December 17, 2025 • 34 mins
We’re still reeling from the shock murder of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. The LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman has charged their son Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder, carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison, with possibility of the death penalty. Federal prosecutors arrested four SoCal people who are part of a group called Turtle Island Liberation Front. They were plotting a New Year’s Eve terrorist attack in which they planned simultaneous bombings across LA as people enjoyed the festivities. Dictionary.com’s word of the year is six-seven. There are so many words of the year, including “parasocial,” “fatigue” and slop.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hey, good to see you guys. Fooshsho love Foosh Foosh
has hit me up over the weekend. Hey mean you
want to hang out? Yes, yes, you know you want
to go shopping and get some cargo shorts. I finally
they're having a stale at TJ Max. Like that. I
(00:35):
sound like Kermit.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Well, I'm still working on your voice. Okay, all right,
Mark Rodder in the house. You came back.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I did well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's always a pleasure to work with such a complete pro.
Oh wow, starting early, Yeah, right right out of the gate. Wow,
that is great.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Whoa baby. Wow. I heard your top story too.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's the charging Nick Rhyner be in charge with the
murder of his parents, unbelievably.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So that I was on Sunday and we're doing, you know,
just just Sunday afternoon stuff, you know how it is
kind of here's some fun stuff, here's some you know,
there's some entertainment news. And then I don't know, I
teased something that was coming up, something, you know, lame
and uh, and all of a sudden, the news just
breaks like, oh my gosh, they just pulled bodies out
of Rob Reiner's house. And I went, oh god, the
(01:25):
show just took a turn. I did not want. Nobody
wanted that. Nobody wants. Nobody wants any bodies found in
anybody's house. And then when you hear that there's two
and of course, you know how it is early on
when a story like that is happening, you don't know
what happened, So you know, was this was this like
a murder suicide? Was this a gas leak? You know,
(01:46):
we just had the wasn't a gas leak that Gene
Hackman and his wife did that? Wasn't that a gas
leak that they decided that? Are you sure about that?
I thought his wife died of haunted virus and oh
that's what it was, that had dimion, That's what essentially
starved in dimesical causes, right, So that was horrible story
and you're thinking, Okay, did something you know, was something
(02:06):
just was there something at Ryner's house.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's just yet to be explained. And then you find
out that, I mean, everybody's pretty confident in what it
was not as his son did it. It's truly jarring.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, not a kind of news story you can
just blow off and go about your day. Really, No, no,
it was disturbing. No, absolutely, And so NBCLA was covering
the press conference todayhere they announced the charges come on go.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
The La County DA's office just filing the criminal complaints
in the last few minutes, detailing the allegations against Nick
Reiner that he took the lives of his parents over
the weekend. The initial appearance that Nick Reiner was supposed
to make in court this morning was delayed. That La
County DA Nathan Hofkman says the case we'll move forward quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
These charges will be two counts of first degree murder
with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also fasts
special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon,
that being a knife. These charges carry a maximum sentence
of life in prison without the possibility parol or the
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death penalty.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Whoa are they gonna go after the death penalty on
this one?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Has it?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The rumor is nothing more than speculation unless it came
out of the d a's office.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I bet they don't go after the death penalty.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
I did see a press release on it today that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Said what Nikki, that that they were gonna that they
were going to seek it, or that it's not off.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
The table, it's it is on the table, on the table.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, I don't think they're going to. And and
my logic is this, they're going to say that this
was a family member who was deeply disturbed that there
was no forced entry.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
They're gonna, you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Know, whatever it is, they're gonna, They're going to say
life in prison. They're not going to seek the death penalty.
I don't I don't think I'll appine on this a
little bit more later on the show because I have
I got another reason too. I don't think that they're
going to. But it is an interesting twist on that.
Did you see who we hired as his lawyer. No,
(04:14):
he got Alan Jackson, not the country star, the the
Karen Reid's attorney. You know Karen Reid that was just
up for murder and it was in New York right,
Oh right, yeah, that was that was a well known case. Yeah,
accused of killing her boyfriend or partner right outside the
police party.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, So that's uh, that's a Nick Reiner's attorney on
this one. And then then we got more news today
that made it sound like like this had been brewing
for a little not the murder itself, but sort of
the dispute. I don't know if I hate to say
domestic dispute, but that's really it's what it is that
(04:55):
escalated the murder. At least that's what it sounds like
based on what we know, and it's it sounded like
there was this is very public just the day before.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
This was again from NBCLA.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Now we talk about Hollywood being a very small town.
As you take a look at video and pictures of
Nick Reiner and his father, Rob Reiner.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, no, it's radio. But you've probably if you've been
online today, you've probably seen the photos.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
We can tell you that in this small town, there
was a very big party on Saturday night. That's the
Conan O'Brien Christmas party on Saturday is an annual event,
apparently very well attended now throughout the day on Sunday,
once news of the murders broke, people were telling me,
and NBC News has confirmed otherwise that there was a
(05:39):
fight between a father and son there, that Nick Reiner
was acting strangely, and that Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner
had apparently expressed two people at the party that they
were concerned about their son.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, so they're having a very public argument and they
have Okay, did I'm sorry, did I interrupt somebody's snack time?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
No kidding?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Why am I?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
S No, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's not like we're talking about, you know, patricide or
anything like that. It's cool, Nikki.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
You just enjoy those crisps, and there's been a lot
of this past week.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I really no, that's fine. I got I was so
crystal clear. I thought I was like, is it next
to me? And it really well physically it was, but
looking to see if am I eating chips? Nice?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, and it's it's parasite if it's both parents. Oh oh, okay,
thank you, Mark. I appreciate that. Complete pro one and
one not like not like Nikki over the no wow,
complete asmr pro my god, like it's a story about
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the d m V or something. Right, It's like, oh,
it's unbelievable, unbelievable. All right, Well, Nikky, go grab some
carrots because I'm going to talk about a New Year's
Eve terror plot next?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It doesn't that sound like fun?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Love this story?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Maybe some soup for this one.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We had to what seems like a bad situation when
authorities tell us that we have some some bad actors
looking to really ruin the holidays. Federal prosecutors say that
for Southern California, man arrested and charged with plot and
coordinated attacks on crowds during New Year's Eve celebrations. Oh man,
(07:40):
Uh can't say I'm really excited about this story. Sure enough.
The thinking here is that they wanted to make a
statement on the New Year. Well from ABC seven, Well
that's right.
Speaker 12 (07:51):
Federal authorities say they stopped a New Year's Eve terror
plot involving southern California, and four people are now under arrest.
The FBI says this suss had a plan to carry
out simultaneous bombings on New Year's Eve using backpacks rigged
with improvised explosive devices.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I this is where I can't. I can't think like
these people, Like what gives you the idea that I'm
going to do this? I need to do this, This
is a good idea, Like there's something in their minds
that says, yes, this is righteous, and I just can't
wrap my head around that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Now Here you see some surveillance video.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
Officials say it's the suspects as they plan to build
and test the bombs. This was in Lucerne Valley and
shortly after this video was taken, the suspects were arrested.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Now, thank goodness, good job by the FBI.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
They're allegedly part of a group called the Turtle Island
Liberation Front, and they're identified as Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page,
Tina Le, and Dante Gaffield.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Turtle Island Liberation Front. It's like a TILF.
Speaker 12 (08:56):
Officials would not release any information about the target location,
only saying that they are logistics companies engaged in interstate
and commerce.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now investigators are, oh, is this like an anti capitalism thing?
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Yeah, they're anti capitalists.
Speaker 13 (09:10):
Apparently they're far left and they're pro Palestine and they're
very Yeah, anti capitalists. They are for the liberation of
occupied Turtle Island, which is North America.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Is that a question?
Speaker 13 (09:26):
That's I guess that's what Turtle Island is referenced to
North America.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
It's their name for North America.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't think it's like that tiny little island in
Lake Erie.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
No, they believe it's.
Speaker 12 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (09:37):
They believe North America has been colonized and they want
to give it back to the indigenous people. Oh so
they call it Turtle Island, not America or the United
States or Canada.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 12 (09:47):
Investigators are also looking into online activity connected to the case.
An Instagram account known as the Turtle Liberation publicly posted
content advocating violence against US officials, and according to the FBI,
a recent post called for a revolution and urge supporters
to organize and be ready. Officials said they also find
items that said death to America and long lived Palestine.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, all right, So, so is it fair to say
radicalized in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
These bombs were to blow up at the same time
on midnight this New Year's Eve. The plan stated that
the IDs would be complex pipe bombs. It included instructions
on how to manufacture the bombs and contain guidance on
how to avoid leaving evidence behind that could be traced
back to them.
Speaker 12 (10:36):
I mean now, officials say there are more members to
this crew, but they believe they have arrested all of
those who were specifically involved in this New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Plot, guessing that they're keeping an eye on the others.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
The suspects are expected to make their first appearance in
court sometime this afternoon. Reporting Life from Westwood I'm Cardinals
Gronda ABC seven eyewitness mes.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So what freaks me out is they got these guys right.
But what worries me is we have seen a rash
of just unhinged behavior here over the last week, and
I'm wildly concerned about the people that we haven't figured out.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm very worried about.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And maybe it's maybe it's silly of me, but every
time one of these things happens, you go, my god,
we could have had you know, our own you know,
it would have been another like Boston marathon bombing. It
would have been another I mean, you name it, another
Oklahoma city. It would have been another whatever it is, right,
fill in the blank. Those are the ones that slipped
through the cracks. Now, kudos again to the FBI for
figuring this out. But what freaks me out is, you know,
(11:42):
they're not the only ones. You know, it wasn't just
a group of four people in the entire country that
are cuckoo for cocoa puffs and want to go do
harm to other people. Or I don't know, UPS company
they said, logistics companies. I'm guessing that's like UPS or
I don't know, maybe consultants of some sort. But what
worries me is now that you got these what are
(12:03):
the ones that are going to slip through the cracks?
And that that just scares the hell out of me.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
And it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Makes me think twice before I go out, and I
know what you well, if you don't go out, the
terrorists win. I understand, I definitely understand, But I also look,
I put marri well first, you know, and I got
(12:30):
to think, what's my own safety? What does my own
safety look like? If I'm going out? Do I want
to take my wife's someplace public where my god, something
horrible could happen? And you go, yeah, but don't you
trust the don't you trust the government to keep you safe?
The funny thing about that is, ask anybody do you
trust the government to keep you safe? In fact, just
(12:52):
say do you trust the government, and an awful lot
of people are gonna say nope, And you go, well,
how do you feel about law enforcement. They go, oh,
they're great. I try them implicitly, Well you realize that's
the government. Oh well, I don't wait, I don't Santas
air head blows up. They just can't handle it. I
actually think the FBI did a fantastic job on this.
I have tremendous faith in whatever police department is out there.
(13:16):
I know these guys were targeting downtown LA or San Diego,
and I've had a lot of contact with with officers
when I was working in San Diego County for radio,
not contact for other reasons, and I have tremendous faith
in them. Incredibly good people, not a not an ill
word to say. That said, understaffed. That said, we make
(13:40):
it sound like the people the terrorists aren't trying to
think ahead and and and aren't trying to get away
with things.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Of course they are. And so as a result of that,
I just worry.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, what if you have what if you have
one of these crackpots that is, you know, got half
a brain cell, and they're in lives our secret weapon.
Most of them don't. Most of them don't have half
a brain cell. That's why they get caught. But I'm
always worried about those other ones. I'm worried about the ones.
(14:12):
At some point you get somebody with a decent IQ
that becomes radicalized and they're going to get away with
something horrible, and that just scares the hell out of me.
And I don't want I don't want to be around it.
I don't want my family around it. And so yeah,
I think twice before I go out. Okay, it's another day,
and it's another website that is cranking out our word
(14:33):
of the year. How many we had so far? Mark,
I think we're on I think we're on our third
one today. Multiple outfits seem to be putting them out. Yeah, ironically,
there are so many words of the year that this
one becomes self reflective. Why this one word matters more
than what you'd think is next? You're listening to KFI
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Speaker 3 (14:56):
Still to come.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Why it's entirely possible you are driving an illegal vehicle.
You didn't even know it, but it's totally possible. Uh,
that's coming up here after Mark's news update, we have
that straight ahead and then an update on the man
hunt for the shooter on at the Brown University.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That is straight up after eight o'clock as well.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
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Speaker 3 (15:30):
You hear something we like, you like, let us know
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guy didn't like Mark.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
You, sir, are an idiot?
Speaker 14 (15:39):
Yeah, off the radio?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When when is my name mentioned in that? I'm just
I assume is it's implied? Is that what you're suggesting?
By the way, I got I got one over the weekend.
It saved it specifically for you because I knew you'd
love it. Okay, all right, Chris Merrill's show is absolutely
huh terrific.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Huh riff. They are barely paying him a living wage.
Speaker 14 (16:04):
Ratings be damned.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He marches on, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Right, so I figured you'd love that one. I like
that little extra stank he put on hard terrific. If
you listen, I think at the end you can hear
somebody screaming in the background. Oh yeah, real, it's real
faint here. I'll I'll make it a little bit louder.
See if I can bring the volume up on this,
See how this goes? Yeah, so you're popular among animal tortures.
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That's that's what it sounds like. Does he just live
in an apartment full of parakeets.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Or something with ratings?
Speaker 14 (16:39):
Be damned?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
He marches on.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
It, put its skin and it sounds like there's nothing
in wherever he's doing that from. No, it sounds like
like a complete empty room.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yes, and then and then yeah, he puts a little
onage skin or else you gets so home good? You
have the best fans. Yeah, you know why? Yes, I do.
Do you want me to say it?
Speaker 10 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Go ahead, Yeah, because you're a complete pro. It's two
to one roner very good.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We were talking about the terror plot new you receive
and the the FBI got the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which,
as we found out, is there how they refer to
North America not Turtle Island, Ohio?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Which who do so your thoughts on that this is
a red herring? Okay?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
First off, who goes on to public land to start
building bombs in tech?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Kaczynski and it's a clear day.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
How in the hell are you not looking out for
a drone overhead if you know you're doing something wrong.
I haven't provided emails or anything else. This is a
red herring. Okay, yes, so this way we can have
a lot more government over on top of us.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So wait a minute, is it the so is okay?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm so confused because normally when you get a conspiracy
theory like that, it's usually because you know, Biden or
Obama are trying to expand the size of government. Is
this cash battel and Donald Trump trying to impose more
government on top of us?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Or are we on the uniparty thing? I always get confused.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just more details on the conspiracy theories, that's all I
just I get confused when I try to follow along.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It's like trying to follow the bouncy ball. I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right, if December comes around and one of the
I have a pet peeve, it's that we name the
person of the year before the year is over. I
always feel like times person of the year should come
in that week of purgatory between Christmas and New Year's
that's when you can name the person of the year.
But instead they always named the person of the year
(18:48):
early in the month of December. That bugs the Jesus
out of me. So this year they named Ai architects
or something.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Right. The other thing that bugs me is the word
of the year. The word of the year should come
from one place, because it's not the word of the year,
it's word word of ish the year.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Can we just get all the dictionaries to come together
and agree on a word of the year. But they don't.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So for instance, it started with this beginning of January,
like four weeks ago, like Thanksgiving time, when dictionary dot
com release.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
Their Dictionary dot COM's word of the year is out
and it's a number. Actually it's two numbers, you ready, yeah, six, seven.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Of parents and teachers.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
While its definition is unclear.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That's kind of part of the appeal. I love that
the word of the year has an unclear definition coming
from dictionary dot Com. Outstanding. Continue on CBS News, Tell
me more about this thing that we don't understand.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The term is.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Quote meaningless with quote all the hallmarks of brain rot.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Dictionary dot com, whose one job is to tell us
the meaning of words named for their word of the year,
something they say is meaningless. That is so great, That
is really outstanding truly truly inspiring.
Speaker 15 (20:27):
Loosely, it means so so or maybe this, maybe that
it's an interjection. It sometimes uses something that is often
shouted out with that hand Jesher, you just saw me
doing it. Originated in a song by the rapper or Scriula.
Other terms that made the short list.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I don't care about the other terms.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I feel like CBS News there was just sort of
trying to trying to give it meaning while saying it's meaningless,
really tremendous.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Just outstanding.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And then all of a sudden we at In fact,
Mark gave me the first I heard this year, and
that was it was actually the second one because dictionary
dot com came up with theres first.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Mark told us about this. What a week or two ago.
It's not the end of the year. Don't give me
the word of the year yet. But that's exactly what
Cambridge did.
Speaker 16 (21:11):
Word of the Year for twenty twenty five, and that
word is parasocial, which is used to describe a deep
bond that people feel when someone they don't actually know,
for example, a connection someone might feel with a celebrity influencer,
even artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yes, that's happening. The word was.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
Coined in the fifties to describe how some people from
parasocial relationships with TV personalities.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Interesting, Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Interesting, So it's how that caller felt about you with
the streaming going on in the background.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Can we get all the assorted dictionary joints to come
together and agree on in one word?
Speaker 13 (21:58):
Dictionary dot com is not really an industry standard like
Merriam Webster or Collins.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, first of all, Collins, we don't. We don't even
talk about Colin. Collins doesn't even count. That's because that
isn't that like British No counsels, although Cambridge and it's British.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
What is the language called American? It's English American.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I speak America, Yes you do, because I am a patriot.
Uh America Americ. Let me see from the talk back,
I didn't get a chance to listen to this. I
didn't preview this, so I don't know. This could go
downhill very fast. All right, all right, here we go. Fush,
just get ready of that, say I'll be ready.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
All right, go ahead, here you guys in the programming department,
he's your closure. After seven, he's your closure. He puts
everyone to bed. You would be a fool not to
amplify his spot is schedule and give him some money.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But he's perfect for you. I don't know. Was that
a compliment for us?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is that the mock?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I know that was probably from Mark No, no, no,
he was saying that you put people to sleep, you
put listeners to sleep.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's what that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Wow. Okay, cutterr mic off. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I can't tell if it was a compliment that you're
soothing or or he was insulting us. All right, well no, no,
not me. He puts everyone to bed. That that didn't
pertend to me in any way. I think he was
focused on certainly not certainly not Okay, back to the
word of the year. So then Glassdoor comes out with
their word.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Of the year. Glass Door gets a word of the year.
What's that?
Speaker 17 (23:46):
Guess?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I guess everybody gets a word of the word of
the year. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Let's talk about door is just release the word of the.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Year from Fox five New York. You know, no, that's
why we're watching. We can't wait. Go ahead, fatik, I
wonder why huh huh m h huh huh h hmm
(24:14):
about confused?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
This is what happens is what happens when TV people
get through the script before the time for that segment
is planned out, and they have to kind of then
vamp and they're like, dming know.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
How to do that?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You don't want dead air on the fancy TV huh
hmmm mmm m wild huh yep, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right. Then onto Oxford their word of the year
if you missed this one.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
Top word or phrase for twenty twenty five's rage bait.
Oxford defines the term as online content deliberately designed to
elicit anger or outrage. This includes content like the over
the top, hot takes and offensive post deliberately meant to
increase engagements.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
All right, so there you go. We've got Dictionary, which
our Penal Island producer says doesn't count. Then you've got Cambridge,
which she says, of course, her overlord says worthwhile. Then
you've got Oxford the English Dictionary. She of course worships them.
But we'll go to Merriam Webster the Mercan Dictionary. Now
(25:20):
what is their word of the year, which is based
on everything I just told you.
Speaker 18 (25:24):
So ironic and so now Meriam Webster is jumping in
on all the fun and they've released their word of
the year, and get this, it is slop. Huh, don't
know what that means.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
What we're about to find out, don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Don't say that it's from ABC five Iowa. By the way,
don't don't say don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
What that means.
Speaker 18 (25:43):
So they define the word as Internet content that is
very low quality yet popular.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's like this show.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Most of the time, it's AI generated.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Isn't it funny that all this content is popular? But
it's it's kind of garbage. It's kind of like everyone
coming out with their own word of the year. It
just becomes slop show great, good one. I don't think
they understand their own irony. Chris Merrill's show is absolutely horrific.
(26:24):
The miles on that cheap used car smell like a deal.
You better sniff a little bit closer. California has got
a huge problem your wallet taking the hit.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Still to calm the latest on the Brown University manhunt
and drama in the White House during this administration.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, it's kind of the whole Hallmark. It's kind of
what Trump likes to do. Actually, he loves that turmoil.
He said so himself. He loves it. And if you've
ever watched his show, he loves to see people going
at each other things. It keeps people sharp. So what's
the latest on that? That is coming up here after
(27:08):
Marks eight o'clock news. Oh, we got clarification on the
fellow that called earlier Mark that we were confused by.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I was confused by his son his talk back. He
said that we put people to bed and that we should. Yeah, anyway,
that was good. I think you totally misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, what do you think, Mark, did we misunderstand that
things are good or did we misunderstand that.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Things are bad? We were either boring people to sleep
or soothing them to sleep. Okay, and by we I
mean you. Okay, let's see what we say.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
As in a baseball game, he's probably one of your
most valuable assets. Okay, he called us the closes he
puts the radio day to sleep for the night.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Oh so we're like, we're like, okay, I got you.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
All right, he's the perfect ending of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh all right, cool.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh, now he's he's exasperated with take a look, yeah,
I get that. Yeah, sorry man, anyway, thank you. I
appreciate the helpment.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
The way he puts his and he reminds you what
you guys are just doing. He puts him back to bed,
puts them to bed, to bed, puts a lotion on
his skin, then he puts bed.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
No, that's the other guy. That's the other guy. Just god, oh,
terrific that guy. All right, why are you rolling in
that in that janky illegal car.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
According to Katy La, there's a chance, and Katy a
he pulled the story from Carfax, there's a pretty good
chance that the eurodometer is completely messed up.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
If you're in the market for a used car, the
people at Carfax say, be careful. The car you're about
to buy might be a lot more used than you
think it is.
Speaker 19 (29:02):
Why carcot Stata finds about two and a half million
bugles on the road right now are suspected to have
had their domeinters rolled back. And that's about a fourteen
percent increase from just twenty twenty four. And that's especially
concerning because if we compare the year over year rate,
it's dramatically higher than.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
The years prior.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Wow, motive is clear used cars with fewer miles fetch
higher prices.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Josh Ingel of Atlanta Speedometers said the scammers can roll
back odometers using legitimate tools.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah. I saw this in Ferrispeeler.
Speaker 20 (29:34):
So this is a mileage correction tool. This is available
on the internet. Prices have come down substantially for the
past few years.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 20 (29:42):
But the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster, program the correct mileage to it,
and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh so, now you've got scammers that are just getting
these things online and then they roll back the odometer.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Wow, So forget about it if you're just looking for
a used car. What about if you bought a used car,
there's a chance that your stuff has been messed with.
Holy cow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Angle then demonstrated just how easily a scammer can use
that tool to full a purchaser.
Speaker 20 (30:28):
We'll cut over to the instrument cluster on this good
so you'll see that this car right now has one
hundred and fifty thousand miles on it. Okay, using this
device programmer, I've already entered in and selected my model
and internet the value that I want to have, and
I'm going to hit the inner button and just in
a couple of seconds, you're going to see the dashes
going to reset, and then when it comes back to life,
(30:49):
it's going to show that new mileages that I've programmed
this too. Wow, and now we've got fifty thousand miles on.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
So holy cow, you just knocked one hundred thousand miles
off in like five seconds. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well that doesn't make me feel great. How do they
know if it's been rolled back? That's the deal that
I don't really get. I know that you're supposed to
be you're supposed to buy a car Fax. Obviously Carfax
wants you to use their product, right, that's the that's
the whole dealio. Uh, But then how do you know
for sure? If you have concerns about the accuracy re
vehicles are dometer? You can go to carfax dot com
(31:23):
slash no dometer and then enter in the car's van
or license plate.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But how does the how do they know?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
How do they have any idea how much you drive
your car? For instance, I don't drive my car a
whole lot. I've had my car for two years. I've
just over sixteen thousand miles on it. Right The last
car I had I owned for two years, and at
the end of two years, I had eighty thousand miles
in that car. In two years, I was driving back
and forth between Phoenix and San Diego every weekend, so
(31:51):
I put a ton of miles on it. Plus my
commute into work was pretty long every day too, so
I put a ton of miles on it. Now I
live twelve minutes from work, it's like a four mile drive.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
It's great. I don't put hardly any miles on my car.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But if you took a look at the last car
that I own, I bought brand new, put eighty thousand
miles on it two years. And now you take a
look at my car right now, in two years, I've
put sixteen thousand miles on it, and you might think
to yourself, oh, he's jacked without odometer. Even even when
I like, I'll get like the notice from the dealership,
like we estimate you've got twenty two thousand miles on
(32:27):
your car now, right, and they're basing that on ten
or twelve thousand miles a year.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
No, don't.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I don't drive that much. I'm only putting eight thousand
miles a year in my car. How does Carfax even know?
So that's my concern. My concern is, how do you
even verify that it has been tinkered with unless there's
some history in the computer. Perhaps if there's a mechanic
out there that knows. And I'd be interested in hearing
your you're taking that from the talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Foosh, so glad you're back. Whoosh, love for Foosh tonight
love it? Well done? Okay, bosh?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
That so sorry you have to endure Chris Merrill zero
show prep.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Wow, the bottle of the show Wow went for the throat.
He does not appear to regard you as a complete pro. No, wow,
are we three to one? I guess so, Holy cown.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't have the best voice in the business. I
don't have the best tempo. I suck it, sticking to
the clock. I'm already two minutes over for this segment.
About to tell you, but nobody's paying attention. But I'll
put my show prep against anybody's. I'll tell you that
right now. I'll put my show prep up against anybody.
You might not like what I do with it, but
I'll put my preparation up against anybody's. Hey, you're actually
quite retentive about that very and I'm looking at your
(33:44):
your rundown.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's quite thorough. That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Then I started adding more colors to it too, so
it's easier on the eye. Yeah, I would like more
graphics and cartoons. Okay, if you could do that.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I can come up with that plea.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
No, that's what makes it fun. All right.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We'll talk the latest on the Brown University's shooting as
they keep looking for this person of interest, I guess,
and they've got a new person of interest because the
other one got set free. That is next, the latest
on it. Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty on
demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Chris Meryl, I am six more stimulating talking on demand
anytime in the I Heart Radio app.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hey, good to see you guys. Fooshsho love Foosh Foosh
has hit me up over the weekend. Hey mean you
want to hang out? Yes, yes, you know you want
to go shopping and get some cargo shorts. I finally
they're having a stale at TJ Max. Like that. I
(00:35):
sound like Kermit.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Well, I'm still working on your voice. Okay, all right,
Mark Rodder in the house. You came back.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I did well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's always a pleasure to work with such a complete pro.
Oh wow, starting early, Yeah, right right out of the gate. Wow,
that is great.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Whoa baby. Wow. I heard your top story too.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's the charging Nick Rhyner be in charge with the
murder of his parents, unbelievably.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So that I was on Sunday and we're doing, you know,
just just Sunday afternoon stuff, you know how it is
kind of here's some fun stuff, here's some you know,
there's some entertainment news. And then I don't know, I
teased something that was coming up, something, you know, lame
and uh, and all of a sudden, the news just
breaks like, oh my gosh, they just pulled bodies out
of Rob Reiner's house. And I went, oh god, the
(01:25):
show just took a turn. I did not want. Nobody
wanted that. Nobody wants. Nobody wants any bodies found in
anybody's house. And then when you hear that there's two
and of course, you know how it is early on
when a story like that is happening, you don't know
what happened, So you know, was this was this like
a murder suicide? Was this a gas leak? You know,
(01:46):
we just had the wasn't a gas leak that Gene
Hackman and his wife did that? Wasn't that a gas
leak that they decided that? Are you sure about that?
I thought his wife died of haunted virus and oh
that's what it was, that had dimion, That's what essentially
starved in dimesical causes, right, So that was horrible story
and you're thinking, Okay, did something you know, was something
(02:06):
just was there something at Ryner's house.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's just yet to be explained. And then you find
out that, I mean, everybody's pretty confident in what it
was not as his son did it. It's truly jarring.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, not a kind of news story you can
just blow off and go about your day. Really, No, no,
it was disturbing. No, absolutely, And so NBCLA was covering
the press conference todayhere they announced the charges come on go.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
The La County DA's office just filing the criminal complaints
in the last few minutes, detailing the allegations against Nick
Reiner that he took the lives of his parents over
the weekend. The initial appearance that Nick Reiner was supposed
to make in court this morning was delayed. That La
County DA Nathan Hofkman says the case we'll move forward quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
These charges will be two counts of first degree murder
with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also fasts
special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon,
that being a knife. These charges carry a maximum sentence
of life in prison without the possibility parol or the
(03:14):
death penalty.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Whoa are they gonna go after the death penalty on
this one?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Has it?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The rumor is nothing more than speculation unless it came
out of the d a's office.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I bet they don't go after the death penalty.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
I did see a press release on it today that.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Said what Nikki, that that they were gonna that they
were going to seek it, or that it's not off.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
The table, it's it is on the table, on the table.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, I don't think they're going to. And and
my logic is this, they're going to say that this
was a family member who was deeply disturbed that there
was no forced entry.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
They're gonna, you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Know, whatever it is, they're gonna, They're going to say
life in prison. They're not going to seek the death penalty.
I don't I don't think I'll appine on this a
little bit more later on the show because I have
I got another reason too. I don't think that they're
going to. But it is an interesting twist on that.
Did you see who we hired as his lawyer. No,
(04:14):
he got Alan Jackson, not the country star, the the
Karen Reid's attorney. You know Karen Reid that was just
up for murder and it was in New York right,
Oh right, yeah, that was that was a well known case. Yeah,
accused of killing her boyfriend or partner right outside the
police party.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, So that's uh, that's a Nick Reiner's attorney on
this one. And then then we got more news today
that made it sound like like this had been brewing
for a little not the murder itself, but sort of
the dispute. I don't know if I hate to say
domestic dispute, but that's really it's what it is that
(04:55):
escalated the murder. At least that's what it sounds like
based on what we know, and it's it sounded like
there was this is very public just the day before.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
This was again from NBCLA.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Now we talk about Hollywood being a very small town.
As you take a look at video and pictures of
Nick Reiner and his father, Rob Reiner.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, no, it's radio. But you've probably if you've been
online today, you've probably seen the photos.
Speaker 8 (05:19):
We can tell you that in this small town, there
was a very big party on Saturday night. That's the
Conan O'Brien Christmas party on Saturday is an annual event,
apparently very well attended now throughout the day on Sunday,
once news of the murders broke, people were telling me,
and NBC News has confirmed otherwise that there was a
(05:39):
fight between a father and son there, that Nick Reiner
was acting strangely, and that Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner
had apparently expressed two people at the party that they
were concerned about their son.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, so they're having a very public argument and they
have Okay, did I'm sorry, did I interrupt somebody's snack time?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
No kidding?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Why am I?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
S No, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's not like we're talking about, you know, patricide or
anything like that. It's cool, Nikki.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
You just enjoy those crisps, and there's been a lot
of this past week.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I really no, that's fine. I got I was so
crystal clear. I thought I was like, is it next
to me? And it really well physically it was, but
looking to see if am I eating chips? Nice?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, and it's it's parasite if it's both parents. Oh oh, okay,
thank you, Mark. I appreciate that. Complete pro one and
one not like not like Nikki over the no wow,
complete asmr pro my god, like it's a story about
(06:51):
the d m V or something. Right, It's like, oh,
it's unbelievable, unbelievable. All right, Well, Nikky, go grab some
carrots because I'm going to talk about a New Year's
Eve terror plot next?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It doesn't that sound like fun?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Love this story?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Maybe some soup for this one.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
We had to what seems like a bad situation when
authorities tell us that we have some some bad actors
looking to really ruin the holidays. Federal prosecutors say that
for Southern California, man arrested and charged with plot and
coordinated attacks on crowds during New Year's Eve celebrations. Oh man,
(07:40):
Uh can't say I'm really excited about this story. Sure enough.
The thinking here is that they wanted to make a
statement on the New Year. Well from ABC seven, Well
that's right.
Speaker 12 (07:51):
Federal authorities say they stopped a New Year's Eve terror
plot involving southern California, and four people are now under arrest.
The FBI says this suss had a plan to carry
out simultaneous bombings on New Year's Eve using backpacks rigged
with improvised explosive devices.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I this is where I can't. I can't think like
these people, Like what gives you the idea that I'm
going to do this? I need to do this, This
is a good idea, Like there's something in their minds
that says, yes, this is righteous, and I just can't
wrap my head around that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Now Here you see some surveillance video.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
Officials say it's the suspects as they plan to build
and test the bombs. This was in Lucerne Valley and
shortly after this video was taken, the suspects were arrested.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Now, thank goodness, good job by the FBI.
Speaker 12 (08:41):
They're allegedly part of a group called the Turtle Island
Liberation Front, and they're identified as Audrey Carroll, Zachary Page,
Tina Le, and Dante Gaffield.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Turtle Island Liberation Front. It's like a TILF.
Speaker 12 (08:56):
Officials would not release any information about the target location,
only saying that they are logistics companies engaged in interstate
and commerce.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now investigators are, oh, is this like an anti capitalism thing?
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Yeah, they're anti capitalists.
Speaker 13 (09:10):
Apparently they're far left and they're pro Palestine and they're
very Yeah, anti capitalists. They are for the liberation of
occupied Turtle Island, which is North America.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Is that a question?
Speaker 13 (09:26):
That's I guess that's what Turtle Island is referenced to
North America.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
It's their name for North America.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't think it's like that tiny little island in
Lake Erie.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
No, they believe it's.
Speaker 12 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (09:37):
They believe North America has been colonized and they want
to give it back to the indigenous people. Oh so
they call it Turtle Island, not America or the United
States or Canada.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 12 (09:47):
Investigators are also looking into online activity connected to the case.
An Instagram account known as the Turtle Liberation publicly posted
content advocating violence against US officials, and according to the FBI,
a recent post called for a revolution and urge supporters
to organize and be ready. Officials said they also find
items that said death to America and long lived Palestine.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, all right, So, so is it fair to say
radicalized in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
These bombs were to blow up at the same time
on midnight this New Year's Eve. The plan stated that
the IDs would be complex pipe bombs. It included instructions
on how to manufacture the bombs and contain guidance on
how to avoid leaving evidence behind that could be traced
back to them.
Speaker 12 (10:36):
I mean now, officials say there are more members to
this crew, but they believe they have arrested all of
those who were specifically involved in this New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Plot, guessing that they're keeping an eye on the others.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
The suspects are expected to make their first appearance in
court sometime this afternoon. Reporting Life from Westwood I'm Cardinals
Gronda ABC seven eyewitness mes.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So what freaks me out is they got these guys right.
But what worries me is we have seen a rash
of just unhinged behavior here over the last week, and
I'm wildly concerned about the people that we haven't figured out.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm very worried about.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And maybe it's maybe it's silly of me, but every
time one of these things happens, you go, my god,
we could have had you know, our own you know,
it would have been another like Boston marathon bombing. It
would have been another I mean, you name it, another
Oklahoma city. It would have been another whatever it is, right,
fill in the blank. Those are the ones that slipped
through the cracks. Now, kudos again to the FBI for
figuring this out. But what freaks me out is, you know,
(11:42):
they're not the only ones. You know, it wasn't just
a group of four people in the entire country that
are cuckoo for cocoa puffs and want to go do
harm to other people. Or I don't know, UPS company
they said, logistics companies. I'm guessing that's like UPS or
I don't know, maybe consultants of some sort. But what
worries me is now that you got these what are
(12:03):
the ones that are going to slip through the cracks?
And that that just scares the hell out of me.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
And it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Makes me think twice before I go out, and I
know what you well, if you don't go out, the
terrorists win. I understand, I definitely understand, But I also look,
I put marri well first, you know, and I got
(12:30):
to think, what's my own safety? What does my own
safety look like? If I'm going out? Do I want
to take my wife's someplace public where my god, something
horrible could happen? And you go, yeah, but don't you
trust the don't you trust the government to keep you safe?
The funny thing about that is, ask anybody do you
trust the government to keep you safe? In fact, just
(12:52):
say do you trust the government, and an awful lot
of people are gonna say nope, And you go, well,
how do you feel about law enforcement. They go, oh,
they're great. I try them implicitly, Well you realize that's
the government. Oh well, I don't wait, I don't Santas
air head blows up. They just can't handle it. I
actually think the FBI did a fantastic job on this.
I have tremendous faith in whatever police department is out there.
(13:16):
I know these guys were targeting downtown LA or San Diego,
and I've had a lot of contact with with officers
when I was working in San Diego County for radio,
not contact for other reasons, and I have tremendous faith
in them. Incredibly good people, not a not an ill
word to say. That said, understaffed. That said, we make
(13:40):
it sound like the people the terrorists aren't trying to
think ahead and and and aren't trying to get away
with things.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Of course they are. And so as a result of that,
I just worry.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know, what if you have what if you have
one of these crackpots that is, you know, got half
a brain cell, and they're in lives our secret weapon.
Most of them don't. Most of them don't have half
a brain cell. That's why they get caught. But I'm
always worried about those other ones. I'm worried about the ones.
(14:12):
At some point you get somebody with a decent IQ
that becomes radicalized and they're going to get away with
something horrible, and that just scares the hell out of me.
And I don't want I don't want to be around it.
I don't want my family around it. And so yeah,
I think twice before I go out. Okay, it's another day,
and it's another website that is cranking out our word
(14:33):
of the year. How many we had so far? Mark,
I think we're on I think we're on our third
one today. Multiple outfits seem to be putting them out. Yeah, ironically,
there are so many words of the year that this
one becomes self reflective. Why this one word matters more
than what you'd think is next? You're listening to KFI
AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Still to come.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Why it's entirely possible you are driving an illegal vehicle.
You didn't even know it, but it's totally possible. Uh,
that's coming up here after Mark's news update, we have
that straight ahead and then an update on the man
hunt for the shooter on at the Brown University.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That is straight up after eight o'clock as well.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Remember in catch tonight's program, the podcast available on the
featured podcast KFI AM six forty dot com. It as always,
if you are listening on the iHeartRadio app, you can
hit that talkback button and let us know you know
what's on your mind.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You hear something we like, you like, let us know
here's something you don't like. Let us know, like this
guy didn't like Mark.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
You, sir, are an idiot?
Speaker 14 (15:39):
Yeah, off the radio?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
When when is my name mentioned in that? I'm just
I assume is it's implied? Is that what you're suggesting?
By the way, I got I got one over the weekend.
It saved it specifically for you because I knew you'd
love it. Okay, all right, Chris Merrill's show is absolutely
huh terrific.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Huh riff. They are barely paying him a living wage.
Speaker 14 (16:04):
Ratings be damned.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He marches on, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Right, so I figured you'd love that one. I like
that little extra stank he put on hard terrific. If
you listen, I think at the end you can hear
somebody screaming in the background. Oh yeah, real, it's real
faint here. I'll I'll make it a little bit louder.
See if I can bring the volume up on this,
See how this goes? Yeah, so you're popular among animal tortures.
(16:33):
That's that's what it sounds like. Does he just live
in an apartment full of parakeets.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Or something with ratings?
Speaker 14 (16:39):
Be damned?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
He marches on.
Speaker 14 (16:43):
It, put its skin and it sounds like there's nothing
in wherever he's doing that from. No, it sounds like
like a complete empty room.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yes, and then and then yeah, he puts a little
onage skin or else you gets so home good? You
have the best fans. Yeah, you know why? Yes, I do.
Do you want me to say it?
Speaker 10 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Go ahead, Yeah, because you're a complete pro. It's two
to one roner very good.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We were talking about the terror plot new you receive
and the the FBI got the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which,
as we found out, is there how they refer to
North America not Turtle Island, Ohio?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Which who do so your thoughts on that this is
a red herring? Okay?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
First off, who goes on to public land to start
building bombs in tech?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Kaczynski and it's a clear day.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
How in the hell are you not looking out for
a drone overhead if you know you're doing something wrong.
I haven't provided emails or anything else. This is a
red herring. Okay, yes, so this way we can have
a lot more government over on top of us.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So wait a minute, is it the so is okay?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm so confused because normally when you get a conspiracy
theory like that, it's usually because you know, Biden or
Obama are trying to expand the size of government. Is
this cash battel and Donald Trump trying to impose more
government on top of us?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Or are we on the uniparty thing? I always get confused.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just more details on the conspiracy theories, that's all I
just I get confused when I try to follow along.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It's like trying to follow the bouncy ball. I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All right, if December comes around and one of the
I have a pet peeve, it's that we name the
person of the year before the year is over. I
always feel like times person of the year should come
in that week of purgatory between Christmas and New Year's
that's when you can name the person of the year.
But instead they always named the person of the year
(18:48):
early in the month of December. That bugs the Jesus
out of me. So this year they named Ai architects
or something.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Right. The other thing that bugs me is the word
of the year. The word of the year should come
from one place, because it's not the word of the year,
it's word word of ish the year.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Can we just get all the dictionaries to come together
and agree on a word of the year. But they don't.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So for instance, it started with this beginning of January,
like four weeks ago, like Thanksgiving time, when dictionary dot
com release.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
Their Dictionary dot COM's word of the year is out
and it's a number. Actually it's two numbers, you ready, yeah, six, seven.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Of parents and teachers.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
While its definition is unclear.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That's kind of part of the appeal. I love that
the word of the year has an unclear definition coming
from dictionary dot Com. Outstanding. Continue on CBS News, Tell
me more about this thing that we don't understand.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The term is.
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Quote meaningless with quote all the hallmarks of brain rot.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Dictionary dot com, whose one job is to tell us
the meaning of words named for their word of the year,
something they say is meaningless. That is so great, That
is really outstanding truly truly inspiring.
Speaker 15 (20:27):
Loosely, it means so so or maybe this, maybe that
it's an interjection. It sometimes uses something that is often
shouted out with that hand Jesher, you just saw me
doing it. Originated in a song by the rapper or Scriula.
Other terms that made the short list.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I don't care about the other terms.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I feel like CBS News there was just sort of
trying to trying to give it meaning while saying it's meaningless,
really tremendous.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Just outstanding.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
And then all of a sudden we at In fact,
Mark gave me the first I heard this year, and
that was it was actually the second one because dictionary
dot com came up with theres first.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Mark told us about this. What a week or two ago.
It's not the end of the year. Don't give me
the word of the year yet. But that's exactly what
Cambridge did.
Speaker 16 (21:11):
Word of the Year for twenty twenty five, and that
word is parasocial, which is used to describe a deep
bond that people feel when someone they don't actually know,
for example, a connection someone might feel with a celebrity influencer,
even artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yes, that's happening. The word was.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
Coined in the fifties to describe how some people from
parasocial relationships with TV personalities.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Interesting, Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Interesting, So it's how that caller felt about you with
the streaming going on in the background.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Can we get all the assorted dictionary joints to come
together and agree on in one word?
Speaker 13 (21:58):
Dictionary dot com is not really an industry standard like
Merriam Webster or Collins.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, first of all, Collins, we don't. We don't even
talk about Colin. Collins doesn't even count. That's because that
isn't that like British No counsels, although Cambridge and it's British.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
What is the language called American? It's English American.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I speak America, Yes you do, because I am a patriot.
Uh America Americ. Let me see from the talk back,
I didn't get a chance to listen to this. I
didn't preview this, so I don't know. This could go
downhill very fast. All right, all right, here we go. Fush,
just get ready of that, say I'll be ready.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
All right, go ahead, here you guys in the programming department,
he's your closure. After seven, he's your closure. He puts
everyone to bed. You would be a fool not to
amplify his spot is schedule and give him some money.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But he's perfect for you. I don't know. Was that
a compliment for us?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is that the mock?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I know that was probably from Mark No, no, no,
he was saying that you put people to sleep, you
put listeners to sleep.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's what that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Wow. Okay, cutterr mic off. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I can't tell if it was a compliment that you're
soothing or or he was insulting us. All right, well no, no,
not me. He puts everyone to bed. That that didn't
pertend to me in any way. I think he was
focused on certainly not certainly not Okay, back to the
word of the year. So then Glassdoor comes out with
their word.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Of the year. Glass Door gets a word of the year.
What's that?
Speaker 17 (23:46):
Guess?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I guess everybody gets a word of the word of
the year. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Let's talk about door is just release the word of the.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Year from Fox five New York. You know, no, that's
why we're watching. We can't wait. Go ahead, fatik, I
wonder why huh huh m h huh huh h hmm
(24:14):
about confused?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
This is what happens is what happens when TV people
get through the script before the time for that segment
is planned out, and they have to kind of then
vamp and they're like, dming know.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
How to do that?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You don't want dead air on the fancy TV huh
hmmm mmm m wild huh yep, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right. Then onto Oxford their word of the year
if you missed this one.
Speaker 17 (24:38):
Top word or phrase for twenty twenty five's rage bait.
Oxford defines the term as online content deliberately designed to
elicit anger or outrage. This includes content like the over
the top, hot takes and offensive post deliberately meant to
increase engagements.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
All right, so there you go. We've got Dictionary, which
our Penal Island producer says doesn't count. Then you've got Cambridge,
which she says, of course, her overlord says worthwhile. Then
you've got Oxford the English Dictionary. She of course worships them.
But we'll go to Merriam Webster the Mercan Dictionary. Now
(25:20):
what is their word of the year, which is based
on everything I just told you.
Speaker 18 (25:24):
So ironic and so now Meriam Webster is jumping in
on all the fun and they've released their word of
the year, and get this, it is slop. Huh, don't
know what that means.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
What we're about to find out, don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Don't say that it's from ABC five Iowa. By the way,
don't don't say don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
What that means.
Speaker 18 (25:43):
So they define the word as Internet content that is
very low quality yet popular.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's like this show.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Most of the time, it's AI generated.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Isn't it funny that all this content is popular? But
it's it's kind of garbage. It's kind of like everyone
coming out with their own word of the year. It
just becomes slop show great, good one. I don't think
they understand their own irony. Chris Merrill's show is absolutely horrific.
(26:24):
The miles on that cheap used car smell like a deal.
You better sniff a little bit closer. California has got
a huge problem your wallet taking the hit.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Still to calm the latest on the Brown University manhunt
and drama in the White House during this administration.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, it's kind of the whole Hallmark. It's kind of
what Trump likes to do. Actually, he loves that turmoil.
He said so himself. He loves it. And if you've
ever watched his show, he loves to see people going
at each other things. It keeps people sharp. So what's
the latest on that? That is coming up here after
(27:08):
Marks eight o'clock news. Oh, we got clarification on the
fellow that called earlier Mark that we were confused by.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I was confused by his son his talk back. He
said that we put people to bed and that we should. Yeah, anyway,
that was good. I think you totally misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, what do you think, Mark, did we misunderstand that
things are good or did we misunderstand that.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Things are bad? We were either boring people to sleep
or soothing them to sleep. Okay, and by we I
mean you. Okay, let's see what we say.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
As in a baseball game, he's probably one of your
most valuable assets. Okay, he called us the closes he
puts the radio day to sleep for the night.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Oh so we're like, we're like, okay, I got you.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
All right, he's the perfect ending of the day.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh all right, cool.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh, now he's he's exasperated with take a look, yeah,
I get that. Yeah, sorry man, anyway, thank you. I
appreciate the helpment.
Speaker 14 (28:15):
The way he puts his and he reminds you what
you guys are just doing. He puts him back to bed,
puts them to bed, to bed, puts a lotion on
his skin, then he puts bed.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
No, that's the other guy. That's the other guy. Just god, oh,
terrific that guy. All right, why are you rolling in
that in that janky illegal car.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
According to Katy La, there's a chance, and Katy a
he pulled the story from Carfax, there's a pretty good
chance that the eurodometer is completely messed up.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
If you're in the market for a used car, the
people at Carfax say, be careful. The car you're about
to buy might be a lot more used than you
think it is.
Speaker 19 (29:02):
Why carcot Stata finds about two and a half million
bugles on the road right now are suspected to have
had their domeinters rolled back. And that's about a fourteen
percent increase from just twenty twenty four. And that's especially
concerning because if we compare the year over year rate,
it's dramatically higher than.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
The years prior.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Wow, motive is clear used cars with fewer miles fetch
higher prices.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Josh Ingel of Atlanta Speedometers said the scammers can roll
back odometers using legitimate tools.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah. I saw this in Ferrispeeler.
Speaker 20 (29:34):
So this is a mileage correction tool. This is available
on the internet. Prices have come down substantially for the
past few years.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 20 (29:42):
But the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster, program the correct mileage to it,
and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh so, now you've got scammers that are just getting
these things online and then they roll back the odometer.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Wow, So forget about it if you're just looking for
a used car. What about if you bought a used car,
there's a chance that your stuff has been messed with.
Holy cow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Angle then demonstrated just how easily a scammer can use
that tool to full a purchaser.
Speaker 20 (30:28):
We'll cut over to the instrument cluster on this good
so you'll see that this car right now has one
hundred and fifty thousand miles on it. Okay, using this
device programmer, I've already entered in and selected my model
and internet the value that I want to have, and
I'm going to hit the inner button and just in
a couple of seconds, you're going to see the dashes
going to reset, and then when it comes back to life,
(30:49):
it's going to show that new mileages that I've programmed
this too. Wow, and now we've got fifty thousand miles on.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
So holy cow, you just knocked one hundred thousand miles
off in like five seconds. Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well that doesn't make me feel great. How do they
know if it's been rolled back? That's the deal that
I don't really get. I know that you're supposed to
be you're supposed to buy a car Fax. Obviously Carfax
wants you to use their product, right, that's the that's
the whole dealio. Uh, But then how do you know
for sure? If you have concerns about the accuracy re
vehicles are dometer? You can go to carfax dot com
(31:23):
slash no dometer and then enter in the car's van
or license plate.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But how does the how do they know?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
How do they have any idea how much you drive
your car? For instance, I don't drive my car a
whole lot. I've had my car for two years. I've
just over sixteen thousand miles on it. Right The last
car I had I owned for two years, and at
the end of two years, I had eighty thousand miles
in that car. In two years, I was driving back
and forth between Phoenix and San Diego every weekend, so
(31:51):
I put a ton of miles on it. Plus my
commute into work was pretty long every day too, so
I put a ton of miles on it. Now I
live twelve minutes from work, it's like a four mile drive.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
It's great. I don't put hardly any miles on my car.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But if you took a look at the last car
that I own, I bought brand new, put eighty thousand
miles on it two years. And now you take a
look at my car right now, in two years, I've
put sixteen thousand miles on it, and you might think
to yourself, oh, he's jacked without odometer. Even even when
I like, I'll get like the notice from the dealership,
like we estimate you've got twenty two thousand miles on
(32:27):
your car now, right, and they're basing that on ten
or twelve thousand miles a year.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
No, don't.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I don't drive that much. I'm only putting eight thousand
miles a year in my car. How does Carfax even know?
So that's my concern. My concern is, how do you
even verify that it has been tinkered with unless there's
some history in the computer. Perhaps if there's a mechanic
out there that knows. And I'd be interested in hearing
your you're taking that from the talkbacks.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Foosh, so glad you're back. Whoosh, love for Foosh tonight
love it? Well done? Okay, bosh?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
That so sorry you have to endure Chris Merrill zero
show prep.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Wow, the bottle of the show Wow went for the throat.
He does not appear to regard you as a complete pro. No, wow,
are we three to one? I guess so, Holy cown.
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I don't have the best voice in the business. I
don't have the best tempo. I suck it, sticking to
the clock. I'm already two minutes over for this segment.
About to tell you, but nobody's paying attention. But I'll
put my show prep against anybody's. I'll tell you that
right now. I'll put my show prep up against anybody.
You might not like what I do with it, but
I'll put my preparation up against anybody's. Hey, you're actually
quite retentive about that very and I'm looking at your
(33:44):
your rundown.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's quite thorough. That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Then I started adding more colors to it too, so
it's easier on the eye. Yeah, I would like more
graphics and cartoons. Okay, if you could do that.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
I can come up with that plea.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
No, that's what makes it fun. All right.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We'll talk the latest on the Brown University's shooting as
they keep looking for this person of interest, I guess,
and they've got a new person of interest because the
other one got set free. That is next, the latest
on it. Chris Merril KFI AM six forty. We're live
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