September 8, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 1- Chris is poor but what are you doing with you lottery winnings. PLUS the law makers, the law breakers, and the time there ought to be a law including a burglar getting shot. It's all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I didn't even Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more
stimulating talk. I'm at the uh the Faria studios tonight
and I literally lost my internet just a.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Second ago, and it popped back up, Kayla, it popped
back up.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Look at that. I think it's gonna be a great show.
Usually you have us scrambling around.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sam is talking. I just sent you a text. I
was like, I lost my internet. Sam's talking to me
down the line, and he says, as soon as it reconnected,
he I just hear you're up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh off we go. Whoo baby. That's about as close
as they get. I like that. That, yeah, I like that.
So it was very disappointed today. Did you have your
lottery ticket?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No? Okay, but I'm going to get one.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Is it too late?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Two people want somebody in misery and somebody else in
the field, Republic of Texas or splitting the one point
eight billion dollar jackpot.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I was so close.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know you were. You were this close.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Uh And I'm in the I'm in the the KFI
pool too, and I thought, you know what's gonna happen?
Is uh, and it's it's a problem I'm willing to
take on because I'll have the money to pay the lawyers.
But what's gonna happen is I'm gonna buy my own
ticket separately. I'm gonna win, and then everybody at KFI
is gonna assume me and they're gonna say, well, you're
part of the lottery club and this ticket you got
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on the side, that shouldn't you know, that should be
part of ours too.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That's why I'm not a part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I see, because you're just avoiding lawsuits.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You don't want to lose friends over this kind of Yeah,
I love you, I get it. Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, the power ball is d u and the.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Near record one point eight billion dollar jackpot will not
be growing. For Monday's powerball drawing, two tickets matched all
five numbers and the powerball. Neither of them were in California.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
But there are still some lucky winners in the Golden
State who five numbers. Those tickets were purchased in Tahatchipee
and Dublin and are worth half a million.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Dollars.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
I'm sorry one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Excuse me.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, that jackpot, worth one point eight billion dollars, remains
the second largest prize in US lottery history. The big
winning tickets were sold in Missouri and Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Those winning numbers, yeah, you don't care about the numbers
because you didn't win. The biggest kind of a statistical
anomaly is that all the largest jackpots were going mostly
to California winners. It was like the you know, I
don't know, something ridiculous, like five out of the top
ten biggest jackpots had gone to California lottery players, and
so there's oh.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The fixes in o'h come on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We also got like ten percent of the world of
the nation's population is here too, so it you know,
it kind of stands for recent but I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
People want to look at California, but like they cheated
me out of something. I started doing the I started
doing the math on this, and then I stopped because
I'm bad at my half. But if I were worth
a crap at this, I would take and I would
look at the annuity versus the lump sum payout, and
I did. I did some Baning on this earlier, and
(03:11):
what Bing told me was, I don't know, You're gonna
have to figure it out. It was the worst answer
I'd ever gotten. I thought that AI was supposed to
give me a clear cut answer. So I was thinking
about if if you were to win the lottery, Oh,
let's make this our talkback too. If you're listening on
the app, just go ahead and hit that talkback button.
Let me know, if you want a massive lotto jackpot,
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would you take the lump sum or the annuity?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And then obviously why or why not? But hm.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So my thought was that if I won, what if
I took the because everybody says if you take the
lump sum, then you can invest it and you could
make more money in the long run than what you
would take in the lump sum. The idea is the
lump sum was about half of what the total payout is.
So if you won one point eight billion, you get
paid out roughly nine hundred million. It's a little bit
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like that, but we're gonna make maths simple. So then
you got nine hundred million dollars in your pocket. Boop,
there you go. Now, if you invested that in the
stock market, then at the end of thirty years, which
is how long the annuity would pay out, that you
would have more than one point eight million dollars or
one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In fact, you would have substantially more if you made
wise investments. But then I got to think it, Right,
But if I'm investing all of it, I'm not really
spending it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What if I got an annuity and.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Then I took like the first year payout would have
been something like twenty million dollars, then it goes up
every year, and then your final year payout is something
like eighty five million dollars or whatever. And the thought
is that the lump sum is what it would take
for the lottery to invest that money to be able
to pay you out.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What if I took the annuity and the first year
I got my twenty million dollar payout, but I took
five million dollars that and I went and I did whatever,
you know, bought like a two bedroom place somewhere in
LA which is about what five million dollars would get you.
And then I took the other fifteen million dollars and
I invested that. Excuse me, and then the next year
(05:05):
I get like twenty one million dollars and I were
to take you know, five million out of that and
invest the other sixteen million, Like if I were to
if I were to continually contribute and get the payout
and have the annuity pay me the one point eight
billion dollars over the course of thirty years, would I
be better off.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In the long run. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Again, I got confused, and I got angry at being
for not giving me an easy answer. I didn't get
into a stem field because I'm not good at these
sorts of things. But I got I was thinking very
seriously that maybe the annuity would be the way to go.
But it's thirty years in order to get all your money,
and I don't know that I'm going to be around
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for thirty more years. So I'm forty seven and a
half now. You didn't even wish me happy birthday, Kayla.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, I thought, after a certain age didn't matter anymore.
Pop Pop, I thought, after maybe forties, you're good to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I had my very merry half birthday a couple
of weeks ago, and you said nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, or happy birthday, Chris half birthday oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And so at forty seven and a half and thirty years,
I mean, I'd be seventy seven and a half and
I don't know that I would be able to enjoy
all of that money. So obviously the lump sum. But
then somebody said to me, well, if it's an annuity,
it wouldn't pay out to the rest of your family,
you know, that would be it. If you died at
like fifty five, then that would And I look that
(06:27):
up and that's not true. So if you get the annuity,
it would go to your estate or your kids or
whatever else. Which I don't like that either, because my
kids are gonna waste it on crap and probably become
drug addicts, because that's what happens when people win the lottery,
they just become drug addicts. And I don't want to
see that happen either, So that concerns me. If anyone's
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gonna win the lottery and become a drug addict, it's
going to be me, and I don't want my children
to do that. I did see too, did you hapen
to catch the study earlier this week that came out
that said that seventy percent of people said that they
believed the American dream that if you work hard that
you get ahead no longer holds true or it never did.
Seventy percent of people say that the achieving the American
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dream is can't do it, which is why we're all
playing the lottery. So I'm in on that. Republicans were
less pessimistic than Democrats going to the Wall Street Journal survey,
reflecting the long standing trend that the party that holds
the White House has a rosier view of the economy,
An index of combined six Poole questions found that fifty
five percent of Republicans and ninety percent of Democrats hold
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a negative view of prospects for themselves and for their children.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Quick Survey survey says, kay, let will you achieve the
American dream?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, good? Yeah? Will your children be able to achieve
the American dream?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, because you are a millennial who doesn't have children, exactly,
Right's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah, we're in a no kid zone, none of that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm pretty pessimistic myself, and I was pessimistic during the
Biden administration on pessimids during the Trump administration, I'm pretty
pessimistic in general.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I will say though really quick. I was in an
uber one night and I was down talking the American.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Dream because the guy came over to.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
The guy came over from I believe Jamaica or something,
and he was just saying, how negative I am because
the American dream is real, and I would know if
I was living in another country, Like He's like, I
can be anything in this world and I have the
opportunity for that, and you speaking down on it, like
that's not that's not a reality.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You should be grateful. And I was like, sir, just
take me home.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But I guess he makes I guess you made you know,
good points.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, perspective is everything. But I also think that his
perspective is that he is living the dream of whatever
country he came from. Like he's he's he's out kicked
the coverage for whatever those expectations were. Our expectations have
always been different for the last four or five generations.
Our expectations have been single family income, could raise a
family of four, uh you know, uh with a with
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a three bedroom, two bath house, white picket fence, dog
and two cars in the garage.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Right, So it's a little bit different, I think than yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Again, shut up, Uber. Nobody asked me. All right, more
fallout from the fires. We got some fire aftermath, including
one legendary business that may not come back.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Chris Merril kfi AM six forty were live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (09:26):
Can you imagine the bill handle tent.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's a big top Chris Merril kfi AM six forty
more stimulating talk. Had a strange dream last night, quick aside,
I had a strange dream last night. I dreamt that
I was having dinner and I showed up alone, of course,
and I walked in and Tim Conway Junior was there
(09:49):
with Mark Thompson and they were having dinner. But Mark
was he was headed out, and I sat down. I
was like, ah, I Tim, you know, because I've always
wanted Tim to be like my friend, and he he's
not really interesting that he tells me, you know, five
hundred yards pal. And so that was said. But then
I look over and Howard Stern was sitting there and
he was having dinner and and he joined us, and.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Then Danny McBride was there, and then he joined us,
and I thought, I'm very poor. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's just what crossed my mind. I thought, these guys
are all very successful and I'm very poor.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A bunch of legends, and then Chris, I love.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It good, Jim. That was it. That was it. Got
nothing else. It was a complete aside. Nothing to go
with that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sad news out of Malibu sounds like we've got some
businesses that are having some difficulty rebuilding, including the Real
Inn restaurant Allisates.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Fire destroyed a unique pocket of historical businesses the Tapega
Canyon Boulevard and Pacificific Coast Highway on the eastern edge
of Malibu, the Topega Ranch Motel, Wiley's Bait and Tackle,
Chilada Tie, Rosenthal Wine Bar, and the Real In Food
restaurant that's fed surfers and tourists for nearly forty years.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
When I'd got to fix. Of course, we're could go
to Wiley's Bait and Tackle. It's a lot of tie
all the time to get some curry, some bad tie.
But I mean really in was like my spot, Like
That's where I'd always go for clamp jowder.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
After that guy is so Malibu, isn't he. He's like, yeah, man,
I go get some bad time to love that dude.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Today the chill the LEDWP is using the land which
is owned by California State Parks, which recently informed the
destroyed businesses their leases are canceled and they can't rebuildo
catastrophic property loss associated with the Palisades fire. DPR has
regretfully determined that it will not continue to lease this site.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
State Parks at some point would go, look, we're remodeling
the whole place down there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
These guys have got good press.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Why don't we.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
Lean in with them and do something cool. Yeah, and
let's do it sooner than later, because it'll make it
look like we're getting things going down here. And the
phone not only didn't ring, but we got that letter
two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I could not agree with his sentiment. More huge missed
opportunity pr opportunity.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
The Real Inn says it would be too expensive to
operate what they had at another location. Leasing from the
State Park allowed them to offer high quality seafood at
a reasonable price.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, you can't afford anything. Out, can't afford a lease anywhere.
Nod He's got money for that.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
It's a snake chomping on its own tail. Because the
Real Inn wouldn't be as old school funky fish shack
if it didn't have that handicap on the property, because
if that were a plate glass and aluminum restaurant, you'd
be paying forty dollars for a piece of fish because
you'd be paying for the real estate and the building.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To tell me when you hear the lie.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Because it was in those circumstances we were able to
do what we did and people fell in love with
it because that's the way it used to be.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
The state has offered the reel in nearby land for
a food truck, but oder Andy Leonard says it's a
bad location with no sewer, no running water, and he'd
have to bid on it.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
The same thing's gonna happen like that happened with the
penger rant. It's gonna sit empty for years. So at
least let these people just open back up, get back
to work. I mean, these people are out of jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's terrible in Malibu. Josh Haskell ABC seven Eye with
his snooze. Why does it feel like doing the right
thing is so hard now? Right? I mean, isn't the
right thing? Let the let the place rebuild. You know,
fire comes through and we keep hearing from the politician,
we will rebuild. You know, we're l A strong, Pallisades strong,
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whatever it is, Altadena strong, whatever, and and then you oh, yeah,
but now.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That the fires come through, we've decided no, no, no, Well,
now that you know, we don't really know what caused that,
but there could be something else that could happen, and
we're just not gonna renew the lease.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, we've got government entities that are getting in the
way of l A strong. We are, we are stepping
on our own feet and for what. And I'm sure
I understand that there's a perspective. I'm sure that the
lease wasn't canceled without some thought. I just feel like
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the decision that they made was all about something on
a ledger, and the ledger doesn't take into account some
of the human aspects. And I think that's part.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Of the problem that we run into so many times
when it comes to all of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We go there is human loss here, there is.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Something, there is something deeply ingrained in the community, and
that doesn't pencil out.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's something that we're not putting into our our what
do you call that? The tea chart?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, the pros and the cons. We're not adding that.
We're not waiting those different sides.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is a pro?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It matters to the community. Okay, it matters community. That's
one point. No, it matters to the community. That's a
thousand points. And there could be some liability.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's one point on your con side, right and I
we're not waiting that. That tea chart, you know what
I mean. But when I say that, Kayla, you know
you you create a chart and you're on on the
left side is gonna be your pros and on the
on the right side is your cons of course, and
you yeah, okay, So for instance, let me give you it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
For instance, Cayla and I were just talking off the air.
You know, I had a little vacation last week. My
wife and I did some traveling, and she's like, you know,
you know, you weren't here for us last week. Uh,
and you suck. And I totally get that.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And I love doing this show. But on my t
square it was like, spend some quality time with my
wife or uh, do the show?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love? What quality time with my wife? Out weighs?
Do the show? I love?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's not a one for one, you understand. And so
I think when they're putting together this this, well, should
we lease the land of these businesses? It's not a
one for one, it's a what does it matter to
the community.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's important. It's important.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
If everything comes down to a chart that way, we
wouldn't have things like public transportation. Public transportation doesn't pay
for itself. It's an economic loser.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, but it's important for the community. It's important to
allow people the ability to travel. Okay, so you're waiting
that heavier. Why don't we wait things more heavily when
it comes to rebuilding these legendary businesses, we don't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Meanwhile, when it comes.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
To the fire that we think so cal Edison, cause
now we don't know for sure, sounds like the DJ
is getting involved.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
We believe that the evidence is clear that Edison is
at fault, and by their own admissions, no one else
is at fault.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Acting US Attorney Bill is Saley announced to civil it's
from kekeout lawsuits.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Against Addison seeking nearly eighty million dollars in damages from
the Eton.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And the twenty twenty two Fairview wildfires.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
This number only represents the damage to the United States government.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
That's just what the government claims that they're own. They've
got the lawyers to be able to afford all these lawsuits.
Everybody else is in a class action, so trying to
get some sort of a settlement out of it. But
the government goes, yeah, but we want eighty million dollars
on our own, separate from anything else. Yeah, it must
be nice. Uh oh, so cal Edison looks like you're
gonna have to buy some lottery tickets and maybe lay
off that avocado toast.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It is our intention.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's Southern California Edison. The company itself and not the
rate payers will bear the burden of these costs.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All that pause time. I mean, if so Cal Edison
has to pay these things, who's gonna pay it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's not coming out of their not coming out of
their their profit column. It's it's going to be passed
on to rate payers. That's how all these fires work.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh there was a bad fire PG and E was responsible.
What are we gonna do. We have to raise rates.
Let's go to the Public Utilities Commission.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, you know, we have to raise rates because we
burned down we burned down towns. And they go yeah, wow,
what else can you do? Yah rubber stamp? So in
the government's suing so Cal Edison. Who's gonna pay for that?
It's either we pay for it because we're the taxpayers
and it's the government property that got damaged, or we
pay for it because we're the rate payers. And the
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power companies never pay for anything. They pass it on
to the rate payers. So one way or another, whenever
you see a fire, it's costing you money.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just know that. Boy, I am pessimistic today, aren't they.
I'm grumpy for a guy that had dinner with some
pretty major celebrities in my dream. You think I'd be
a happier fellow. How about the lawmakers, the law breakers
at the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
That's next LA Law. Chris Merrill, I am six forty.
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It's the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, and the times that there
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ought to be a law. We'll start with the LAPD
because they've decided no longer does the VEEP need their protection.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think it was more of a mayor old decision.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Justin and Los Angeles police are no longer providing protection
for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Just days ago, President
Trump ordered her Secret Service protection be pulled. California Highway
Patrol stepped in, along with specialized units from the LAPD's
Metropolitan Division. In a statement, LA Mayor Karen Bass said
the LAPD's role was always.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Meant to be temporary.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Before leaving office, former President Biden extended Harris's protection for
eighteen months, rather than the usual six months for a
vice president. President Trump then canceled that order. Yeah, so
why did why did we ever feel the need to
step up?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It just didn't make any sense. Look normalist. Six months
he extended it, Trump canceled it. Whatever people wanted to
make this political, it's not. It's not just who cares?
Why should we pay for it? We shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So enough of that. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh, we've got a decent amount of ice related stories today.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But what happens if there is no ice? Is that
just meet? Indeed, from ABC.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Seven, a woman who claimed she was kidnapped by ice
agents is now facing serious federal charges. Forty one year
old Yuriana Palayis called their own, is charged with conspiracy
and making false statements to federal officers. Prosecutor say the
undocumented woman from South LA made up the story that
she was kidnapped, held hostage, and abused by immigration officers.
An attorney for the family held a press conference with
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the story, and a GoFundMe page was set up called
rown Pleading not guilty. If she's convicted, she faces up
to ten years in federal prison.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, and then deport it. Why would you call attention
to yourself? Really, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh? I was I was kidnapped and I was beaten
and I was held it. No, dummy, Now everybody just
knows you're here without the documents, and now you are
going away. That's the matter with people. You might you
might liveing in just world of dumb?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is that what's happening right now? I just don't get it.
I just don't get it. Another story, Kayla. Here, this
may have been your driver.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Remember you had a driver that was correcting you on
the American Dream and you were like, just take me
to my location.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Southern California left driver recently captured on video and alleged
assault by seemingly intoxicated passengers who who rassed and kicked
him during a ride and questioned who let him in
the country?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Kila? Where were you? Yeah? Was this you?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You said your you said your driver was was furner?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Uh, I plead the fifth Can I talk to my lawyer?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Or yeah, that's probably a good idea. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Lyft driver picked up two women who requested a ride
from a restaurant Newport Beach. First, Uh they excuse me,
The driver identified himself to the news.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Outlet only as uh ting.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's how you say it, t I n H, and
I apologize if I am mispronouncing that, uh Ting said.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The women reeked of alcohol and at times slurred the words. Yeah.
That definitely sounds like kila.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Jesus, that's it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah. Anyway, they got they got all who let you
in here? Get out of the country kind of you.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Know, pbeah.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Classy people.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Classy people got no problems with this southern California man
opening fire on burglars in his home Inland Empire. Let
me see alta Mesa Avenue to ten a m Wednesday, morning,
guy heard a noise in another bedroom. According to San
Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, two people were in the other bedroom.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The man grabbed the handgun.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Chased them through the house, firing off rounds toward the suspects.
Suspects exited the resident and boy, this is cop talk,
isn't it. The suspects exited the residents and fled the
scene before deputies arrived. It's unknown if either f suspect
was hit by rounds. Okay, so guy, I go shooting
the people who are breaking into his house. Whenever we
have arguments over firearms and gun control and all that stuff,
(23:38):
you always hear somebody's like.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I have to have for my protection. This is why,
like this is.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So many people get wrapped up in the gun controlled
debate because we have some moron that takes a firearm
to a school, right, And then others are like, wait,
you can't take my guns away.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And many of those people they're like, well, I need
it for protection, do you other?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or you're gonna go out into the desert and shoot
can because I don't think you need it for that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But I do think that this is reasonable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I don't think it's unreasonable to say I do want
to have a firearm to protect my home. I just
don't think we have a lot of I think there are.
I shouldn't say that we have too many irresponsible gun
owners and that's a tragedy. If more people would be responsible,
we would have this argument. How's that for a late
breaking deep thoughts on gun control. Yep, you're welcome, great job.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Was he with the talkbacks?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Have to say? Yeah, I can't wait for that. Yeah.
Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Speaking on the talkback, I questioned it, if you want
a massive lotto jackpot, would you take the lump sum
or an annuity?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Why or why not?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We didn't win it, by the way, it was somebody
in Texas and somebody else in Missouri. They split it
and so we didn't win it. But that doesn't mean
you won't win the next one. So start thinking now.
I also got to thinking, who am I calling? Because
the first cloth you should make is to an attorney. UH,
make photo copies of your of your your lotto ticket,
and then you take the original ticket and you put
(25:06):
it in like a fireproof SA for a safety deposit
box or somebody of that sort, and then you take
these copies, and you keep the copies elsewhere so that
you have evidence that you had it so somebody else
can't claim that, hey, you stole it from me.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then you you.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Call an attorney. But how do you even pick that attorney?
I went to the internet. There's all kinds attorneys. I
want to be your attorney if you won the lottery.
I don't know if I even trust them.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That scares me. Uh all right? From the talkbacks, this
is what pertaining to the last segment, the Kayla.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yep, that's the one. Yeah, last segment.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Were they mad about the houses burning down?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Actually like you, they agree with what you made.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, Chaka, Yeah, yeah, I love it. Chris, You're absolutely right.
We're gonna pay for it no matter what. I don't
just eat it. We're all gonna pay for it. Yeah,
you're a hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, Because the DJ is suing, so CALLATIS and they're like, hey,
you started that fire. And the d o J says
shouldn't be up to the rate payers to have to
pay for this, So cal Edison is the is the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They should have to pay for it? Well, it's we're
paying for it one way or another. So cal Edison
is gonna go, oh man, we gotta do with all
these lawsuits, and they're gonna go to Public Utilities Commission.
They're gonna go, well, what are we gonna do? I mean,
we're gonna have to We're have to padd all these lawsuits.
And if we do that, you know, we could go bankrupt.
And then what We're gonna shut all the power off.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
The CPUC is gonna go, oh boy, you're right, okay,
raise those rates. Of course they are dopes. Why am
I so crabby tonight, Kiala, that's.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Every night, Chris, No, it's not. I'm sorry. No, today
is crazy. What's wrong with you? Are you going?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about a nice how about a nice palate cleanser?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, I'm gonna give you a pallet cleanser. I'm gonna
tell you why we don't deserve dogs. Wait what, Yes,
we don't deserve dogs. We're not good enough for them.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That is next. Chris Meryl canf I am six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. That is work.
We're here to let you know. Chris Meryl CAMF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
More stimulating talk and on demand any time on the
iHeartRadio app or talking about question if you want a
massive lotto jackpot, would you take the lump sum or
the annuity?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Why or why not? Because I think my opinion has changed.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
On this, oh from the beginning of the show, so
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, just in general, because I've always said In fact,
I was reading on the internets too, they said, well,
you know, you take the lump sum, that way you
can invest it and you end up with more money.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You have to have financial literacy to be able to
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Though that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I feel like if you have enough money, you can
pay somebody that has financial literacy. But they do make
a point that if you screw it up and you
take the lump sum and let's say, you go, oh man,
I'm gonna put this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
In crypto and then lose it all, you're out where
is it fair?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
One?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Right exactly, And nobody wants that, Whereas if you get
the annuity, it's like giving yourself an allowance.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So even if you screw it up.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
One of the articles I was reading said that, you know,
for a lot of people, it may take four or
five years to figure out how to be rich and uh,
and then you know then you're getting then your annuity
is coming in and you go, Okay, now I know
how to handle this much money.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I thought that was a really interesting take. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm kind of I'm kind of on team annuity right now,
except I just don't think I would live long enough
to see all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That would be my only hang up.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Then your kids and your wife will get it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I want my kids to have it. I don't want
them to.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Have it, Okay, because if I if it took me
a long time to figure out how to be rich,
they'd never figure it out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I don't want my wife to have it.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I don't want to what kids have it? Oh, it
makes sense, I asked me. Put it that way.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I would give them an allowance ten dollars a week. Chris, Yes,
tell me to learn how to be responsible with money.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Are terrible? Are they?
Speaker 10 (28:51):
Now?
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Is this isn't it?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I'm gonna take the Warren Buffett approach and be like,
you're gonna have to make your own Look at me,
I'm a self made bill millionaires.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's time for you to step up and show me
what you got. That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yep, let's talk about dogs, because they're great, although some
people are not so great with their dogs. I'm not
going to hold the dog responsible for this one. I'm
going to hold the lady responsible because, uh, this is
this was an interesting take on voter fraud.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Tanaia custom Mesa woman.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
From Fox eleven.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Tania custom Mesa woman is accused of registering her dog
to vote and then casting mail in ballots. Prosecutors say
sixty two year old Laura Lee Yorex used her dog
Maya to vote in the twenty twenty one recall election.
A twenty twenty two ballot was rejected, but investigators found
social posts showing the ballot and an I Voted sticker.
(29:55):
She down faces five felonies in up to six years
in prison.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Okay, it's a lot to unpack here, not the least
of which is they didn't tell us who the dog
voted for. Don't post your voter fraud on social media, right.
I think that's the first, probably the first lesson we're
going to take away here is that if you are
committing voter fraud, don't brag about it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It's a good way to get caught. I want to
know who the dog voted for. Also, that's my question, how.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Do the dog sign the mail in ballot to the
dog like a pawprint? Because I'm all in on that.
I saw a sign last year. It was my favorite
political sign and it might be the only sign I
would ever put in my yard.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And it was not mine.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I wish it were, but I loved it and it
said vote dogs twenty twenty four because people suck, and
I thought, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Just I mean, what is it? What is it? What's
the dog ever done to bring about war? Nothing? So
I had vote dogs. I have other stories that are
not quite so I'm trying to figure out timing on this.
You got time, Well, I'm trying to think, do I
want a sad dog story before I cap it with
the good dog story. I just want to take more
time with a good dog story.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, no, it's too sat and then end on a
higher note.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Okay, okay, all right. So LA Animal Services are trying
to get dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Adopted, but there are critics that are saying this is
not a great way to get dogs adopted, it's a
great way to get dogs euthanized.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
This pup's case is an example of LA Animal Services
new transfer initiative, moving dogs who've been in one shelter
more than three months into a different one in hopes
of boosting their chances that adoption.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
This is place.
Speaker 14 (31:37):
He has been at the West LA shelter for eight months,
and he is also being transferred.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
To It's designed to increase the pup's exposure to new
potential forever homes.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But also normally I would call out the reporter for
referring to an adult dog as a pup, but I
fully condone it.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Normally A very critical of these things, but I fully
condone this one. Yes, it's always a pup, It's always
my baby.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Keewers, volunteers and advocates say it's a terrible idea.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
Even if you do get new eyes on them, they're
going to be looking at a stressed dog that no
one at that shelter knows anything about. No one can
advocate for that dog.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh she was.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Scott Astrov with Animal Rescue Mission says dogs need time, patience,
and familiar faces to really open up.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
She argues that moving.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Them wipes away that progress and sets them back.
Speaker 14 (32:23):
You're moving a dog that has volunteer staff that are
familiar with that dog, that have trained that dog. That
dog now is comfortable, and you know, isn't a place
where they can get adopted. And now you're going to
move that dog to another shelter. It's going to get
stressed out. No one there can advocate for him because
they just met him, and they are factually putting these
(32:43):
dogs on kill us right away.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Ah no, I like the obligatory dog barking side effect.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
She and other critics are now sounding the alarm on
social media.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
These dogs are going to be in an unfamiliar place.
They are going to expert against fear anxiety. Stressed the
number one reason our city shelters kill dogs.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
In an email sent out to volunteers and staff representatives,
insists the goal is to get more eyes on overlooked pets. Yeah,
the rescuers like Astrov say, it's just downright wrong.
Speaker 14 (33:14):
Aside from being so cruel to the dogs, it's so
cruel to these saints that are dedicating their lives to.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
These dogs, all volunteers or the saints. Oh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It makes me sad, it breaks my heart, but then
well you really want to bring tears my eye imagine
that something horrible happened to you.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Would your dog care. My current dog would not care.
My current dog would care if something happen to my
wife would not care. If anything, the dog would be like,
Dad's not come with that. That's cool. I have a treat.
But I've had dogs that are very loyal. In one case,
an owner is lost and the dog is beside us.
Speaker 15 (34:00):
Story of Unconditional it's from NBCLA did a nice job
on this one.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Love.
Speaker 15 (34:04):
A man is killed in a hit and run in
South LA.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
He's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It is a little weird how they're like, oh, what
a wonderful story. Let's start with the hit and run.
No hang on.
Speaker 15 (34:13):
Story of Unconditional Love. A man is killed in a
hit and run in South LA. His loyal dog just
sits right by his side for hours as police investigate. Now,
for the first time, we are hearing from the man
who stepped in to save that dog from being turned
over to a shelter. And Alex CHOI and his beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Dog Join us lived, Join us Live right now. I
had a little feedback there, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Maybe you saw the photos of this where the guy's
getting the dog's just laying there.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Police stap all around. The dog is just lying by
his side. Oh heartbreaking.
Speaker 15 (34:48):
Thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate
you getting here. First of all, tell me you were
on scene, so you saw this and you saw how
distressed he was.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
Really sad. It was really really sad, and you didn't
want to leave the owner his body. I had to
pull him on some forest to get him away from him.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It was pretty sad, and he was crying.
Speaker 12 (35:07):
He was whining and howling. Like the whole way home,
he was howling and whining. When I got to my house.
He wasn't eating food, he wasn't drinking water. Oh, like
he probably thought I was kidnapping him. Yeah, yeah, I
don't think he realized that his like owner.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (35:23):
But since you've had him, Alex, you've seen a tremendous change.
Tell me he's a sweet pup, isn't he.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Yeah? No, it only took me like four or five
days to for him to get loyal to me. I
take him on walks now he I don't have to
pull him on a leash. Actually, I took him on
a walk like three days ago, and like took the
leash off and he follows.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
He just follows you around. Yeah, you're literally making me
want to cry here.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I know that's what I'm saying. Like I feel all
the other dog stories, this one just made me weep.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I can't imagine my dog going through that.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
No, no harm about I care about my dog, right, Yeah,
it's okay, but not my I don't want my dog. Granted,
I don't want to go because I got fear of
missing out. You know, I'd hate to hate to miss
out of whatever is ahead, and you know, obviously the
rest of my my lotto innuity payments. But I would
feel horrible about what my dog would experience.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But this guy adopted the dog too. He was on
scene and he adopted the dog, and he says, just
fantastic dog. The people, so many great dogs in those shelters.
Just have have a gander. Have a gander our best.
We don't deserve them, all. Right, we'll check, we've got
the news come out up here with Eileen, and then
(36:41):
we'll check on traffic as well, and I'll get your
thoughts on I know, I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna
try to buy you a couple of seconds here. Uh
and then oh this will this will dry you rise.
We're gonna argue over immigration, because why not, That's what
we do.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Chris Merrill. Kay if I am six forty, We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to KFI a
M six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I didn't even Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more
stimulating talk. I'm at the uh the Faria studios tonight
and I literally lost my internet just a.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Second ago, and it popped back up, Kayla, it popped
back up.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Look at that. I think it's gonna be a great show.
Usually you have us scrambling around.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sam is talking. I just sent you a text. I
was like, I lost my internet. Sam's talking to me
down the line, and he says, as soon as it reconnected,
he I just hear you're up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh off we go. Whoo baby. That's about as close
as they get. I like that. That, yeah, I like that.
So it was very disappointed today. Did you have your
lottery ticket?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No? Okay, but I'm going to get one.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Is it too late?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Two people want somebody in misery and somebody else in
the field, Republic of Texas or splitting the one point
eight billion dollar jackpot.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I was so close.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know you were. You were this close.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Uh And I'm in the I'm in the the KFI
pool too, and I thought, you know what's gonna happen?
Is uh, and it's it's a problem I'm willing to
take on because I'll have the money to pay the lawyers.
But what's gonna happen is I'm gonna buy my own
ticket separately. I'm gonna win, and then everybody at KFI
is gonna assume me and they're gonna say, well, you're
part of the lottery club and this ticket you got
(01:27):
on the side, that shouldn't you know, that should be
part of ours too.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That's why I'm not a part of it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I see, because you're just avoiding lawsuits.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You don't want to lose friends over this kind of Yeah,
I love you, I get it. Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, the power ball is d u and the.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Near record one point eight billion dollar jackpot will not
be growing. For Monday's powerball drawing, two tickets matched all
five numbers and the powerball. Neither of them were in California.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
But there are still some lucky winners in the Golden
State who five numbers. Those tickets were purchased in Tahatchipee
and Dublin and are worth half a million.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Dollars.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
I'm sorry one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Excuse me.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yeah, that jackpot, worth one point eight billion dollars, remains
the second largest prize in US lottery history. The big
winning tickets were sold in Missouri and Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Those winning numbers, yeah, you don't care about the numbers
because you didn't win. The biggest kind of a statistical
anomaly is that all the largest jackpots were going mostly
to California winners. It was like the you know, I
don't know, something ridiculous, like five out of the top
ten biggest jackpots had gone to California lottery players, and
so there's oh.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The fixes in o'h come on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We also got like ten percent of the world of
the nation's population is here too, so it you know,
it kind of stands for recent but I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
People want to look at California, but like they cheated
me out of something. I started doing the I started
doing the math on this, and then I stopped because
I'm bad at my half. But if I were worth
a crap at this, I would take and I would
look at the annuity versus the lump sum payout, and
I did. I did some Baning on this earlier, and
(03:11):
what Bing told me was, I don't know, You're gonna
have to figure it out. It was the worst answer
I'd ever gotten. I thought that AI was supposed to
give me a clear cut answer. So I was thinking
about if if you were to win the lottery, Oh,
let's make this our talkback too. If you're listening on
the app, just go ahead and hit that talkback button.
Let me know, if you want a massive lotto jackpot,
(03:31):
would you take the lump sum or the annuity?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And then obviously why or why not? But hm.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So my thought was that if I won, what if
I took the because everybody says if you take the
lump sum, then you can invest it and you could
make more money in the long run than what you
would take in the lump sum. The idea is the
lump sum was about half of what the total payout is.
So if you won one point eight billion, you get
paid out roughly nine hundred million. It's a little bit
(03:59):
like that, but we're gonna make maths simple. So then
you got nine hundred million dollars in your pocket. Boop,
there you go. Now, if you invested that in the
stock market, then at the end of thirty years, which
is how long the annuity would pay out, that you
would have more than one point eight million dollars or
one point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In fact, you would have substantially more if you made
wise investments. But then I got to think it, Right,
But if I'm investing all of it, I'm not really
spending it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What if I got an annuity and.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Then I took like the first year payout would have
been something like twenty million dollars, then it goes up
every year, and then your final year payout is something
like eighty five million dollars or whatever. And the thought
is that the lump sum is what it would take
for the lottery to invest that money to be able
to pay you out.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What if I took the annuity and the first year
I got my twenty million dollar payout, but I took
five million dollars that and I went and I did whatever,
you know, bought like a two bedroom place somewhere in
LA which is about what five million dollars would get you.
And then I took the other fifteen million dollars and
I invested that. Excuse me, and then the next year
(05:05):
I get like twenty one million dollars and I were
to take you know, five million out of that and
invest the other sixteen million, Like if I were to
if I were to continually contribute and get the payout
and have the annuity pay me the one point eight
billion dollars over the course of thirty years, would I
be better off.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
In the long run. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Again, I got confused, and I got angry at being
for not giving me an easy answer. I didn't get
into a stem field because I'm not good at these
sorts of things. But I got I was thinking very
seriously that maybe the annuity would be the way to go.
But it's thirty years in order to get all your money,
and I don't know that I'm going to be around
(05:46):
for thirty more years. So I'm forty seven and a
half now. You didn't even wish me happy birthday, Kayla.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, I thought, after a certain age didn't matter anymore.
Pop Pop, I thought, after maybe forties, you're good to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I had my very merry half birthday a couple
of weeks ago, and you said nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Well, or happy birthday, Chris half birthday oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And so at forty seven and a half and thirty years,
I mean, I'd be seventy seven and a half and
I don't know that I would be able to enjoy
all of that money. So obviously the lump sum. But
then somebody said to me, well, if it's an annuity,
it wouldn't pay out to the rest of your family,
you know, that would be it. If you died at
like fifty five, then that would And I look that
(06:27):
up and that's not true. So if you get the annuity,
it would go to your estate or your kids or
whatever else. Which I don't like that either, because my
kids are gonna waste it on crap and probably become
drug addicts, because that's what happens when people win the lottery,
they just become drug addicts. And I don't want to
see that happen either, So that concerns me. If anyone's
(06:47):
gonna win the lottery and become a drug addict, it's
going to be me, and I don't want my children
to do that. I did see too, did you hapen
to catch the study earlier this week that came out
that said that seventy percent of people said that they
believed the American dream that if you work hard that
you get ahead no longer holds true or it never did.
Seventy percent of people say that the achieving the American
(07:08):
dream is can't do it, which is why we're all
playing the lottery. So I'm in on that. Republicans were
less pessimistic than Democrats going to the Wall Street Journal survey,
reflecting the long standing trend that the party that holds
the White House has a rosier view of the economy,
An index of combined six Poole questions found that fifty
five percent of Republicans and ninety percent of Democrats hold
(07:31):
a negative view of prospects for themselves and for their children.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Quick Survey survey says, kay, let will you achieve the
American dream?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, good? Yeah? Will your children be able to achieve
the American dream?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, because you are a millennial who doesn't have children, exactly,
Right's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah, we're in a no kid zone, none of that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm pretty pessimistic myself, and I was pessimistic during the
Biden administration on pessimids during the Trump administration, I'm pretty
pessimistic in general.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I will say though really quick. I was in an
uber one night and I was down talking the American.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Dream because the guy came over to.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
The guy came over from I believe Jamaica or something,
and he was just saying, how negative I am because
the American dream is real, and I would know if
I was living in another country, Like He's like, I
can be anything in this world and I have the
opportunity for that, and you speaking down on it, like
that's not that's not a reality.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You should be grateful. And I was like, sir, just
take me home.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But I guess he makes I guess you made you know,
good points.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, perspective is everything. But I also think that his
perspective is that he is living the dream of whatever
country he came from. Like he's he's he's out kicked
the coverage for whatever those expectations were. Our expectations have
always been different for the last four or five generations.
Our expectations have been single family income, could raise a
family of four, uh you know, uh with a with
(08:58):
a three bedroom, two bath house, white picket fence, dog
and two cars in the garage.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Right, So it's a little bit different, I think than yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Again, shut up, Uber. Nobody asked me. All right, more
fallout from the fires. We got some fire aftermath, including
one legendary business that may not come back.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That is next.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Chris Merril kfi AM six forty were live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Can you imagine the bill handle tent.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's a big top Chris Merril kfi AM six forty
more stimulating talk. Had a strange dream last night, quick aside,
I had a strange dream last night. I dreamt that
I was having dinner and I showed up alone, of course,
and I walked in and Tim Conway Junior was there
(09:49):
with Mark Thompson and they were having dinner. But Mark
was he was headed out, and I sat down. I
was like, ah, I Tim, you know, because I've always
wanted Tim to be like my friend, and he he's
not really interesting that he tells me, you know, five
hundred yards pal. And so that was said. But then
I look over and Howard Stern was sitting there and
he was having dinner and and he joined us, and.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Then Danny McBride was there, and then he joined us,
and I thought, I'm very poor. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's just what crossed my mind. I thought, these guys
are all very successful and I'm very poor.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
A bunch of legends, and then Chris, I love.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It good, Jim. That was it. That was it. Got
nothing else. It was a complete aside. Nothing to go
with that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sad news out of Malibu sounds like we've got some
businesses that are having some difficulty rebuilding, including the Real
Inn restaurant Allisates.
Speaker 9 (10:44):
Fire destroyed a unique pocket of historical businesses the Tapega
Canyon Boulevard and Pacificific Coast Highway on the eastern edge
of Malibu, the Topega Ranch Motel, Wiley's Bait and Tackle,
Chilada Tie, Rosenthal Wine Bar, and the Real In Food
restaurant that's fed surfers and tourists for nearly forty years.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
When I'd got to fix. Of course, we're could go
to Wiley's Bait and Tackle. It's a lot of tie
all the time to get some curry, some bad tie.
But I mean really in was like my spot, Like
That's where I'd always go for clamp jowder.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
After that guy is so Malibu, isn't he. He's like, yeah, man,
I go get some bad time to love that dude.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Today the chill the LEDWP is using the land which
is owned by California State Parks, which recently informed the
destroyed businesses their leases are canceled and they can't rebuildo
catastrophic property loss associated with the Palisades fire. DPR has
regretfully determined that it will not continue to lease this site.
Speaker 11 (11:49):
State Parks at some point would go, look, we're remodeling
the whole place down there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
These guys have got good press.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Why don't we.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
Lean in with them and do something cool. Yeah, and
let's do it sooner than later, because it'll make it
look like we're getting things going down here. And the
phone not only didn't ring, but we got that letter
two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I could not agree with his sentiment. More huge missed
opportunity pr opportunity.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
The Real Inn says it would be too expensive to
operate what they had at another location. Leasing from the
State Park allowed them to offer high quality seafood at
a reasonable price.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, you can't afford anything. Out, can't afford a lease anywhere.
Nod He's got money for that.
Speaker 11 (12:31):
It's a snake chomping on its own tail. Because the
Real Inn wouldn't be as old school funky fish shack
if it didn't have that handicap on the property, because
if that were a plate glass and aluminum restaurant, you'd
be paying forty dollars for a piece of fish because
you'd be paying for the real estate and the building.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To tell me when you hear the lie.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Because it was in those circumstances we were able to
do what we did and people fell in love with
it because that's the way it used to be.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
The state has offered the reel in nearby land for
a food truck, but oder Andy Leonard says it's a
bad location with no sewer, no running water, and he'd
have to bid on it.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
The same thing's gonna happen like that happened with the
penger rant. It's gonna sit empty for years. So at
least let these people just open back up, get back
to work. I mean, these people are out of jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's terrible in Malibu. Josh Haskell ABC seven Eye with
his snooze. Why does it feel like doing the right
thing is so hard now? Right? I mean, isn't the
right thing? Let the let the place rebuild. You know,
fire comes through and we keep hearing from the politician,
we will rebuild. You know, we're l A strong, Pallisades strong,
(13:42):
whatever it is, Altadena strong, whatever, and and then you oh, yeah,
but now.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That the fires come through, we've decided no, no, no, Well,
now that you know, we don't really know what caused that,
but there could be something else that could happen, and
we're just not gonna renew the lease.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, we've got government entities that are getting in the
way of l A strong. We are, we are stepping
on our own feet and for what. And I'm sure
I understand that there's a perspective. I'm sure that the
lease wasn't canceled without some thought. I just feel like
(14:22):
the decision that they made was all about something on
a ledger, and the ledger doesn't take into account some
of the human aspects. And I think that's part.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Of the problem that we run into so many times
when it comes to all of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We go there is human loss here, there is.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Something, there is something deeply ingrained in the community, and
that doesn't pencil out.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's something that we're not putting into our our what
do you call that? The tea chart?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Right, the pros and the cons. We're not adding that.
We're not waiting those different sides.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
What is a pro?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It matters to the community. Okay, it matters community. That's
one point. No, it matters to the community. That's a
thousand points. And there could be some liability.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's one point on your con side, right and I
we're not waiting that. That tea chart, you know what
I mean. But when I say that, Kayla, you know
you you create a chart and you're on on the
left side is gonna be your pros and on the
on the right side is your cons of course, and
you yeah, okay, So for instance, let me give you it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
For instance, Cayla and I were just talking off the air.
You know, I had a little vacation last week. My
wife and I did some traveling, and she's like, you know,
you know, you weren't here for us last week. Uh,
and you suck. And I totally get that.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And I love doing this show. But on my t
square it was like, spend some quality time with my
wife or uh, do the show?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I love? What quality time with my wife? Out weighs?
Do the show? I love?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's not a one for one, you understand. And so
I think when they're putting together this this, well, should
we lease the land of these businesses? It's not a
one for one, it's a what does it matter to
the community.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
It's important. It's important.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
If everything comes down to a chart that way, we
wouldn't have things like public transportation. Public transportation doesn't pay
for itself. It's an economic loser.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But here we go.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, but it's important for the community. It's important to
allow people the ability to travel. Okay, so you're waiting
that heavier. Why don't we wait things more heavily when
it comes to rebuilding these legendary businesses, we don't do it.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Meanwhile, when it comes.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
To the fire that we think so cal Edison, cause
now we don't know for sure, sounds like the DJ
is getting involved.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
We believe that the evidence is clear that Edison is
at fault, and by their own admissions, no one else
is at fault.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Acting US Attorney Bill is Saley announced to civil it's
from kekeout lawsuits.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Against Addison seeking nearly eighty million dollars in damages from
the Eton.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And the twenty twenty two Fairview wildfires.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
This number only represents the damage to the United States government.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
That's just what the government claims that they're own. They've
got the lawyers to be able to afford all these lawsuits.
Everybody else is in a class action, so trying to
get some sort of a settlement out of it. But
the government goes, yeah, but we want eighty million dollars
on our own, separate from anything else. Yeah, it must
be nice. Uh oh, so cal Edison looks like you're
gonna have to buy some lottery tickets and maybe lay
off that avocado toast.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It is our intention.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's Southern California Edison. The company itself and not the
rate payers will bear the burden of these costs.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All that pause time. I mean, if so Cal Edison
has to pay these things, who's gonna pay it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's not coming out of their not coming out of
their their profit column. It's it's going to be passed
on to rate payers. That's how all these fires work.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh there was a bad fire PG and E was responsible.
What are we gonna do. We have to raise rates.
Let's go to the Public Utilities Commission.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, you know, we have to raise rates because we
burned down we burned down towns. And they go yeah, wow,
what else can you do? Yah rubber stamp? So in
the government's suing so Cal Edison. Who's gonna pay for that?
It's either we pay for it because we're the taxpayers
and it's the government property that got damaged, or we
pay for it because we're the rate payers. And the
(18:29):
power companies never pay for anything. They pass it on
to the rate payers. So one way or another, whenever
you see a fire, it's costing you money.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just know that. Boy, I am pessimistic today, aren't they.
I'm grumpy for a guy that had dinner with some
pretty major celebrities in my dream. You think I'd be
a happier fellow. How about the lawmakers, the law breakers
at the times that there ought to be a law.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
That's next LA Law. Chris Merrill, I am six forty.
We are alive everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. You're listening
to KFI AM six forty on demand. Hi, good name
and Chris Maryland can if I am six forty more
stimulating talking on demand any time in the iHeartRadio app.
It's the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, and the times that there
(19:12):
ought to be a law. We'll start with the LAPD
because they've decided no longer does the VEEP need their protection.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think it was more of a mayor old decision.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Justin and Los Angeles police are no longer providing protection
for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Just days ago, President
Trump ordered her Secret Service protection be pulled. California Highway
Patrol stepped in, along with specialized units from the LAPD's
Metropolitan Division. In a statement, LA Mayor Karen Bass said
the LAPD's role was always.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Meant to be temporary.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Before leaving office, former President Biden extended Harris's protection for
eighteen months, rather than the usual six months for a
vice president. President Trump then canceled that order. Yeah, so
why did why did we ever feel the need to
step up?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It just didn't make any sense. Look normalist. Six months
he extended it, Trump canceled it. Whatever people wanted to
make this political, it's not. It's not just who cares?
Why should we pay for it? We shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So enough of that. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh, we've got a decent amount of ice related stories today.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But what happens if there is no ice? Is that
just meet? Indeed, from ABC.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Seven, a woman who claimed she was kidnapped by ice
agents is now facing serious federal charges. Forty one year
old Yuriana Palayis called their own, is charged with conspiracy
and making false statements to federal officers. Prosecutor say the
undocumented woman from South LA made up the story that
she was kidnapped, held hostage, and abused by immigration officers.
An attorney for the family held a press conference with
(21:02):
the story, and a GoFundMe page was set up called
rown Pleading not guilty. If she's convicted, she faces up
to ten years in federal prison.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, and then deport it. Why would you call attention
to yourself? Really, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh? I was I was kidnapped and I was beaten
and I was held it. No, dummy, Now everybody just
knows you're here without the documents, and now you are
going away. That's the matter with people. You might you
might liveing in just world of dumb?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is that what's happening right now? I just don't get it.
I just don't get it. Another story, Kayla. Here, this
may have been your driver.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Remember you had a driver that was correcting you on
the American Dream and you were like, just take me
to my location.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Southern California left driver recently captured on video and alleged
assault by seemingly intoxicated passengers who who rassed and kicked
him during a ride and questioned who let him in
the country?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Kila? Where were you? Yeah? Was this you?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You said your you said your driver was was furner?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Uh, I plead the fifth Can I talk to my lawyer?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Or yeah, that's probably a good idea. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Lyft driver picked up two women who requested a ride
from a restaurant Newport Beach. First, Uh they excuse me,
The driver identified himself to the news.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Outlet only as uh ting.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's how you say it, t I n H, and
I apologize if I am mispronouncing that, uh Ting said.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The women reeked of alcohol and at times slurred the words. Yeah.
That definitely sounds like kila.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Jesus, that's it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah. Anyway, they got they got all who let you
in here? Get out of the country kind of you.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Know, pbeah.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Classy people.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Classy people got no problems with this southern California man
opening fire on burglars in his home Inland Empire. Let
me see alta Mesa Avenue to ten a m Wednesday, morning,
guy heard a noise in another bedroom. According to San
Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, two people were in the other bedroom.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The man grabbed the handgun.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Chased them through the house, firing off rounds toward the suspects.
Suspects exited the resident and boy, this is cop talk,
isn't it. The suspects exited the residents and fled the
scene before deputies arrived. It's unknown if either f suspect
was hit by rounds. Okay, so guy, I go shooting
the people who are breaking into his house. Whenever we
have arguments over firearms and gun control and all that stuff,
(23:38):
you always hear somebody's like.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I have to have for my protection. This is why,
like this is.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So many people get wrapped up in the gun controlled
debate because we have some moron that takes a firearm
to a school, right, And then others are like, wait,
you can't take my guns away.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And many of those people they're like, well, I need
it for protection, do you other?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or you're gonna go out into the desert and shoot
can because I don't think you need it for that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But I do think that this is reasonable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I don't think it's unreasonable to say I do want
to have a firearm to protect my home. I just
don't think we have a lot of I think there are.
I shouldn't say that we have too many irresponsible gun
owners and that's a tragedy. If more people would be responsible,
we would have this argument. How's that for a late
breaking deep thoughts on gun control. Yep, you're welcome, great job.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Was he with the talkbacks?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Have to say? Yeah, I can't wait for that. Yeah.
Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Speaking on the talkback, I questioned it, if you want
a massive lotto jackpot, would you take the lump sum
or an annuity?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Why or why not?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We didn't win it, by the way, it was somebody
in Texas and somebody else in Missouri. They split it
and so we didn't win it. But that doesn't mean
you won't win the next one. So start thinking now.
I also got to thinking, who am I calling? Because
the first cloth you should make is to an attorney. UH,
make photo copies of your of your your lotto ticket,
and then you take the original ticket and you put
(25:06):
it in like a fireproof SA for a safety deposit
box or somebody of that sort, and then you take
these copies, and you keep the copies elsewhere so that
you have evidence that you had it so somebody else
can't claim that, hey, you stole it from me.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then you you.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Call an attorney. But how do you even pick that attorney?
I went to the internet. There's all kinds attorneys. I
want to be your attorney if you won the lottery.
I don't know if I even trust them.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That scares me. Uh all right? From the talkbacks, this
is what pertaining to the last segment, the Kayla.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yep, that's the one. Yeah, last segment.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Were they mad about the houses burning down?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Actually like you, they agree with what you made.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, Chaka, Yeah, yeah, I love it. Chris, You're absolutely right.
We're gonna pay for it no matter what. I don't
just eat it. We're all gonna pay for it. Yeah,
you're a hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, Because the DJ is suing, so CALLATIS and they're like, hey,
you started that fire. And the d o J says
shouldn't be up to the rate payers to have to
pay for this, So cal Edison is the is the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They should have to pay for it? Well, it's we're
paying for it one way or another. So cal Edison
is gonna go, oh man, we gotta do with all
these lawsuits, and they're gonna go to Public Utilities Commission.
They're gonna go, well, what are we gonna do? I mean,
we're gonna have to We're have to padd all these lawsuits.
And if we do that, you know, we could go bankrupt.
And then what We're gonna shut all the power off.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
The CPUC is gonna go, oh boy, you're right, okay,
raise those rates. Of course they are dopes. Why am
I so crabby tonight, Kiala, that's.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Every night, Chris, No, it's not. I'm sorry. No, today
is crazy. What's wrong with you? Are you going?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about a nice how about a nice palate cleanser?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, I'm gonna give you a pallet cleanser. I'm gonna
tell you why we don't deserve dogs. Wait what, Yes,
we don't deserve dogs. We're not good enough for them.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That is next. Chris Meryl canf I am six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. That is work.
We're here to let you know. Chris Meryl CAMF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
More stimulating talk and on demand any time on the
iHeartRadio app or talking about question if you want a
massive lotto jackpot, would you take the lump sum or
the annuity?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Why or why not? Because I think my opinion has changed.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
On this, oh from the beginning of the show, so
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, just in general, because I've always said In fact,
I was reading on the internets too, they said, well,
you know, you take the lump sum, that way you
can invest it and you end up with more money.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You have to have financial literacy to be able to
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Though that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I feel like if you have enough money, you can
pay somebody that has financial literacy. But they do make
a point that if you screw it up and you
take the lump sum and let's say, you go, oh man,
I'm gonna put this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
In crypto and then lose it all, you're out where
is it fair?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
One?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Right exactly, And nobody wants that, Whereas if you get
the annuity, it's like giving yourself an allowance.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So even if you screw it up.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
One of the articles I was reading said that, you know,
for a lot of people, it may take four or
five years to figure out how to be rich and uh,
and then you know then you're getting then your annuity
is coming in and you go, Okay, now I know
how to handle this much money.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I thought that was a really interesting take. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm kind of I'm kind of on team annuity right now,
except I just don't think I would live long enough
to see all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That would be my only hang up.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Then your kids and your wife will get it.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I want my kids to have it. I don't want
them to.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Have it, Okay, because if I if it took me
a long time to figure out how to be rich,
they'd never figure it out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I don't want my wife to have it.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I don't want to what kids have it? Oh, it
makes sense, I asked me. Put it that way.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I would give them an allowance ten dollars a week. Chris, Yes,
tell me to learn how to be responsible with money.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Are terrible? Are they?
Speaker 10 (28:51):
Now?
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Is this isn't it?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I'm gonna take the Warren Buffett approach and be like,
you're gonna have to make your own Look at me,
I'm a self made bill millionaires.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's time for you to step up and show me
what you got. That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yep, let's talk about dogs, because they're great, although some
people are not so great with their dogs. I'm not
going to hold the dog responsible for this one. I'm
going to hold the lady responsible because, uh, this is
this was an interesting take on voter fraud.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Tanaia custom Mesa woman.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
From Fox eleven.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Tania custom Mesa woman is accused of registering her dog
to vote and then casting mail in ballots. Prosecutors say
sixty two year old Laura Lee Yorex used her dog
Maya to vote in the twenty twenty one recall election.
A twenty twenty two ballot was rejected, but investigators found
social posts showing the ballot and an I Voted sticker.
(29:55):
She down faces five felonies in up to six years
in prison.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Okay, it's a lot to unpack here, not the least
of which is they didn't tell us who the dog
voted for. Don't post your voter fraud on social media, right.
I think that's the first, probably the first lesson we're
going to take away here is that if you are
committing voter fraud, don't brag about it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It's a good way to get caught. I want to
know who the dog voted for. Also, that's my question, how.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Do the dog sign the mail in ballot to the
dog like a pawprint? Because I'm all in on that.
I saw a sign last year. It was my favorite
political sign and it might be the only sign I
would ever put in my yard.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And it was not mine.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I wish it were, but I loved it and it
said vote dogs twenty twenty four because people suck, and
I thought, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Just I mean, what is it? What is it? What's
the dog ever done to bring about war? Nothing? So
I had vote dogs. I have other stories that are
not quite so I'm trying to figure out timing on this.
You got time, Well, I'm trying to think, do I
want a sad dog story before I cap it with
the good dog story. I just want to take more
time with a good dog story.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, no, it's too sat and then end on a
higher note.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Okay, okay, all right. So LA Animal Services are trying
to get dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Adopted, but there are critics that are saying this is
not a great way to get dogs adopted, it's a
great way to get dogs euthanized.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
This pup's case is an example of LA Animal Services
new transfer initiative, moving dogs who've been in one shelter
more than three months into a different one in hopes
of boosting their chances that adoption.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
This is place.
Speaker 14 (31:37):
He has been at the West LA shelter for eight months,
and he is also being transferred.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
To It's designed to increase the pup's exposure to new
potential forever homes.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But also normally I would call out the reporter for
referring to an adult dog as a pup, but I
fully condone it.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Normally A very critical of these things, but I fully
condone this one. Yes, it's always a pup, It's always
my baby.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Keewers, volunteers and advocates say it's a terrible idea.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
Even if you do get new eyes on them, they're
going to be looking at a stressed dog that no
one at that shelter knows anything about. No one can
advocate for that dog.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Oh she was.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Scott Astrov with Animal Rescue Mission says dogs need time, patience,
and familiar faces to really open up.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
She argues that moving.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Them wipes away that progress and sets them back.
Speaker 14 (32:23):
You're moving a dog that has volunteer staff that are
familiar with that dog, that have trained that dog. That
dog now is comfortable, and you know, isn't a place
where they can get adopted. And now you're going to
move that dog to another shelter. It's going to get
stressed out. No one there can advocate for him because
they just met him, and they are factually putting these
(32:43):
dogs on kill us right away.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Ah no, I like the obligatory dog barking side effect.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
She and other critics are now sounding the alarm on
social media.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
These dogs are going to be in an unfamiliar place.
They are going to expert against fear anxiety. Stressed the
number one reason our city shelters kill dogs.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
In an email sent out to volunteers and staff representatives,
insists the goal is to get more eyes on overlooked pets. Yeah,
the rescuers like Astrov say, it's just downright wrong.
Speaker 14 (33:14):
Aside from being so cruel to the dogs, it's so
cruel to these saints that are dedicating their lives to.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
These dogs, all volunteers or the saints. Oh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It makes me sad, it breaks my heart, but then
well you really want to bring tears my eye imagine
that something horrible happened to you.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Would your dog care. My current dog would not care.
My current dog would care if something happen to my
wife would not care. If anything, the dog would be like,
Dad's not come with that. That's cool. I have a treat.
But I've had dogs that are very loyal. In one case,
an owner is lost and the dog is beside us.
Speaker 15 (34:00):
Story of Unconditional it's from NBCLA did a nice job
on this one.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Love.
Speaker 15 (34:04):
A man is killed in a hit and run in
South LA.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
He's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It is a little weird how they're like, oh, what
a wonderful story. Let's start with the hit and run.
No hang on.
Speaker 15 (34:13):
Story of Unconditional Love. A man is killed in a
hit and run in South LA. His loyal dog just
sits right by his side for hours as police investigate. Now,
for the first time, we are hearing from the man
who stepped in to save that dog from being turned
over to a shelter. And Alex CHOI and his beautiful.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Dog Join us lived, Join us Live right now. I
had a little feedback there, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Maybe you saw the photos of this where the guy's
getting the dog's just laying there.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Police stap all around. The dog is just lying by
his side. Oh heartbreaking.
Speaker 15 (34:48):
Thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate
you getting here. First of all, tell me you were
on scene, so you saw this and you saw how
distressed he was.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
Really sad. It was really really sad, and you didn't
want to leave the owner his body. I had to
pull him on some forest to get him away from him.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
It was pretty sad, and he was crying.
Speaker 12 (35:07):
He was whining and howling. Like the whole way home,
he was howling and whining. When I got to my house.
He wasn't eating food, he wasn't drinking water. Oh, like
he probably thought I was kidnapping him. Yeah, yeah, I
don't think he realized that his like owner.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (35:23):
But since you've had him, Alex, you've seen a tremendous change.
Tell me he's a sweet pup, isn't he.
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Yeah? No, it only took me like four or five
days to for him to get loyal to me. I
take him on walks now he I don't have to
pull him on a leash. Actually, I took him on
a walk like three days ago, and like took the
leash off and he follows.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
He just follows you around. Yeah, you're literally making me
want to cry here.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I know that's what I'm saying. Like I feel all
the other dog stories, this one just made me weep.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I can't imagine my dog going through that.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
No, no harm about I care about my dog, right, Yeah,
it's okay, but not my I don't want my dog. Granted,
I don't want to go because I got fear of
missing out. You know, I'd hate to hate to miss
out of whatever is ahead, and you know, obviously the
rest of my my lotto innuity payments. But I would
feel horrible about what my dog would experience.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
But this guy adopted the dog too. He was on
scene and he adopted the dog, and he says, just
fantastic dog. The people, so many great dogs in those shelters.
Just have have a gander. Have a gander our best.
We don't deserve them, all. Right, we'll check, we've got
the news come out up here with Eileen, and then
(36:41):
we'll check on traffic as well, and I'll get your
thoughts on I know, I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna
try to buy you a couple of seconds here. Uh
and then oh this will this will dry you rise.
We're gonna argue over immigration, because why not, That's what
we do.
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