May 11, 2025 • 38 mins
According to a new report, gas prices in California could increase up to 75% by the end of 2026 as the state prepares to lose nearly one-fifth of its oil refining capacity. On Thursday, the Southern California Edison (SCE) tower in La Canada Flintridge was taken apart by airborne moving crews. A sky crane helicopter started the process of moving the tower to a staging area in three separate pieces. SCE says the three pieces of the tower will be dismantled and eventually moved into a warehouse. The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI. AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Always an honor to spend Sunday afternoons with you, Chris
merrill I AM six forty more stimulating talk. Happy Mother's
Day too, Mom's also controversial but true. It is not
a proper Mother's Day if your only child is your pet.
And I know you're excited because you're a cat mom,
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and that's awesome and I support that, but you can't
say it's your Mother's Day too.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And I know, hot take, but super super cheesy if
you're doing that. Now, this didn't come from nowhere. I
have a friend of mine. I use that term loosely.
I have a friend who last year, he's single, by
the way, never been in I mean, he had one
long term relationship in his whole life. He's in his
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mid forties, never been married, doesn't have any kids. But
one of the restaurants him was offering a free Father's
Day meal. So he and his buddy, also not married,
no kids, go in there and they want the free
meal for Father's Day because he's a cat dad. And
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he took us free meal, he says, but we left
a really good tip and I said, that's theft. That's
absolute fraud. He goes, No, I'm a cat dad, I'm
a single father. No, no, I do not accept it.
You've crossed a line.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So listen.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
If you've adopted a pet, kudos. I've adopted pets throughout
my life.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Love it. I know terrible, and I love.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That you're saving pets lives, But you do not get
to reap the benefits.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's not the same as having a child.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And if you think it is the same as having
a child, go talk to a single mother and tell
her that you have it just as tough as she does.
Because you have one furry friend. Just doesn't count. Doesn't happen.
Did you guys do anything for your mom's it's a
phone call or something.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh, no, I went. We went to the something.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Nice the cemetery. We went to the cemetery. The family.
My aunt was there, my mom's sister and the family.
It's kind of like an annual tradition thing. And then
they go to eat steak after.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Wait a minute, did you say your mom passed.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, well, it's my grandma's grave site and my great aunt.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A mother figure. Oh okay, it's like a family theme.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's sweet. Yeah, I really like that. That's excellent family
time together.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You see, Kayla didn't answer the question when I asked it,
you see, kill and just didn't jump right up on
that one.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Well, my mom did pass away, and I live so
far from my family. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna. I
was gonna, you know, let you be cool and you know,
but now I got to ruin your style.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
So I didn't do anything today, but I did bring
my doctor Wendy a gift, so i'll see her soon.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh that's nice your radio mom exactly, that's sweet. Yea,
very good. So I haven't even called my mother today.
I sent a couple of gifts and I called that good.
I sent her up. Yeah, I sent her a bench.
I sent her a bench. I was like, here's a bench.
Have fun.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We just want to do it a bench. Sit there,
I guess, sit on it. What else do you do
with a bench? It's the matter with you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, drive it to Costco. Yeah, I gotta tell you.
The bench was stupid expensive. I mean it's just one
of those plastic benches. It's like a deck box with
a seat on it, right, I mean, it's a it's
a bench. It's got a back, but it's basically like
a bench with a storage area, okay, and it's for outside,
and she's gonna put it in your garden and all
that stuff. And that's that was expensive. I want to say,
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I dropped like one hundred and eighty bucks on that thing.
This is not me saying, look, I spent one hundred
and eighty dollars on my mom. It's me complaining about
how expensive Mother's Day is, not that my mother isn't
worth a hundred and eighty bucks. And I got her
some mother stuff too, So I spent a couple hundred
on my mom. And it's not about the price. It's
about the value. It's about what I get from my
hundred bucks, you know. And I am feeling grumpy, I
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guess is the word. I'm grumpy about how expensive things
are getting. And I'm not the only one either, come
to find out, I don't know if you sell the story.
Ellie Times had it. Nearly half of California voters feel
worse off economically than they did last year. More than
half felt less hopeful about their financial well being. And
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does anybody disagree with that? I mean, prices are going up.
We did get breaking news this afternoon that it sounds
like the White House is calling it a deal with China,
but we don't have any details on that, so we
don't know what it is, so we don't have any idea.
Treasury Secretary Scott Beston says substantial progress has been made.
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He didn't call it a deal, but the White House
says we got a deal, so we don't know. China
hasn't commented on that. Kayle's keeping an eye on the
wire and whatever else we use for news gather and
so she's she's watching all that stuff right now to
see if we end up getting any details or if
China comes out and says, yeah, we have a deal.
But in the meantime, you're seeing all these stories about
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the port. Traffic is way down at the port other countries.
Even if we have a deal with China, which is
a big one, but we still have tariffs on a
bunch of other countries, and everything is just kind of
in flux, a lot of uncertainty, right and so I feel,
like so many other people in California, I'm not real
sure and it's not like I'm getting a raise. How
long we've been doing the show, Kayla too long every
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day you say that, I.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Don't know, maybe like a year or two, right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, I think we're uh, I think we're year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Agree, it's really god well, well more than two.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I think I just started when you were like kind
of like already going towards this, So that would be
two years and six months.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, that sounds that sounds about. That was back when
Kayla was the young one on the show. So so
here's my point. I haven't had a race. I'd I'm
still working for the same thing I was making, not
that I would trade it. I mean, I love doing
this show. This is the highlight of my week. But
I'm not seeing any more money coming in. I don't
know if you guys have gotten, you know, little cost
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of living races. We don't really talk about it, but
the fact is things prices are going up, wages are
not keeping up, and we're starting to feel a little
grumpy about it. But here's where things take a bit
of a twist. Roll the clock back to October of
last year, and I now go a little further August,
I guess officially because I'm going to read from a
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study that was done in August there was a survey
that was done, forty six percent of Democratic voters in
the state were upbeat about their financial well being.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Still not half.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
They're still feeling like, oh, things are not great, but
still forty six percent close to half okay. Last month,
when a survey was taken again, only nine percent of
Democrats feel that way all right. People who declared no
party preference their optimism dropped as well, not near as
much in August of last year. Republicans nine percent were
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hopeful in August of last year. Now fifty seven percent
are hopeful right now. According to Polster, I've never seen
this before. I've been pulling for over forty years in California.
In the last five years or so, everything seems to
turn on party. If you ask people, is it sonny outside,
the Democrats will say one thing, the Republicans will say another.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So the the stat that matters to me is not
the partisans, because their sense of realism is based on
what they think of their party at that moment. That
one hundred percent has nothing to do with actual prices,
doesn't have anything to do with what their four oh
one k is doing, doesn't have anything at all to
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do with how they're What they're seeing is a stock
market inflation, mortgage rates, price at the pomp, none of
that other stun What I look at are the undeclared voters.
Those are the ones that matter as far as trying
to get a bead on the actual pulse of America.
If they list no party preference, they don't have any
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skin in the game of my team versus your team.
So they're the ones that are going to give you
the honest answer. So they say their optimism optimism has dropped.
I'm with them. My optimism has dropped as well. I'm
not nearly as optimistic. But I was also no party
preference in August as well, and I'm very nervous about
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all this uncertainty that we're seeing. Although if we do
have a deal with China that seems to be the
biggest domino, and we'll talk more about that coming up
here just a few There is this though, things could
really start to stick, and I got to tell you,
everybody is going to start feeling like things are going.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Down the tubes if this happens. Kate, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
This.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
NBCLA had the story on this because if you thought
gas was expensive.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now, good morning, Adrian.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
We are at the Chevron station here in Harbor City
and you can see hovering right around five dollars a gallon,
very similar to the prices you just read. Imagine that,
as you just said, jumping to eight fifty a gallon,
nearly eight fifty a gallon next year.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Eight fifty a gallon.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
What was the highest we had during COVID or after
COVID everything got thuring colors?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Six dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, I want to say there was some place, what's
that one gas station roll where they always show and
they're always the highest place, and it's almost like they're
doing it for free publicity.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I swear they are. It's got to be a show.
I've never seen a cheap show.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It's like a local station though it's like one particular
station at one corner. I can't remember which one it is.
Whatever it is, it's always like super high. I was
doing radio in the Bay Area at the time, and
I remember everything in the Bay Area was over seven dollars,
and then we were doing some stuff here as well,
and I just remember when I was doing shows in
the Bay Area, like seven dollars, but it was like
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fifty cents cheaper here or something like that. It was
a little bit different anyway. But I don't think anybody
I think that that weird exceptional station. And they always
take a picture and it always gets used in memes,
and it's always used as like, look at the prices
in California, and it's always one station that's crazy exorbitantly high.
But I think they maybe topped out at like eight
eight and a quarter or something. What if they're all
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at eight and a half, that station will be at twelve.
But can you imagine gas prices at eight and a
half dollars all of a sudden, I might start I
might start start thinking about taking public transit.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
That is, according to this USC study by Professor Michael mische,
he projects gas prices could serve seventy five percent by
the end of twenty to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Why why they what did they do? What happened? Why
are gas prices all of a sudden got a skyrocket.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Because of the closures of two major state refineries. The
Phillip sixty six refinery is scheduled to close at the
end of this year. That's less than a mile from here.
The Valero refine and Benicia scheduled to close in April
of next year. These two refineries, according to the study,
produce about twenty percent of California's gasoline supply. The study
has prompted Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones to send a
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letter to Governor Newsom demanding action by the governor. He
blames the governor's policies for, in his words, making it
nearly impossible for California refineries to stay open with excessive
regulation and financial burdens on gas producers.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So the Republicans are saying it's all Gavin Newsom's fault.
Get Ready.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It will take zero point zero seconds for people to
come out and say this was the plan all along,
to force people to take electric. Get Ready, and then
there'll be all kinds of other conspiracy theories around that
that it's the it's SDG and E is behind this,
it's DWP is trying to increase the power people use
so they can make more money.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Get Ready.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
This is the Green New Deal, this which, of course
there was never a Green New Deal, but it isn't.
This is AOC's gas prices. Just watch, just watch mark
my words. You will hear it probably this week you're
gonna hear it. This is all a big part of
a conspiracy. If it is in fact because the refineries
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are having a difficult time, then we certainly have to
take a look at why that's the case. And if
gas prices are at five dollars right now, and this
accounts for twenty percent of our fuel.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Why are they going to jump up to eight and
a half dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's a sixty percent jump, more than sixty percent, so
that math doesn't math. And are they not building new
refineries or are they just bailing? See, the problem is
when it comes to these gas prices, I don't believe anybody.
I don't believe anybody. I don't believe the politicians. I
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don't believe the refineries. I don't believe anybody. But here's
what I do know, coming back to what I started with,
my optimism for my financial future will continue to drop
if I start seeing eight and a half dollars at
the pump. Speaking of conspiracies and SDG and E, they're
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working real hard to try to show that.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They didn't start the the eating fire.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What they're doing is next It's Chris Merril Camfi AM
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Speaker 1 (13:29):
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Speaker 2 (13:35):
Chris Meryl Camfi AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime of the iHeart Radio App. And uh oh,
I got to bring the Kila chill. Keiller just reminded
me we got to talk back after the show last week.
Somebody telling Kiyla she needed to chill out.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Holl on, Okay, if Kayla needs to chill yeah, this
is only halving a good time in entertaining us, and
we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's right, Kala needs to chill.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
You know, I don't even know what I told you,
but I'm pretty sure you messed up, and I'm just
trying to keep the show in order around me.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Incidentally, if you do want to contact us via the talkback,
if you're on the iHeartRadio app, hit that talkback button.
Here's your question for this week. God, it feels like
it was so long ago. Was it on Monday that
the real ID went into effect? Or was that Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
We had a lot of things happened this last week
in rapid succession. We had real ID went into effect
we're all worried about lines at the airport. And then
we had the Pope got I don't know, Nomina elected
installed whatever.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
He's handsome, he's if we can say that about the Pope,
I mean yeah you can, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Okay, then yeah, he's handsome, daddy issues, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And then and then we've got trade deals going on
this week as well, and so all of these things,
it was like real ID Paul portrayed every day was
another I mean, big big stories, big big stories, and
only one of those was.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Was really Trump related.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And normally, if there's a fire hose of chaos in
the news cycle, it's because Trump is saying one thing
one day and then another thing the next day and
blah blah blah. But in this case, we had a
number of other things going on. So the question for
the talk back, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
do you feel safer flying now that real ID is
in effect?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Kayla? You feel safer?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Your plane was ritted of someone who is who was
trying to fly without multiple forms of identification.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yes, sure, yes, I felt so much safer that they
threw that girl out of line who didn't have a
real idea or a passport. I'm like, what do you
think this is a taxi, cab, a public bus.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Get it together, ma'am. I felt so safe when she
was gone.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What do you think this is the last twenty years
that the law has been in effect and we haven't
really done anything about it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's the matter with you, lady. She's crazy, that girl.
I wonder where she is now. You think she got
to poor.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
She's literally stuck at the airport because they took her
into a roll.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Like needs real ID.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm like, oh my god, it's like the Tom Hanks movies.
She's just gonna live there now. Unbelievable. Do you have
a real idea? You got the little star in your license?
Or no, I got a passport?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
See.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Here's the thing that I found interesting is that when
I when I came to California, and I've told this
story numerous times, but I came here in twenty twelve
and then I went and got my my driver's license
and uh, and they said, well, and I just took
my my old ID, state issued idea. It was from
the state of Kansas at the time, and I said,
I said, I need new to new idea. They said, well,
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you have to have your first certificate, and I went,
but I why do I need a birth certificate? I've
got a I got a legal idea is here's my
idea right here? They go, No, no, we need your original
birth certificate. Well, to get a real ID, you have
to show birth certificate. I'm trying to remember what they
are here, birth certificate. Two forms of residency, which is
like your bank statement or you till bill kind of thing.
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And if you don't have two, you can use one
and then sign an AffA david for the other one.
And I think you have to have another form of
state ID something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I mean, it's the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
California was already requiring basically what you had to have
for the real ID.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Fifteen years ago. So I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know why there's any California id's that aren't
you know, real IDs right now? Fun fact I have
because radio and I get fired from all over the place.
So when I was working at San Diego, then I
got a job in Arizona and I got an Arizona license,
and then I got fired from that job, and so
then I moved my wife and I moved to northern Michigan,
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which is where my wife is as we speak. We've
got a little house there where she spends the summers
because she doesn't want to deal with weekends like this one.
And so I got a Michigan driver's license. I will
not replace my Michigan driver's license because I have what
they call an enhanced driver's license.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So there's five states that have what they call an
enhanced driver's license, and I want to say it's Washington, Michigan, Vermont,
and I can't remember the other two, but they're all
northern states. And those basically are like those like a
North American passport. So I've got the real ID and
the enhanced UDY. So if I want to go down
to en Sonata or something like that, I can use
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my Michigan driver's license and I don't have to have passport.
I didn't even have a passport, So there you go.
Moved to Washington, Yeah, moved to Washington for a little bit.
But when I got my ID in California, and I
didn't have my birth certificate, so I called my mom
and I said, Mom, I need my birth certificate. To
get a driver's license in California, and she goes she
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goes no, And I said, what do you mean no?
I said, can you just mail it to me?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She goes no.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm not real comfortable with that. Mom, it's my birth certificate.
I just send it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She goes, nah, I'd like to hang on to that.
What do you he was in it force?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
She goes, oh, it just makes me remember, makes you
remember what bert?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I need the I need the original copy of the
birth certificate. She goes naw, I'm gonna go ahead and
hang on to that. I don't feel comfortable sending it
to you. I had to contact the Office of Vital
Statistics or whatever in order to get a legit birth
certificate so that I get my California ID, which still
isn't good enough to fly right now had I not
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moved away and then gotten my magic enhanced driver's license.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So there you are.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Uh, we'll talk la law. It's the lawmakers, law breakers,
the times that there ought to be a law and
an investigation that would seem to make us think that.
So cal Addison is trying to get out of paying
for fires.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I'll tell you why that is. Next.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Chris Merrill, I AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart radio apps.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You're listening to KFI AMC, it's on demand.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Chris Merrill, I AM six to forty more stimulating Talkay,
Kayla needs to chill. Yeah, Kayla needs to chill. So
we open up the talk back. If you're listening on
the iheartradiop go ahead and click that talkback button. And
if you say something that Kayla thinks is worth putting
on the air, we might.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hey, what's up, Chris? Good afternoon. Hey buddy, always look.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Forward to Sunday to you and your show, Kayla and
all the gang.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Ah, he likes you. That means I don't need to chill, right, Okay.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, Well look, it's not about Republicans Democrats, but you.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, we were talking about the the outlook for the
future here. Despite political promises, Californians are stressed about their finances.
And if you take a look at the survey from
August of last year, it was a complete flip flop.
Democrats were optimistic and then Trump got elected. Ano They're
like it's ruined, and Republicans were like nothing will ever
be good and Trump got elected. Now they go, everything's
gonna be great. It was total flip flop. And then
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gas prices could get up to eight and a half
bucks a gallon.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
They said, too, who else are you gonna blame this on?
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Chris? This is a Democrat ran state. Like John from
the John and Ken Show, say, hey, there's twenty something
other states over three parks. What's up in California? Why
are we getting stiff? It's our Democrats keep voting.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, oh yeah, there is a time limit. But then,
oh wait a minute, let me see does he does
he come back again?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Second? Talk back?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Copy that About the other.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Stuff about the raises and income, that's another thing. Every
time they raise gas prices, mortgages, rants, whatever, whatever, Oh,
that's capitalism. But when we talked about raising income to
be equal to what everything else costs, all of a sudden,
it's socialism. And that's the Republicans, right, They always spit that.
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So we're screwed, man, we're screwed totally.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, that's uplifting. I definitely don't feel any better about
the future at all.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, Chris loved the show. Course in Vegas, Cliff, could.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
You imagine them trying to build a refinery in twenty
twenty five in California. I mean, they can't even build
a freaking house. You would imagine if you'd have the
Coastal Commission and probably fifteen other massive agencies spending decades
and decades and reviews and all kinds of other bs.
It's just it's not going to happen anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Good luck, folks. I concur Yep, he is correct.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I finally, as we talk about real ID, our
question on the talkback. If you are listening on the
iHeart right up, click that talkback button, and here's the
question we're asking today. Do you feel safer flying now
that real ID is an effect?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I do feel better and safer on a plane because
their model now is when one door closes, the other
one opens.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Okay, I missed it. There was a leap in there.
I missed.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Their motto is when one door closes, another one opens.
I'm sure that there's I'm sure that that's like a punchline,
and I'm just not getting the joke, So I'm sorry, man. Yeah,
do you feel safer flying now that real ID.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Is in effect? Okay, there's your question.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
In the meantime, how about the lawmakers, the law breakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, this one may end up in court. It's investigations
right now, and it's going to be not only not
only law.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Enforcement is going to be watching this investigation, but also
lawyers are all over it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Who started the Eating fire?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Each incoming electrical tower part brings us one step closer
to answers what may have caused the Eating fire and
could it have been prevented. Today Southern California Edison dismantled
a second electrical tower with possible connections to the Eton fire.
They lifted the tower pieces from locking out a flint ridge,
carrying them by helicopter to a site and Altadena where
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they had more room to break them apart.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
This will just to help us understand, you know, we
possibly understand what happened or get more information about the towers.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yesterday, the utility company removed a different tower. That one
is the reported area of origin of the Eton fire.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If it was not so Cal Edison, who started this?
Who's paying for this investigation? That's not cheap airlifting towers
out of there.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
The tower moved today is on the same circuit.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
If it Swum's down at the end of the circuit
and we're taking that out of a hold. They will
be inspected just like the one of those removed yesterday.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
They've also removed all the power lines on that circuit.
The tower parts and power lines are headed to a
warehouse in Irwindale.
Speaker 12 (24:41):
All the parties have an opportunity to inspect both here
at the landing zone and over there at the warehouse.
There will be close up inspections, a little more current testing,
and then some laboratory testing.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
LA County Fire, the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre,
as well as attorneys for people who suffered losses for
the fire and aursuing Southern California Edison are all overseeing
that investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, they're all going to watch it, and they're all
going to bring in their own experts. And I believe
that the attorneys will probably find the experts that they
that know what they're talking about. This is one of
the challenges for law enforcement. Though you are dealing with
a very specialized investigation here, how many in law enforcement,
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whether it's the Sheriff's office, even if it's the FBI,
how many specialists in high power transmission line fires are there, right.
I mean, it's that's a tough one. You're not just
going to find a lineman who has a day off
that can come in and take a look at the
investigation and make sure it's done correctly. This is a
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tough one, it really is. And finding those experts is
not easy, and they don't have them on staff.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
We know the people of Altadena have been through a
lot of heartbreak and we know that we want to
understand what.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Happened, all right, So to say that's gonna be forever
until we find out before we hear anybody saying yes,
that happened, Yes, so call Edison is responsible. No, it's
gonna be forever, and we're not gonna get the bottom.
It's gonna it'll be two or three years before we
hear anything. And then it's not all gonna be tied
up in the courts. So that'll happen. Hey, speaking of
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not speaking of anything, apropos of nothing. As my grandmother
would say, do you guys recall that dude from a
few years ago. He was a road raging weirdo and
he was driving a Tesla and he was cutting people
off and or they would cut him off or something
of the sort and he would get out. It was
like he was carrying a lead pipe around with him
so he could beat people up.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Do you remember this story. Dude was crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
He would pull over and then he'd start yelling at people,
and he'd reach into the backseat of his car where
he had like a ready to go lead pipe.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Like Colonel Mustard. Weird, super weird dude, and.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Then he'd get out and he'd start bashing people's hoods
and windows.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He's scary, Like I was scared for those people on
the video.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
So that guy finally got caught and locked up, but California.
So he's out now. And guess what he's doing from this.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Guy driving a Tesla terrorizing other drivers in a number
of southern California road rage incidents a few years ago. Well,
his name is Nathaniel Rodamac. He's been arrested again, this
time in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
What did he do?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Rodamac was charged with multiple counts of assault in La
County in January of twenty twenty three. He was sentenced
to five years in prison, but he didn't serve that
five years.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He was because California paroled in.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
August of last year against the wishes of a number
of his local victims.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
All right, but what did he do in Hawaii?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
In the Hawaii case, he's accused of assaulting an eighteen
year old female driver and her mother who was a
passenger after a traffic incident yesterday in Honolulu.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That sounds like road rage.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
And again he was behind the wheel of a Tesla.
Police arresting Rodamac today. The teen driver's uncle speaking to
us tonight from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, you know I need to hear with the
angles the ungle says, is really bad, a scary, bad guy.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Why was he out all that stuff?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It's almost like we have we have punishments that are
designated certain amounts of time because we feel like that's
the necessary punitive time someone should serve. But in California,
we have too many people in prison, so we have
to start letting people out early.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And then they go and do the same thing again.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Meanwhile, the menendas brothers spent thirty five years in there
and they're trying to get out, and you got the
DA trying to keep them in. But the no problems
letting out the road rage guy, who's an immediate threat
to anybody who has four wheels. More on the Menendez
here in just a few moments. One other thing though,
and this this.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is one of those duh, it's obvious. But also I'm
cool with that. I like it. Uh, there's a new
whip for the Highway Patrol.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Believe it or not, there are a lot of violators
out here, driving too fast, making lane changes, driving very
aggressive tating.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
What have you ever seen somebody driving too fast, being
aggressive lane changing or tailgating?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Never?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Never, no, accept that Tesla guy. But other than that, nobody.
Speaker 14 (29:12):
We've all seen them. Speeding drivers, weaving through traffic, cutting
drivers off, endangering people around them. And it's the reason
that California Highway Patrol is taking on a different approach
to catching dangerous drivers.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What are they doing?
Speaker 15 (29:25):
We're deploying one hundred of these vehicles statewide to confront
a growing thread.
Speaker 14 (29:29):
What are they There are these twenty twenty four Dodge
Drangos that are specially marked patrol cars.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Twenty twenty fours, so hopefully we've got the use price deal.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
Without the lines are loud decals designed to blend in violators.
Speaker 13 (29:43):
We'll see our black and white cars and they will
slow down for a period of time until they see
us pulled.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Off the road.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
But that black and white indicator is going dark. Rodrigo
Jimenez with HP Rancho Cucamonga Division says they're poised to
receive two vehicles from the fleet this summer.
Speaker 15 (29:58):
Each Durrango features them a HEMI engine, police pursuit package
concealed three hundred and sixty degree emergency lighting and a
version of the HP badge on the door.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So basically, what you're saying is it's a cop car,
cop engine, cop lights, cop tires on that.
Speaker 14 (30:19):
Officers driving them will be in full uniform.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
There were over eighteen thousand violators last year sided for
troubling over one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Holy cow, eighteen thousand people got ticketed for going over
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's like it's like one point eight million miles an hour. Whoo,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The CHP says they're trying to combat video game like
driving and so they they they're all getting dodged durangos. Okay, um, yeah,
I'm uh, I'm done with it. I think it's cool,
but I'm gonna break with you a little bit on
this and that is that I'm kind of of the
opinion that we're better off not to have unmarked cars
(31:05):
enforcing traffic violations because I always feel like protecting and
serving means you can't be hiding. And some of you're
gonna disagree with me and you're gonna go, no, they
have to do this, and I understand your argument. That's fine,
But just philosophically speaking, if I'm somebody who's in a
vehicle and I'm having an emergency, I'm not looking for.
(31:27):
Is that car unmarked? Do they have a special decal
on the side? Is that a twenty four Dodge Durango?
I think Dodge discontinued the Durango in two thousand and seven.
Huh No, I'm looking for a marked vehicle. If there's
an emergency, we want to be able to see a
marked vehicle. It's just just kind of where I come
down on that one. I understand the idea behind getting
(31:48):
the the unmarked and if you're gonna do it, and
if it is legal, this sounds great, I'm all for it. Meanwhile,
what's going on with the Menandaz brothers? So are they
going to be out before the weird road rage guy
in Hawaii sees the light of day again.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Not if the DA has anything to say about it.
That's next.
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All right.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Our question on the talk back today, do you feel
safer flying now that real ID is in effect? And
we had a gentleman call and we were all pretty
sure he was making a joke.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
We just didn't really get it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I do feel better and safer on a plane because
their model now is when one door closes, the other
one opens.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, And we didn't really get it.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
So then he was kind enough to hit us up
again and explain it, and now it makes a whole
lot more sense.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Don't you remember a while ago the doors were flying
off planes. That's why they say now when one door closes,
another one open.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I get it now, Okay, Yeah, And by a while ago.
That wasn't that long ago. It's just so this has
been like the longest four months to start a year
in the history of ever. Yeah, right on, Okay, well
that makes more sense. Okay, all right. I still don't
feel safe with those planes at all. So all right.
So the other thing is this, we got to talk
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back from a woman who was very kind. She used
to listen when I was on the air in San Diego,
and she asked not to be on the air. Now,
normally I'm not going to address something as somebody says
off the air. I don't like to do that because
it's not it's not that great. But there was a
big story that did happen this week. For people that
are in San Diego County or if you're southern Orange County,
(33:37):
you probably remember this.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
God dang, what has it been nine years?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I think ten years something, maybe longer since Bob Filner.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Do you remember that name? Kitley?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You're probably too young, and I don't mean that condescendingly. No, No,
I don't remember the congratulations. You're probably too young to
remember the drama. So Bob Filner was the mayor, and
he was a little handsy, and he basically got run out.
It took a while for this thing to come to
light because it was it was a little bit like
(34:09):
Bill Cosby, where all of a sudden we just kept
having more and more allegations like, oh yeah, he used
to try to hug me too. In fact, let me
see if I can find that audio. I had the audio.
I don't have it there. I did keep a bunch
of Bob Filner audio, and god, there was a really
good one where he was like, I'm I didn't do
(34:30):
anything wrong. I'm a hugger. I'm a hugger. And it
was so creepy. I mean, imagine if there's somebody in
the office kilet who everybody's like that dude, stay away
from him. He's gonna cop a feel on you. And
he were to just say, no, I don't, I'm I'm
a hugger. I'm a hugger.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
It was so.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I'm thinking about it right now. I just feel like, oooh,
I don't see it. I can't believe I didn't keep
that one. I saved a lot of Bob Filner audio
and uh, and I didn't keep one.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Result. I'm a hugger.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
What you ever run into somebody that gets a little
too handsy. Unfortunately, far too many people have but uh, yeah, no,
I don't see that on you.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
But the thing is is that Bob Filner was a
Democrat and people were worried that if Bob Filner were
gone then there'd be a special election or whatever, and
they're they could end up having a Republican in there.
And so all of a sudden, people were like, Oh,
you can't do that to Bob Filner.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
He's a great guy. He's not getting due process. These
are only accusations.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
But there are pretty strong accusations, and they came out
with a decent amount of evidence, and all of a sudden,
the pressure kept mounting. And then there was a city
council member who also said, uh, you know, this is
not the first time we've heard this kind of.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Thing before, and I've been uncomfortable with the guy before too.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
And the reason I bring this up Bob Filner died
this week and people are reflecting back.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
And it was funny at the time.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I think I even said, his legacy is now sexual harassment.
It's not about being the mayor. It's not about his
long political career and anything else. His legacy is this moment.
And I'm right because here is He's dead and what
are we talking about. This guy got booted for sexual
harassment and this was prior to me too, not too
(36:21):
long before it, but it was prior to me too.
So there were a bunch of people protesting at city
Hall and they were all out there screaming for due process.
It was the worst protest ever. What do we want
to process? When do we want it?
Speaker 15 (36:43):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Now, just it was the least.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Animated thing, and they go, I guess we should wait
for some TV cameras to show up so we can
start chanting some more. But there was this woman who
just kind of kept leading the whole thing, and she
kept harping on this whole process well as well, you know,
due process. You are entitled to due process in criminal
and civil proceedings, but not in the court of public opinion.
(37:10):
The court of public opinion is as close to a
lynch mob as we're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And she kept screaming about due.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Process, Yeah, due process, yeah, due process.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
In the end, Bob Filner said, yeah, that was me.
Speaker 16 (37:25):
However, before I even ask, before I even think of
asking for forgiveness, I need to demonstrate that my behavior
has changed.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And I know audio got a little sketchy there, guys. Sorry,
So anyway, fill nurse is my behavior has changed. I'm
better now, Oh you do?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah? Play it?
Speaker 16 (37:43):
Express myself demonstrably, I'm I'm a hugger. Well, as it
turns out that those are taken uh in an offensive manner.
I need to have a greater self awareness about what
I what I am doing, and we will correct that
and I am taking the steps.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
But more and more women came.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
On a hugger. Ah, super creepy.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
All right, we could have some big breaking news on
a trade deal with Jina.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
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Always an honor to spend Sunday afternoons with you, Chris
merrill I AM six forty more stimulating talk. Happy Mother's
Day too, Mom's also controversial but true. It is not
a proper Mother's Day if your only child is your pet.
And I know you're excited because you're a cat mom,
(00:25):
and that's awesome and I support that, but you can't
say it's your Mother's Day too.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You can't do it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And I know, hot take, but super super cheesy if
you're doing that. Now, this didn't come from nowhere. I
have a friend of mine. I use that term loosely.
I have a friend who last year, he's single, by
the way, never been in I mean, he had one
long term relationship in his whole life. He's in his
(00:54):
mid forties, never been married, doesn't have any kids. But
one of the restaurants him was offering a free Father's
Day meal. So he and his buddy, also not married,
no kids, go in there and they want the free
meal for Father's Day because he's a cat dad. And
(01:14):
he took us free meal, he says, but we left
a really good tip and I said, that's theft. That's
absolute fraud. He goes, No, I'm a cat dad, I'm
a single father. No, no, I do not accept it.
You've crossed a line.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So listen.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
If you've adopted a pet, kudos. I've adopted pets throughout
my life.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Love it. I know terrible, and I love.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That you're saving pets lives, But you do not get
to reap the benefits.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's not the same as having a child.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And if you think it is the same as having
a child, go talk to a single mother and tell
her that you have it just as tough as she does.
Because you have one furry friend. Just doesn't count. Doesn't happen.
Did you guys do anything for your mom's it's a
phone call or something.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh, no, I went. We went to the something.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Nice the cemetery. We went to the cemetery. The family.
My aunt was there, my mom's sister and the family.
It's kind of like an annual tradition thing. And then
they go to eat steak after.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Wait a minute, did you say your mom passed.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
No, well, it's my grandma's grave site and my great aunt.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
A mother figure. Oh okay, it's like a family theme.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's sweet. Yeah, I really like that. That's excellent family
time together.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You see, Kayla didn't answer the question when I asked it,
you see, kill and just didn't jump right up on
that one.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Well, my mom did pass away, and I live so
far from my family. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna. I
was gonna, you know, let you be cool and you know,
but now I got to ruin your style.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
So I didn't do anything today, but I did bring
my doctor Wendy a gift, so i'll see her soon.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh that's nice your radio mom exactly, that's sweet. Yea,
very good. So I haven't even called my mother today.
I sent a couple of gifts and I called that good.
I sent her up. Yeah, I sent her a bench.
I sent her a bench. I was like, here's a bench.
Have fun.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We just want to do it a bench. Sit there,
I guess, sit on it. What else do you do
with a bench? It's the matter with you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You know, drive it to Costco. Yeah, I gotta tell you.
The bench was stupid expensive. I mean it's just one
of those plastic benches. It's like a deck box with
a seat on it, right, I mean, it's a it's
a bench. It's got a back, but it's basically like
a bench with a storage area, okay, and it's for outside,
and she's gonna put it in your garden and all
that stuff. And that's that was expensive. I want to say,
(03:42):
I dropped like one hundred and eighty bucks on that thing.
This is not me saying, look, I spent one hundred
and eighty dollars on my mom. It's me complaining about
how expensive Mother's Day is, not that my mother isn't
worth a hundred and eighty bucks. And I got her
some mother stuff too, So I spent a couple hundred
on my mom. And it's not about the price. It's
about the value. It's about what I get from my
hundred bucks, you know. And I am feeling grumpy, I
(04:08):
guess is the word. I'm grumpy about how expensive things
are getting. And I'm not the only one either, come
to find out, I don't know if you sell the story.
Ellie Times had it. Nearly half of California voters feel
worse off economically than they did last year. More than
half felt less hopeful about their financial well being. And
(04:29):
does anybody disagree with that? I mean, prices are going up.
We did get breaking news this afternoon that it sounds
like the White House is calling it a deal with China,
but we don't have any details on that, so we
don't know what it is, so we don't have any idea.
Treasury Secretary Scott Beston says substantial progress has been made.
(04:50):
He didn't call it a deal, but the White House
says we got a deal, so we don't know. China
hasn't commented on that. Kayle's keeping an eye on the
wire and whatever else we use for news gather and
so she's she's watching all that stuff right now to
see if we end up getting any details or if
China comes out and says, yeah, we have a deal.
But in the meantime, you're seeing all these stories about
(05:12):
the port. Traffic is way down at the port other countries.
Even if we have a deal with China, which is
a big one, but we still have tariffs on a
bunch of other countries, and everything is just kind of
in flux, a lot of uncertainty, right and so I feel,
like so many other people in California, I'm not real
sure and it's not like I'm getting a raise. How
long we've been doing the show, Kayla too long every
(05:34):
day you say that, I.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Don't know, maybe like a year or two, right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, I think we're uh, I think we're year.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Agree, it's really god well, well more than two.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I think I just started when you were like kind
of like already going towards this, So that would be
two years and six months.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, that sounds that sounds about. That was back when
Kayla was the young one on the show. So so
here's my point. I haven't had a race. I'd I'm
still working for the same thing I was making, not
that I would trade it. I mean, I love doing
this show. This is the highlight of my week. But
I'm not seeing any more money coming in. I don't
know if you guys have gotten, you know, little cost
(06:12):
of living races. We don't really talk about it, but
the fact is things prices are going up, wages are
not keeping up, and we're starting to feel a little
grumpy about it. But here's where things take a bit
of a twist. Roll the clock back to October of
last year, and I now go a little further August,
I guess officially because I'm going to read from a
(06:32):
study that was done in August there was a survey
that was done, forty six percent of Democratic voters in
the state were upbeat about their financial well being.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Still not half.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
They're still feeling like, oh, things are not great, but
still forty six percent close to half okay. Last month,
when a survey was taken again, only nine percent of
Democrats feel that way all right. People who declared no
party preference their optimism dropped as well, not near as
much in August of last year. Republicans nine percent were
(07:06):
hopeful in August of last year. Now fifty seven percent
are hopeful right now. According to Polster, I've never seen
this before. I've been pulling for over forty years in California.
In the last five years or so, everything seems to
turn on party. If you ask people, is it sonny outside,
the Democrats will say one thing, the Republicans will say another.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So the the stat that matters to me is not
the partisans, because their sense of realism is based on
what they think of their party at that moment. That
one hundred percent has nothing to do with actual prices,
doesn't have anything to do with what their four oh
one k is doing, doesn't have anything at all to
(07:48):
do with how they're What they're seeing is a stock
market inflation, mortgage rates, price at the pomp, none of
that other stun What I look at are the undeclared voters.
Those are the ones that matter as far as trying
to get a bead on the actual pulse of America.
If they list no party preference, they don't have any
(08:09):
skin in the game of my team versus your team.
So they're the ones that are going to give you
the honest answer. So they say their optimism optimism has dropped.
I'm with them. My optimism has dropped as well. I'm
not nearly as optimistic. But I was also no party
preference in August as well, and I'm very nervous about
(08:33):
all this uncertainty that we're seeing. Although if we do
have a deal with China that seems to be the
biggest domino, and we'll talk more about that coming up
here just a few There is this though, things could
really start to stick, and I got to tell you,
everybody is going to start feeling like things are going.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Down the tubes if this happens. Kate, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
This.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
NBCLA had the story on this because if you thought
gas was expensive.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now, good morning, Adrian.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
We are at the Chevron station here in Harbor City
and you can see hovering right around five dollars a gallon,
very similar to the prices you just read. Imagine that,
as you just said, jumping to eight fifty a gallon,
nearly eight fifty a gallon next year.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Eight fifty a gallon.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
What was the highest we had during COVID or after
COVID everything got thuring colors?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Six dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, I want to say there was some place, what's
that one gas station roll where they always show and
they're always the highest place, and it's almost like they're
doing it for free publicity.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I swear they are. It's got to be a show.
I've never seen a cheap show.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It's like a local station though it's like one particular
station at one corner. I can't remember which one it is.
Whatever it is, it's always like super high. I was
doing radio in the Bay Area at the time, and
I remember everything in the Bay Area was over seven dollars,
and then we were doing some stuff here as well,
and I just remember when I was doing shows in
the Bay Area, like seven dollars, but it was like
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fifty cents cheaper here or something like that. It was
a little bit different anyway. But I don't think anybody
I think that that weird exceptional station. And they always
take a picture and it always gets used in memes,
and it's always used as like, look at the prices
in California, and it's always one station that's crazy exorbitantly high.
But I think they maybe topped out at like eight
eight and a quarter or something. What if they're all
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at eight and a half, that station will be at twelve.
But can you imagine gas prices at eight and a
half dollars all of a sudden, I might start I
might start start thinking about taking public transit.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
That is, according to this USC study by Professor Michael mische,
he projects gas prices could serve seventy five percent by
the end of twenty to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Why why they what did they do? What happened? Why
are gas prices all of a sudden got a skyrocket.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Because of the closures of two major state refineries. The
Phillip sixty six refinery is scheduled to close at the
end of this year. That's less than a mile from here.
The Valero refine and Benicia scheduled to close in April
of next year. These two refineries, according to the study,
produce about twenty percent of California's gasoline supply. The study
has prompted Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones to send a
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letter to Governor Newsom demanding action by the governor. He
blames the governor's policies for, in his words, making it
nearly impossible for California refineries to stay open with excessive
regulation and financial burdens on gas producers.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So the Republicans are saying it's all Gavin Newsom's fault.
Get Ready.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It will take zero point zero seconds for people to
come out and say this was the plan all along,
to force people to take electric. Get Ready, and then
there'll be all kinds of other conspiracy theories around that
that it's the it's SDG and E is behind this,
it's DWP is trying to increase the power people use
so they can make more money.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Get Ready.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
This is the Green New Deal, this which, of course
there was never a Green New Deal, but it isn't.
This is AOC's gas prices. Just watch, just watch mark
my words. You will hear it probably this week you're
gonna hear it. This is all a big part of
a conspiracy. If it is in fact because the refineries
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are having a difficult time, then we certainly have to
take a look at why that's the case. And if
gas prices are at five dollars right now, and this
accounts for twenty percent of our fuel.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Why are they going to jump up to eight and
a half dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's a sixty percent jump, more than sixty percent, so
that math doesn't math. And are they not building new
refineries or are they just bailing? See, the problem is
when it comes to these gas prices, I don't believe anybody.
I don't believe anybody. I don't believe the politicians. I
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don't believe the refineries. I don't believe anybody. But here's
what I do know, coming back to what I started with,
my optimism for my financial future will continue to drop
if I start seeing eight and a half dollars at
the pump. Speaking of conspiracies and SDG and E, they're
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working real hard to try to show that.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
They didn't start the the eating fire.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What they're doing is next It's Chris Merril Camfi AM
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. I
canna have a new.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Chris Meryl Camfi AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime of the iHeart Radio App. And uh oh,
I got to bring the Kila chill. Keiller just reminded
me we got to talk back after the show last week.
Somebody telling Kiyla she needed to chill out.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Holl on, Okay, if Kayla needs to chill yeah, this
is only halving a good time in entertaining us, and
we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's right, Kala needs to chill.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
You know, I don't even know what I told you,
but I'm pretty sure you messed up, and I'm just
trying to keep the show in order around me.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Incidentally, if you do want to contact us via the talkback,
if you're on the iHeartRadio app, hit that talkback button.
Here's your question for this week. God, it feels like
it was so long ago. Was it on Monday that
the real ID went into effect? Or was that Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
We had a lot of things happened this last week
in rapid succession. We had real ID went into effect
we're all worried about lines at the airport. And then
we had the Pope got I don't know, Nomina elected
installed whatever.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
He's handsome, he's if we can say that about the Pope,
I mean yeah you can, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Okay, then yeah, he's handsome, daddy issues, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And then and then we've got trade deals going on
this week as well, and so all of these things,
it was like real ID Paul portrayed every day was
another I mean, big big stories, big big stories, and
only one of those was.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Was really Trump related.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And normally, if there's a fire hose of chaos in
the news cycle, it's because Trump is saying one thing
one day and then another thing the next day and
blah blah blah. But in this case, we had a
number of other things going on. So the question for
the talk back, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
do you feel safer flying now that real ID is
in effect?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Kayla? You feel safer?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Your plane was ritted of someone who is who was
trying to fly without multiple forms of identification.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yes, sure, yes, I felt so much safer that they
threw that girl out of line who didn't have a
real idea or a passport. I'm like, what do you
think this is a taxi, cab, a public bus.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Get it together, ma'am. I felt so safe when she
was gone.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What do you think this is the last twenty years
that the law has been in effect and we haven't
really done anything about it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's the matter with you, lady. She's crazy, that girl.
I wonder where she is now. You think she got
to poor.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
She's literally stuck at the airport because they took her
into a roll.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Like needs real ID.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm like, oh my god, it's like the Tom Hanks movies.
She's just gonna live there now. Unbelievable. Do you have
a real idea? You got the little star in your license?
Or no, I got a passport?
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
See.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Here's the thing that I found interesting is that when
I when I came to California, and I've told this
story numerous times, but I came here in twenty twelve
and then I went and got my my driver's license
and uh, and they said, well, and I just took
my my old ID, state issued idea. It was from
the state of Kansas at the time, and I said,
I said, I need new to new idea. They said, well,
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you have to have your first certificate, and I went,
but I why do I need a birth certificate? I've
got a I got a legal idea is here's my
idea right here? They go, No, no, we need your original
birth certificate. Well, to get a real ID, you have
to show birth certificate. I'm trying to remember what they
are here, birth certificate. Two forms of residency, which is
like your bank statement or you till bill kind of thing.
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And if you don't have two, you can use one
and then sign an AffA david for the other one.
And I think you have to have another form of
state ID something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I mean, it's the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
California was already requiring basically what you had to have
for the real ID.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Fifteen years ago. So I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know why there's any California id's that aren't
you know, real IDs right now? Fun fact I have
because radio and I get fired from all over the place.
So when I was working at San Diego, then I
got a job in Arizona and I got an Arizona license,
and then I got fired from that job, and so
then I moved my wife and I moved to northern Michigan,
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which is where my wife is as we speak. We've
got a little house there where she spends the summers
because she doesn't want to deal with weekends like this one.
And so I got a Michigan driver's license. I will
not replace my Michigan driver's license because I have what
they call an enhanced driver's license.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Are you familiar with this?
Speaker 8 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So there's five states that have what they call an
enhanced driver's license, and I want to say it's Washington, Michigan, Vermont,
and I can't remember the other two, but they're all
northern states. And those basically are like those like a
North American passport. So I've got the real ID and
the enhanced UDY. So if I want to go down
to en Sonata or something like that, I can use
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my Michigan driver's license and I don't have to have passport.
I didn't even have a passport, So there you go.
Moved to Washington, Yeah, moved to Washington for a little bit.
But when I got my ID in California, and I
didn't have my birth certificate, so I called my mom
and I said, Mom, I need my birth certificate. To
get a driver's license in California, and she goes she
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goes no, And I said, what do you mean no?
I said, can you just mail it to me?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She goes no.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm not real comfortable with that. Mom, it's my birth certificate.
I just send it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She goes, nah, I'd like to hang on to that.
What do you he was in it force?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
She goes, oh, it just makes me remember, makes you
remember what bert?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I need the I need the original copy of the
birth certificate. She goes naw, I'm gonna go ahead and
hang on to that. I don't feel comfortable sending it
to you. I had to contact the Office of Vital
Statistics or whatever in order to get a legit birth
certificate so that I get my California ID, which still
isn't good enough to fly right now had I not
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moved away and then gotten my magic enhanced driver's license.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So there you are.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Uh, we'll talk la law. It's the lawmakers, law breakers,
the times that there ought to be a law and
an investigation that would seem to make us think that.
So cal Addison is trying to get out of paying
for fires.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I'll tell you why that is. Next.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Chris Merrill, I AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart radio apps.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You're listening to KFI AMC, it's on demand.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Chris Merrill, I AM six to forty more stimulating Talkay,
Kayla needs to chill. Yeah, Kayla needs to chill. So
we open up the talk back. If you're listening on
the iheartradiop go ahead and click that talkback button. And
if you say something that Kayla thinks is worth putting
on the air, we might.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hey, what's up, Chris? Good afternoon. Hey buddy, always look.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Forward to Sunday to you and your show, Kayla and
all the gang.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Ah, he likes you. That means I don't need to chill, right, Okay.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, Well look, it's not about Republicans Democrats, but you.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh, we were talking about the the outlook for the
future here. Despite political promises, Californians are stressed about their finances.
And if you take a look at the survey from
August of last year, it was a complete flip flop.
Democrats were optimistic and then Trump got elected. Ano They're
like it's ruined, and Republicans were like nothing will ever
be good and Trump got elected. Now they go, everything's
gonna be great. It was total flip flop. And then
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gas prices could get up to eight and a half
bucks a gallon.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
They said, too, who else are you gonna blame this on?
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Chris? This is a Democrat ran state. Like John from
the John and Ken Show, say, hey, there's twenty something
other states over three parks. What's up in California? Why
are we getting stiff? It's our Democrats keep voting.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, oh yeah, there is a time limit. But then,
oh wait a minute, let me see does he does
he come back again?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Second? Talk back?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Copy that About the other.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Stuff about the raises and income, that's another thing. Every
time they raise gas prices, mortgages, rants, whatever, whatever, Oh,
that's capitalism. But when we talked about raising income to
be equal to what everything else costs, all of a sudden,
it's socialism. And that's the Republicans, right, They always spit that.
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So we're screwed, man, we're screwed totally.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, that's uplifting. I definitely don't feel any better about
the future at all.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, Chris loved the show. Course in Vegas, Cliff, could.
Speaker 11 (22:09):
You imagine them trying to build a refinery in twenty
twenty five in California. I mean, they can't even build
a freaking house. You would imagine if you'd have the
Coastal Commission and probably fifteen other massive agencies spending decades
and decades and reviews and all kinds of other bs.
It's just it's not going to happen anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Good luck, folks. I concur Yep, he is correct.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I finally, as we talk about real ID, our
question on the talkback. If you are listening on the
iHeart right up, click that talkback button, and here's the
question we're asking today. Do you feel safer flying now
that real ID is an effect?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I do feel better and safer on a plane because
their model now is when one door closes, the other
one opens.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Okay, I missed it. There was a leap in there.
I missed.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Their motto is when one door closes, another one opens.
I'm sure that there's I'm sure that that's like a punchline,
and I'm just not getting the joke, So I'm sorry, man. Yeah,
do you feel safer flying now that real ID.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Is in effect? Okay, there's your question.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
In the meantime, how about the lawmakers, the law breakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, this one may end up in court. It's investigations
right now, and it's going to be not only not
only law.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Enforcement is going to be watching this investigation, but also
lawyers are all over it.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Who started the Eating fire?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Each incoming electrical tower part brings us one step closer
to answers what may have caused the Eating fire and
could it have been prevented. Today Southern California Edison dismantled
a second electrical tower with possible connections to the Eton fire.
They lifted the tower pieces from locking out a flint ridge,
carrying them by helicopter to a site and Altadena where
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they had more room to break them apart.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
This will just to help us understand, you know, we
possibly understand what happened or get more information about the towers.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Yesterday, the utility company removed a different tower. That one
is the reported area of origin of the Eton fire.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If it was not so Cal Edison, who started this?
Who's paying for this investigation? That's not cheap airlifting towers
out of there.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
The tower moved today is on the same circuit.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
If it Swum's down at the end of the circuit
and we're taking that out of a hold. They will
be inspected just like the one of those removed yesterday.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
They've also removed all the power lines on that circuit.
The tower parts and power lines are headed to a
warehouse in Irwindale.
Speaker 12 (24:41):
All the parties have an opportunity to inspect both here
at the landing zone and over there at the warehouse.
There will be close up inspections, a little more current testing,
and then some laboratory testing.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
LA County Fire, the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre,
as well as attorneys for people who suffered losses for
the fire and aursuing Southern California Edison are all overseeing
that investigation.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, they're all going to watch it, and they're all
going to bring in their own experts. And I believe
that the attorneys will probably find the experts that they
that know what they're talking about. This is one of
the challenges for law enforcement. Though you are dealing with
a very specialized investigation here, how many in law enforcement,
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whether it's the Sheriff's office, even if it's the FBI,
how many specialists in high power transmission line fires are there, right.
I mean, it's that's a tough one. You're not just
going to find a lineman who has a day off
that can come in and take a look at the
investigation and make sure it's done correctly. This is a
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tough one, it really is. And finding those experts is
not easy, and they don't have them on staff.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
We know the people of Altadena have been through a
lot of heartbreak and we know that we want to
understand what.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Happened, all right, So to say that's gonna be forever
until we find out before we hear anybody saying yes,
that happened, Yes, so call Edison is responsible. No, it's
gonna be forever, and we're not gonna get the bottom.
It's gonna it'll be two or three years before we
hear anything. And then it's not all gonna be tied
up in the courts. So that'll happen. Hey, speaking of
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not speaking of anything, apropos of nothing. As my grandmother
would say, do you guys recall that dude from a
few years ago. He was a road raging weirdo and
he was driving a Tesla and he was cutting people
off and or they would cut him off or something
of the sort and he would get out. It was
like he was carrying a lead pipe around with him
so he could beat people up.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Do you remember this story. Dude was crazy.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
He would pull over and then he'd start yelling at people,
and he'd reach into the backseat of his car where
he had like a ready to go lead pipe.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Like Colonel Mustard. Weird, super weird dude, and.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Then he'd get out and he'd start bashing people's hoods
and windows.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He's scary, Like I was scared for those people on
the video.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
So that guy finally got caught and locked up, but California.
So he's out now. And guess what he's doing from this.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Guy driving a Tesla terrorizing other drivers in a number
of southern California road rage incidents a few years ago. Well,
his name is Nathaniel Rodamac. He's been arrested again, this
time in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
What did he do?
Speaker 8 (27:23):
Rodamac was charged with multiple counts of assault in La
County in January of twenty twenty three. He was sentenced
to five years in prison, but he didn't serve that
five years.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
He was because California paroled in.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
August of last year against the wishes of a number
of his local victims.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
All right, but what did he do in Hawaii?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
In the Hawaii case, he's accused of assaulting an eighteen
year old female driver and her mother who was a
passenger after a traffic incident yesterday in Honolulu.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That sounds like road rage.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
And again he was behind the wheel of a Tesla.
Police arresting Rodamac today. The teen driver's uncle speaking to
us tonight from Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
All right, you know I need to hear with the
angles the ungle says, is really bad, a scary, bad guy.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Why was he out all that stuff?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It's almost like we have we have punishments that are
designated certain amounts of time because we feel like that's
the necessary punitive time someone should serve. But in California,
we have too many people in prison, so we have
to start letting people out early.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And then they go and do the same thing again.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Meanwhile, the menendas brothers spent thirty five years in there
and they're trying to get out, and you got the
DA trying to keep them in. But the no problems
letting out the road rage guy, who's an immediate threat
to anybody who has four wheels. More on the Menendez
here in just a few moments. One other thing though,
and this this.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is one of those duh, it's obvious. But also I'm
cool with that. I like it. Uh, there's a new
whip for the Highway Patrol.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Believe it or not, there are a lot of violators
out here, driving too fast, making lane changes, driving very
aggressive tating.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
What have you ever seen somebody driving too fast, being
aggressive lane changing or tailgating?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Never?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Never, no, accept that Tesla guy. But other than that, nobody.
Speaker 14 (29:12):
We've all seen them. Speeding drivers, weaving through traffic, cutting
drivers off, endangering people around them. And it's the reason
that California Highway Patrol is taking on a different approach
to catching dangerous drivers.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What are they doing?
Speaker 15 (29:25):
We're deploying one hundred of these vehicles statewide to confront
a growing thread.
Speaker 14 (29:29):
What are they There are these twenty twenty four Dodge
Drangos that are specially marked patrol cars.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Twenty twenty fours, so hopefully we've got the use price deal.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
Without the lines are loud decals designed to blend in violators.
Speaker 13 (29:43):
We'll see our black and white cars and they will
slow down for a period of time until they see
us pulled.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Off the road.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
But that black and white indicator is going dark. Rodrigo
Jimenez with HP Rancho Cucamonga Division says they're poised to
receive two vehicles from the fleet this summer.
Speaker 15 (29:58):
Each Durrango features them a HEMI engine, police pursuit package
concealed three hundred and sixty degree emergency lighting and a
version of the HP badge on the door.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So basically, what you're saying is it's a cop car,
cop engine, cop lights, cop tires on that.
Speaker 14 (30:19):
Officers driving them will be in full uniform.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
There were over eighteen thousand violators last year sided for
troubling over one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Holy cow, eighteen thousand people got ticketed for going over
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It's like it's like one point eight million miles an hour. Whoo,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The CHP says they're trying to combat video game like
driving and so they they they're all getting dodged durangos. Okay, um, yeah,
I'm uh, I'm done with it. I think it's cool,
but I'm gonna break with you a little bit on
this and that is that I'm kind of of the
opinion that we're better off not to have unmarked cars
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enforcing traffic violations because I always feel like protecting and
serving means you can't be hiding. And some of you're
gonna disagree with me and you're gonna go, no, they
have to do this, and I understand your argument. That's fine,
But just philosophically speaking, if I'm somebody who's in a
vehicle and I'm having an emergency, I'm not looking for.
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Is that car unmarked? Do they have a special decal
on the side? Is that a twenty four Dodge Durango?
I think Dodge discontinued the Durango in two thousand and seven.
Huh No, I'm looking for a marked vehicle. If there's
an emergency, we want to be able to see a
marked vehicle. It's just just kind of where I come
down on that one. I understand the idea behind getting
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the the unmarked and if you're gonna do it, and
if it is legal, this sounds great, I'm all for it. Meanwhile,
what's going on with the Menandaz brothers? So are they
going to be out before the weird road rage guy
in Hawaii sees the light of day again.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Not if the DA has anything to say about it.
That's next.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
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Speaker 8 (32:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Our question on the talk back today, do you feel
safer flying now that real ID is in effect? And
we had a gentleman call and we were all pretty
sure he was making a joke.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
We just didn't really get it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I do feel better and safer on a plane because
their model now is when one door closes, the other
one opens.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, And we didn't really get it.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
So then he was kind enough to hit us up
again and explain it, and now it makes a whole
lot more sense.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Don't you remember a while ago the doors were flying
off planes. That's why they say now when one door closes,
another one open.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I get it now, Okay, Yeah, And by a while ago.
That wasn't that long ago. It's just so this has
been like the longest four months to start a year
in the history of ever. Yeah, right on, Okay, well
that makes more sense. Okay, all right. I still don't
feel safe with those planes at all. So all right.
So the other thing is this, we got to talk
(33:16):
back from a woman who was very kind. She used
to listen when I was on the air in San Diego,
and she asked not to be on the air. Now,
normally I'm not going to address something as somebody says
off the air. I don't like to do that because
it's not it's not that great. But there was a
big story that did happen this week. For people that
are in San Diego County or if you're southern Orange County,
(33:37):
you probably remember this.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
God dang, what has it been nine years?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I think ten years something, maybe longer since Bob Filner.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Do you remember that name? Kitley?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You're probably too young, and I don't mean that condescendingly. No, No,
I don't remember the congratulations. You're probably too young to
remember the drama. So Bob Filner was the mayor, and
he was a little handsy, and he basically got run out.
It took a while for this thing to come to
light because it was it was a little bit like
(34:09):
Bill Cosby, where all of a sudden we just kept
having more and more allegations like, oh yeah, he used
to try to hug me too. In fact, let me
see if I can find that audio. I had the audio.
I don't have it there. I did keep a bunch
of Bob Filner audio, and god, there was a really
good one where he was like, I'm I didn't do
(34:30):
anything wrong. I'm a hugger. I'm a hugger. And it
was so creepy. I mean, imagine if there's somebody in
the office kilet who everybody's like that dude, stay away
from him. He's gonna cop a feel on you. And
he were to just say, no, I don't, I'm I'm
a hugger. I'm a hugger.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
It was so.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I'm thinking about it right now. I just feel like, oooh,
I don't see it. I can't believe I didn't keep
that one. I saved a lot of Bob Filner audio
and uh, and I didn't keep one.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Result. I'm a hugger.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
What you ever run into somebody that gets a little
too handsy. Unfortunately, far too many people have but uh, yeah, no,
I don't see that on you.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
But the thing is is that Bob Filner was a
Democrat and people were worried that if Bob Filner were
gone then there'd be a special election or whatever, and
they're they could end up having a Republican in there.
And so all of a sudden, people were like, Oh,
you can't do that to Bob Filner.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
He's a great guy. He's not getting due process. These
are only accusations.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
But there are pretty strong accusations, and they came out
with a decent amount of evidence, and all of a sudden,
the pressure kept mounting. And then there was a city
council member who also said, uh, you know, this is
not the first time we've heard this kind of.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Thing before, and I've been uncomfortable with the guy before too.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
And the reason I bring this up Bob Filner died
this week and people are reflecting back.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
And it was funny at the time.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I think I even said, his legacy is now sexual harassment.
It's not about being the mayor. It's not about his
long political career and anything else. His legacy is this moment.
And I'm right because here is He's dead and what
are we talking about. This guy got booted for sexual
harassment and this was prior to me too, not too
(36:21):
long before it, but it was prior to me too.
So there were a bunch of people protesting at city
Hall and they were all out there screaming for due process.
It was the worst protest ever. What do we want
to process? When do we want it?
Speaker 15 (36:43):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Now, just it was the least.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Animated thing, and they go, I guess we should wait
for some TV cameras to show up so we can
start chanting some more. But there was this woman who
just kind of kept leading the whole thing, and she
kept harping on this whole process well as well, you know,
due process. You are entitled to due process in criminal
and civil proceedings, but not in the court of public opinion.
(37:10):
The court of public opinion is as close to a
lynch mob as we're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And she kept screaming about due.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Process, Yeah, due process, yeah, due process.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
In the end, Bob Filner said, yeah, that was me.
Speaker 16 (37:25):
However, before I even ask, before I even think of
asking for forgiveness, I need to demonstrate that my behavior
has changed.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And I know audio got a little sketchy there, guys. Sorry,
So anyway, fill nurse is my behavior has changed. I'm
better now, Oh you do?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah? Play it?
Speaker 16 (37:43):
Express myself demonstrably, I'm I'm a hugger. Well, as it
turns out that those are taken uh in an offensive manner.
I need to have a greater self awareness about what
I what I am doing, and we will correct that
and I am taking the steps.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
But more and more women came.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
On a hugger. Ah, super creepy.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
All right, we could have some big breaking news on
a trade deal with Jina.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
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