the gnashing of teeth and yadda YadA YadA. So
this stuff goes down at this uh at this pot farm,
cannabis farms near Camerio and Carpentera, and they said, what
(03:26):
three hundred I think were arrested. Which if you're arresting
three hundred people who show up for work, that's a
lot of cars get left behind.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
ABC was there twelth ones people detained by federal agents
lineup outside the front gate to Glasshouse Farm, waiting for
answers they may never get, some of them hoping guards
will give them access to the personal items left behind
by the workers detained.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
That's really hard on everybody.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This woman, who doesn't want to be on camera, is
here to pick up her niece's belongings. She tells me
her niece managed to escape Thursday's ice rate by hiding
on the property.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh dare she eluding law enforcement?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Carmotage has two kids, a two year old and a
six year old?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Are they what's the story? And the two kids were
they born here in the United States? Because the judge
this week said that they can say.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So she was scared she was not going to see
her kids anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Can you imagine being a mother and worried you might
never see your kids, or just worried that, you know,
who's going to take care of my kids if I
get deported? What a nightmare?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Camera capturing personal vehicles being towed away from the marijuana
farm in Camillo in nearby?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wait a minute, so the cars get towed away, and
then what putting an impound lot?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So who's paying the impound fees? That sucks?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Can you imagine being a family member and you're trying
to figure out where your family member is and you're
not getting any answers, and then you get a notice
that your car's been impounded and it's going to cost
you a couple hundred bucks to get that out. But
you have any income because the the the paycheck is
not coming in because they just got deported.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Oxgnar demonstrators peacefully protested the Trump administration's immigration.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Policy, and not all the protests were peaceful.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
The Department of Homeland Security says on Thursday they were
serving a warren at Glasshouse Farms for allegedly hiring and
harboring undocumented workers.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh are we actually going after employers now? Are we
doing that? Or are we just going.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We're just going after the workers, right, okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The last thing we're gonna do is crack down on
you know, meat packing plants in the in the Red States.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, we'll arrest the people at the meat packing plants,
just not the people running the meat packing plants. That
would be detrimental to the economy and their share prices.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
The raid, federal agents faced off with protesters. Some threw
rocks at their vehicles as they left.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, that's not peaceful protesting.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
An official with Customs and Water Patrol says at least
ten migrant children were rescued from potential exploitation, forced labor,
in human trafficking.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Rescued from potential See, this is where you got to
be a little bit careful when you're getting the press releases.
The ten migrant children were rescued from potential trafficking and
child labor. And this kind of thing, right, could also
be that the parents didn't have anybody watch their kids
and brought them to work. And maybe there's a I
(06:38):
mean if this was the corporate world, we would call
it the daycare center at the office. Right, But we
don't know that because we're getting a press release saying
we rescued them from potential bad things.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Now, maybe they did, but maybe they didn't. It's kind
of like when you get.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Those press releases that are like, we seized four pounds
of marijuana, enough for sixty million million people to overdose.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, Glasshouse denied those claims.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's the wrong button. Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Nobody swore haands on social media, saying it has never
knowingly employed minors. DHS is estimating two hundred undocumented immigrants
have been detained from marijuana gross sites here in the area.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Dad that the number one up to three hundred tempolium.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
ABC seven EYEWITNESSNS thank you to appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
US Army veteran George Rettis is among the people loved
ones they are missing after yesterday's ice raate a Glasshouse
farms and camerill.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Wait a minute, US veterans. That can't be right. No, no, no,
now that doesn't there's no mistakes being made.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
His wife, Guadalupe showed up looking for her husband, who
works as a security guard. His vehicle is parked outside,
but Rettis is gone.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well it's been towed. Now you'll owe it in pump fee.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He really did try to leave, but.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So I don't know what's going to happen from here.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I really, Oh, I had a phone call or something
because I'm getting torn APO.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
My kids are asking where their dad is.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I keep having the lines that he's at work.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh God, I feel so bad for this woman. I
can't even imagine her pain.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
She says.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
No one, not even local law enforcement, knows where her husband,
George is. His daughter turns three years old tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
All right, so he's got a three year old daughter.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
President Donald Trump responding to scenes like this one in
Camarillo yesterday with a new ICE directive. In a social
media post, he authorized federal officers to protect themselves and
immediately detain anyone they believe is assaulting them.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, anyone they believe is assaulting them. Okay, how
are we defining assault?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
He says, Any officer on the receiving end of throwing rocks, bricks,
or any other form of assault, okay, may stop their
car end quote, arrest these slimeballs using whatever means is
necessary to do so unquote all right.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
There you go, So more mite is right going on
in the meantime, there was one guy who was trying
to flee from workers at one of these immigration raids
at the Glasshouse, and this guy took a wrong step.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And now really tragic ending to the story.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Now to the latest in the case of the farm
worker who was critically injured during the immigration raid in
Camerillo this week. Late today, Hime Alanis Garcia's family confirmed
to Eyewitness News that he has passed away.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh my gospital.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
They believe he was fleeing federal agents when he fell
thirty feet off of building, suffering a broken neck and skull.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Howland Security says he was not being chased when he fell.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Wait a minute, what do you mean he was not
being chased when he so what was he pretending he
was a wallenda? Come on now, come on.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
In a statement, his family wrote, Hime was not just
a farm worker. He was a provider, end up human
being who deserved dignity. His death is not an isolated tragedy.
It is the result of a targeted raid at Glasshouse Farms.
Workers were not met with protection, but with chaos and fear.
Some are detained, others were traumatized.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
All right, Lawyer wrote that statement, no doubt, but this
guy was you know, ice shows up, he takes off
because he crossed an imaginary line years ago, and now
all of a sudden he's wanted. In the meantime, imagine,
you don't imagine from all perspectives, and this is gonna
be really tough for some people because either you are
(10:24):
you're all about these raids.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It seems to be that we're in a very binary society.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're either all about these raids and this is the
best thing that's ever happened to America, or you are
on the other side and you go, my goodness, is
the American Gestapo, or if you're Marjorie Taylor Green, the
Gaspacho police who are coming after just hard working family
people who are trying to provide. And there doesn't seem
to be much in the way in between on these things.
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But imagine if you're an ice worker. I was reading
an article that The Atlantic had today. I was reading
The Atlantic because you know, I'm an elitist and the
ice workers are like Morales.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I had a crap right now, pretty miserable, in fact,
Those are the words one ICE official telling the author
of the Atlantic article, it's miserable. The job is a
mission impossible.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Speaking with a dozen current former ICE agents and officers
about morale at the agency, most spoke on the condition
of anonymity for fear of losing their job or being
subjected to a polygraph exam. They described varying levels of dissatisfaction.
But we're looking to complain. We're not looking excuse me
to complain or expecting any sympathy, certainly not at a
time when many Americans have been disturbed by video clips
(11:34):
of masked and hooded officers seizing immigrants who were not
engaged in any obvious criminal behavior. The frustration isn't yet
producing any mass resignations or major major internal protests, but
the officers and agents described the workforce on edge, vilified
by broad swaths of the public and bullied by Trump
officials demanding more and more. Like I said, we seem
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to have this binary choice. You're either all about it
or you can't believe America has turned into this. It's
like one or the other. There doesn't be any in
between that says let's go after bad people first, and
YadA YadA YadA. So imagine you are an ice agent,
and even if you like what you do, you're being
told you're a terrible person, and you don't like what
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you do, and you don't like picking people up, and
you're being told that you're a terrible person for not
doing more. I mean, this situation just stinks all the
way around. Doesn't it feel like there ought to be
a better way? It would be my thought. I just
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that's all I gotta say about the immigration stuff today.
We're gonna just get away from that altogether. An awful
lot of people are concerned about the potential for inflation,
although we really haven't seen much in the way of inflation,
even with the tariffs and all the doomsday predictions. But
that doesn't mean that all of a sudden we're all
buying houses and living the American dream.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
How far away is that? That's next?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
By there Chris Merril KFI AM six forty on demand
anytime in the iHeart Radio App. I made a mistake.
Oh I hate when I do this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You ever go you ever go on line and start
shopping for things that you can't have. I do this sometimes.
Sometimes my daughter's looking for a car, so I'll go
on some of those car places, you know, those car websites.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Her budgets like ten grand, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So I'm like, okay, and let me see if I
can help find a car that I think is going
to be good for her and reliable for ten grand.
And the next thing, you know, I'm looking at Maserati's. Yeah,
she's not buying a maser right, I'm not buying a Maserati.
I can't afford one. But I'm like, oh, wouldn't it
be nice if I could have that?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh? Look at this Aston Martin. Would it be nice
if I can have that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
So I do this sometimes Prime Day rolls around, I
start looking at computer monitors.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'm like, oh, look at.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
This as a forty nine inch led monitor, and it's
only fifteen hundred dollars. I don't have fifteen hundred dollars
for a computer monitor. I can't afford that. So I
made this mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
This morning. I went on Zilo. Don't go on Zilo,
just don't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I made this huge mistake because I end up looking
at homes and I go, oh, this is a cute
little place and it's only seven hundred and fifty thousand,
and I have seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and I go, okay,
well you know what I have.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Oh, here's some place.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Look at this, it's only six hundred twenty five thousand.
I don't have six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. No,
if I wanted to buy a house, it would be
in that neighborhood of like three hundred thousand. The problem
is that I go, oh, I want a house, and
I want to have a two car.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Garage, and I want to have a little bit of
a yard.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wouldn't it be great if I could have a uh,
a pool, would be all right? You know I gotta
have I'd like to have three bedrooms, two and a
half bathrooms. And I go, oh, but I wanted to
be close to the radio station. No, I can't afford
any of that. So I make this mistake and I
keep looking at it at these houses I can't afford,
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and it's the worst here.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Other places are catching up.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Incidentally, other places are starting to see similar actually they're
seeing higher price increases than what we are. In fact,
I was looking at a story earlier that was showing
that LA our home values have gone up I don't know,
like ninety nine percent in the last fifteen years or something.
(15:33):
But I have this story here, actually, let me see
it seemed like to just find the story, and I
thought I had a handy. Oh yeah, here it is.
You know, let me just do this on the fly.
You think I would have prepped this. Now, over the
past decade, the median home price has increased in Phoenix
by one hundred and thirty four percent, Miami one hundred
(15:56):
and thirty three percent, Atlanta one hundred and twenty nine
and ninety nine percent in Dallas. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has
seen prices go up by ninety seven percent over the
last decade, which means that that house I saw for
six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars I might have
been able to afford ten years ago, right, that would
have been in that three to three fifty range. No,
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can't afford it now. But other cities are starting to
catch up kind of. I mean, they're just seeing higher
price increases, but their prices were so much lower than ours.
They have a lot of room to go before they're
anywhere close to what we're facing. And actually it's worse here.
If you take a look at the most expensive metros
to buy a home, the most expensive place where you
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have to have the highest income to afford a home,
Nine of the top ten places are California. Number ten
is Honolulu, where you only need to make two hundred
and eighty thousand dollars a year to afford a median home.
What is median right now? In OC it's like one
point two or something like that. The worst in the
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by the way, San Jose you have to make almost
five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. San Francisco
is second, three eighty six. Let me see a little
bit closer to home, Harrison.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Okay La.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
In order to afford the median home price median priced home,
you have to make three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars
a year. Guess who doesn't make three hundred eighteen thousand
dollars a year. This guy also the vast majority of
all of us. San Diego three ten. San Luis obispo
under three hundred thousand. Ox Nard two ninety two. Yeah,
(17:34):
So I got to tell you, I think the American
dream is toast. I mean, you might be able to
get into you might be able to own some place.
Right if you are making, you know, family household income
of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, you might be able
to afford a place. It's not gonna have that pool,
it's not gonna have that yard. It's probably not gonna
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be a single family detached, or it's probably not gonna
be near the schools you want. It's not gonna have
that two our garage. In other words, all those things
that we were told about owning a home, and here's
the American dream. It's it's married with two point two kids,
a dog, a cat, a white picket fence.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
All this stuff that's toast. That's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And part of that is not just the home prices,
which of course are astronomical, but some of that has
to do with the mortgage rates. And if you're like me,
you've been sitting on the sidelines and you've been saying,
when these mortgage rates come down, then I will look
in earnest because then my monthly payment will be a
little bit lower.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That'll be a little that'll be better.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Right, Yeah, probably not gonna happen anytime soon. Was reading
from I guess this is yeah Yahoo Finance. If you're
waiting for rates to drop more significantly before buying a home,
don't hold your breath. Current financial and housing market data
indicate little interest rate relief in the second half of
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twenty twenty five. If you want to buy, you need
a strong financial footing, a decent sized down payment, and
focus on lower fees to partly compensate for the higher
initial mortgage rate. You can always refinance your mortgage later.
I was reading some tips about how you can lower
your monthly payment and they said you should pay down
your mortgage or put a higher down payment in and
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that'll give you a lower payment.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
But if I had a higher down payment, I wouldn't
be complaining about the mortgage rates, would I.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Thanks geniuses, right, the lawmakers, the law breakers at the
times that there ought to be a law la law
is next. Chris Merril KFI AM six forty relive everywhere
on the iheartradiof.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Hey there, Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Uh, Kayla,
amazing producer, Kayla who totally has a very real boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He just doesn't live here. You wouldn't know him. What
the heck?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
C Listen, we had bets going on about whether or
not your boyfriend is real.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Oh man, that's yes.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Who is?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And uh listen to Raoul's credit, he took your side.
Kayla's like, oh, I got this boyfriend. He lives in Arizona.
You wouldn't know him. And I'm like, sure he does, Okay,
all right, that yeah, sure he is. I knew he
was real because I saw a picture, so I was like, oh, she.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Gave me a picture too, and it doesn't really look photoshopped. Yeah,
this looks real.
Speaker 9 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Just because it's not on social media doesn't mean it's
not real. I'm just a private girl. That's great. I
love that. Yeah, I love that about you. Yeah, anyway,
I'm really happy for you. That's that's excellent.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kayla did remind me that I have yet to throw
out our our question for the talkback, which of course
we'd like to do every week.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So here's our question.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, you just hit
that little talkback button and answer this question. You got
thirty seconds. If you talk longer than that, then the
machine hangs up on you.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Uh, have you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Noticed anything getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
We'll talk about some of the tariffs and wide prices
haven't gone up because everybody was like, oh, it's you know,
the tariffs are going to sink America and we heard
all this doom and gloom, and then stock market has
gone up, Inflation has not increased. So, in the words
of Jerry Seinfeld, what's the deal? Have you noticed anything
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getting more expensive in light of the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So that's the talkback question today. Curious about your experience in.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The meantime the lawmakers, the law breakers, and the times
that there ought to be a law There's something especially
gross about the people who are supposed to be maintaining
law and order becoming the law breakers. And that seems
(21:45):
to be the case of the dirty cop who said
it's a disability pay me anyway.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
The city of Westminster suing a former police officer who
investigators say stole more than six hundred thousand dollars's compensation.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Wow, that's enough to buy half a house.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
And partied at Stagecoach. The city council voted unanimously to
recover all the funds from Nicole Brown after they say
she betrayed the public's trust. Brown was charged with fifteen
felon accounts. Prosecutors say she claimed a head injury that
prevented her from working, but then did multiple things, including
going to Disneyland, going skiing, and running five k races.
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If she's convicted on all the charges, Brown phases up
to twenty two years in prison.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You would think that the cop would know better. She didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I mean, you would think that the cop would go, Okay,
I've seen enough of these hidden camera expose a's and
I know that there are insurance fraud investigators.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Who look into this exact thing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
To not run a five k is a very public
Don't go to public places to do your partying if
you're collecting your disability fraudulently.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I mean, don't do it anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But it's just dumb, I mean, ugh, And it's gross
because it's a cop doing it, who of course has
sworn to uphold the law, and then obviously they're breaking
the law, which just irritates me. Extra headline, Los Angeles
magazine Attorney General declaring daily fantasy sports illegal in California.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Oooo.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Attorney General Rob Bonta releasing illegal opinion DFS games are illegal,
says entry fees are essentially the same as placing a
bet on a sports game, which is already illegal in California.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Booooo.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I'm not crazy about this.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Daily fantasy sports have been a legal issue as they've
become more popular in recent years. In twenty twenty two,
California voters rejecting a proposition that would have legalized sports betting.
And so now the daily fantasy games people don't like.
If you're unfamiliar with the daily fantasy games, this is
something that Raoul plays all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
He's a real degenerate.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And what we've if you haven't played this before, and
what it allows you to do basically is to, according
to Rob bet and actually I agree with that, bet
on the performance of certain players in games each week.
So rather than joining a geeky fantasy football club, right
(24:19):
like I am, this allows you to just play with
other people online every single week. So you lose this week,
that's all right, I can go win next week. You
win some money back, that kind of thing. Anyway, Rob
Bonta said, no, you can't do it. You do have
to pay an entry fee. Bonta says, that's a bet.
He's right, and since this is gambling that is illegal
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in California, and again boom, all right, I think I
made myself clear on this one.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
How about a horrible story. You guys want a really
horrible story. Well, the first two weren't great, but that's
too horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, this is this is the horrible, horrible list of
all right, but there is a there is a moment
in the story. ABC seven is reporting on it. There
is a moment where you kind of go, duh.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
This is where police focus their investigation. This morning, the
child was found dead in this area, and police believe
the boys between the ages of three and five years old.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, so they found a toddler, well like they're
calling it a toddler between three and five years old,
dead near a dumpster ina, Panorama City.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Now the corner arrives her earlier today to pick up
the child's body. They will determine how the boy died.
And police believe that this is a suspicious death. They
have called in.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, did you catch that suspicious death? Yeah? The police
believe and.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Police believe that this is a suspicious death.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Normally, when you find a dead child near a dumpster, yeah,
I'd call that a suspicious death. In fact, I was
I was trying to think, how would it not be
a suspicious death? Okay, it wasn't that the child wasn't
in the dumpster, which means the child didn't fall in
and couldn't get back out, right if there was a
kid playing, right like, that's one of those horrible stories,
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kind of like back in the fifties and sixties when
they were all worried about kids getting trapped inside refrigerators.
Remember that. Then you know that could be a tragic accident.
But in this case, it's a child near a dumpster,
So yeah, that's suspicious death unless the kid had a
heart attack and just happened to be in a parking lot.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
They have called in their child abuse detective unit to
handle the case.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
This is horrific and it impacts every single one of
us that comes to these scenes.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, that is not when you're an emergency worker.
That is the last call you want. Really, the absolute worst.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Everyone at home that hears about these scenes. As you said,
we've got mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, anyone. You don't have
to be one of those to know how horrific this is.
I don't know the cause of death of this individual again,
that will be up to the corner to determine. But
no one deserves to be handled in this manner.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, so she kind of tipped her hat right, handled
in this manner? What does that mean? I mean, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It sounds like this investigator believes that it was a
child's body that was dumped and whoever did this, Like
this is where all of our efforts need to be
right now. This is the kind of stuff we got
to stop. We're worried about people in a home depot
parking lot. Now, if you're going after child traffickers, I'm
with you, go get them, go get them. If we're
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talking about murderers, rapists, drug dealers, child sex traffickers, all
this kind of stuff that we were told was going
to be a priority for law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yes, all about it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But you're going after landscapers, you're going after meat packers,
you're going after people working at farms who don't have
any other criminal history, and you've got bodies being dumped
in parking lots.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
This is where all the efforts need to be.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
The scene unfolded around seven am near Van Nuys and
Roscoe Boulevard in Panorama City. Police say a homeless man
found the boy and had someone call for help. Now
it's not clear what condition the boy's body was found in.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Which means they're not releasing that information.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
When strangers are riot here and discovered it. We should
learn more about the child and how they died following
the autops of report, which is yet to be released.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I told you it was a horrible story. I told you.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I told you it was the worst one, worst story
of the day so far. Actually, looking at the rundown,
I think it is the worst story.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Of everything that we have. Pretty sure it's the worst one. Killer.
Are these clean? Killer? Just sent me some of you?
They are clean yet? Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So our talkback question today is have you noticed anything
getting more expensive in light of the terraff anounce? It's
over the last few months on again off against stuff
and I have listening.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
I have noticed the price of the coffee I buy
went from seven ninety nine to now ten ninety nine.
The price of nuts also was seven ninety nine and
now it's about ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Also, Yeah, I don't know. And this is where it's
going to get a little bit difficult. What is tariff
related and what has got a different market pressure that's
driving prices up? Right, So it's coffee going up because
the tariffs. Is coffee going up because there's a shortage
of you know beans?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Hey, Chris, hey, I haven't really noticed tariff prices, but
prices just in general ever since kind of the the pandemic,
you know, bump them, everything just seem up and remained up.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah. I think they're going to remain up too, sadly.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
One thing for sure is I mean, it just seems
like if you're not invested, you know, and technology stocks
like in video or pitcoin, you're kind of being financially
left behind.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You see in video hit the four trillion dollars this week.
Whoo I had in video shares. I bought in video
shares a few years ago, speaking of in video, in crypto.
So in video it makes they're making all the processors
for the AI now, which is why their value was
gone way up. But in video was making and still
does they make video cards for computers and six eight
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years ago, I was getting into some of the cryptocurrency mining.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'm out of it now. My wife got mad.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I was spending money and I wasn't making any and
so I but I bought some in video stock because
they couldn't keep their cards on the shelf, right, I mean,
they were selling faster than they could produce them when
I went, this is great. So I bought in video
and then things kind of the crypto craze kind of
died off. But at the same time I jumped out,
which if you're an investing they say, you know, by
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low sell high, and I did the opposite, so which
is bad. So anyway, I sold my Nvidia stock and
then AI comes along and all the stock goes through
the roof and now I'm left behind, which is why
I'm working Sunday afternoons.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, well it is what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Curious as to whether or not you have noticed anything
getting more expensive. I do have a story A friend
of mine was telling me about where they do there
is a product that they buy that is getting the
tariff charge and they're getting the tariff surcharge on their receipt.
Most places are not doing that, but some are, so
that is starting to happen.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Curious about whether or not you've noticed anything like that.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
In the meantime, Speaking of law breakers, we still talk about.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
This Epstein thing.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Evidently we are because people are not happy about the
latest news and it could mean some people lose their jobs.
Irresponsible speculation is next. Chris Merrill, I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You're listening to kfi AI on demand.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Chris Merrill, I Am six forty on demand anytime and
the iHeartRadio apps. So have you heard about this fellow
Jeffrey Epstein. I'm old enough to remember this guy.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Now, if you're unfamiliar with Jeffrey Epstein, he's not a
swell dude. So this guy was rumored for a long
time to be a total perv. And then he was
flying dignitaries to his island and there were well, let
me see, according to one report I've got here, he
had a thousand victims.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
So these are people that were being trafficked for sex,
many of them under age. So this is like Diddy
times ten.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And so he's got this island, and then he's got
pictures with a bunch of you know, presidents, ex presidents.
There's videos of him and Trump hanging out, Bill Clinton
at the island. Bill Gates was known to go there,
so lots of big people. Who's the Prince Andrew? Is
that the other one? Guys that was got got wrapped
(33:05):
up in the whole thing. So anyway, Epstein gets arrested
finally and goes to prison, and then he dies in
prison and people are like, hey, where's this client list?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Who were his? Who are the people that he was servicing? Right?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And there's been the speculation, is it Bill Clinton? Is
it Donald Trump? Is it Bill Gates? Is it all
these other you know, big names. Who else has been
on this island? Who's on that client list? Where's this
little black book? We have to go after these offenders,
these these people who are you know, making uh they
are enabling sex trafficking and they are raping miners.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We have to do this.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, was asked about the
Epstein client list and she's.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Like, oh, it's on my desk.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I got to go through it, as though she's just
sitting around with a diary of sex offenders on her
desk like you and I might have, you know, last
week's Life and Style magazine. I don't know if you
guys have that. You know, obviously I'm I'm a style
So what's the latest on this. Well, now the AG
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and the attorney the Department of Justice are like, oh,
client list, there's a client list.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Epstein he just killed himself. Yeah, he wasn't murdered in prison.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Nope, which is contrary to just about everything that the
the MAGA diehards have been saying for the last five
six years. They're like, no, this guy's there's a client list.
Why are they hiding the client list? Why is Joe
Biden hiding the client list? Why didn't Donald Trump release
(34:37):
the client list? Where's the client list? Cash Bettell, who's
now the FBI director, made his bones talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Dan Bongino, who's the deputy FBI director, said there is
a client list. We got to take down these creeps,
we got to take down these rapists.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
And Al was like, oh, no, there's no client list.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, as you might imagine, people who were supportive of
the Mega movement and going after sex traffickers are a
little stunned to find out that everyone in the magaverse
either had been lying to them for the last half decade,
or is now lying to them and telling them there's
nothing to see here. Well, this comes to a head
(35:22):
because the Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, basically said,
it's me or the ag Pambondi.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One of us is out of here over.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
This brewing inside the White House, sources Tel Fox. A
trained General Pam Bondi an FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino,
got into a heated argument Wednesday over the Justice Department's
handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. It comes as DOJ
has been attempting to close the case on the disgrace
sex trafficker. This week, the Department sent out a memo
(35:52):
stating there was no client list for Epstein after all,
despite Bondy teasing its release for months. The maybe releasing
the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Will that really happen?
Speaker 7 (36:05):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
That sent up red flags even among the administration's supporters
who have long sought answers over which, if any, high
profile figures could be implicated in Epstein's crimes. Earlier this week,
President Trump tried to put the discussion to rest.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Are people still talking about this guy?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
This creep?
Speaker 3 (36:26):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
DJ also releasing footage from a security camera outside Epstein's cell.
Then I'd died, But it ended up raising even more
questions when it was observed that a minute of video
was missing.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Tech publication Wired.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Report that's really convenient that he just killed himself during
that one minute words.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
The videos metadata shows it was sticks together with editing software.
Intel officials, including Bongino, have maintained that Epstein took his
own life.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Well, that's interesting because when he was a podcaster and
radio host that was not the case.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that
it was in fact the suicide.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, not what he was saying before he got into
that position. He was darn sure and he was going
to expose the truth. And no one should believe what
this Biden administration and the elitists are saying. They're all
covering it up until he gets there, and then either
he's part of the cover up or he was full
of crap all.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Along to us.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Close to Bongino says he's considering resigning over the memo,
but no final decision has been made. Huh in Washington,
Mike commnnual.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Fox News, all right, Fox News, Mike com Manuel. Now Bonginos, Well,
he's thinking about quitting. Let me tell you something about
Dan Bongino. This guy threatened to quit about every other
month when it came to his radio show.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Oh he's not. Oh, the elites at the corporation don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
They don't understand him, and they're trying to hold him
back and he's going to walk away from his radio
show unless they give him the contract that they want.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I'm really sorry to do this, you gut.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He was apolo and I used to fill in on
a station that I followed him, and he used to
apologize to his audience about we're still working on it,
but this is not looking good and I'm probably gonna
walk away and I'm gonna miss you. I love doing
this show so much, but I'm gonna miss you guys.
And then woo, I'm so glad they finally figured it
out and came to terms. He's not going anywhere. He
(38:20):
does this whole I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna take my
ball and go home, like this is his thing. So
if you think Bongino's gonna quit your nuts. Meanwhile, Alan
Dershowitz claims that he has seen the Epstein list and
that it's being suppressed to protect powerful individuals. So there
(38:41):
it is. He says he's bound by confidentiality. He knows
who's suppressing the list, he knows why they're being suppressed,
and he knows the names of individuals, but he's got
a confidentiality agreement, so he can't He can't expose these
child predators. He can't actually tell anybody about crimes that
he knows are out there, because you know, he's bound
(39:03):
by that confidentiality.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Wow, that's integrity, people. There's a guy who's loyal to
his word. Thank goodness, he is. The last time we
want is justice for victims. You know, I got the
feeling that if there were a client list and Trump
wanted it out there, it would be out there. So
(39:26):
mag is a little confused right now. They don't know
what to believe. I don't blame him.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Speaking of Trump, we've got the tariff tango going on again.
Put your left foot in, take your left foot out.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
That's next. Chris merrilf I am six forty live everywhere
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