December 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Chris is covering the weather in SoCal this Christmas, traveling for the holidays, PLUS the lawmakers, the lawbreakers, and the time's there ought to be a law. We are covering the plotted NYE attacks in SoCal, the elderly woman scammed by thieves out of a necklace with her daughter's ashes, and the latest with Waymo. All that and more on KFIAM-640.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Can any of my friends, I'm Chris Merril, KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk. Our talkbacks are open too.
If you're on the iHeartRadio, I put that talkback button.
Let us know questions, comments, script quotes, criticisms, compliments, and
of course you can always answer the question that we're
asking today our talkback today, what is the best part
about the holidays and what is the worst?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the duality of the holidays. What is the best?
What is the worst?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
There are some national thoughts on that as well that
we'll share with you a little bit later on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
But I'm curious about yours. Chris Merrill. Oh, hey, I
appreciate Chris Merrill. Oh, thank you, buddy, appreciate.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Goodell appreciates Chris Merril because he started putting the chargers
on Thursday night and Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, Sunday evenings for Chris Merril. Oh, thank you, Chris Merril. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then next week chargers are on Saturday. Be able
to catch the chargers here and you're home for the chargers.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
KFI.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
All right, Andy Reesmeyer and Chris Merril calling from Saint Louis, Missouri,
and I love listening to both of you. So put
this in the positive affirmation.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Appreciate that about that, Andy too, guy just ooze his talent,
doesn't he nice to have guy just ooze his talent?
Like you see Andy and you feel like there's just
a there's a storm of talent coming at me. There's
just a hurricane of talent. This guy is just a
mudslide of talent happening, which, by the way, we could
be seeing some more of this week. The conversations all
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last week were about obviously the holidays, year end.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, most of us, if we're honest, we're mailing
it in.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But then Kill agrees with me on that, right Killer,
most of us we're just mailing it in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
End of the year kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So was talking a lot about the the weather that's
coming this way, and I thought this is gonna suck.
ABC seven was telling us about what exactly you can expect.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, they were enjoy it while it lasts.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You gotta love when they start that way, right, Enjoy
it while it lasts.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Enjoy it while it lasts. Because a very different picture
comes our ways. We end to next week, you will
want the umbrella, the jackets of the rain jacket, I
should say, because we have some rain heading our way
for several days.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Now. The reason for this is we've had.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I always love it when meteorologists tell us you're gonna
want the umbrella and you're gonna want the jacket, unless
she clarifies, You're gonna want the rain jacket. Man, I'm
gonna go out there in my big down jacket and
it's gonna start raining, and then I'm gonna look like
a soggy poodle. I'm gonna say, curse you, meteorologist. You
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should have told me rain jacket. That's exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
We d next week.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
You will want the umbrella, the jackets of the rain jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I see she had to clarify.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
She should say, because we have some rain heading our
way for several days.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But how much rain is it really?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Now?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
The reason for this is we've had high pressure just
sitting over so the California that's gonna start to break down,
letting the jet stream move south. So we're gonna tap
into this atmospheric river, arriving by Tuesday afternoon Tuesday evening.
So it's looking like we're gonna see anywhere from three
to five inches.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh wow, three to five inches. It's a hell of
a lot of rain for one week.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Over the course of next week. Now, the bulk of
that rain is gonna be Tuesday night into Wednesday, and
you can see some of those moderate pockets there. That's
also a chance for some thunderstorm potential, but it doesn't
move out just then. Thursday Friday also seemed like we're
gonna see not as much, but some light rainfall lingering.
So our burn scar areas especially, that's gonna.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Be the area of concern.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Will keep a really close eye on that. But for now,
just enjoy what is going to be a nice, warm
Sunday weekend, seventy three for you in film warm La
Orange County. Seventy degrees out there today. Stop the upper
by your Sunday so we are cooling. It's just gradual,
all right.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Forget about that. I was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My wife told me. She says, well, we're driving to
Phoenix for Christmas. Oh God, come on, come on, can't
we just She says, well, you know my family's there.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
How come they never come to us?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know my family's there, we have to go see them, Like,
why do we have to go there? Because there's more
of them there, so it's easier for us to travel.
Can't we just have one holiday where we don't have
to go see your family? But then I don't say
that aloud, but I definitely say.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That in my head. And so yeah, I'm looking forward
to it so exciting.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's gonna be a six hour drive if there's no traffic,
Oh good lord. But then probably because I was like
two gummies in, my brain started going into a weird place.
And I don't know that anybody has had the nads
to ask this question before, but I think I think
it's something that makes a lot of sense your two
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gummies in, and that is Santa is always wearing a
big red jacket. As you heard, you want to have
your jacket ready, But then she clarified and said your
rain jacket.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
A ways, we had him to next week.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
You want the umbrella the jacket of the rain jacket,
I should say.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Thinking, does Santa have a rain jacket or is it
just that big heavy wool jacket that he wears, And
then I was messing with my nephew, and I said,
who's he's I'm so excited you're gonna come see us.
Oh crap, And I said yeah. I said, hey, what
does Santa do when he's there? Because look, our temperatures are,
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you know, we're cooling off a little bit. But my
wife's family says, oh, you guys could wear shorts. It's
like eighty here. Oh crap. So not what I'm looking
forward to. I've got I've got my winter skin on
right now. It's very unattractive, very pace. So I'm not
looking forward to wearing shorts to Christmas. And so I
(06:05):
then pitched this to my nephew and I said, hey,
pretty warm there. I think Santa is gonna get hot
and he just like, you know, you know how kids are.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I don't know, is he gonna get hot?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Because what do we always think of Santa. You think
of Santa and you think the rain deer and they're
always flying around snowy climates. But do you see any
snow here? No, I mean unless you're in the mountains,
there's no snow here.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And what about like Peru, huh? What about uh uh Honduras?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's hot? So does Santa have a wardrobe change.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, part of this I was trying to mess
with my nephew, and the other part is I was
just trying to stay conscious. And and then I thought,
if it's raining, does Santa? Does Santa have a rain coat?
And then so my nephew went and talked to my
sister in law and she said, Santa moves too fast.
He dodges the rain drops. And I thought, okay, that
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was a pretty good answer by her. And then I
started thinking more about that, because again I was in
that state of mind, and so I said, uh. I
didn't say this aloud because I had the wherewithal to non,
but I found it odd. Okay, Santa is moving so
fast he can dodge the rain drops even though there's
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an atmospheric river. But whatever, let's just imagine because he's magical, right,
he can do that. But doesn't he park that sleigh
on the roof?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So does he just leave the reindeer out there getting
all that getting wet?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And does he put a towel down on the on
the seat of the sleigh or does he come back
up the chimney and then he sits in a puddle.
I mean, these are questions that nobody has ever had
the gumption to ask before.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I'm very bothered by the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I feel like there's a lot of a lot of
legi that are simply being swept under the rug and
explained away with its magic and everything can be magic. Kids,
Sata got some splaining to do. We got holiday crowns,
we got record travel numbers, we got a new twist.
It's some very major airports, which means that if you
are flying out this week, it is absolutely going to
(08:18):
be the worst experience of your life. Why you need
to up your prozac before you go? Is next Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our talkback question today. What is the best part about
the holidays and what is the worst? I think I
made very clear for me. It's the long drive I
have to do to go see my wife's family, she says,
and then we can just stay there, and I go, No,
I don't want to stay there. We have to drive
to We have to drive to the east side of Phoenix.
They live in a suburb like an hour outside of Phoenix,
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so I have to drive all the way through.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It takes forever to get there, she says.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I said, well, what time are they eating?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
She said, well, they'd like to eat at like eleven,
So we're leaving here like four thirty or what. Well
I told them maybe like one would be better. Oh
my gosh, the nightmare scenario just horrible. So, uh yeah,
family is the worst part about the house. Oh no,
I'm not supposed to say that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Travel is the worst part about the holidays. Travel to
my wife's family. Yeah, that's the worst part. What's the
best part about the holidays is all the time I
get to spend with my wife in the car because
she's such a good navigator.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
She never tells me I'm doing it all wrong, and
that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Chris Merril, just a suggestion, But can't you FaceTime your
in laws so you don't have to do all that driving.
I don't have any in laws because I'm not married.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But you're so smart.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, that is a good idea. My wife would never
go for it. Oh you think that counts.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Well, you think that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Won't that be fun? We can we can travel and
she says, we can just stay there. You can sleep
on the couch. Oh no, I think we're gonna turn
around to come back. That's all I think we're gonna do.
She says, Now, you want us to drive twelve hours
in a day, and I said no, I'd like us
to drive zero hours in a day. But you volunteered
us to go to the inlaws. So if I gotta suffer,
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you gotta suffer. Won't that be fun? What are the
best parts and the worst parts of the holidays for you?
Hit us up with that talkback iHeartRadio app. Hit the
talkback button. Meanwhile, I'm not alone. If you're traveling, I'm traveling.
We're all traveling. In fact, I think it's like a
third of all Americans are set to travel. Fox eleven
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was talking about the travel crush.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
The big holiday travel rush is officially underway.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Traffic wasn't that bad coming in here. But the price
for an over for a while away was thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh my god, walk but I'll sell the door bound.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Adriella ze Paida says Christmas with her family is worth it, Repenny.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
My grandpa's atly seven years old. I'll pay seventy five
dollars for a while.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Others are getting created.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
This guy ditched his Weimo about a mile out from
Lax and walk to the rest of the way.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There you go. Also, could we just not do the
report from under the planes?
Speaker 11 (11:16):
I took away Moo instead of an uber life because
it was three times as much to take an uber.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
He says.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
He left his house and Moost feel as five hours early.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Oh my gosh, less hours on this flight, probably in
process than to actually get here.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm just gonna enjoy a nice.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Stroll to see thing it's good for you.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Just before I go into Lax and deal with more.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh I am I'm getting stressed just listening to them.
I don't handle anxiety well. Holidays are the worst time
for me. I can feel the tension in my neck
as we speak. I can feel it. I can feel
it building up, and it hurts. It just hurts me
thinking of his.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Pain and drivers aren't catching a break either freeways.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think that means I'm in path, Kayla, I'm an
M path because I'm feeling his pain.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
I don't know if you're an MP. Yeah, okay, all right, yeah,
that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Sure, or as my son would say, that's that's M
path coded. He just kept saying coded a lot this weekend,
and I said, calling things coded is very gen Z coded,
and he went, oh too.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Che Across the south Land are packed bumper to bumper
and adding to the pain, Caltrans continuing it's work on
the four or five, shutting down three lanes in each
direction until Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Check out this time lapse through this Epulvida pass.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, no, I don't want to. I was looking at
the traffic actually all weekend long. I was just you know,
kind of checking in on on.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's just yesterday was such a mess. It looked like
it was a like a Monday afternoon. It was so bad.
Traffic was just so miserable. In fact, looking at it
right now, traffic's pretty miserable right now. Golly, just can't wait,
can't wait to travel. It's gonna be such a good time.
That's my issue. We put too much emphasis on the holidays.
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We with too much emphasis on expectations for the holidays.
That's what my wife does, that's what her family does.
That's what drives me crazy. You know what I want
for expectations None, with zero expectations. That's what holiday means,
a break from things, not cheapers. Life sucks. Let's make
it worse.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Boy maya grinch today? Huh? I am a real miser,
all right, totally.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
The lawmakers, the law breakers, the times that there ought
to be a Law's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What is the best part about the holidays? What is
the worst part about the holidays?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
For me?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a it's a stress stress just everything has to
be perfect, gotta go see family, Everything needs to be
this Norman Rockwell Christmas and I just go. I just
want to relax. Look, I grew up a Detroit Lions fan.
I'm used to disappointment on the holidays, Thanksgiving. By the
time Christmas rolls around, we're out of playoffs. So, as
far as I'm concerned, holidays is just sort of a
marker of, you know, expectations that have gone unfulfilled.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Not my wife. She wants everything to be great.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey, Chris, it's your buddy dom Hey Dons, and you're
gonna get sick when you go on this trip. You're right,
and you're gonna do nothing but fight with your wife. True,
your sciatica is going to act up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean yeah, it's such an old man thing, but
it is so true.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
My sciatic is already hurt, and you're right, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It's going to be miserable. Trip order on Amazon? Okay,
what am I getting some positive COVID tests? And you're
just gonna get COVID? You can't go, especially around old people.
You'll thank me later.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Can I get hold on? I can get I can
order positive COVID tests? Is that true? I mean I'm
seeing COVID test but I don't see any like pre
positive ones.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
God, that would be a great scam.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
What a great you can buy them?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You can? I just searched for positive COVID test shopping.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Did you hear shopping?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, I'm on Amazon. What else do you want anything else?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
I was just doing Google or the hit shopping.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
Can I just get it? Can you just get a
COVID test, get a blue marker and just draw the line?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Are such an evil genius?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I had a lot of high school girlfriends that try
to trap me into relationships that way, and I figured
out how to find the eraser real fast.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
All right, I want to look into it, Kayla, will
you bring that for me?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (15:38):
Hike you know you're my favorite. I haven't tended chap
Back in a while.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Oh you're sweet.
Speaker 13 (15:43):
I love your show and I love it when you're
on during the week. Anyways, my Christmas is always suck.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, you know what, Cayla misses me when I'm on
during the week. She refuses to work weekdays. It's the
weirdest thing.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
I do.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Miss you, I do refuse.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I love you so much.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
This is always suck when my Silm is small because
we spend the whole thing driving. We'd go up to
his dad's in tat Karita have Christmas, and then we
go down to my family and have Christmas, so we
never really got to enjoy a Christmas.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Thank you. Yeah, I know, isn't that But it's the holidays.
Don't you want to be with your family? Oh? I
like the zoom idea. I'd like to get more families
that are okay with just being on Zoom. Wouldn't that
be fun? Maybe we'll do that this year's all grown?
What's up?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
You can't I which want to update the COVID thing.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Sorry you can't buy a positive one, but you could
buy just a regular one and dip it in soda. Apparently,
and it'll come out positive.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That sounds like an internet below soda or juice might
give that a shot might be worth it might be.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Worth it, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right, every Sunday at this time we do it, the lawmakers,
the lawbreakers, and the times that there ought to be
a law.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You find yourself in a predicament.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You find yourself feeling the need to get away from
those people with badges and uniforms. Unfortunately you didn't bring
your whip, and so what do you do? The only
reasonable thing that anyone could do.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You steal something and you take off breaking right now.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
A bizarre pursuit involving a stolen ambulance Genius Absolute Genius.
Speaker 15 (17:34):
Ambulance belongs to the Los Angeles Fire Department. It was
stolen from a scene in Northridge. From air seven, we
could see multiple fire trucks, but it's still unclear exactly
what type of call brought a cruise to this location. Well, meantime,
the stolen ambulance was heading northbound on the fourteenth Freeway
into the Aguadulce area. However, all airships had to pull
back due.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
To the heavy fog in the area. Now our assignment
oh hang.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
On write that down, Kayla, Okay, if we have to
do it, hold on, this is actually that's a hack
I didn't know about.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm gonna get a pen here if.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
If running from police, do it on foggy night, no
air support.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All right, put that in my criminal file, Kaila, just
for when.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
We need it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Desk is tracking this pursuit. What or was? I should say? Rather,
because we have.
Speaker 15 (18:36):
Just learned within moments ago that the suspect was taken
into custody in the Palmdale area. So some good news
for that stolen ambulance pursuit there.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That is good because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I don't think we have an abundance of ambulances, so
I'm guessing that losing one could mean somebody else's life
is in significant danger. But it also makes you wonder
did somebody call call in a fire all in a
crash just so they could steal an emergency vehicle. That's
diabolical if that's the case. But that is not the
lowest of the low, not this week.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When it comes to our lawmakers, law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law. There ought
to be a law that says if you break this law,
you instantly are burned at the stake.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Some things, just kids from Kitla.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Not be replaced.
Speaker 16 (19:23):
And what was inside that woman's necklace, inside the cross
on that necklace was her daughter's ashes. And tonight, oh
she is pleading with these thieves or anyone who might
know them watching tonight to please return that necklace.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
How many thieves do you think sit down and watch
the nightly news.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
Not many, but they're probably on TikTok and Instagram and
hopefully they're sharing the stories there too.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Boy, that's a good point.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
I think that's too busy fieving all.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Day every day to these guys.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
They're not off.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
Yeah. I remember reading a story a while back, and
I think it was in I think it was in
Mexico when when the World Cup, when the international team plays,
or a football a called Hernandez was playing for Man United,
crime would go down because everybody's watching the football.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah that's crazy. Oh yeah, but they're.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Not watching the nightly news exactly the thieving they're thieving, right,
So the key is to have more international sporting events.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Well, I think if they had that kind of work ethic,
they'd be having an honest day's work. I'm pretty sure
they are on social media nine times out of ten
ce in their mugshot.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Social medio leaps to crime. Yeah, I agree with it.
Speaker 16 (20:31):
Or at the very least return the cross. Let's show
you some pictures of Estra Guerrero. This is her holding
a photo of her daughter, Veronica. She's a retired Los
Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who was tragically killed at a
car accident Idaho earlier this year.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now, the story keeps getting worse.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
In those videos, you can see that she's holding across
that's her husband's. They each had one, and the stolen
one looks just like that one On Monday, the seventy
five year.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Old with that's a really nice way to remember you
your child that died.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think it's really nice.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean, yeah, I don't think you ever have closure,
but if you have that, I think that's a really
nice way to do it. Boy, I hate to be
serious about these stories, but I got to be serious
about that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I think that's a really great thing to do.
Speaker 16 (21:17):
Coming home from shopping, she was in the three hundred
block of South Gerhard Avenue in East LA when a
white car pulled up.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Surveillance video shows.
Speaker 16 (21:26):
The interaction with Esther. The driver asked for directions while
another person got out of the car and asked for
a hug because she said her mom was ill.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
And during that interaction.
Speaker 16 (21:37):
That's weird, the woman or the person put a different
necklace on her and then took off the other one
the duo took off. Moments later, Esther realized that her
gold necklace with her daughter's ashes had been stolen right
off her neck.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
So they did the swap like there was.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Some some East London pickpocket that was basically just a
jab at Oliver. But I mean that's really what it is,
isn't it. I mean, also, the name Oliver comes from
I mean these jokes, right, Dickens and Oliver. It's all
(22:16):
about pickpocketing. So it's kind of a resident expert. It's
all I got. Were where were you?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Allie?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Imagine you're in a driverless taxi, the traffic lights go dark.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
What do you suppose your car would do?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Surely there are contingencies for that, Right, It's not like
your car would just shut off and make make you
an invisible target on the freeway.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Right. That autonomous chaos is next.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Chris Merrill you're listening to KFI A M six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Sometimes we get people who I think are a little
too deep into their their wacky taffy when they call
the talkbacks, But then I do get some great suggestions,
so we were My least favorite part about the holidays
is that I have to travel a long distance to
pretend to have a perfect holiday with the in laws
who I know their lives aren't perfect. My life isn't perfect,
but we all have to pretend it's a perfect time.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I can't stand that my wife always puts all these
expectations and I always let her down. You think at
some point she would she would get to know I'm
going to let her down.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So from the talkbacks, Chris.
Speaker 14 (23:21):
You should tell your in laws to move to the
western suburbs of Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yeah, my in laws live on the way east
side of Phoenix. So not only do I have to
drive the fix, I did have to drive to the
other side, which is brutal.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Is brutal.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's like if you live in Orange County and you
have to go to San Diego. That's a whole lot
different than if you live in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And you have to drive to sand Diu. You know
what I mean. That's kind of the sit here.
Speaker 14 (23:41):
Lorado, goodyear, But guy, we have no prime here, no homeless,
no homeless to pet, no homeless to move off the street,
no homeless to bed, and we all got guns.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You'll love it here.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No homeless and everyone has guns. All right, all right, man,
I'll talk to them about that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm sure they'd be real happy to move to the
other side. Fantastic big power outage in.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
This week which created a bit of a havoc. As
you might imagine, power goes out for a large swath
of any town, it's going to be a problem, right.
So ABC seven was talking about that power outage and
they were starting to get the power turned back on how.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
We're slowly returning to the Bay Area after an outage
left about thirty percent of San Francisco in the dark.
Pacific Gas and Electrics has more than twenty thousand customers
still without electricity this morning, but that is down from
one hundred and thirty thousand yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow, what do you think they did? Power's out? Can't
charge your phone, you can only scroll through TikTok for
so long.
Speaker 14 (24:47):
The outage is reportedly caused by a fire at a
substation there. It was the same substation that was actually
responsible for a major blackout back in two thousand and three.
The outage also affected bart trains and some Internet service.
Last nineteen, Mara of San Francisco even asked people to
stay off the streets because many traffic lights were out
across the city.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Okay, so it's those traffic lights that were out that
created another issue, and that is that the Waymos didn't
know what to do. The Waymos got completely confused. So
a bunch of social media videos out there showing the
robotaxis just stopped in the middle of the streets, turn
their hazards on. They basically shut down. It's as though
they have a fight or flight response, and there's a
(25:27):
just constantly flight. Just when the going gets tough, stop
and cry. That's it. It's like a high school girlfriend like.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I don't know why he's so mean to me. I'm
not gonna communicate and use my words. I'm just gonna cry. Stop.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
So Weaimo temporarily suspending their autonomous ride healing service because
the vehicles were stranded in the middle of dark intersections.
So once again, this is the second week in a
row that we've had issues with Waimo getting confused. And
to be clear, I'm a fan of the autonomous vehicles.
I'm a fan of the way that this that this
technology is advancing, but these growing pains are a real.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Pain and predictable.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So way moos go down to the end of a
cul de sac and then they have to try to
turn around as they've got more Waymos behind them, and
they all get stuck.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
They go, but you go, you go, I go, No, no,
you go, no, I go.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I thought that there was supposed to be some
neural network where they were all conversing with one another
in order to operate in a more efficient manner, but
we're not there yet, and so they get all confused.
The lights go out, the traffic lights are gone, the
street lights are gone, and then way Moo just goes.
I don't know what to do, so they do what
evidently their programmed to do that they assume is the
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safe thing. They stop and then they turn on their hazards.
All right, but now suppose I'm not in an autonomous vehicle.
I got to try to get around this dumb thing
to stopped in the middle of an intersection. Growing pains
are honestly a giant turn off, right now, massive turnoff.
All right, Finally you are about to get the truth.
(27:04):
You've been waiting for it for years. The big Friday
Night info dump happens, and you realize half of it's missing.
The other half doesn't make any sense. This is not
going to make the issue go away for the president.
Hot reactions from the left and the right. Next Chris
Merril
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Kfi AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Can any of my friends, I'm Chris Merril, KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk. Our talkbacks are open too.
If you're on the iHeartRadio, I put that talkback button.
Let us know questions, comments, script quotes, criticisms, compliments, and
of course you can always answer the question that we're
asking today our talkback today, what is the best part
about the holidays and what is the worst?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the duality of the holidays. What is the best?
What is the worst?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
There are some national thoughts on that as well that
we'll share with you a little bit later on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
But I'm curious about yours. Chris Merrill. Oh, hey, I
appreciate Chris Merrill. Oh, thank you, buddy, appreciate.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Goodell appreciates Chris Merril because he started putting the chargers
on Thursday night and Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, Sunday evenings for Chris Merril. Oh, thank you, Chris Merril. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then next week chargers are on Saturday. Be able
to catch the chargers here and you're home for the chargers.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
KFI.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
All right, Andy Reesmeyer and Chris Merril calling from Saint Louis, Missouri,
and I love listening to both of you. So put
this in the positive affirmation.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Appreciate that about that, Andy too, guy just ooze his talent,
doesn't he nice to have guy just ooze his talent?
Like you see Andy and you feel like there's just
a there's a storm of talent coming at me. There's
just a hurricane of talent. This guy is just a
mudslide of talent happening, which, by the way, we could
be seeing some more of this week. The conversations all
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last week were about obviously the holidays, year end.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know, most of us, if we're honest, we're mailing
it in.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But then Kill agrees with me on that, right Killer,
most of us we're just mailing it in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
End of the year kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So was talking a lot about the the weather that's
coming this way, and I thought this is gonna suck.
ABC seven was telling us about what exactly you can expect.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, they were enjoy it while it lasts.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You gotta love when they start that way, right, Enjoy
it while it lasts.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Enjoy it while it lasts. Because a very different picture
comes our ways. We end to next week, you will
want the umbrella, the jackets of the rain jacket, I
should say, because we have some rain heading our way
for several days.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Now. The reason for this is we've had.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I always love it when meteorologists tell us you're gonna
want the umbrella and you're gonna want the jacket, unless
she clarifies, You're gonna want the rain jacket. Man, I'm
gonna go out there in my big down jacket and
it's gonna start raining, and then I'm gonna look like
a soggy poodle. I'm gonna say, curse you, meteorologist. You
(02:42):
should have told me rain jacket. That's exactly what's gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
We d next week.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
You will want the umbrella, the jackets of the rain jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I see she had to clarify.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
She should say, because we have some rain heading our
way for several days.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But how much rain is it really?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Now?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
The reason for this is we've had high pressure just
sitting over so the California that's gonna start to break down,
letting the jet stream move south. So we're gonna tap
into this atmospheric river, arriving by Tuesday afternoon Tuesday evening.
So it's looking like we're gonna see anywhere from three
to five inches.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh wow, three to five inches. It's a hell of
a lot of rain for one week.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Over the course of next week. Now, the bulk of
that rain is gonna be Tuesday night into Wednesday, and
you can see some of those moderate pockets there. That's
also a chance for some thunderstorm potential, but it doesn't
move out just then. Thursday Friday also seemed like we're
gonna see not as much, but some light rainfall lingering.
So our burn scar areas especially, that's gonna.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Be the area of concern.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Will keep a really close eye on that. But for now,
just enjoy what is going to be a nice, warm
Sunday weekend, seventy three for you in film warm La
Orange County. Seventy degrees out there today. Stop the upper
by your Sunday so we are cooling. It's just gradual,
all right.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Forget about that. I was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My wife told me. She says, well, we're driving to
Phoenix for Christmas. Oh God, come on, come on, can't
we just She says, well, you know my family's there.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
How come they never come to us?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You know my family's there, we have to go see them, Like,
why do we have to go there? Because there's more
of them there, so it's easier for us to travel.
Can't we just have one holiday where we don't have
to go see your family? But then I don't say
that aloud, but I definitely say.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That in my head. And so yeah, I'm looking forward
to it so exciting.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's gonna be a six hour drive if there's no traffic,
Oh good lord. But then probably because I was like
two gummies in, my brain started going into a weird place.
And I don't know that anybody has had the nads
to ask this question before, but I think I think
it's something that makes a lot of sense your two
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gummies in, and that is Santa is always wearing a
big red jacket. As you heard, you want to have
your jacket ready, But then she clarified and said your
rain jacket.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
A ways, we had him to next week.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
You want the umbrella the jacket of the rain jacket,
I should say.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Thinking, does Santa have a rain jacket or is it
just that big heavy wool jacket that he wears, And
then I was messing with my nephew, and I said,
who's he's I'm so excited you're gonna come see us.
Oh crap, And I said yeah. I said, hey, what
does Santa do when he's there? Because look, our temperatures are,
(05:43):
you know, we're cooling off a little bit. But my
wife's family says, oh, you guys could wear shorts. It's
like eighty here. Oh crap. So not what I'm looking
forward to. I've got I've got my winter skin on
right now. It's very unattractive, very pace. So I'm not
looking forward to wearing shorts to Christmas. And so I
(06:05):
then pitched this to my nephew and I said, hey,
pretty warm there. I think Santa is gonna get hot
and he just like, you know, you know how kids are.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I don't know, is he gonna get hot?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Because what do we always think of Santa. You think
of Santa and you think the rain deer and they're
always flying around snowy climates. But do you see any
snow here? No, I mean unless you're in the mountains,
there's no snow here.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And what about like Peru, huh? What about uh uh Honduras?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's hot? So does Santa have a wardrobe change.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, part of this I was trying to mess
with my nephew, and the other part is I was
just trying to stay conscious. And and then I thought,
if it's raining, does Santa? Does Santa have a rain coat?
And then so my nephew went and talked to my
sister in law and she said, Santa moves too fast.
He dodges the rain drops. And I thought, okay, that
(07:02):
was a pretty good answer by her. And then I
started thinking more about that, because again I was in
that state of mind, and so I said, uh. I
didn't say this aloud because I had the wherewithal to non,
but I found it odd. Okay, Santa is moving so
fast he can dodge the rain drops even though there's
(07:23):
an atmospheric river. But whatever, let's just imagine because he's magical, right,
he can do that. But doesn't he park that sleigh
on the roof?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So does he just leave the reindeer out there getting
all that getting wet?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And does he put a towel down on the on
the seat of the sleigh or does he come back
up the chimney and then he sits in a puddle.
I mean, these are questions that nobody has ever had
the gumption to ask before.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I'm very bothered by the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I feel like there's a lot of a lot of
legi that are simply being swept under the rug and
explained away with its magic and everything can be magic. Kids,
Sata got some splaining to do. We got holiday crowns,
we got record travel numbers, we got a new twist.
It's some very major airports, which means that if you
are flying out this week, it is absolutely going to
(08:18):
be the worst experience of your life. Why you need
to up your prozac before you go? Is next Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our talkback question today. What is the best part about
the holidays and what is the worst? I think I
made very clear for me. It's the long drive I
have to do to go see my wife's family, she says,
and then we can just stay there, and I go, No,
I don't want to stay there. We have to drive
to We have to drive to the east side of Phoenix.
They live in a suburb like an hour outside of Phoenix,
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so I have to drive all the way through.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It takes forever to get there, she says.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I said, well, what time are they eating?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
She said, well, they'd like to eat at like eleven,
So we're leaving here like four thirty or what. Well
I told them maybe like one would be better. Oh
my gosh, the nightmare scenario just horrible. So, uh yeah,
family is the worst part about the house. Oh no,
I'm not supposed to say that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Travel is the worst part about the holidays. Travel to
my wife's family. Yeah, that's the worst part. What's the
best part about the holidays is all the time I
get to spend with my wife in the car because
she's such a good navigator.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
She never tells me I'm doing it all wrong, and
that's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Chris Merril, just a suggestion, But can't you FaceTime your
in laws so you don't have to do all that driving.
I don't have any in laws because I'm not married.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But you're so smart.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, that is a good idea. My wife would never
go for it. Oh you think that counts.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Well, you think that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Won't that be fun? We can we can travel and
she says, we can just stay there. You can sleep
on the couch. Oh no, I think we're gonna turn
around to come back. That's all I think we're gonna do.
She says, Now, you want us to drive twelve hours
in a day, and I said no, I'd like us
to drive zero hours in a day. But you volunteered
us to go to the inlaws. So if I gotta suffer,
(10:20):
you gotta suffer. Won't that be fun? What are the
best parts and the worst parts of the holidays for you?
Hit us up with that talkback iHeartRadio app. Hit the
talkback button. Meanwhile, I'm not alone. If you're traveling, I'm traveling.
We're all traveling. In fact, I think it's like a
third of all Americans are set to travel. Fox eleven
(10:41):
was talking about the travel crush.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
The big holiday travel rush is officially underway.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Traffic wasn't that bad coming in here. But the price
for an over for a while away was thirty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh my god, walk but I'll sell the door bound.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Adriella ze Paida says Christmas with her family is worth it, Repenny.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
My grandpa's atly seven years old. I'll pay seventy five
dollars for a while.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Others are getting created.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
This guy ditched his Weimo about a mile out from
Lax and walk to the rest of the way.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There you go. Also, could we just not do the
report from under the planes?
Speaker 11 (11:16):
I took away Moo instead of an uber life because
it was three times as much to take an uber.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
He says.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
He left his house and Moost feel as five hours early.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Oh my gosh, less hours on this flight, probably in
process than to actually get here.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm just gonna enjoy a nice.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Stroll to see thing it's good for you.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Just before I go into Lax and deal with more.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh I am I'm getting stressed just listening to them.
I don't handle anxiety well. Holidays are the worst time
for me. I can feel the tension in my neck
as we speak. I can feel it. I can feel
it building up, and it hurts. It just hurts me
thinking of his.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Pain and drivers aren't catching a break either freeways.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I think that means I'm in path, Kayla, I'm an
M path because I'm feeling his pain.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
I don't know if you're an MP. Yeah, okay, all right, yeah,
that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Sure, or as my son would say, that's that's M
path coded. He just kept saying coded a lot this weekend,
and I said, calling things coded is very gen Z coded,
and he went, oh too.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Che Across the south Land are packed bumper to bumper
and adding to the pain, Caltrans continuing it's work on
the four or five, shutting down three lanes in each
direction until Monday morning.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
Check out this time lapse through this Epulvida pass.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, no, I don't want to. I was looking at
the traffic actually all weekend long. I was just you know,
kind of checking in on on.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's just yesterday was such a mess. It looked like
it was a like a Monday afternoon. It was so bad.
Traffic was just so miserable. In fact, looking at it
right now, traffic's pretty miserable right now. Golly, just can't wait,
can't wait to travel. It's gonna be such a good time.
That's my issue. We put too much emphasis on the holidays.
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We with too much emphasis on expectations for the holidays.
That's what my wife does, that's what her family does.
That's what drives me crazy. You know what I want
for expectations None, with zero expectations. That's what holiday means,
a break from things, not cheapers. Life sucks. Let's make
it worse.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Boy maya grinch today? Huh? I am a real miser,
all right, totally.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
The lawmakers, the law breakers, the times that there ought
to be a Law's next, Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What is the best part about the holidays? What is
the worst part about the holidays?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
For me?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's a it's a stress stress just everything has to
be perfect, gotta go see family, Everything needs to be
this Norman Rockwell Christmas and I just go. I just
want to relax. Look, I grew up a Detroit Lions fan.
I'm used to disappointment on the holidays, Thanksgiving. By the
time Christmas rolls around, we're out of playoffs. So, as
far as I'm concerned, holidays is just sort of a
marker of, you know, expectations that have gone unfulfilled.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Not my wife. She wants everything to be great.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey, Chris, it's your buddy dom Hey Dons, and you're
gonna get sick when you go on this trip. You're right,
and you're gonna do nothing but fight with your wife. True,
your sciatica is going to act up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I mean yeah, it's such an old man thing, but
it is so true.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
My sciatic is already hurt, and you're right, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It's going to be miserable. Trip order on Amazon? Okay,
what am I getting some positive COVID tests? And you're
just gonna get COVID? You can't go, especially around old people.
You'll thank me later.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Can I get hold on? I can get I can
order positive COVID tests? Is that true? I mean I'm
seeing COVID test but I don't see any like pre
positive ones.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
God, that would be a great scam.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
What a great you can buy them?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You can? I just searched for positive COVID test shopping.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Did you hear shopping?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, I'm on Amazon. What else do you want anything else?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
I was just doing Google or the hit shopping.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
Can I just get it? Can you just get a
COVID test, get a blue marker and just draw the line?
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Are such an evil genius?
Speaker 11 (15:22):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I had a lot of high school girlfriends that try
to trap me into relationships that way, and I figured
out how to find the eraser real fast.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
All right, I want to look into it, Kayla, will
you bring that for me?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Hi?
Speaker 13 (15:38):
Hike you know you're my favorite. I haven't tended chap
Back in a while.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Oh you're sweet.
Speaker 13 (15:43):
I love your show and I love it when you're
on during the week. Anyways, my Christmas is always suck.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, you know what, Cayla misses me when I'm on
during the week. She refuses to work weekdays. It's the
weirdest thing.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
I do.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Miss you, I do refuse.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I love you so much.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
This is always suck when my Silm is small because
we spend the whole thing driving. We'd go up to
his dad's in tat Karita have Christmas, and then we
go down to my family and have Christmas, so we
never really got to enjoy a Christmas.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Thank you. Yeah, I know, isn't that But it's the holidays.
Don't you want to be with your family? Oh? I
like the zoom idea. I'd like to get more families
that are okay with just being on Zoom. Wouldn't that
be fun? Maybe we'll do that this year's all grown?
What's up?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
You can't I which want to update the COVID thing.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Sorry you can't buy a positive one, but you could
buy just a regular one and dip it in soda. Apparently,
and it'll come out positive.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That sounds like an internet below soda or juice might
give that a shot might be worth it might be.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Worth it, all right, all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right, every Sunday at this time we do it, the lawmakers,
the lawbreakers, and the times that there ought to be
a law.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
You find yourself in a predicament.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You find yourself feeling the need to get away from
those people with badges and uniforms. Unfortunately you didn't bring
your whip, and so what do you do? The only
reasonable thing that anyone could do.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You steal something and you take off breaking right now.
Speaker 14 (17:28):
A bizarre pursuit involving a stolen ambulance Genius Absolute Genius.
Speaker 15 (17:34):
Ambulance belongs to the Los Angeles Fire Department. It was
stolen from a scene in Northridge. From air seven, we
could see multiple fire trucks, but it's still unclear exactly
what type of call brought a cruise to this location. Well, meantime,
the stolen ambulance was heading northbound on the fourteenth Freeway
into the Aguadulce area. However, all airships had to pull
back due.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
To the heavy fog in the area. Now our assignment
oh hang.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
On write that down, Kayla, Okay, if we have to
do it, hold on, this is actually that's a hack
I didn't know about.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm gonna get a pen here if.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
If running from police, do it on foggy night, no
air support.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All right, put that in my criminal file, Kaila, just
for when.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
We need it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Desk is tracking this pursuit. What or was? I should say? Rather,
because we have.
Speaker 15 (18:36):
Just learned within moments ago that the suspect was taken
into custody in the Palmdale area. So some good news
for that stolen ambulance pursuit there.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That is good because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I don't think we have an abundance of ambulances, so
I'm guessing that losing one could mean somebody else's life
is in significant danger. But it also makes you wonder
did somebody call call in a fire all in a
crash just so they could steal an emergency vehicle. That's
diabolical if that's the case. But that is not the
lowest of the low, not this week.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When it comes to our lawmakers, law breakers, and the
times that there ought to be a law. There ought
to be a law that says if you break this law,
you instantly are burned at the stake.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Some things, just kids from Kitla.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Not be replaced.
Speaker 16 (19:23):
And what was inside that woman's necklace, inside the cross
on that necklace was her daughter's ashes. And tonight, oh
she is pleading with these thieves or anyone who might
know them watching tonight to please return that necklace.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
How many thieves do you think sit down and watch
the nightly news.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
Not many, but they're probably on TikTok and Instagram and
hopefully they're sharing the stories there too.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Boy, that's a good point.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
I think that's too busy fieving all.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Day every day to these guys.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
They're not off.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
Yeah. I remember reading a story a while back, and
I think it was in I think it was in
Mexico when when the World Cup, when the international team plays,
or a football a called Hernandez was playing for Man United,
crime would go down because everybody's watching the football.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah that's crazy. Oh yeah, but they're.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Not watching the nightly news exactly the thieving they're thieving, right,
So the key is to have more international sporting events.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Well, I think if they had that kind of work ethic,
they'd be having an honest day's work. I'm pretty sure
they are on social media nine times out of ten
ce in their mugshot.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Social medio leaps to crime. Yeah, I agree with it.
Speaker 16 (20:31):
Or at the very least return the cross. Let's show
you some pictures of Estra Guerrero. This is her holding
a photo of her daughter, Veronica. She's a retired Los
Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who was tragically killed at a
car accident Idaho earlier this year.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now, the story keeps getting worse.
Speaker 16 (20:48):
In those videos, you can see that she's holding across
that's her husband's. They each had one, and the stolen
one looks just like that one On Monday, the seventy
five year.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Old with that's a really nice way to remember you
your child that died.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think it's really nice.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean, yeah, I don't think you ever have closure,
but if you have that, I think that's a really
nice way to do it. Boy, I hate to be
serious about these stories, but I got to be serious
about that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I think that's a really great thing to do.
Speaker 16 (21:17):
Coming home from shopping, she was in the three hundred
block of South Gerhard Avenue in East LA when a
white car pulled up.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Surveillance video shows.
Speaker 16 (21:26):
The interaction with Esther. The driver asked for directions while
another person got out of the car and asked for
a hug because she said her mom was ill.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
And during that interaction.
Speaker 16 (21:37):
That's weird, the woman or the person put a different
necklace on her and then took off the other one
the duo took off. Moments later, Esther realized that her
gold necklace with her daughter's ashes had been stolen right
off her neck.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
So they did the swap like there was.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Some some East London pickpocket that was basically just a
jab at Oliver. But I mean that's really what it is,
isn't it. I mean, also, the name Oliver comes from
I mean these jokes, right, Dickens and Oliver. It's all
(22:16):
about pickpocketing. So it's kind of a resident expert. It's
all I got. Were where were you?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Allie?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Imagine you're in a driverless taxi, the traffic lights go dark.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
What do you suppose your car would do?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Surely there are contingencies for that, Right, It's not like
your car would just shut off and make make you
an invisible target on the freeway.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Right. That autonomous chaos is next.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Chris Merrill you're listening to KFI A M six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Sometimes we get people who I think are a little
too deep into their their wacky taffy when they call
the talkbacks, But then I do get some great suggestions,
so we were My least favorite part about the holidays
is that I have to travel a long distance to
pretend to have a perfect holiday with the in laws
who I know their lives aren't perfect. My life isn't perfect,
but we all have to pretend it's a perfect time.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I can't stand that my wife always puts all these
expectations and I always let her down. You think at
some point she would she would get to know I'm
going to let her down.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
So from the talkbacks, Chris.
Speaker 14 (23:21):
You should tell your in laws to move to the
western suburbs of Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Oh yeah, my in laws live on the way east
side of Phoenix. So not only do I have to
drive the fix, I did have to drive to the
other side, which is brutal.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Is brutal.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's like if you live in Orange County and you
have to go to San Diego. That's a whole lot
different than if you live in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And you have to drive to sand Diu. You know
what I mean. That's kind of the sit here.
Speaker 14 (23:41):
Lorado, goodyear, But guy, we have no prime here, no homeless,
no homeless to pet, no homeless to move off the street,
no homeless to bed, and we all got guns.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You'll love it here.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No homeless and everyone has guns. All right, all right, man,
I'll talk to them about that.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm sure they'd be real happy to move to the
other side. Fantastic big power outage in.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
This week which created a bit of a havoc. As
you might imagine, power goes out for a large swath
of any town, it's going to be a problem, right.
So ABC seven was talking about that power outage and
they were starting to get the power turned back on how.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
We're slowly returning to the Bay Area after an outage
left about thirty percent of San Francisco in the dark.
Pacific Gas and Electrics has more than twenty thousand customers
still without electricity this morning, but that is down from
one hundred and thirty thousand yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow, what do you think they did? Power's out? Can't
charge your phone, you can only scroll through TikTok for
so long.
Speaker 14 (24:47):
The outage is reportedly caused by a fire at a
substation there. It was the same substation that was actually
responsible for a major blackout back in two thousand and three.
The outage also affected bart trains and some Internet service.
Last nineteen, Mara of San Francisco even asked people to
stay off the streets because many traffic lights were out
across the city.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Okay, so it's those traffic lights that were out that
created another issue, and that is that the Waymos didn't
know what to do. The Waymos got completely confused. So
a bunch of social media videos out there showing the
robotaxis just stopped in the middle of the streets, turn
their hazards on. They basically shut down. It's as though
they have a fight or flight response, and there's a
(25:27):
just constantly flight. Just when the going gets tough, stop
and cry. That's it. It's like a high school girlfriend like.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I don't know why he's so mean to me. I'm
not gonna communicate and use my words. I'm just gonna cry. Stop.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
So Weaimo temporarily suspending their autonomous ride healing service because
the vehicles were stranded in the middle of dark intersections.
So once again, this is the second week in a
row that we've had issues with Waimo getting confused. And
to be clear, I'm a fan of the autonomous vehicles.
I'm a fan of the way that this that this
technology is advancing, but these growing pains are a real.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Pain and predictable.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
So way moos go down to the end of a
cul de sac and then they have to try to
turn around as they've got more Waymos behind them, and
they all get stuck.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
They go, but you go, you go, I go, No, no,
you go, no, I go.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I thought that there was supposed to be some
neural network where they were all conversing with one another
in order to operate in a more efficient manner, but
we're not there yet, and so they get all confused.
The lights go out, the traffic lights are gone, the
street lights are gone, and then way Moo just goes.
I don't know what to do, so they do what
evidently their programmed to do that they assume is the
(26:44):
safe thing. They stop and then they turn on their hazards.
All right, but now suppose I'm not in an autonomous vehicle.
I got to try to get around this dumb thing
to stopped in the middle of an intersection. Growing pains
are honestly a giant turn off, right now, massive turnoff.
All right, Finally you are about to get the truth.
(27:04):
You've been waiting for it for years. The big Friday
Night info dump happens, and you realize half of it's missing.
The other half doesn't make any sense. This is not
going to make the issue go away for the president.
Hot reactions from the left and the right. Next Chris
Merril
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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