August 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1- Chris is covering Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to counter President Donald Trump’s election gerrymander in Texas with his own redistricting play in California is on its way to voters. Plus law makers, breakers, and the times there ought to be a law. You won't believe what happened during a car chase. It's all om KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey friends, Chris Merril AM six forty. More stimulating talk
Chris Merrill. Pleasure to be with you every Sunday this week.
Little bonus Merrill in for mo all week long except
Friday because Friday's pizza night and I didn't want to work.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The I believe it was bank Rate that did a survey,
and the American people have spoken. They've determined what the
ideal salary is. Oh, it's Talker research.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
They did it. My apologies, Talker Research did it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
They've identified what the perfect salary is for Americans. I
don't think they talk with anybody that lives in southern California.
So if you are on the iHeartRadio app, just clicking
that talkback button. Our question for you today, what is
the perfect salary for somebody living in southern California? All right,
you want to live in a safe neighborhood, you want
to have enough bedrooms for all the kids. In other words,
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give me kind of like American dream type salary.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What would it take for you? I don't care about
another survey.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't care about a last I want to know
what you think, all right, and then if it's good,
we'll plan it on the air, and if it's bad,
we'll probably mock you off here, maybe even on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That happens.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So big news this week in the world of politics,
and I hate talking about politics, but this one is national,
hits local.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we're going to do it. And that is you're
gonna have an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
To decide if you've had way too much freedom in
choosing your own.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Congressional representatives. So again we go back.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm sure you're up on this, but for those that aren't,
Texas had decided that they were going to redraw the
maps so that it would give the Republicans an advantage
pick up five seats, based on demographics, based on voting history,
based on registration, this sort of thing. You can't obviously
tell people how to vote, at least that's what they say.
And we know Vladimir Putin said that if you vote
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by phone or using those machines, then you can't possibly
have a legitimate election, which makes us all wonder if
we have legitimate elections anyway. But Texas said normally we
wait until the census comes out. But what do we
just redraw this stuff now just to give our party
an advantage. Is that in the best interest of the
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people of Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No? Is that in the best interest of the party. Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
The party's job, of course, is to protect the party,
raise money, protect the power. That's a party's job. Republican Democrat.
If you think that the Democrats the Democratic Party, let
me say that, and I mean this not as a
collection of Democrats, but rather the operation that is the party.
If you're a Californian and you think the Democratic Party
is looking out for you, you are mistaken. They are
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looking out for the party. Now, if you align with
the party, maybe you're okay with that. But their whole
mission is not about ideology. It is not about this
is the right way that we should be living our lives. No, no, no, no,
It's about getting people with the D next to their
names elected. For the Republicans, it's about getting the person
with an R next to their name elected. That is
the party's only job. That's it. So if they can
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manipulate the rules to maintain power in a midterm election
where historically the party and the minority loses control, they're
gonna do what they have to do. So what happens.
California then says, well, Texas, we're gonna We're gonna do
it back, even though of course we have our own
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independent group that decides what the congressional lines are. Now,
the state of California says, hey, why don't we just
suspend that for a little while so that we can
strike back at Texas. I don't know, is this an
opening salvo in our political civil war? Maybe that political
civil war has been going on for a while. Just
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feels like it's a lot closer to the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This was the news is that ABC was covering Newsom
signing the bill that will send it to you to
vote on as to whether or not you want to
read rather the maps.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Governor Newsom making the November fourth special election official after
the California State Legislature passed the new congressional maps.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, a special election. So we're spending millions of dollars
on this nonsense. Yeah, it's great. I mean, what in
the world were we going to do with all that money?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Anyway? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What help people? What cut taxes? Improve literacy? Now, we're
not going to do that. No, no, not when we
can play tittley wings with Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
The ballot measure will be known as Prop fifty and
could force out Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
We got here because the President of United States is struggling.
We got here because the President of the United States
is one of the most unpopular presidents in USA history.
We got here because he recognizes that he will lose
the election. Congress will go back into the hands of
the Democratic Party next November.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
After hours of debate in both chambers and Sacramento in
an all out effort by Republicans to stop the jerrymandering,
it overwhelmingly passed the State Assembly and State Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
How come how come the how come the Texas Democrats
aren't complaining about California doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh? Because they look at it as revenge. Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
How come the California Republicans aren't screaming that the Texas
Republicans are doing Oh because the party's job is to
maintain power, and they looked at that as a good
thing for them. It's not about your best interest, my friends.
What is really interesting about the California response to Texas
redrawing their maps is that it wasn't serious to start with.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
This was a lark.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That the whole idea was, hey, Texas, if you're gonna
go through with that, maybe we'll just.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And then Texas went, well, we're going to so then
California said.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Crap, they called our bluff.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And then all of a sudden, the Democrats in California went, well,
I guess we're gonna do it. Then it was all
a bluff. It was never serious until Texas called the bluff.
Texas always calls bluff. They always call your bluff. Texans
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always go down swinging. That's why you can't play poker
with Texans. Texas Hold him is like playing chicken. Nobody ever,
nobody ever backs off of bluff.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Evan or NEWSIM hosting a Danish delegation Friday tuck.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh, Kayla, that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
A Danish delegation, maybe some bear Claw delegations, some Long
John's delegation, delegations.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
M I'll even take a donut hold delegation.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Fucking tech and climate but looming large. November's unprecedented special
election over redrawing California's congressional map set into motion just
twenty four hours ago, a Danish reporter posing this question
to Newsom, You're.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Like strawberries, You're like raspberry. I'm sorry, I'm still hung
up on the Danish thing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Will you be the lead Democrat candidate to run against Trump?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And I don't know, have you been watching my Twitter feed?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I doing what I can.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh, okay, well, I mean he basically says yes, he's
going to run for president. If you've been watching my
twitter feed, you know, speak of a twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Feed Newsom is.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh incidentally, just anybody that's listening right now, you're probably
picking up on from my tone that the Shenanigans between
Texas and California irritate me to no end. And I'm
gonna talk a little bit more about Newsom and his
mimicry of Trump here in a moment. I just want
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to point out that if you're still listening at five o'clock,
I'm gonna talk about some national stuff where I will
not be painting Trump and a Rosie sign.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
A Rosie I don't know, you know, but just mark
my words.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We will get many, many, many, many angry, angry phone
calls when I do that. Just I would encourage you
to listen for another hour and just see how this goes,
because it's about as predictable as the sunrise. Anyway, Newsom
has decided he's not trumpy enough and so he's going
for Trump. That's next, Chris Merrill. I am six forty.
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We live everywhere on the iHeart ready up, Chris Merril,
k if I.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
More stimulating talk pleasure spending my sundays with you. If
you are listening on the app, hit that talkback. But
in our questions tonight, what is the perfect salary for
living in southern California? What is the perfect salary for
living in other words, what would you need to make
for things to be comfortable?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
American dream kind of thing? What is the perfect salary?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
When you find out what the rest of America thinks,
I think your jaw is going to hit the floor.
That's coming up in the five o'clock hour. Also, LA
Law segment is up next in what one one dude
did in the middle of a car chase that I
don't think anyone has ever seen before. That's coming up
here after four thirty. All right, let's hit the talk back.
What is the perfect salary for living in southern California. Kayla,
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I say we've got the talkbacks. Are they all on topic?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know? Okay? Great, okay, great, Hey Chris.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
As a mom who just sent her kid off to college.
I just wanted to let you know that there's a
few places on Facebook dorm room mama's parents of twenty
twenty five, and the dorms that are out of control
are predominantly black families. So you might want to check
your facts before you go the Ashtons white folks, because
I think I spent about six hundred bucks.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
All right, wait a minute, first all hang on, hold on, Kayla,
before you get upset, hang on, all right, First of all,
this this harkens back to when I was talking with
Tiffany Hobbs in the last hour and she was talking
dorm rooms and people spending up to ten thousand dollars,
and I said, God.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
White people are the worst. After hearing from this person,
I will double down. White people are the worst. They
have no sense of humor. My god, oh dear, you
can't also six hundred dollars. Okay, Well, hold on, I'm
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trying to remember, well, my wife took care of our kids.
I'm just thinking back and when I went to college,
what do you get? What do you do with six
hundred dollars? So you gotta have things like hangers, laundry baskets,
mini fridge. Trying to think of what you're spending six
hundred dollars on, because I know it adds up pretty quickly.
Don't think six hundred dollars is that outrageous, But I'm
just trying to think of what you're getting for six
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hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
TV college is expensive lunch money, I don't know at all.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, No, that's all separates dorm.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Rooms stiff, but don't some universities like have a card
that you can use in certain eateries around campus. Yeah,
but that's REAUP on that card, So that is that's
not included in the six hundred dollars spending you Okay,
so expensive betting obviously.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Being yeah, god your dainty, oh man, All right, Gavin
Newsom is he's celebrating because, uh, Texas called California's bluff,
and California then decided, Okay, well, I guess we are
going to try to do some redistricting, and it's gonna
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head to you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You're gonna have an opportunity to vote on that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
By the way, the voters right now are a plurality supported.
In other words, it's not a majority of California's to
support redistricting, but it's forty eight percent, which is more
than the people that oppose it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So they have a plurality.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The majority of a minority is what they have right
now in the redistricting fight. Newsom has raised what six
point two million dollars online? People want him to run
for president. What do you think about that.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Chris, He's in my day rich since you came.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
On, Oh thank you? Oh there, hang on, there's more.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
This is Julianne's important. But boy, me talk politics. I
just can't stand you. Wow, he said, you don't like
talking politics? You know you ever do his talk politics?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Can you talk about something else?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yes? Yes, I will.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
People switch up so quickly, there I will.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So Gavin Newsom, if you've noticed this stuff online, he's gone.
He's gone full Trump and people are mad at him
and he's getting responses now. In other words, he's getting
under the skin of Maga. It's not hard for Gavin
Newsom to get under Maga's skin. It's like saying Nancy
Pelosi irritates the right, of course she does. Newsom irritates
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the right, but now he's aping President Trump's style, and
the hardcore magus are becoming apoplectic. They are very upset
with him for doing so. The Democrats are looking at
this like, oh, finally we've got a fighter.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Ron Brownstein was don with NBCLA and he was talking
about sort of this new tone, hold on go.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
I mean, there's just kind of endemic frustration among Democratic
activists around the country that the party leadership, in the
view of most Democrats, has been kind offfeckless and has
failed to find ways to push back against Trump. Newsom
is doing it both substantily and stylistically, I mean substantly,
over three dozen lawsuits, moving much faster and more aggressively
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than any other Democratic blue state governor, and responding to
the gerrymander in Texas.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah. One thing about what's happening in the in the
political world is that the practical opposition doesn't get headlines.
You have to be a real wont to be paying
attention to that. Oh, the Attorney general in Maryland has
fired and filed another lot.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh, Newsom is issuing the government for the National Guard deployed.
Nobody really pays attention to that. But if Newsom puts
out a meme of Milania hugging him viral, I mean,
that's the world of politics that we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's just what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
People don't pay attention to the substance. It's all about
the sizzle, not the state.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
And at the same time, you know, pursuing this very
kind of mocking omnipresence strategy on social media of needling Trump,
I actually think that you can take that too far.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You know, that it pushed too.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Far, that kind of undermines the gravity of the case
that he is making against Trump, that he is a authoritarian,
aspiring authoritarian, undermining democracy. But there's no doubt that it
has helped Newsom catch the attention of Democrats around the country.
You know, if you look at polling in third states,
I mean states where you know he's not there and
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these other democratic governors are out there, like North Carolina
or Texas or early polling of Democrats on twenty twenty eight,
the other potential governor candidates like Josh Shapiro, Gretcha Whitmer,
Andy Basher, j D. Prinzger or Westmore, They're all at one, two,
three percent Newsom's and double digits. He is succeeding in
capturing the attention of Democratic voters, and at this without
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necessarily taking positions that he might be hard to defend
in a general election.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
If he got that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
From Yeah, as he was talking about this, I was
thinking about him defending positions that sort of thing. What
happens if the special election comes around on November fourth
and Californians go, no, we don't want you to mess
with our redistricting process.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What if it doesn't pass?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What if this entire charade to lash out at Texas
fails in California?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What does that do? I mean that he's he's done right.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Newsom can't run for president if he doesn't get this
redistricting thing done.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Would look like an absolute colossal failure from a guy
that the Democrats are saying, you know, he's the fighter,
he's gonna get things done. If this doesn't work, toast right,
there's really no coming back from that. I am reading
a number of op eds that I think are really interesting.
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Was reading one from OC Register. Stephen green Hutt was
talking about the Newsom versus Trump trolling war, and he
just talked about how it speaks so poorly for the nation.
Now he articulates very well, what summarized is a race
to the bottom, right that we are. We're not focusing
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on what that leadership should be doing, what the leaders
should be doing, what the leadership should look like. We're
not focusing on those things. Instead, we're focusing on who
gets more barbs, more jabs, more gotchas on the other person.
It's kind of like, and this was pointed out by
green Hut, it's kind of like when you watch the
debates and nobody remembers all the wonkish replies. We only
remember the zingers because they stand out, right, So as
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all of these politicians are trying to stand out, and
they're trying to get these singers, and now they're making
up these memes and they've got their AI stuff. And look,
Trump was a pioneer of this better than anybody else.
But now others are starting to catch up. They're starting
to just in Newsom's case, it's sort of mimicry as satire,
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but not everyone is doing that. Some people are adopting
Trump's very aggressive tactics, and they're saying, this is how
you do it now, this is the new way of
communicating in America. He has pioneered this, for better or
for worse. What does this say about us? We don't
pay attention to the meat and potatoes that we only
seem to want the dessert when it comes to political discourse.
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Really interesting takes, and I appreciate everybody looking at that.
I would have to agree. I don't know what the
Democrats can do because they're getting smoked everywhere and their
registrations are down nationwide.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They're getting toasted.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They got to do something, so it looks like they're
completely shifting gears, changing.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Tactics, and I can't say that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I that I think it's a real great look for
either party kind of makes me sad, But then again,
I can you know, I can pay attention to what
the politicians are doing.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I don't get all I don't get all.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bored with the Walkers stuff because I think it's important,
but most of the country does. We live in a
reality TV show world. Our attention spans are that of
a nat nowadays. Sad, all right, the craziest thing happened.
I don't think anyone has ever seen this happen during
a car chase before, and it happened this week. You're
gonna find out what that is is we take a
look at the law makers, the law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law. That is
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next Chris Merril, I AM six forty were live everywhere
in the iheartradiop.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
This is good right there, Chris Merril, KFI AM six forty.
More stimulating talk the lawmakers, the law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law Espusually when
you look at it, an awful lot of today's show
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is about that, especially when we talk about redistricting and
getting around the laws of redistricting and blah blah blah.
We'll talk about the Menendai coming up here at about
four point fifty as well, But first let's start with this.
You probably have never seen it before. I certainly have not.
EBC seven was doing one of those, you know, the
live coverage of a police chase, and the police pulled
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off the chase because I guess things were getting a
little too hairy.
Speaker 12 (20:06):
Suspect is out and on the loose after a very
wild pursuit that, among other things, saw the suspect stop
for gas at a point where.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Time out. Guy, is that going to fill the tank.
Speaker 12 (20:22):
Where the police pursuing agencies had backed off. That's video
we had from earlier too. He actually stopped at this
gas station, got out, filled up the tank, it would appear,
and during that time there were no police around him,
no police behind him, no apparently officers above him that
we know of, and so he very casually filled up
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the car with gas, covering his face at the time.
But you get a good look now at who this
person is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Who does that.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Even though you don't get to see his face, you
get a pretty good description of what he looks like.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Somebody knows who it is.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
And he fills up the tank and then drives off.
And what got him rein.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hold on, hang on, time out? Uh? How did he
pay for the gas?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I mean it sounds like he just ran up and
he ran a credit card and maybe the credit card
was still gonna I mean, we just get a receipt
and find out who the guy is.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Gauged Here was the fact that he continued to drive
so erradically after he had filled up his tank for
this entire time.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
There were no officers behind him.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
He could have walked away from this car and would
have gotten away scott free. He chose not to do that,
instead getting back on the freeways, getting driving in high speeds,
basically forcing police to continue to pursue him, and getting
to the point where he is now under the ten
Freeway where that pursuit ended with him getting into another vehicle.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We'll try to have more information. That's crazy, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
So he just he drives and then I don't know
if he had somebody meet him, parked under the freeway,
jumped out of one car, got into another, and went
out and took off.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He has some good friends, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Is he just on the phone going, hey man, I
boosted this car. We got to just meet under a freeway.
I'll dump the car because the cops are on.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Me, and the friends like, yeah, paall I got you.
I'm in that area.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's really that's a rider die.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's a rider die.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
That is wild.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
See to the lawmakers, the Trump administration has said, no, California,
you don't need that twelve million dollars because we don't
like the way you're teaching about sex.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So happening now.
Speaker 13 (22:41):
The HHS has just ended federal funding for California's sex
education program. Just minutes ago, Andrew Gradison, Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, wait a minute, we've ended. We've been in a federal
grant for sex education. Do we need people who are
dumber about sex?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is that what we need?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We don't need that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, no, I mean, I'm not even gonna touch it.
I just uh, I was gonna make a joke, but
there's no joke. We do not need any people that
are dumber about how things work.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Distant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families announced
the suspension of the money in a letter to state
officials that reads, in part, quote, California has failed to
modify its state prep content to remove all references to
gender ideology consistent with the additional conditions imposed by ACF.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Okay, all right, so this from Fox News, the report
the sex education grant has been pulled because we our
education system has references to gender identity and transgender I
don't know equipment. So we said, okay, that's it. We're
not gonna teach anybody about anything.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I got issues with this.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I mean, yes, Sam, isn't that just circumcised in your
nose despite your face?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, just a little bit.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Yeah, it's for me as a person who's getting a
PhD in human sexuality, I'm a little worried about the
fact that you know, stuff that I study and I
research and I have a good amount of knowledge with
is going to be forcibly kept from people. I cannot
teach certain things that are actually true because it doesn't
line up with the ideology that one group wants to push.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's only true if you believe it. The big problem
here is a lot of people are believing the truth
and we're gonna put a stop to that. So Yeah,
but this is another one of those situations too, where
how much control does the president have over the purse
strings this if there's one thing that comes out of
this administration, And there's gonna be lots of things to
come out of this administration, for for for good or
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for bad, and all depending on your perspective on each
individual case.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
But the challenges to the.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Separation of powers are being tested more than they ever have,
and I think that we are going we're at a
watershed moment now where the country will go, Okay, the
way the guardrails we had were good and this guy
violated them, or we're at this moment where we're going
to go, whoa, the guardrails we had were too much,
and now we're going to give more power to the
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executive branch, and then moving forward, future executives are also
going to have that kind of power. This is the
watershed moment. This is the everything's being put to the test.
And as much as every party complains about the other
party testing uh the and challenging the powers of the presidency,
it's happening more now than it even did during Trump's
first term. Now, Sam, have you considered getting a different degree,
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perhaps plumbing.
Speaker 14 (25:40):
I'm a little too far into this one, and I
haven't seen too many doctor plumbers out there.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I'm dating one, Kayla. There's a PhD In plumbing.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Well, no, he has a medical license but owns a
plumbing company.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh, you can do anything.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah? I met Kayla's boyfriend. He's super cool and he's
nice guy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He's kind of he's definitely he's got like that doctor
like type a not in a bad way, but like.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Very type A right. I mean, I want to say
you thing disparaging.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't mean it to be that way, but it's
so funny when you're said, I know a lot of
doctor plumbers and I was like.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh, you know, I've only known one.
Speaker 14 (26:19):
Well you know, I mean I can be like a
doctor and an air conditioning guy I can find to
get into.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Actually, Kyle's wait.
Speaker 14 (26:27):
A minute, I'm a doctor radio medic guy.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah you are. You're like doctor Wendy. I'm versatile. That's
exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Uh No, I I'll be curious to see how this
one plays out.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And with your with your degree? Are you?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And I apologize Sam, We've had this conversation, but the
audience doesn't know. So are you going to be teaching
then or are you practicing?
Speaker 14 (26:50):
H Well, I'm a marriage and family therapist and it
gives me more specialization as far as sex and sexuality goes.
But I can be I'm fully qualified to be a
professor college or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, hey, how does that work?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
If somebody forget the law and order segment that we're
doing here, How does that work? If you're a therapist,
do people come into you and they say, our sex
life is bad? Or does somebody come in and go,
I'm questioning my sexuality. I mean, what does that look
like for a typical patient.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
It depends if they're married and they have some kind
of imbalance as far as sexual desire or sexual needs go,
we go after that. If it's someone who's got some issues,
like an individual who's got issues reconnecting themselves, they may
have gone through some trauma and sometimes they just need
to reconnect with their body and you know, before they
can actually focus on anything sexual.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Interesting, is it? Is it awkward?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Because I imagine, I imagine having a third party that
you're opening up to if it's my wife, and I'm
just imagining my wife and I conversing with you, and
fortunately she says that our sex life is okay, because
I'm convinced that she's incredibly disappointed.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's not a joke, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It is funny.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
She says, no, it's fine, which sounds even worse like
when a woman says it's fine.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But if if I were to come to you, I
would be really embarrassed by saying, well, you know, she
likes it when I do this, or I she doesn't
like it when I do. I mean, does it get
graphic like that or is it more about understanding the
psychology behind desire and such.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
It does get graphics sometimes, but it's also done from
a place where you know, I tend to bring a
lot of humor to it that's appropriate for the moment.
So it makes it a lot easier to have conversations
about stuff that makes people blush in general. But usually
they're coming to me for stuff like anxiety or depression,
and then they find out I have a speciality in
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sex and sexuality, and they're like, yeah, I'm going to
jump in and talk to you about this, and it
turns out that a lot of their anxiety manifests in
ways that affect them sexually.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That is so fat fascinating. I'm so intrigued by it.
It is it's also scared stuff. I'm also scared about it.
I mean, I would be terrified to go talk to
somebody like I've talked. I talked to therapists about depression
and anxiety and all those other things that I But
I guess, I guess I still am. I a product
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of my generation and growing up in a conservative Midwest
family that that I feel reservation about talking about those things.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, it was always like, shit, we don't talk
about that well.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
And that may be part of the problem, is that
we don't actually normalize conversations about the topic in a
way that makes it so that people feel comfortable discussing
stuff that usually like a lot of times people if
they don't have the answer to the question, they feel
uncomfortable whenever they're being asked. And that's where education becomes
so important. It makes it so that whenever the conversation
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comes up, it doesn't have this feeling of taboo around it,
and people actually have answers instead of just coming up
with well, I guess this is what happen when certain
things happen like It's why I've seen like stories and
places where there's very little education, where you find somebody like,
in order to have birth control, they decide to put
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a vegetable up inside of them and that they end
up having to have surgery because of it because their
mom told them that that would be good effective birth control.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh's mom exactly.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
That's the point is that there's a lot of people
giving misinformation about the topic, and that's why I like
the idea of comprehensive sex education.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, and then that X ray ends up going viral.
Speaker 14 (30:33):
Oh absolutely, I've seen as part of my research, I
have seen the videos and the footage of disastrous things
happening to those parts of the body.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah right, I think, uh, Cayle, I think we just
need next time Sam's in, I think we just need
to plan an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Oh all right, yeah Sam, because he's fascinating.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I'm hoping that he becomes a new role, so maybe
he'll be here all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh how about that, Sam would like to be Would
you like to be condemned to the dungeon?
Speaker 14 (31:00):
I can never be. I can never come close to
filling the shoes of Raoul. All I can do is
just take a different seat and hopefully scooch it into
the same.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know who this Raoul person is. You guys
for talking to him? Dead to me.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Big news this week happened all around the Menendai and
it did not go as well as an awful lot
of people thought.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
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Speaker 3 (31:19):
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
App that afternoon.
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Speaker 1 (31:28):
The US just got into the investment business.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
We'll tell you what that is coming up here after
five and a look at News with Eileen Gonzales. Sheet
is ahead and one of the other big news stories
this week is that D. A. Hackman got his wish.
The Menendai will remain behind bars.
Speaker 15 (31:47):
Parole denied for Lyleman and seen here virtually attending an
eleven hour long parole hearing Friday, Parole Commissioner Julie Garland
telling Lyle the board found his remorse genuine. You have
been a model inmate in many ways who has demonstrated
the potential for change. But despite all those outward positives,
we see you still struggle with anti social personality traits
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like deception, minimization, and rule breaking that lie beneath that
positive surface.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, one
more time, say it? What is it?
Speaker 15 (32:19):
You still struggle with anti social personality traits like deception, minimization,
and rule breaking that lie beneath that positive surface.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, those are all red flags that women are really
attracted to.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Am I wrong? Yes? I just love it. He doesn't
care about the rules and he lies to me a.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Lot Jesus perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I love him. He'll never give me the emotional fulfillment
I need. He's perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
You do just for.
Speaker 15 (32:57):
His brother Eric, a different parole board, but the same decision. Thursday,
audio obtained through a public records request by Eyewitness News
and ABC News shedding light on the moment parole was
denied for Eric. Based on the legal standards and evidence considered,
we find that you continue to pose an un reasonable
list to public safety and are not singable. At this time,
both brothers had been serving life in prison without the
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possibility of parole for the nineteen eighty nine murders of
their parents, Jose and Kitty, who Eric and Lyle claimed
sexually abuse them. Are resentencing this past may, making way
for their possible release. The group some nature of their crime,
specifically Kitty's murder, a key factor in the three year
parole denials for both men and des brothers. Eric asked
about the crime while making his case for freedom Thursday.
Speaker 16 (33:41):
My focus was Dad's coming to my room. I can't
let Dad come to my room. And Lyle said, you know, stand,
it's happening now, and I knew what that meant. And
we were about to die now and I told them
my guns in my room, and I ran to my
room to get the gun. All I knew is that
(34:03):
I got to get to that den. Fear was driving
me to that den and rage the idea that Dad
was going to come to my room. Dad was going
to come to my room.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And rat me that night.
Speaker 16 (34:19):
That was going to happen one way or another, if
he was alive or or that was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Wow, it's powerful, But I think the parole Board doesn't
really want to hear the defense again, right. Parole board
wants to hear that you take responsibility for your actions.
And at least that's what I garnered from watching Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You get the feeling that.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
The parole Board was never going to let these guys out,
not this time around anyway, and so they denied both
of them, but for different reasons. Sounds like sounds like
this was sort of retrofitting in dis that was already made.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Uh yeah, And Nathan hawkmen very happy with the results
from kykl Well.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I certainly respect.
Speaker 17 (35:08):
The Menendez families, passioned their commitment to the Menendez brothers
and the fact that they want them out, and when
the Parole board looked at the facts and the law
of this particular case. They determined I believe quite correctly
that the Menenda's brothers were not ready for parole at
this time.
Speaker 18 (35:24):
Shortly after taking office, Hawkman made clear his opposition to
the Menendez brothers push for freedom. Their parole hearings were
the closest they've come to freedom since being sentenced to
life in prison for killing their parents in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
The brothers will.
Speaker 18 (35:38):
Have to wait for at least three years for another
chance of freedom, but the Parole Commissioner floated the possibility
that Lyle Menendez could get a hearing in eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Any think these guys have felt because everything's been delayed, delayed, delayed,
right we thought it was going to happen last year,
and then we had an election, and then Hawkman didn't
want to do it right away, and everything is delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed.
And oh and then I think the fires happened. I
think that was another reason things got delayed. And finally
they get their parole hearing almost a year after they
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thought they were going to get their parole hearing, and
then they get no denied. What a roller coaster of hope.
Those guys have been on. What a wild ride. And now, oh,
it'll be three years, except you le you might only
be eighteen months. I bet they're minding their p's and
(36:31):
q's for the next eighteen to thirty six months. So
I bet they were watching it very carefully. All Right,
America is investing in America. As long as you promise
to give some money over to America. I'll tell you
how that shakes out next time. Chris Merril KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey friends, Chris Merril AM six forty. More stimulating talk
Chris Merrill. Pleasure to be with you every Sunday this week.
Little bonus Merrill in for mo all week long except
Friday because Friday's pizza night and I didn't want to work.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The I believe it was bank Rate that did a survey,
and the American people have spoken. They've determined what the
ideal salary is. Oh, it's Talker research.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
They did it. My apologies, Talker Research did it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
They've identified what the perfect salary is for Americans. I
don't think they talk with anybody that lives in southern California.
So if you are on the iHeartRadio app, just clicking
that talkback button. Our question for you today, what is
the perfect salary for somebody living in southern California? All right,
you want to live in a safe neighborhood, you want
to have enough bedrooms for all the kids. In other words,
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give me kind of like American dream type salary.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What would it take for you? I don't care about
another survey.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't care about a last I want to know
what you think, all right, and then if it's good,
we'll plan it on the air, and if it's bad,
we'll probably mock you off here, maybe even on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That happens.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So big news this week in the world of politics,
and I hate talking about politics, but this one is national,
hits local.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we're going to do it. And that is you're
gonna have an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
To decide if you've had way too much freedom in
choosing your own.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Congressional representatives. So again we go back.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm sure you're up on this, but for those that aren't,
Texas had decided that they were going to redraw the
maps so that it would give the Republicans an advantage
pick up five seats, based on demographics, based on voting history,
based on registration, this sort of thing. You can't obviously
tell people how to vote, at least that's what they say.
And we know Vladimir Putin said that if you vote
(02:08):
by phone or using those machines, then you can't possibly
have a legitimate election, which makes us all wonder if
we have legitimate elections anyway. But Texas said normally we
wait until the census comes out. But what do we
just redraw this stuff now just to give our party
an advantage. Is that in the best interest of the
(02:30):
people of Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
No? Is that in the best interest of the party. Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
The party's job, of course, is to protect the party,
raise money, protect the power. That's a party's job. Republican Democrat.
If you think that the Democrats the Democratic Party, let
me say that, and I mean this not as a
collection of Democrats, but rather the operation that is the party.
If you're a Californian and you think the Democratic Party
is looking out for you, you are mistaken. They are
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looking out for the party. Now, if you align with
the party, maybe you're okay with that. But their whole
mission is not about ideology. It is not about this
is the right way that we should be living our lives. No, no, no, no,
It's about getting people with the D next to their
names elected. For the Republicans, it's about getting the person
with an R next to their name elected. That is
the party's only job. That's it. So if they can
(03:18):
manipulate the rules to maintain power in a midterm election
where historically the party and the minority loses control, they're
gonna do what they have to do. So what happens.
California then says, well, Texas, we're gonna We're gonna do
it back, even though of course we have our own
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independent group that decides what the congressional lines are. Now,
the state of California says, hey, why don't we just
suspend that for a little while so that we can
strike back at Texas. I don't know, is this an
opening salvo in our political civil war? Maybe that political
civil war has been going on for a while. Just
(04:03):
feels like it's a lot closer to the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
This was the news is that ABC was covering Newsom
signing the bill that will send it to you to
vote on as to whether or not you want to
read rather the maps.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Governor Newsom making the November fourth special election official after
the California State Legislature passed the new congressional maps.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, a special election. So we're spending millions of dollars
on this nonsense. Yeah, it's great. I mean, what in
the world were we going to do with all that money?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Anyway? Right?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
What help people? What cut taxes? Improve literacy? Now, we're
not going to do that. No, no, not when we
can play tittley wings with Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
The ballot measure will be known as Prop fifty and
could force out Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
We got here because the President of United States is struggling.
We got here because the President of the United States
is one of the most unpopular presidents in USA history.
We got here because he recognizes that he will lose
the election. Congress will go back into the hands of
the Democratic Party next November.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
After hours of debate in both chambers and Sacramento in
an all out effort by Republicans to stop the jerrymandering,
it overwhelmingly passed the State Assembly and State Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
How come how come the how come the Texas Democrats
aren't complaining about California doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh? Because they look at it as revenge. Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
How come the California Republicans aren't screaming that the Texas
Republicans are doing Oh because the party's job is to
maintain power, and they looked at that as a good
thing for them. It's not about your best interest, my friends.
What is really interesting about the California response to Texas
redrawing their maps is that it wasn't serious to start with.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
This was a lark.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That the whole idea was, hey, Texas, if you're gonna
go through with that, maybe we'll just.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And then Texas went, well, we're going to so then
California said.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Crap, they called our bluff.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And then all of a sudden, the Democrats in California went, well,
I guess we're gonna do it. Then it was all
a bluff. It was never serious until Texas called the bluff.
Texas always calls bluff. They always call your bluff. Texans
(06:34):
always go down swinging. That's why you can't play poker
with Texans. Texas Hold him is like playing chicken. Nobody ever,
nobody ever backs off of bluff.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Evan or NEWSIM hosting a Danish delegation Friday tuck.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh, Kayla, that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
A Danish delegation, maybe some bear Claw delegations, some Long
John's delegation, delegations.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
M I'll even take a donut hold delegation.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Fucking tech and climate but looming large. November's unprecedented special
election over redrawing California's congressional map set into motion just
twenty four hours ago, a Danish reporter posing this question
to Newsom, You're.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Like strawberries, You're like raspberry. I'm sorry, I'm still hung
up on the Danish thing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Will you be the lead Democrat candidate to run against Trump?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And I don't know, have you been watching my Twitter feed?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I doing what I can.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh, okay, well, I mean he basically says yes, he's
going to run for president. If you've been watching my
twitter feed, you know, speak of a twitter.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Feed Newsom is.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh incidentally, just anybody that's listening right now, you're probably
picking up on from my tone that the Shenanigans between
Texas and California irritate me to no end. And I'm
gonna talk a little bit more about Newsom and his
mimicry of Trump here in a moment. I just want
(08:09):
to point out that if you're still listening at five o'clock,
I'm gonna talk about some national stuff where I will
not be painting Trump and a Rosie sign.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
A Rosie I don't know, you know, but just mark
my words.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We will get many, many, many, many angry, angry phone
calls when I do that. Just I would encourage you
to listen for another hour and just see how this goes,
because it's about as predictable as the sunrise. Anyway, Newsom
has decided he's not trumpy enough and so he's going
for Trump. That's next, Chris Merrill. I am six forty.
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We live everywhere on the iHeart ready up, Chris Merril,
k if I.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
More stimulating talk pleasure spending my sundays with you. If
you are listening on the app, hit that talkback. But
in our questions tonight, what is the perfect salary for
living in southern California? What is the perfect salary for
living in other words, what would you need to make
for things to be comfortable?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
American dream kind of thing? What is the perfect salary?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
When you find out what the rest of America thinks,
I think your jaw is going to hit the floor.
That's coming up in the five o'clock hour. Also, LA
Law segment is up next in what one one dude
did in the middle of a car chase that I
don't think anyone has ever seen before. That's coming up
here after four thirty. All right, let's hit the talk back.
What is the perfect salary for living in southern California. Kayla,
(09:34):
I say we've got the talkbacks. Are they all on topic?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know? Okay? Great, okay, great, Hey Chris.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
As a mom who just sent her kid off to college.
I just wanted to let you know that there's a
few places on Facebook dorm room mama's parents of twenty
twenty five, and the dorms that are out of control
are predominantly black families. So you might want to check
your facts before you go the Ashtons white folks, because
I think I spent about six hundred bucks.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
All right, wait a minute, first all hang on, hold on, Kayla,
before you get upset, hang on, all right, First of all,
this this harkens back to when I was talking with
Tiffany Hobbs in the last hour and she was talking
dorm rooms and people spending up to ten thousand dollars,
and I said, God.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
White people are the worst. After hearing from this person,
I will double down. White people are the worst. They
have no sense of humor. My god, oh dear, you
can't also six hundred dollars. Okay, Well, hold on, I'm
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trying to remember, well, my wife took care of our kids.
I'm just thinking back and when I went to college,
what do you get? What do you do with six
hundred dollars? So you gotta have things like hangers, laundry baskets,
mini fridge. Trying to think of what you're spending six
hundred dollars on, because I know it adds up pretty quickly.
Don't think six hundred dollars is that outrageous, But I'm
just trying to think of what you're getting for six
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hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
TV college is expensive lunch money, I don't know at all.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No, No, that's all separates dorm.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Rooms stiff, but don't some universities like have a card
that you can use in certain eateries around campus. Yeah,
but that's REAUP on that card, So that is that's
not included in the six hundred dollars spending you Okay,
so expensive betting obviously.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Being yeah, god your dainty, oh man, All right, Gavin
Newsom is he's celebrating because, uh, Texas called California's bluff,
and California then decided, Okay, well, I guess we are
going to try to do some redistricting, and it's gonna
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head to you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
You're gonna have an opportunity to vote on that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
By the way, the voters right now are a plurality supported.
In other words, it's not a majority of California's to
support redistricting, but it's forty eight percent, which is more
than the people that oppose it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
So they have a plurality.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
The majority of a minority is what they have right
now in the redistricting fight. Newsom has raised what six
point two million dollars online? People want him to run
for president. What do you think about that.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Chris, He's in my day rich since you came.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
On, Oh thank you? Oh there, hang on, there's more.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
This is Julianne's important. But boy, me talk politics. I
just can't stand you. Wow, he said, you don't like
talking politics? You know you ever do his talk politics?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Can you talk about something else?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yes? Yes, I will.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
People switch up so quickly, there I will.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So Gavin Newsom, if you've noticed this stuff online, he's gone.
He's gone full Trump and people are mad at him
and he's getting responses now. In other words, he's getting
under the skin of Maga. It's not hard for Gavin
Newsom to get under Maga's skin. It's like saying Nancy
Pelosi irritates the right, of course she does. Newsom irritates
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the right, but now he's aping President Trump's style, and
the hardcore magus are becoming apoplectic. They are very upset
with him for doing so. The Democrats are looking at
this like, oh, finally we've got a fighter.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Ron Brownstein was don with NBCLA and he was talking
about sort of this new tone, hold on go.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
I mean, there's just kind of endemic frustration among Democratic
activists around the country that the party leadership, in the
view of most Democrats, has been kind offfeckless and has
failed to find ways to push back against Trump. Newsom
is doing it both substantily and stylistically, I mean substantly,
over three dozen lawsuits, moving much faster and more aggressively
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than any other Democratic blue state governor, and responding to
the gerrymander in Texas.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah. One thing about what's happening in the in the
political world is that the practical opposition doesn't get headlines.
You have to be a real wont to be paying
attention to that. Oh, the Attorney general in Maryland has
fired and filed another lot.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh, Newsom is issuing the government for the National Guard deployed.
Nobody really pays attention to that. But if Newsom puts
out a meme of Milania hugging him viral, I mean,
that's the world of politics that we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's just what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
People don't pay attention to the substance. It's all about
the sizzle, not the state.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
And at the same time, you know, pursuing this very
kind of mocking omnipresence strategy on social media of needling Trump,
I actually think that you can take that too far.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You know, that it pushed too.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Far, that kind of undermines the gravity of the case
that he is making against Trump, that he is a authoritarian,
aspiring authoritarian, undermining democracy. But there's no doubt that it
has helped Newsom catch the attention of Democrats around the country.
You know, if you look at polling in third states,
I mean states where you know he's not there and
(15:15):
these other democratic governors are out there, like North Carolina
or Texas or early polling of Democrats on twenty twenty eight,
the other potential governor candidates like Josh Shapiro, Gretcha Whitmer,
Andy Basher, j D. Prinzger or Westmore, They're all at one, two,
three percent Newsom's and double digits. He is succeeding in
capturing the attention of Democratic voters, and at this without
(15:36):
necessarily taking positions that he might be hard to defend
in a general election.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
If he got that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
From Yeah, as he was talking about this, I was
thinking about him defending positions that sort of thing. What
happens if the special election comes around on November fourth
and Californians go, no, we don't want you to mess
with our redistricting process.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
What if it doesn't pass?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What if this entire charade to lash out at Texas
fails in California?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What does that do? I mean that he's he's done right.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Newsom can't run for president if he doesn't get this
redistricting thing done.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean, that.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Would look like an absolute colossal failure from a guy
that the Democrats are saying, you know, he's the fighter,
he's gonna get things done. If this doesn't work, toast right,
there's really no coming back from that. I am reading
a number of op eds that I think are really interesting.
(16:38):
Was reading one from OC Register. Stephen green Hutt was
talking about the Newsom versus Trump trolling war, and he
just talked about how it speaks so poorly for the nation.
Now he articulates very well, what summarized is a race
to the bottom, right that we are. We're not focusing
(17:00):
on what that leadership should be doing, what the leaders
should be doing, what the leadership should look like. We're
not focusing on those things. Instead, we're focusing on who
gets more barbs, more jabs, more gotchas on the other person.
It's kind of like, and this was pointed out by
green Hut, it's kind of like when you watch the
debates and nobody remembers all the wonkish replies. We only
remember the zingers because they stand out, right, So as
(17:24):
all of these politicians are trying to stand out, and
they're trying to get these singers, and now they're making
up these memes and they've got their AI stuff. And look,
Trump was a pioneer of this better than anybody else.
But now others are starting to catch up. They're starting
to just in Newsom's case, it's sort of mimicry as satire,
(17:44):
but not everyone is doing that. Some people are adopting
Trump's very aggressive tactics, and they're saying, this is how
you do it now, this is the new way of
communicating in America. He has pioneered this, for better or
for worse. What does this say about us? We don't
pay attention to the meat and potatoes that we only
seem to want the dessert when it comes to political discourse.
(18:09):
Really interesting takes, and I appreciate everybody looking at that.
I would have to agree. I don't know what the
Democrats can do because they're getting smoked everywhere and their
registrations are down nationwide.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
They're getting toasted.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They got to do something, so it looks like they're
completely shifting gears, changing.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Tactics, and I can't say that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I that I think it's a real great look for
either party kind of makes me sad, But then again,
I can you know, I can pay attention to what
the politicians are doing.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I don't get all I don't get all.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Bored with the Walkers stuff because I think it's important,
but most of the country does. We live in a
reality TV show world. Our attention spans are that of
a nat nowadays. Sad, all right, the craziest thing happened.
I don't think anyone has ever seen this happen during
a car chase before, and it happened this week. You're
gonna find out what that is is we take a
look at the law makers, the law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law. That is
(19:09):
next Chris Merril, I AM six forty were live everywhere
in the iheartradiop.
Speaker 12 (19:14):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
This is good right there, Chris Merril, KFI AM six forty.
More stimulating talk the lawmakers, the law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law Espusually when
you look at it, an awful lot of today's show
(19:41):
is about that, especially when we talk about redistricting and
getting around the laws of redistricting and blah blah blah.
We'll talk about the Menendai coming up here at about
four point fifty as well, But first let's start with this.
You probably have never seen it before. I certainly have not.
EBC seven was doing one of those, you know, the
live coverage of a police chase, and the police pulled
(20:03):
off the chase because I guess things were getting a
little too hairy.
Speaker 12 (20:06):
Suspect is out and on the loose after a very
wild pursuit that, among other things, saw the suspect stop
for gas at a point where.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Time out. Guy, is that going to fill the tank.
Speaker 12 (20:22):
Where the police pursuing agencies had backed off. That's video
we had from earlier too. He actually stopped at this
gas station, got out, filled up the tank, it would appear,
and during that time there were no police around him,
no police behind him, no apparently officers above him that
we know of, and so he very casually filled up
(20:44):
the car with gas, covering his face at the time.
But you get a good look now at who this
person is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Who does that.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Even though you don't get to see his face, you
get a pretty good description of what he looks like.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Somebody knows who it is.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
And he fills up the tank and then drives off.
And what got him rein.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hold on, hang on, time out? Uh? How did he
pay for the gas?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I mean it sounds like he just ran up and
he ran a credit card and maybe the credit card
was still gonna I mean, we just get a receipt
and find out who the guy is.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Gauged Here was the fact that he continued to drive
so erradically after he had filled up his tank for
this entire time.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
There were no officers behind him.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
He could have walked away from this car and would
have gotten away scott free. He chose not to do that,
instead getting back on the freeways, getting driving in high speeds,
basically forcing police to continue to pursue him, and getting
to the point where he is now under the ten
Freeway where that pursuit ended with him getting into another vehicle.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We'll try to have more information. That's crazy, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
So he just he drives and then I don't know
if he had somebody meet him, parked under the freeway,
jumped out of one car, got into another, and went
out and took off.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He has some good friends, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Is he just on the phone going, hey man, I
boosted this car. We got to just meet under a freeway.
I'll dump the car because the cops are on.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Me, and the friends like, yeah, paall I got you.
I'm in that area.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's really that's a rider die.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's a rider die.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
That is wild.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
See to the lawmakers, the Trump administration has said, no, California,
you don't need that twelve million dollars because we don't
like the way you're teaching about sex.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So happening now.
Speaker 13 (22:41):
The HHS has just ended federal funding for California's sex
education program. Just minutes ago, Andrew Gradison, Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, wait a minute, we've ended. We've been in a federal
grant for sex education. Do we need people who are
dumber about sex?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is that what we need?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
We don't need that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, no, I mean, I'm not even gonna touch it.
I just uh, I was gonna make a joke, but
there's no joke. We do not need any people that
are dumber about how things work.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Distant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families announced
the suspension of the money in a letter to state
officials that reads, in part, quote, California has failed to
modify its state prep content to remove all references to
gender ideology consistent with the additional conditions imposed by ACF.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Okay, all right, so this from Fox News, the report
the sex education grant has been pulled because we our
education system has references to gender identity and transgender I
don't know equipment. So we said, okay, that's it. We're
not gonna teach anybody about anything.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, I got issues with this.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I mean, yes, Sam, isn't that just circumcised in your
nose despite your face?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, just a little bit.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Yeah, it's for me as a person who's getting a
PhD in human sexuality, I'm a little worried about the
fact that you know, stuff that I study and I
research and I have a good amount of knowledge with
is going to be forcibly kept from people. I cannot
teach certain things that are actually true because it doesn't
line up with the ideology that one group wants to push.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's only true if you believe it. The big problem
here is a lot of people are believing the truth
and we're gonna put a stop to that. So Yeah,
but this is another one of those situations too, where
how much control does the president have over the purse
strings this if there's one thing that comes out of
this administration, And there's gonna be lots of things to
come out of this administration, for for for good or
(24:48):
for bad, and all depending on your perspective on each
individual case.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
But the challenges to the.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Separation of powers are being tested more than they ever have,
and I think that we are going we're at a
watershed moment now where the country will go, Okay, the
way the guardrails we had were good and this guy
violated them, or we're at this moment where we're going
to go, whoa, the guardrails we had were too much,
and now we're going to give more power to the
(25:17):
executive branch, and then moving forward, future executives are also
going to have that kind of power. This is the
watershed moment. This is the everything's being put to the test.
And as much as every party complains about the other
party testing uh the and challenging the powers of the presidency,
it's happening more now than it even did during Trump's
first term. Now, Sam, have you considered getting a different degree,
(25:38):
perhaps plumbing.
Speaker 14 (25:40):
I'm a little too far into this one, and I
haven't seen too many doctor plumbers out there.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I'm dating one, Kayla. There's a PhD In plumbing.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Well, no, he has a medical license but owns a
plumbing company.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh, you can do anything.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah? I met Kayla's boyfriend. He's super cool and he's
nice guy.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He's kind of he's definitely he's got like that doctor
like type a not in a bad way, but like.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Very type A right. I mean, I want to say
you thing disparaging.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't mean it to be that way, but it's
so funny when you're said, I know a lot of
doctor plumbers and I was like.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh, you know, I've only known one.
Speaker 14 (26:19):
Well you know, I mean I can be like a
doctor and an air conditioning guy I can find to
get into.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Actually, Kyle's wait.
Speaker 14 (26:27):
A minute, I'm a doctor radio medic guy.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah you are. You're like doctor Wendy. I'm versatile. That's
exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Uh No, I I'll be curious to see how this
one plays out.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And with your with your degree? Are you?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And I apologize Sam, We've had this conversation, but the
audience doesn't know. So are you going to be teaching
then or are you practicing?
Speaker 14 (26:50):
H Well, I'm a marriage and family therapist and it
gives me more specialization as far as sex and sexuality goes.
But I can be I'm fully qualified to be a
professor college or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, hey, how does that work?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
If somebody forget the law and order segment that we're
doing here, How does that work? If you're a therapist,
do people come into you and they say, our sex
life is bad? Or does somebody come in and go,
I'm questioning my sexuality. I mean, what does that look
like for a typical patient.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
It depends if they're married and they have some kind
of imbalance as far as sexual desire or sexual needs go,
we go after that. If it's someone who's got some issues,
like an individual who's got issues reconnecting themselves, they may
have gone through some trauma and sometimes they just need
to reconnect with their body and you know, before they
can actually focus on anything sexual.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Interesting, is it? Is it awkward?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Because I imagine, I imagine having a third party that
you're opening up to if it's my wife, and I'm
just imagining my wife and I conversing with you, and
fortunately she says that our sex life is okay, because
I'm convinced that she's incredibly disappointed.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That's not a joke, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It is funny.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
She says, no, it's fine, which sounds even worse like
when a woman says it's fine.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But if if I were to come to you, I
would be really embarrassed by saying, well, you know, she
likes it when I do this, or I she doesn't
like it when I do. I mean, does it get
graphic like that or is it more about understanding the
psychology behind desire and such.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
It does get graphics sometimes, but it's also done from
a place where you know, I tend to bring a
lot of humor to it that's appropriate for the moment.
So it makes it a lot easier to have conversations
about stuff that makes people blush in general. But usually
they're coming to me for stuff like anxiety or depression,
and then they find out I have a speciality in
(28:47):
sex and sexuality, and they're like, yeah, I'm going to
jump in and talk to you about this, and it
turns out that a lot of their anxiety manifests in
ways that affect them sexually.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That is so fat fascinating. I'm so intrigued by it.
It is it's also scared stuff. I'm also scared about it.
I mean, I would be terrified to go talk to
somebody like I've talked. I talked to therapists about depression
and anxiety and all those other things that I But
I guess, I guess I still am. I a product
(29:19):
of my generation and growing up in a conservative Midwest
family that that I feel reservation about talking about those things.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, it was always like, shit, we don't talk
about that well.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
And that may be part of the problem, is that
we don't actually normalize conversations about the topic in a
way that makes it so that people feel comfortable discussing
stuff that usually like a lot of times people if
they don't have the answer to the question, they feel
uncomfortable whenever they're being asked. And that's where education becomes
so important. It makes it so that whenever the conversation
(29:50):
comes up, it doesn't have this feeling of taboo around it,
and people actually have answers instead of just coming up
with well, I guess this is what happen when certain
things happen like It's why I've seen like stories and
places where there's very little education, where you find somebody like,
in order to have birth control, they decide to put
(30:12):
a vegetable up inside of them and that they end
up having to have surgery because of it because their
mom told them that that would be good effective birth control.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh's mom exactly.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
That's the point is that there's a lot of people
giving misinformation about the topic, and that's why I like
the idea of comprehensive sex education.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, and then that X ray ends up going viral.
Speaker 14 (30:33):
Oh absolutely, I've seen as part of my research, I
have seen the videos and the footage of disastrous things
happening to those parts of the body.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah right, I think, uh, Cayle, I think we just
need next time Sam's in, I think we just need
to plan an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Oh all right, yeah Sam, because he's fascinating.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
I'm hoping that he becomes a new role, so maybe
he'll be here all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh how about that, Sam would like to be Would
you like to be condemned to the dungeon?
Speaker 14 (31:00):
I can never be. I can never come close to
filling the shoes of Raoul. All I can do is
just take a different seat and hopefully scooch it into
the same.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know who this Raoul person is. You guys
for talking to him? Dead to me.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Big news this week happened all around the Menendai and
it did not go as well as an awful lot
of people thought.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's next.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Chris Merril cafi Am six forty WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
App that afternoon.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Chris Meryl Cafi Am six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The US just got into the investment business.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
We'll tell you what that is coming up here after
five and a look at News with Eileen Gonzales. Sheet
is ahead and one of the other big news stories
this week is that D. A. Hackman got his wish.
The Menendai will remain behind bars.
Speaker 15 (31:47):
Parole denied for Lyleman and seen here virtually attending an
eleven hour long parole hearing Friday, Parole Commissioner Julie Garland
telling Lyle the board found his remorse genuine. You have
been a model inmate in many ways who has demonstrated
the potential for change. But despite all those outward positives,
we see you still struggle with anti social personality traits
(32:10):
like deception, minimization, and rule breaking that lie beneath that
positive surface.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, one
more time, say it? What is it?
Speaker 15 (32:19):
You still struggle with anti social personality traits like deception, minimization,
and rule breaking that lie beneath that positive surface.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Yeah, those are all red flags that women are really
attracted to.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Am I wrong? Yes? I just love it. He doesn't
care about the rules and he lies to me a.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Lot Jesus perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I love him. He'll never give me the emotional fulfillment
I need. He's perfect.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
You do just for.
Speaker 15 (32:57):
His brother Eric, a different parole board, but the same decision. Thursday,
audio obtained through a public records request by Eyewitness News
and ABC News shedding light on the moment parole was
denied for Eric. Based on the legal standards and evidence considered,
we find that you continue to pose an un reasonable
list to public safety and are not singable. At this time,
both brothers had been serving life in prison without the
(33:19):
possibility of parole for the nineteen eighty nine murders of
their parents, Jose and Kitty, who Eric and Lyle claimed
sexually abuse them. Are resentencing this past may, making way
for their possible release. The group some nature of their crime,
specifically Kitty's murder, a key factor in the three year
parole denials for both men and des brothers. Eric asked
about the crime while making his case for freedom Thursday.
Speaker 16 (33:41):
My focus was Dad's coming to my room. I can't
let Dad come to my room. And Lyle said, you know, stand,
it's happening now, and I knew what that meant. And
we were about to die now and I told them
my guns in my room, and I ran to my
room to get the gun. All I knew is that
(34:03):
I got to get to that den. Fear was driving
me to that den and rage the idea that Dad
was going to come to my room. Dad was going
to come to my room.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And rat me that night.
Speaker 16 (34:19):
That was going to happen one way or another, if
he was alive or or that was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Wow, it's powerful, But I think the parole Board doesn't
really want to hear the defense again, right. Parole board
wants to hear that you take responsibility for your actions.
And at least that's what I garnered from watching Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You get the feeling that.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
The parole Board was never going to let these guys out,
not this time around anyway, and so they denied both
of them, but for different reasons. Sounds like sounds like
this was sort of retrofitting in dis that was already made.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Uh yeah, And Nathan hawkmen very happy with the results
from kykl Well.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I certainly respect.
Speaker 17 (35:08):
The Menendez families, passioned their commitment to the Menendez brothers
and the fact that they want them out, and when
the Parole board looked at the facts and the law
of this particular case. They determined I believe quite correctly
that the Menenda's brothers were not ready for parole at
this time.
Speaker 18 (35:24):
Shortly after taking office, Hawkman made clear his opposition to
the Menendez brothers push for freedom. Their parole hearings were
the closest they've come to freedom since being sentenced to
life in prison for killing their parents in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
The brothers will.
Speaker 18 (35:38):
Have to wait for at least three years for another
chance of freedom, but the Parole Commissioner floated the possibility
that Lyle Menendez could get a hearing in eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Any think these guys have felt because everything's been delayed, delayed, delayed,
right we thought it was going to happen last year,
and then we had an election, and then Hawkman didn't
want to do it right away, and everything is delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed.
And oh and then I think the fires happened. I
think that was another reason things got delayed. And finally
they get their parole hearing almost a year after they
(36:08):
thought they were going to get their parole hearing, and
then they get no denied. What a roller coaster of hope.
Those guys have been on. What a wild ride. And now, oh,
it'll be three years, except you le you might only
be eighteen months. I bet they're minding their p's and
(36:31):
q's for the next eighteen to thirty six months. So
I bet they were watching it very carefully. All Right,
America is investing in America. As long as you promise
to give some money over to America. I'll tell you
how that shakes out next time. Chris Merril KFI AM
six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. You're
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