April 27, 2025 • 35 mins
A part of Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Pacific Palisades was closed due to mudslides from Saturday's showers. The highway was closed in a section from Carbon Beach Terrace to Coastline Drive, according to the LA County Sheriff's Department. If California were its own country, its economy would now rank as the fourth-largest of any nation across the globe, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, a new milestone that comes at a time of major economic turbulence. The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law. An "unprecedented" toxic algae bloom has overrun the coast of Southern California, sickening marine animals and staining the shoreline, according to marine scientists. The toxin it produces is domoic acid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, I can have Chris Merrill, can't my AM six forty.
Thank you very much to Justin Worsha. I'm always a
great show, very informative.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
And he answered my question.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Did you hear that, Kayla?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Did you hear him answer my question? How do I
get a good home warranty? You said you got to
call the rep. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I like that. I like that. That was good advice.
I liked that a lot. See good advice.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I didn't either. I've had I've had those.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've had those home warranties where they're just kind of
you know, I go, hey, my air conditioner isn't working,
and they go, oh yeah, well we'll we'll see if
we get somebody out there. And then they come out
and they do it the you know, the bare minimum
to get it working.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I hate that. So that was good. That was good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I really liked that. How about that rain? You see
you like that rain this week? And didn't you?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yees? Oh? Man? Is it nice getting a little rain?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh? I know, if you are in a fire prone area,
you did not like it. I get that, but I'm
not and I just love the rain. But hey, this
is California, so you got to say it. Yep, we
needed this, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
We needed that. Oh we needed that. You know. The
funny thing too, is that it doesn't matter where you live.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Andrew to be honest, because I lived in the Midwest
and we would get these torrential downpours, there'd be this
nasty flooding. I mean, you'd have rivers that were overrunning
their banks, and there would always be somebody in the
office that would say, well, the farmer sure needed this one.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Did they? Because I don't think they needed all their
crops drownded.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't think that was the top priority for them,
but I I guess, so, yeah, there it is. Meanwhile,
portions of PCH got shut down because mudslide sounds like
those are reopened.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kekel with the report.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
The barriers behind me just coming down. It's officially back
open this stretch of road on PCH from Carbon Canyon
Terrace to Sunset Boulevard, but only is back open to residents,
pass holders, and contractors. And already we've seen a lot
of traffic this morning here on Sunset and PCH Now.
(02:01):
Saturday's rain caused a mudslide and debris from the Palisades
burnscar to come down. The rain also flooding roads that
mess keeping everyone out and off this five mile stretch
of PCH. Much of the Coastal Highway has been closed
to the general public since January, and this latest closure
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causing more frustration.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
For residents and businesses in the area.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, the governor recently announcing that all of PCH is
set to reopen to everyone by the end of May,
but just one lane in each direction, and that can't
come soon enough for these Malibu business owners who are
just trying to recover from those January fives.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It'll be open the end of you think they're going
to make it. I don't know, one lane in each direction.
I mean I saw the dam. I haven't been there,
but I saw the damage. I mean, I stay away
from it because well, one, it's closed too. They don't
need me gawking at whatever's going on there. That's not
helping anything. I just kind of wonder are they gonna
make it by the by their goal here? The going
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to make one lane in each direction.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I'm hopeful, but I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And then how how busy is it gonna be because
one land in each direction. I get there's gonna be
a lot of people, especially in the first couple of weeks.
I want to go see, right, you're gonna have that,
and that's gonna be obnoxious. And I just think about
the traffic, and I hate traffic. Oh God. The older
I get, the more the more I become just a homebody.
(03:30):
I'm really considering. I'm really considering just the small cabin
in the hills of Idaho. I mean, how do I
say this without making myself sound like a serial killer. Uh,
there were some things about the unibomber I kind of got,
not the bombing part, but the whole isolation part.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I'm kind of with that. I'd like the isolation.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I'm not anti tech now, I'm not gonna you know,
but I understand the whole desire to just get away
from everything. I mean, look at how many people left
as soon as they could when the pandemic hit. They
could work remotely. Everybody goes to Idaho, seeing I'm not
the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, Kylle just sent me, you know, don't ever mention
younibomber again. Okay, all right, that's good, good programming. No cale,
Thank you very much, Thank you very helpful. Appreciate that. Meanwhile,
if you're in Alta Dina, I got bad news. You
may have gotten your property tax bill and you're thinking,
(04:30):
why am the world and why in the world am
I paying exorbitant California property taxes on a property that
has no house on it? Now it feels like it
feels like insult to injury. It feels like kicking you
while you're down right. I can't imagine how frustrated I
would be, and honest to God, if I'm somebody living
(04:51):
there and I don't have a place in Altadina. But
if I were and I lost my house and I
got a property tax bill, well, first of all, where
are you delivering it? I guess forwarding address? Second, how
interested am I in actually making that payment? If your
house isn't standing? Are you at all interested in saying,
(05:13):
oh yeah, let me go ahead and cut you that
check for thirty five hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm not so why are they sending these tax bills?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Very efforts continue across La County for those affected by
the palisades and eaten fires. And now homeowners are asking
county officials why they're receiving a property tax bill when
they have no home. So we spoke to the county
assessor about the confusion.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
People who may have totally lost their home may see
that the assessment still reflects fifty percent of taxes for
that property. That's because it represents the July first, twenty
twenty four until January seventh, twenty twenty five, for the
next fiscal year. If their property is totally destroyed, they'll
that will be zeroed out in the next in the
(05:57):
next cycle.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, so you got to pay your property tax on
the property that doesn't stand because it did stand when
it was being taxed. Okay, still feels like a raw deal.
I still wouldn't be all that eager to hurry up
and go pay that bill, would you. Hell, and I
want to pay my property taxes anyway, let alone pay
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them in a house it's no longer standing.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Not my favorite at all.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Every week we open up the talk back, we have
a story coming up a little bit later on on
the show, but I wanted to start getting your thoughts
on it now. Because views on spanking are shifting, most
US adults still support it, although worldwide fewer people do so.
Really easy question here on the talk back if you're
on the iHeartRadio app and just click on that little
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microphone icon that's our talk back and that allows you
to record a message and centered in. Remember there is
a time limit thirty seconds. If you go beyond that,
we'll mock you for not knowing how to end thirty seconds.
And the question is were you spanked as a kid
and did you spank yours? I feel like pretty simple one.
You want to get us rolling on this, Kayla, where
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you spanked as a child?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I got one?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Speaking Why just one? Because you were a good kid
and didn't deserve any others?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
No, I was the youngest of five, so I think
I had it pretty lenient by the time I came up.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh, like your parents' hands were sore.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, they were over it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
You know, they're a little bit more lenient when you
know they're in their late thirties early forties, they're like
more tolerant. Yeah, exactly exactly. But yeah, only one and
it was really soft. But I still cried extra hard
just to try to make my mom feel bad.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
She apologized.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I have a similar spanking story until later on here too.
It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I like, if I was crying, it's because they hurt
and I was scared. But my brother was more like you.
He would put out a show and then he would
laugh at it. He would laugh to me about it,
and I hated him for it, but he had a
good reason for putting on a show. We never never
had the handprints on his keister like I did, though,
(08:06):
So that's coming up a little bit later on the program.
I did want to make mention of this. We have
good news on the state of California. We're better than Japan.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Boom take that.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But India is nipping in our heels. You will find
out why that is next. Chris Merrill I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeart Radio app.
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You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
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And Kayla has just.
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Reminded me, thank you, Kaylea, that you can find the
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Speaker 2 (08:57):
So here we go, good news, California better than Japan.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Take that Japan boom.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
California we know growing as an economic powerhouse. It is
now the fourth largest economy in the world. Ranking comes
from reports by the International Monetary Fund and the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the statistics yesterday,
saying the reports put California's twenty twenty four gross domestic
product at four point one trillion dollars. That edges out Japan.
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California became the fifth largest economy in the world in
twenty eighteen. However, the Golden State is being challenged by India,
which is expected to overtake US next year.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, so watch out India's nipping at our heels.
A couple of things about the California economy that I
find interesting about, especially about this stat and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And I don't know if you've ever had the same
thought when we hear all of the dire news. Oh,
all these companies are leaving California. They're going to Texas,
they're going to Florida, whatever it is. California is losing
other workers, California's population is declining, and yet we continue
to surpass other countries when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Our own GDP.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We're producing more than everyone except Germany, and we're close China,
which has four and a half times as much as
we do, and then the United States as a whole,
which of course we account for a significant portion of
the US economy. Those are the only ones ahead of us.
So when we're the fourth largest economy, California can never
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be the first largest economy unless we secede, which I
know some people want to, but it's not happening. So
we will never be number one because we're part of
number one, so that can ever happen. So when I
hear all of these negative news stories about how terrible
everything is and about how everybody's leaving it, about how
it really puts into perspective how much.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The the news is about.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't want to say the clickbait and the news
isn't wrong, but the way that it's being framed feels
far more dire than it is. And the other example
of that is this when we talk about these tariffs
and how much it's ruining the country, and I hear
people saying the tariffs are going to ruin the country
and the United States, We're going to We're going to
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see the number one position in the global economy.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't I don't know even.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
If these tariffs are and I don't know how they're
gonna end up, and I don't know how they're gonna
wor out in the end. We've got a tariff expert
coming on here in a little over an hour. We're
gonna find out. But even if these tariffs are an
absolute disaster, even if they devastate our economy for a
short period of time, our economy will come back. It's
not as though the country is suddenly going to go broke.
(11:55):
For perspective, the US economy is over twenty nine trillion dollars,
and I know you're gonna go Well, that's not as
much as our debt. Don't worry about that stuff right now.
That's not the conversation. China's economy is shy of nineteen
trillion dollars, So we are one third larger our economy
is as a country than China's, Okay, our closest competitor. Now,
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suppose that these tariffs are devastating. Suppose that this protectionism
that we're that we're that we're flirting with makes it
so that our economy doesn't grow at all, China would
still have to pick up more than more than half
of what they already have. So as other countries are
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looking to cut deals with China, and there are there
are other countries looking to cut deals with China, China
may close the gap, but the idea that China is
going to overtake us in the near future feels alarmist
to me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
In the same way all of those stories about how California.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Is going down the tubes and our economy is sunk,
and look at all these companies that are leaving and
all this all this other news about how terrible everything
is for the California economy.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And I know for some of you, you're very conservative,
you don't like the politics of California, and you say, well,
yes it is, California is crap and California.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Is going down the tubes and it's but it's not.
It's not. And then the flip side of that is
for everyone.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That says all of these tariffs and what Trump is
doing to the economy, they're sinking us and we're we're
never going to recover, that's not true either. So be
careful when you start buying into the narratives from one
side or the other because they both cherry picked the
information that they want to alarm you the most. I know,
(13:46):
I'm talking like that mushy moderate everybody hates. I'm supposed
to just pound the table and scream like hell a.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Ight, oh Newsom's ruining everything. Trump is ruining everything. Oh uh.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Our question today on the talk back if you're listening
on the iHeartRadio app, if you had that microphone icon
that gives you a chance to leave us a message,
question is were you spanked as a kid and did
you spank yours? Globally, the trend of spanking is changing
in the United States, so still widely acceptable.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
My mother, God, rest her soul. He's to line us
all up with the yar stick for spanking.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Did she say light us up?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I think that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's awesome, Rest her soul.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Yeah, he's line ung up.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, but she said it very breath alone.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
Line us up, Oh, line us up, line us up
to light us up. Basically I thought she said light
us up too. She used to light us up.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
He used to line us up, okay, with the yar
stick for a spanking. And my brothers to this day
fifty years later. Have I always said we never spanked
me as hard as them, which is true because.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Like your parents, kle never spanked me as hard as because.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I was never the one who did it. It was
always them.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
Ah Ah that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Ah. I like that. All right? Were you spanked as
a kid? And did you spank your kids?
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And if you have great spanking.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Stories, I'd love to hear those too, all right, the lawmakers,
the law breakers, the times that there ought to be
a law. Next, Chris Merril, kfi AM six forty WeLive
everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand any.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Time on demand of the Iheartradiu app. Chris Merrill, canfi
AM six forty when you're on that app? Hit that
talkback but questioned our talk about question, Jenny, Were you
spanked as a kid?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Did you spank yours? I've got a story coming up
later on in the show.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You're gonna want to stick around for that because we're
finding out that views on spanking of shift did worldwide,
but most of us adults still support spanking their kids. So, uh, Tray,
did you h did you take a few swans from
your parents.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You get that, uh.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Little keister danc there. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah,
I'm gonna go ah, yeah, I did, all right?
Speaker 12 (16:21):
How about you, Hey, Chris, I'm sixty six and I
did get spanking. So when I was growing up, if
I missed behaved, and my mom would let me know
if I did when we were out, when I got home,
there was going to be a spanking.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And one man, was there anything worse than knowing that
you had a spanking when you got home?
Speaker 13 (16:43):
Woo?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That was torture. That's psychological warfare right there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
When they say when we get home, you're getting a spanking,
or the other one that I used to get too
is I'm gonna wait until we got home and I
tell your father what you've done.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh. Oh. The thing is my dad rarely bank does.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mom was the one who handed out the spankings, but boy,
something about dad finding out was just terrifying.
Speaker 12 (17:07):
And the once then so when Mom would give me
the look, but the fear in me that I knew
there were going to be consequences. So I definitely think
we all grew up with more respect and social etiquette
than I'd love to see the kids today have that
same respect and self confidence and have the fear of
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not misbehaving.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So the only thing that I'm going to take issue
with here because I don't disagree with what she says. However,
I would just caution you that there's a difference between
causation and correlation. So I don't know that spankings caused respect.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They coused fear.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I agree with you on that they did cost fear,
but I don't think fear is the same as respect.
I could also make the argument that when I was
growing up, all of the professional coaches wore suits on
the sidelines and on the on the courts. So do
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we have less respect because we don't see coaches wearing
suits at games any long?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Are you implying coaches should be spanked?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, That's what I've been saying for a very long time.
In fact, Uh, imagine if Bill Belichick had been spanked?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Would would uh? Would Tom Brady have ever left the Patriots?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And I think I think that the owner of the Patriots,
Robert Kraft, actually got caught asking someone to give him
a spanking.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Am I That's something different?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That was not That wasn't Oh that was okay, little more.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Anyway, it's curious were you spanked as a kid, and
did you spank yours?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And I uh, I'm gonna be one of those yes
and knowers. You'll find out why a little bit later on.
I had a bit of a challenge when I had
to do some parenting in the meantime, maybe some other
people that should have been spank the lawmakers, the lawbreakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
(19:18):
These guys said that they were abused, and that's why
they're in prison right now. The Menendez brothers are saying,
hey man, it's time for us to get our resentencing hearing.
The only reason we're not is because of that darn DA.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Begin with breaking news.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It is official.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Eric and Lylemanendez filed a motion to recuse LA District
Attorney Nathan Hawkman from their case, saying the DA has
a bias against them. The brothers are serving life in
prison for the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents
inside their Beverly Hills mansion. They're asking to be resentenced
in light of new evidence they say supports claims they
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were sexually abused by their father.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, I guess it's a little different. That's spaking fall.
Speaker 14 (20:00):
Former DA George Gascon moved to reduce the brother's sentence.
It would have made them immediately eligible for parole, but
after Hawkman took office, he withdrew the recommendation, saying the
brothers don't fit the criteria for resentencing. Earlier this month,
a judge ordered the resentencing hearings to continue, but after
a dramatic day in court, the judge paused the hearings
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until next month. Hawkman's office has not publicly responded to tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
All right, so dramatic, so dramatic, quick survey. Are the
Menendez brothers going to see freedom again?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Kayla?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, Rol, No, I don't think so, Andrew break the time, Okay.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Okay, you know, first off, if the Menanda's brothers did
what they did in today's world, yeah, it would be
really interesting to see the sentencing that they would get.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
So I'm going to say, based on where we are
as far as mental health awareness.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Goes relativity, Yes, what you're arguing, Yes, I I.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Think that the resentencing will it will be lightened. When
when it's all said and done, will they will they
get out before they kick it?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Yeah, you mean will they die in jail? I don't.
I don't anticipate they will. But that's just an opinion.
It's not what the facts are, all right.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, but it was well reasoned. It took a while,
but it was well reasoned.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Thanks on the news, like I have to, I have to,
you know, be correct about this.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I like that we can see your process. That's very good.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Meanwhile, there ought to be a law, and the law
ought to be those doggone librarian should stop peddling porn.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Campaign signs like this one have gone up throughout Huntington Beach.
The signs ask residents to vote no on Measures A
and B in the upcoming special election, and.
Speaker 16 (21:54):
The first thing you see before anything on that side
is the word porn.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, so is protect our kids from porn?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
No on A and B. By the way, the the
uh the font for from porn is the same size.
So if you see the word porn first, that's because
your mind goes there.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You don't even read what the sign is for or
what it's about. You just see the giant words porns.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, I do the same thing.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Some parents are outraged over conversations or forced to have
with their kids over the word porn.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I would say.
Speaker 16 (22:29):
The majority of children in Huntington Beach have their own
cell phones, and many of them, I was told by
their parents, went and googled the word porn.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh my gosh, they're using Google. Well, we've got to
We've got to break that whole search engine up. Oh
did I miss the point?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I did?
Speaker 11 (22:49):
And what shows up when you google the word porn?
Raoul Wells working with you, guys.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I just googled the word porn and HR is probably
going to be here in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Nope, I got your back. It was for research purposes
on air.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Only actual pornography.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Both initiatives center around the city's public libraries.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
If they pass A.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
Would eliminate a city council appointed review board that would
choose which books can be in the library.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, so the deal is that they have the city
council wants for their own chosen group to decide which
books are in the library, and they don't want librarians
to do it, and so Measures A and B protect
the librarians and the controls in the library literature that
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we've had for a very long time, and they're saying that, no,
if you let the librarians do it, it's going to
be nothing but porn.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
We have to stop the porn.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
B insures.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
Attempts to privatize the libraries are voted on by the public.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, and that's the other one. So the librarian gets
to pick the.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Books, and you can't privatize it as an end around
and then have some private company decide which books are
going to be there.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
The no signs are paid by a committee formed by
council member Chad Williams. He argues, explicit adult content it's
made available to kids at the libraries.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Hey, Kayla, have you uh have you been to the
library to find out if any of the stuff is available?
And if so, just so we know which aisles not
to send our kids down, would you mind just hold on,
hang on, I got it. I'm doing research as we speak.
(24:37):
I'm trying to figure out what the classification is. Okay,
So I'm looking at the Dewey decimal system here, and
anything under ninety nine is generalities. Philosophy is the one
hundred's religion, the two hundred social sciences, Natural science is
the five hundreds is that.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Where you put porn.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Because I'm looking the Dewey decimal system and it doesn't
say anything in here about pornography. Uh, there's classic literature?
Could it be under that?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That's the one, Yeah, for sure is the classic literature.
That's the one I realized. The older we get, the
more we turn into our parents.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Not necessarily individually, although the older I get, the more
I am becoming my father, but we are turning into
everything that we hated when we were kids. Generationally speaking,
For instance, if you were someone that was a teenager
in the nineteen seventies, you probably are quite familiar.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
With, right.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, Mulon Rouge was a great movie. Yeah, the Mulan
Rouge version, right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Christina Aguilera and Pink loved it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
The good The other thing is we probably need to
remove the books on French from the libraries too, because
translator that means will you sleep with me tonight? So
you got that going for you. But I mean fast forward,
think about when we got a little bit older.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Fortunately, as we got older and us jen xers stepped in,
we wouldn't put up.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
With such nonsense.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We didn't have the kind of filth we were far
more pure, with hits like the the Vinyls I Touched Myself,
George Michaels, I Want Your Sex. There was like a
prayer from Madonna, which was probably about Catholicism or something nice.
And Madonna had another one It seems like this one. Yeah,
(26:46):
I think that was about Madonna preserving her virginity.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Didn't didn't you guys have like the Baywatch years and
stuff too?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yes, they were fully closed.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh yeah, okay, and you probably met Aerosmith talked about
making love in an elevator. Not something so horrid is
when I'm sure these librarians are pushing, which I'm sure
has nothing to do with making love. And again, Andrew,
you don't remember this, Raoul. I'm talking to you because
you and I are the gen xers, right remember Two
Live Crew and the the family values they taught us
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when they discussed their desire for love, but they warded
it so eloquently, and they professed their wishes. Oh me
so horny, Oh me so horny. The kids these days,
they're just exposed to the filth. The filth Taylor from
from your time. You probably remember those hits that that
shaped you into the fine upstanding, virtuous person. You were
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like candy shop, crack City, my humps. We need, we need,
we need tipper core back, that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, wow, outstanding.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I'll explain to her in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Final question before we bounce here, what exactly was in
that milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard kill?
Speaker 10 (28:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Can you explain that one?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I cannot say it without Raoul being on the dump bucket?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But yeah? Well, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So we've got the powers that be at Huntington Beach
protecting our kids from porn.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
In the meantime, watch where you stemp when you're walking
on the beach, because that is the dead dolphin. Next,
Chris Merril, CAFI AM six forty relive everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
Chris Merril show if I Am six forty more stimulating talk,
undemand anytime in the iHeart Radio app. Always appreciate your feedback,
like when we talk about the libraries and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
You made it a little simple, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'm gonna take it as a complude. My job is
to simplify things.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
The library in Huntington Beach, in which I reside, it's
a little bit different than what you're ain't it to be?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, because I guess you got porn.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
And just to let you know, no longer do you
see that big word porn on any other signs that
has been cut out by whom I don't know, but
it's not on the signs anymore in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's kind of a colossal backfire, isn't it when you
put the word porn out there because you're trying to
stop people from looking at porn. It's kind of the
stressand effect. We don't want our kids to see porn. Hey, kids,
you don't want to see porn?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do you? And then the kids are like, what's porn? Yeah? Backfire?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Hey, Chris, that Madonna sounds sounds just like Billy Jean.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I think it's a ripoff from Billy Jean. Hold on, Raoul,
you are a DJ? Is that a rip off of
Billy Jean?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Not even close. It's not even interpolation.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Did you say interpolation?
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Yeah, not even close. All right, Oh that's a good one.
(30:18):
I can kind of hear what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Well, a similar tempo, that's about it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And it's got that same kind of uh, that heavy bassline.
So I mean, I I kind of see where he
gets that hold on. I mean, this is interesting to
(30:42):
me now. Dun dun dun dun dum dun dun dun
dun dun dun dum dun dun dun dunk.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I've made it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Through the wilderness.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm ready made it through.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I kind of hear it, guys, Nah, wouldn't hold up
in court.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I kind of hear maybe that's just the eighties sound,
but I kind.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Of exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yes, all right, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say
that he's that he's wrong though, because I never heard
it before.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I kind of hear it now, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Uh, if you are out for a nice long walk
on the beach, maybe you pick up your Tinder date
and you want to really impress them, make sure you
watch out for the dead seals and the dolphins.
Speaker 17 (31:32):
It's a heartbreaking scene playing on repeat all along the
southern California coast as dozens of dolphins are dying due
to the toxic algae bloom now stretching from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
It's the worst we've ever seen here in southern California.
Speaker 17 (31:46):
In the last week, there have been more than fifty
dead and dying dolphins found along the La County Coast
sixteen in San Diego on Sunday alone, fifty dead dolphins.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Dang, I love dolphins. They're my second favorite sea animal.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Well, what's the first?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Thank you? Otters? Love otters.
Speaker 17 (32:11):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom, which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking
beach goers, but now it's moving further up the food chain.
Researchers say the minky whale found in the Port of
Long Beach and a young gray whale and Huntington Beach
both died due to demoic acid toxicity degree from the
wildfires and fertilizer runoff, helping to fuel the toxic algae,
(32:31):
which is eaten by small fish, which are then eaten
by marine mammals and birds, causing a potentially deadly toxic overdose.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We should put a California warning on that. Has anyone
considered slapping a label on the toxic algae. That just
says Prop sixty five.
Speaker 17 (32:48):
While sea lions and birds can be saved, it is
one hundred percent fatal for dolphins.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
These populations are resilient and strong and can bounce back
things like this.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeh, well, none that they're dead.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I love those dolphins because otters are cuter. But again,
I appreciate you following up dolphins I think are friendlier.
Otters are way cuter. Yeah, that's that's it. What about
did you see that one that washed up in Ventura?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That whale.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
There's been a lot of whales washing up here lately,
but uh was this one an algae thing?
Speaker 16 (33:25):
Take a look a pretty disturbing site here in ventur
right along the beach.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
This is the third.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I love TV when they're like, take a look, very disturbing.
Let's just see how disturbing it is. Our camera man
got very close.
Speaker 16 (33:38):
Whale between here and Orange County to have washed up
in our region this year. So juvenile female humpback whale
that's washed up. Now, we are staying on this side
of it, but we do want to give you an
idea of just how big this girl is. We're staying
on the side because it's actually a pretty gruesome on
the other underside, which is why investigators aren't quite sure
what exactly happened here. They say on the underside there
(33:59):
is signs of trauma. There's signs that there was a
perhaps a run in with a boat. They also say
that there's.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wait a run in with the boat on the bottom
of the whale. I don't know how whales work, but
I don't know how they get their belly up on
a propeller.
Speaker 16 (34:13):
They also say that there are signs of entanglement in rope.
But they also are concerns about the toxic algae bloom
that the region has been.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Battling for weeks now.
Speaker 16 (34:22):
That toxic algae has been plaguing San Diego to Santa Barbara,
Key Lions killing dolphins.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Which are my second favorite sing animal.
Speaker 16 (34:31):
Killing whales. It's been confirmed and at least two different cases.
We still don't know what happened here. It's going to
take the results of a neck cropsy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
That's okay, all right, Let's not jump to conclusions here
and blame everything on the algae.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Huh. I think we got a little bit of an
algae hoax going on. Huh.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I think it's a we got the California flu here.
These whales had comorbidities. Let's stop blaming the algae for everything. Oh,
how do we know that dolphins didn't have comorbidities. We don't,
and nobody's doing their own research on that either. I'm
gonna go to YouTube and find out. In the meantime,
Andrew Caravella has news. We'll talk about judging immigration and
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how challenging that's become when the judges start harboring fugitives. Next,
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app, KFI
Speaker 1 (35:18):
AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, I can have Chris Merrill, can't my AM six forty.
Thank you very much to Justin Worsha. I'm always a
great show, very informative.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
And he answered my question.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Did you hear that, Kayla?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Did you hear him answer my question? How do I
get a good home warranty? You said you got to
call the rep. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I like that. I like that. That was good advice.
I liked that a lot. See good advice.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I didn't either. I've had I've had those.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've had those home warranties where they're just kind of
you know, I go, hey, my air conditioner isn't working,
and they go, oh yeah, well we'll we'll see if
we get somebody out there. And then they come out
and they do it the you know, the bare minimum
to get it working.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I hate that. So that was good. That was good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I really liked that. How about that rain? You see
you like that rain this week? And didn't you?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yees? Oh? Man? Is it nice getting a little rain?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh? I know, if you are in a fire prone area,
you did not like it. I get that, but I'm
not and I just love the rain. But hey, this
is California, so you got to say it. Yep, we
needed this, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
We needed that. Oh we needed that. You know. The
funny thing too, is that it doesn't matter where you live.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Andrew to be honest, because I lived in the Midwest
and we would get these torrential downpours, there'd be this
nasty flooding. I mean, you'd have rivers that were overrunning
their banks, and there would always be somebody in the
office that would say, well, the farmer sure needed this one.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Did they? Because I don't think they needed all their
crops drownded.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't think that was the top priority for them,
but I I guess, so, yeah, there it is. Meanwhile,
portions of PCH got shut down because mudslide sounds like
those are reopened.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kekel with the report.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
The barriers behind me just coming down. It's officially back
open this stretch of road on PCH from Carbon Canyon
Terrace to Sunset Boulevard, but only is back open to residents,
pass holders, and contractors. And already we've seen a lot
of traffic this morning here on Sunset and PCH Now.
(02:01):
Saturday's rain caused a mudslide and debris from the Palisades
burnscar to come down. The rain also flooding roads that
mess keeping everyone out and off this five mile stretch
of PCH. Much of the Coastal Highway has been closed
to the general public since January, and this latest closure
(02:22):
causing more frustration.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
For residents and businesses in the area.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, the governor recently announcing that all of PCH is
set to reopen to everyone by the end of May,
but just one lane in each direction, and that can't
come soon enough for these Malibu business owners who are
just trying to recover from those January fives.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It'll be open the end of you think they're going
to make it. I don't know, one lane in each direction.
I mean I saw the dam. I haven't been there,
but I saw the damage. I mean, I stay away
from it because well, one, it's closed too. They don't
need me gawking at whatever's going on there. That's not
helping anything. I just kind of wonder are they gonna
make it by the by their goal here? The going
(03:05):
to make one lane in each direction.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I'm hopeful, but I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And then how how busy is it gonna be because
one land in each direction. I get there's gonna be
a lot of people, especially in the first couple of weeks.
I want to go see, right, you're gonna have that,
and that's gonna be obnoxious. And I just think about
the traffic, and I hate traffic. Oh God. The older
I get, the more the more I become just a homebody.
(03:30):
I'm really considering. I'm really considering just the small cabin
in the hills of Idaho. I mean, how do I
say this without making myself sound like a serial killer. Uh,
there were some things about the unibomber I kind of got,
not the bombing part, but the whole isolation part.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I'm kind of with that. I'd like the isolation.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
No, I'm not anti tech now, I'm not gonna you know,
but I understand the whole desire to just get away
from everything. I mean, look at how many people left
as soon as they could when the pandemic hit. They
could work remotely. Everybody goes to Idaho, seeing I'm not
the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, Kylle just sent me, you know, don't ever mention
younibomber again. Okay, all right, that's good, good programming. No cale,
Thank you very much, Thank you very helpful. Appreciate that. Meanwhile,
if you're in Alta Dina, I got bad news. You
may have gotten your property tax bill and you're thinking,
(04:30):
why am the world and why in the world am
I paying exorbitant California property taxes on a property that
has no house on it? Now it feels like it
feels like insult to injury. It feels like kicking you
while you're down right. I can't imagine how frustrated I
would be, and honest to God, if I'm somebody living
(04:51):
there and I don't have a place in Altadina. But
if I were and I lost my house and I
got a property tax bill, well, first of all, where
are you delivering it? I guess forwarding address? Second, how
interested am I in actually making that payment? If your
house isn't standing? Are you at all interested in saying,
(05:13):
oh yeah, let me go ahead and cut you that
check for thirty five hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm not so why are they sending these tax bills?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Very efforts continue across La County for those affected by
the palisades and eaten fires. And now homeowners are asking
county officials why they're receiving a property tax bill when
they have no home. So we spoke to the county
assessor about the confusion.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
People who may have totally lost their home may see
that the assessment still reflects fifty percent of taxes for
that property. That's because it represents the July first, twenty
twenty four until January seventh, twenty twenty five, for the
next fiscal year. If their property is totally destroyed, they'll
that will be zeroed out in the next in the
(05:57):
next cycle.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, so you got to pay your property tax on
the property that doesn't stand because it did stand when
it was being taxed. Okay, still feels like a raw deal.
I still wouldn't be all that eager to hurry up
and go pay that bill, would you. Hell, and I
want to pay my property taxes anyway, let alone pay
(06:19):
them in a house it's no longer standing.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Not my favorite at all.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Every week we open up the talk back, we have
a story coming up a little bit later on on
the show, but I wanted to start getting your thoughts
on it now. Because views on spanking are shifting, most
US adults still support it, although worldwide fewer people do so.
Really easy question here on the talk back if you're
on the iHeartRadio app and just click on that little
(06:47):
microphone icon that's our talk back and that allows you
to record a message and centered in. Remember there is
a time limit thirty seconds. If you go beyond that,
we'll mock you for not knowing how to end thirty seconds.
And the question is were you spanked as a kid
and did you spank yours? I feel like pretty simple one.
You want to get us rolling on this, Kayla, where
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you spanked as a child?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I got one?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Speaking Why just one? Because you were a good kid
and didn't deserve any others?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
No, I was the youngest of five, so I think
I had it pretty lenient by the time I came up.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh, like your parents' hands were sore.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, they were over it.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
You know, they're a little bit more lenient when you
know they're in their late thirties early forties, they're like
more tolerant. Yeah, exactly exactly. But yeah, only one and
it was really soft. But I still cried extra hard
just to try to make my mom feel bad.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
She apologized.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I have a similar spanking story until later on here too.
It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I like, if I was crying, it's because they hurt
and I was scared. But my brother was more like you.
He would put out a show and then he would
laugh at it. He would laugh to me about it,
and I hated him for it, but he had a
good reason for putting on a show. We never never
had the handprints on his keister like I did, though,
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So that's coming up a little bit later on the program.
I did want to make mention of this. We have
good news on the state of California. We're better than Japan.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Boom take that.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But India is nipping in our heels. You will find
out why that is next. Chris Merrill I AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeart Radio app.
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And Kayla has just.
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Reminded me, thank you, Kaylea, that you can find the
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Speaker 2 (08:57):
So here we go, good news, California better than Japan.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Take that Japan boom.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
California we know growing as an economic powerhouse. It is
now the fourth largest economy in the world. Ranking comes
from reports by the International Monetary Fund and the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the statistics yesterday,
saying the reports put California's twenty twenty four gross domestic
product at four point one trillion dollars. That edges out Japan.
(09:30):
California became the fifth largest economy in the world in
twenty eighteen. However, the Golden State is being challenged by India,
which is expected to overtake US next year.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
All right, so watch out India's nipping at our heels.
A couple of things about the California economy that I
find interesting about, especially about this stat and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Follow me.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And I don't know if you've ever had the same
thought when we hear all of the dire news. Oh,
all these companies are leaving California. They're going to Texas,
they're going to Florida, whatever it is. California is losing
other workers, California's population is declining, and yet we continue
to surpass other countries when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Our own GDP.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
We're producing more than everyone except Germany, and we're close China,
which has four and a half times as much as
we do, and then the United States as a whole,
which of course we account for a significant portion of
the US economy. Those are the only ones ahead of us.
So when we're the fourth largest economy, California can never
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be the first largest economy unless we secede, which I
know some people want to, but it's not happening. So
we will never be number one because we're part of
number one, so that can ever happen. So when I
hear all of these negative news stories about how terrible
everything is and about how everybody's leaving it, about how
it really puts into perspective how much.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The the news is about.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't want to say the clickbait and the news
isn't wrong, but the way that it's being framed feels
far more dire than it is. And the other example
of that is this when we talk about these tariffs
and how much it's ruining the country, and I hear
people saying the tariffs are going to ruin the country
and the United States, We're going to We're going to
(11:25):
see the number one position in the global economy.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't I don't know even.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
If these tariffs are and I don't know how they're
gonna end up, and I don't know how they're gonna
wor out in the end. We've got a tariff expert
coming on here in a little over an hour. We're
gonna find out. But even if these tariffs are an
absolute disaster, even if they devastate our economy for a
short period of time, our economy will come back. It's
not as though the country is suddenly going to go broke.
(11:55):
For perspective, the US economy is over twenty nine trillion dollars,
and I know you're gonna go Well, that's not as
much as our debt. Don't worry about that stuff right now.
That's not the conversation. China's economy is shy of nineteen
trillion dollars, So we are one third larger our economy
is as a country than China's, Okay, our closest competitor. Now,
(12:18):
suppose that these tariffs are devastating. Suppose that this protectionism
that we're that we're that we're flirting with makes it
so that our economy doesn't grow at all, China would
still have to pick up more than more than half
of what they already have. So as other countries are
(12:39):
looking to cut deals with China, and there are there
are other countries looking to cut deals with China, China
may close the gap, but the idea that China is
going to overtake us in the near future feels alarmist
to me.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
In the same way all of those stories about how California.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Is going down the tubes and our economy is sunk,
and look at all these companies that are leaving and
all this all this other news about how terrible everything
is for the California economy.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And I know for some of you, you're very conservative,
you don't like the politics of California, and you say, well,
yes it is, California is crap and California.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Is going down the tubes and it's but it's not.
It's not. And then the flip side of that is
for everyone.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
That says all of these tariffs and what Trump is
doing to the economy, they're sinking us and we're we're
never going to recover, that's not true either. So be
careful when you start buying into the narratives from one
side or the other because they both cherry picked the
information that they want to alarm you the most. I know,
(13:46):
I'm talking like that mushy moderate everybody hates. I'm supposed
to just pound the table and scream like hell a.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Ight, oh Newsom's ruining everything. Trump is ruining everything. Oh uh.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Our question today on the talk back if you're listening
on the iHeartRadio app, if you had that microphone icon
that gives you a chance to leave us a message,
question is were you spanked as a kid and did
you spank yours? Globally, the trend of spanking is changing
in the United States, so still widely acceptable.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
My mother, God, rest her soul. He's to line us
all up with the yar stick for spanking.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Did she say light us up?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I think that's what she said.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's awesome, Rest her soul.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Yeah, he's line ung up.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, but she said it very breath alone.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
Line us up, Oh, line us up, line us up
to light us up. Basically I thought she said light
us up too. She used to light us up.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
He used to line us up, okay, with the yar
stick for a spanking. And my brothers to this day
fifty years later. Have I always said we never spanked
me as hard as them, which is true because.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Like your parents, kle never spanked me as hard as because.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
I was never the one who did it. It was
always them.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
Ah Ah that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Ah. I like that. All right? Were you spanked as
a kid? And did you spank your kids?
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And if you have great spanking.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Stories, I'd love to hear those too, all right, the lawmakers,
the law breakers, the times that there ought to be
a law. Next, Chris Merril, kfi AM six forty WeLive
everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand any.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Time on demand of the Iheartradiu app. Chris Merrill, canfi
AM six forty when you're on that app? Hit that
talkback but questioned our talk about question, Jenny, Were you
spanked as a kid?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Did you spank yours? I've got a story coming up
later on in the show.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You're gonna want to stick around for that because we're
finding out that views on spanking of shift did worldwide,
but most of us adults still support spanking their kids. So, uh, Tray,
did you h did you take a few swans from
your parents.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You get that, uh.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Little keister danc there. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah,
I'm gonna go ah, yeah, I did, all right?
Speaker 12 (16:21):
How about you, Hey, Chris, I'm sixty six and I
did get spanking. So when I was growing up, if
I missed behaved, and my mom would let me know
if I did when we were out, when I got home,
there was going to be a spanking.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And one man, was there anything worse than knowing that
you had a spanking when you got home?
Speaker 13 (16:43):
Woo?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That was torture. That's psychological warfare right there.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
When they say when we get home, you're getting a spanking,
or the other one that I used to get too
is I'm gonna wait until we got home and I
tell your father what you've done.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh. Oh. The thing is my dad rarely bank does.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mom was the one who handed out the spankings, but boy,
something about dad finding out was just terrifying.
Speaker 12 (17:07):
And the once then so when Mom would give me
the look, but the fear in me that I knew
there were going to be consequences. So I definitely think
we all grew up with more respect and social etiquette
than I'd love to see the kids today have that
same respect and self confidence and have the fear of
(17:29):
not misbehaving.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So the only thing that I'm going to take issue
with here because I don't disagree with what she says. However,
I would just caution you that there's a difference between
causation and correlation. So I don't know that spankings caused respect.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They coused fear.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I agree with you on that they did cost fear,
but I don't think fear is the same as respect.
I could also make the argument that when I was
growing up, all of the professional coaches wore suits on
the sidelines and on the on the courts. So do
(18:10):
we have less respect because we don't see coaches wearing
suits at games any long?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Are you implying coaches should be spanked?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes, That's what I've been saying for a very long time.
In fact, Uh, imagine if Bill Belichick had been spanked?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Would would uh? Would Tom Brady have ever left the Patriots?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And I think I think that the owner of the Patriots,
Robert Kraft, actually got caught asking someone to give him
a spanking.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Am I That's something different?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That was not That wasn't Oh that was okay, little more.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Anyway, it's curious were you spanked as a kid, and
did you spank yours?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And I uh, I'm gonna be one of those yes
and knowers. You'll find out why a little bit later on.
I had a bit of a challenge when I had
to do some parenting in the meantime, maybe some other
people that should have been spank the lawmakers, the lawbreakers,
and the times that there ought to be a law.
(19:18):
These guys said that they were abused, and that's why
they're in prison right now. The Menendez brothers are saying,
hey man, it's time for us to get our resentencing hearing.
The only reason we're not is because of that darn DA.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Begin with breaking news.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It is official.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Eric and Lylemanendez filed a motion to recuse LA District
Attorney Nathan Hawkman from their case, saying the DA has
a bias against them. The brothers are serving life in
prison for the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents
inside their Beverly Hills mansion. They're asking to be resentenced
in light of new evidence they say supports claims they
(19:55):
were sexually abused by their father.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, I guess it's a little different. That's spaking fall.
Speaker 14 (20:00):
Former DA George Gascon moved to reduce the brother's sentence.
It would have made them immediately eligible for parole, but
after Hawkman took office, he withdrew the recommendation, saying the
brothers don't fit the criteria for resentencing. Earlier this month,
a judge ordered the resentencing hearings to continue, but after
a dramatic day in court, the judge paused the hearings
(20:21):
until next month. Hawkman's office has not publicly responded to tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
All right, so dramatic, so dramatic, quick survey. Are the
Menendez brothers going to see freedom again?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Kayla?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, Rol, No, I don't think so, Andrew break the time, Okay.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
Okay, you know, first off, if the Menanda's brothers did
what they did in today's world, yeah, it would be
really interesting to see the sentencing that they would get.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
So I'm going to say, based on where we are
as far as mental health awareness.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Goes relativity, Yes, what you're arguing, Yes, I I.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
Think that the resentencing will it will be lightened. When
when it's all said and done, will they will they
get out before they kick it?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Yeah, you mean will they die in jail? I don't.
I don't anticipate they will. But that's just an opinion.
It's not what the facts are, all right.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, but it was well reasoned. It took a while,
but it was well reasoned.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Thanks on the news, like I have to, I have to,
you know, be correct about this.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I like that we can see your process. That's very good.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Meanwhile, there ought to be a law, and the law
ought to be those doggone librarian should stop peddling porn.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Campaign signs like this one have gone up throughout Huntington Beach.
The signs ask residents to vote no on Measures A
and B in the upcoming special election, and.
Speaker 16 (21:54):
The first thing you see before anything on that side
is the word porn.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, so is protect our kids from porn?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
No on A and B. By the way, the the
uh the font for from porn is the same size.
So if you see the word porn first, that's because
your mind goes there.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You don't even read what the sign is for or
what it's about. You just see the giant words porns.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, I do the same thing.
Speaker 15 (22:23):
Some parents are outraged over conversations or forced to have
with their kids over the word porn.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I would say.
Speaker 16 (22:29):
The majority of children in Huntington Beach have their own
cell phones, and many of them, I was told by
their parents, went and googled the word porn.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh my gosh, they're using Google. Well, we've got to
We've got to break that whole search engine up. Oh
did I miss the point?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I did?
Speaker 11 (22:49):
And what shows up when you google the word porn?
Raoul Wells working with you, guys.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I just googled the word porn and HR is probably
going to be here in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Nope, I got your back. It was for research purposes
on air.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Only actual pornography.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Both initiatives center around the city's public libraries.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
If they pass A.
Speaker 15 (23:11):
Would eliminate a city council appointed review board that would
choose which books can be in the library.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, so the deal is that they have the city
council wants for their own chosen group to decide which
books are in the library, and they don't want librarians
to do it, and so Measures A and B protect
the librarians and the controls in the library literature that
(23:38):
we've had for a very long time, and they're saying that, no,
if you let the librarians do it, it's going to
be nothing but porn.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
We have to stop the porn.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
B insures.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
Attempts to privatize the libraries are voted on by the public.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, and that's the other one. So the librarian gets
to pick the.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Books, and you can't privatize it as an end around
and then have some private company decide which books are
going to be there.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
The no signs are paid by a committee formed by
council member Chad Williams. He argues, explicit adult content it's
made available to kids at the libraries.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Hey, Kayla, have you uh have you been to the
library to find out if any of the stuff is available?
And if so, just so we know which aisles not
to send our kids down, would you mind just hold on,
hang on, I got it. I'm doing research as we speak.
(24:37):
I'm trying to figure out what the classification is. Okay,
So I'm looking at the Dewey decimal system here, and
anything under ninety nine is generalities. Philosophy is the one
hundred's religion, the two hundred social sciences, Natural science is
the five hundreds is that.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Where you put porn.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Because I'm looking the Dewey decimal system and it doesn't
say anything in here about pornography. Uh, there's classic literature?
Could it be under that?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That's the one, Yeah, for sure is the classic literature.
That's the one I realized. The older we get, the
more we turn into our parents.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Not necessarily individually, although the older I get, the more
I am becoming my father, but we are turning into
everything that we hated when we were kids. Generationally speaking,
For instance, if you were someone that was a teenager
in the nineteen seventies, you probably are quite familiar.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
With, right.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, Mulon Rouge was a great movie. Yeah, the Mulan
Rouge version, right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Christina Aguilera and Pink loved it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
The good The other thing is we probably need to
remove the books on French from the libraries too, because
translator that means will you sleep with me tonight? So
you got that going for you. But I mean fast forward,
think about when we got a little bit older.
Speaker 13 (26:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Fortunately, as we got older and us jen xers stepped in,
we wouldn't put up.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
With such nonsense.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
We didn't have the kind of filth we were far
more pure, with hits like the the Vinyls I Touched Myself,
George Michaels, I Want Your Sex. There was like a
prayer from Madonna, which was probably about Catholicism or something nice.
And Madonna had another one It seems like this one. Yeah,
(26:46):
I think that was about Madonna preserving her virginity.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Didn't didn't you guys have like the Baywatch years and
stuff too?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yes, they were fully closed.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh yeah, okay, and you probably met Aerosmith talked about
making love in an elevator. Not something so horrid is
when I'm sure these librarians are pushing, which I'm sure
has nothing to do with making love. And again, Andrew,
you don't remember this, Raoul. I'm talking to you because
you and I are the gen xers, right remember Two
Live Crew and the the family values they taught us
(27:17):
when they discussed their desire for love, but they warded
it so eloquently, and they professed their wishes. Oh me
so horny, Oh me so horny. The kids these days,
they're just exposed to the filth. The filth Taylor from
from your time. You probably remember those hits that that
shaped you into the fine upstanding, virtuous person. You were
(27:39):
like candy shop, crack City, my humps. We need, we need,
we need tipper core back, that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, wow, outstanding.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I'll explain to her in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I love it so much.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Final question before we bounce here, what exactly was in
that milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard kill?
Speaker 10 (28:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Can you explain that one?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I cannot say it without Raoul being on the dump bucket?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But yeah? Well, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So we've got the powers that be at Huntington Beach
protecting our kids from porn.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
In the meantime, watch where you stemp when you're walking
on the beach, because that is the dead dolphin. Next,
Chris Merril, CAFI AM six forty relive everywhere on the
iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Chris Merril show if I Am six forty more stimulating talk,
undemand anytime in the iHeart Radio app. Always appreciate your feedback,
like when we talk about the libraries and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 13 (28:47):
You made it a little simple, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'm gonna take it as a complude. My job is
to simplify things.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
The library in Huntington Beach, in which I reside, it's
a little bit different than what you're ain't it to be?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, because I guess you got porn.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
And just to let you know, no longer do you
see that big word porn on any other signs that
has been cut out by whom I don't know, but
it's not on the signs anymore in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's kind of a colossal backfire, isn't it when you
put the word porn out there because you're trying to
stop people from looking at porn. It's kind of the
stressand effect. We don't want our kids to see porn. Hey, kids,
you don't want to see porn?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do you? And then the kids are like, what's porn? Yeah? Backfire?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Hey, Chris, that Madonna sounds sounds just like Billy Jean.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I think it's a ripoff from Billy Jean. Hold on, Raoul,
you are a DJ? Is that a rip off of
Billy Jean?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Not even close. It's not even interpolation.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Did you say interpolation?
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Yeah, not even close. All right, Oh that's a good one.
(30:18):
I can kind of hear what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Well, a similar tempo, that's about it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And it's got that same kind of uh, that heavy bassline.
So I mean, I I kind of see where he
gets that hold on. I mean, this is interesting to
(30:42):
me now. Dun dun dun dun dum dun dun dun
dun dun dun dum dun dun dun dunk.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I've made it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Through the wilderness.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I'm ready made it through.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I kind of hear it, guys, Nah, wouldn't hold up
in court.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I kind of hear maybe that's just the eighties sound,
but I kind.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Of exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yes, all right, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say
that he's that he's wrong though, because I never heard
it before.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I kind of hear it now, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Uh, if you are out for a nice long walk
on the beach, maybe you pick up your Tinder date
and you want to really impress them, make sure you
watch out for the dead seals and the dolphins.
Speaker 17 (31:32):
It's a heartbreaking scene playing on repeat all along the
southern California coast as dozens of dolphins are dying due
to the toxic algae bloom now stretching from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
It's the worst we've ever seen here in southern California.
Speaker 17 (31:46):
In the last week, there have been more than fifty
dead and dying dolphins found along the La County Coast
sixteen in San Diego on Sunday alone, fifty dead dolphins.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Dang, I love dolphins. They're my second favorite sea animal.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Well, what's the first?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Thank you? Otters? Love otters.
Speaker 17 (32:11):
Sea lions are traditionally the main victims of a toxic
algae bloom, which can cause them to turn aggressive, attacking
beach goers, but now it's moving further up the food chain.
Researchers say the minky whale found in the Port of
Long Beach and a young gray whale and Huntington Beach
both died due to demoic acid toxicity degree from the
wildfires and fertilizer runoff, helping to fuel the toxic algae,
(32:31):
which is eaten by small fish, which are then eaten
by marine mammals and birds, causing a potentially deadly toxic overdose.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We should put a California warning on that. Has anyone
considered slapping a label on the toxic algae. That just
says Prop sixty five.
Speaker 17 (32:48):
While sea lions and birds can be saved, it is
one hundred percent fatal for dolphins.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
These populations are resilient and strong and can bounce back
things like this.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeh, well, none that they're dead.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I love those dolphins because otters are cuter. But again,
I appreciate you following up dolphins I think are friendlier.
Otters are way cuter. Yeah, that's that's it. What about
did you see that one that washed up in Ventura?
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That whale.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
There's been a lot of whales washing up here lately,
but uh was this one an algae thing?
Speaker 16 (33:25):
Take a look a pretty disturbing site here in ventur
right along the beach.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
This is the third.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I love TV when they're like, take a look, very disturbing.
Let's just see how disturbing it is. Our camera man
got very close.
Speaker 16 (33:38):
Whale between here and Orange County to have washed up
in our region this year. So juvenile female humpback whale
that's washed up. Now, we are staying on this side
of it, but we do want to give you an
idea of just how big this girl is. We're staying
on the side because it's actually a pretty gruesome on
the other underside, which is why investigators aren't quite sure
what exactly happened here. They say on the underside there
(33:59):
is signs of trauma. There's signs that there was a
perhaps a run in with a boat. They also say
that there's.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Wait a run in with the boat on the bottom
of the whale. I don't know how whales work, but
I don't know how they get their belly up on
a propeller.
Speaker 16 (34:13):
They also say that there are signs of entanglement in rope.
But they also are concerns about the toxic algae bloom
that the region has been.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Battling for weeks now.
Speaker 16 (34:22):
That toxic algae has been plaguing San Diego to Santa Barbara,
Key Lions killing dolphins.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Which are my second favorite sing animal.
Speaker 16 (34:31):
Killing whales. It's been confirmed and at least two different cases.
We still don't know what happened here. It's going to
take the results of a neck cropsy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
That's okay, all right, Let's not jump to conclusions here
and blame everything on the algae.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Huh. I think we got a little bit of an
algae hoax going on. Huh.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I think it's a we got the California flu here.
These whales had comorbidities. Let's stop blaming the algae for everything. Oh,
how do we know that dolphins didn't have comorbidities. We don't,
and nobody's doing their own research on that either. I'm
gonna go to YouTube and find out. In the meantime,
Andrew Caravella has news. We'll talk about judging immigration and
(35:10):
how challenging that's become when the judges start harboring fugitives. Next,
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty were live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app, KFI
Speaker 1 (35:18):
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