December 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Investigators believe a deadly shooting at Brown University may be connected to the murder of an MIT professor, intensifying a multi-state manhunt as authorities close in on a suspect. The hour then shifts to Capitol Hill, where House Democrats release a new batch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate ahead of a Justice Department disclosure deadline, reigniting fierce debates over transparency, political fallout, and what the images actually prove. The hour wraps with a look at today’s workplace reality: burnout, “shift sulking,” and open frustration with bosses are becoming more common — while Gen X shoppers, despite their spending power, say they’re being ignored by brands obsessed with younger consumers.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kfi AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But they think they found the body of the guy
responsible for the shooting at Brown and at MI.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I T good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Chris Merril kfi AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. We do
have more updates of people who think that Mark Ronner
is a horrible person, and I think that's an important
thing to share with you, But probably not during the segment, however,
Mark you were you were giving update there with what
you had on the latest from the the I guess
(00:33):
press conference, right where all the authorities are standing around
and talking about what a great job they did.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, we decided not to run that live. Yeah, we
wanted to boil it down.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, they had they had a press conference to start
with where they didn't really say anything other than we're
really great at our jobs and and boy, if not
for us, we couldn't have done this.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I've been through so many of those in my previous
life as a reporter that I just I wanted to
spare people that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just tune out, right total tune out.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So anyway, they just did another press conference and it
they offered a little bit more information, including the shooter's
name who.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm not going to dignify it, but it was not
about a side note.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It was not the person that crazy right wing social
media was speculating on earlier this week. I had so
many people sending me like, oh, according to this nutter
on X, it's this person with a Muslim sounding name.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh must be it. Oh stop stop with that turned
out to not be anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Here's the press conference from the FBI talking about this
dude that they picked up.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
An individual was identified as Claudium Nevis Valenti natal birth
and he was a forty eight year old man.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
He was a brown student.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He was a Portuguese national's last name noan address was
in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh god, all is this going to turn into an
immigration argument? He was a He's a Portuguese national who
was studying here. This is gonna oh god, this is
going to turn into an immigration thing, isn't it crap?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And I will tell you that he took his own
life tonight. He looked at financial records, we looked at
video footages, and in a specific incident, it was actually
a video that provided us with a description.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of a vehicle.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Huh, that was corroborated through a tip that was received
through the tip center. That room was packed with detectives
agents receiving calls on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We started early and left late.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How about crackpots? Do you think called in?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's one thing I see repeated constantly in crime dramas,
and I have to believe there's an element of truth
to it. I don't think this is just a fabrication
from the writer's room that whenever you do a tip line.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Crackpots love to call the tip line. They just love it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Crackpots can't wait to tell you that the shooters stole
their cat or something like that, right, and they have
to sift through all that garbage. But man, they work.
I mean, we get you get tip lines to solve crimes.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They do, but man, is it a lot of manpower.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Then Flock and again, those guys were answering the tip line,
as he said, early in the morning till late at night.
But it was basically one tip that that did the trick.
That's just it's that's some hard gumshoe police work right there.
That is just some hard work. So kudos to them.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Then, FLOCK, and the LPR was able to provide us
with this description of this vehicle. That vehicle was picked
up by FLOCK, which led us to a car and.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Us FLOCK is that FLOCK is that that data data agency? Right,
They're the ones that that review all the traffic cams.
They operate the traffic cams, and then cities pay them
as a contractor for for all that stuff, whether it's
speed cameras or highway security cameras or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I saw another story about this and that that FLOCK
kind of basically tracks cars and helps CBP determine whether
or not that car is doing something suspicious like traveling
too often between two sites known for trafficking such you know,
things like that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts.
Through that, the agents and their work as well, were
able to get us footage of this individual as well
as a copy of the agreement which provided his real name.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh, he rented the car using his real name. Yeah,
that's wild because he was using fake credit cards and
things like that. According to the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts,
the suspect used a phone that disguised his location and
used credit cards that were not in his name. I
don't even know you could get a phone that would
disguise your location. I mean, I know you can use
(05:13):
a VPN if you're, you know, surfing the internet, but
I didn't know that you could do that where it
doesn't show where you're, you know, whatever the cell tower
is that you're pinging off of.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I had no idea. I gotta get me in one
of those.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The video of that subject matched the description of that
person of interest.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
At least police department.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Was desperate to put handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
On the Okay, so I guess somebody's at the door,
so uh, I think it was. It did end up
being that guy. They put the video out a couple
of days ago, and the video was but you know,
this is this grainy video. We've tried to enhance it. It
was kind of tough to see. We talked about it
in this show. We said, the guys wearing it looked
like he was wearing like a satchel or a cross
(05:56):
body bag. He looked like what they call it stocky
who doesn't love being referred to as stocky, A black
like a ninety five mask kind of thing. And they said, oh,
if you know who this is, call us, and I
think that's when the tip line just kind of blew up,
with people going, oh, I think that might be my
uncle ted. But evidently it worked, it paid off. And
(06:18):
then I saw how they were connecting the dots in
some of the press release stuff that they were putting
out during this press conference. I think it was the
same guy. I think that was the guy, So good job.
The search focus on video clips of a figure seen
walking past doorbell cams.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
This from the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They're live feed reporting here in the neighborhood east of
Brown's campus, Providence, Rhode Island. His face was largely obscured
behind a medical mask. It's unusual for a suspect in
a shooting attack attack to evade capture for multiple days. Yeah,
I think we know that. But they got him. They
got him, or at least they think they do. I
(06:57):
don't have any reason to doubt this. But they tracked
him back to this storage unit, and then they got
a warrant to get into the storage unit, and I
guess this car from the rental company was there.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
And.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They got in and when they opened it, his body
was in there. So so probably not going to get
the deposit back on that rental car. Now, why is
it that they think that he was related to the
MIT professor who was shot. So we know that there
was a shooting on the campus of Brown University. Two
students were killed. But why the MIT professor Because as
(07:35):
the as the crow flies, Brown University is south. It's
in Providence, Rhode Island, that is south of Boston. MIT
is where Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Boston. And
then they found him in Salem, New Hampshire, about the
same distance. The same distance from Brown to MIT is
about the distance from MIT to this storage facility in Salem.
(07:58):
And so I guess he was just moving up the
east coast that way. So why do they think it
was the same guy? Fox News was diving into that
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I have to admit the possibility here that just geographically,
perpetrator here ends up in New Hampshire by going through Massachusetts,
and my tea is in that area Massachusetts. Oh, I
said that, And so he must have transferred through that
area to get to New Hampshire. In fact, the reporting
is that's when he tripped the LPR going from Massachusetts
(08:29):
to New Hampshire. So if that's the case, just by proximity,
you had to say, is a nexus there? Here's another question,
O Kelly inn if the ballistics could have connected the two.
I can't imagine that that wasn't done with great rapidity
that they didn't say, pull the ballistics. Pull the shells
that were found at the scene in the MIT homicide,
(08:51):
and the shells and the live rounds that were found here,
do they match? Because once you got that, then you
know it's the same perpetrator. They mustn't have matched, because
you can do that very quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So then they said, yeah, okay, you know what, we
didn't know it was the same person, but then all
of a sudden, we had some evidence to show up,
and it does appear that it was the same shooter
or at least the same gun used. And then they
just they then pulled that surveillance of highway camera footage
and there you go.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Now you got it. Now you go.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Speaking of cameras, boy boy, if you're doing something shady,
or if you've got a friend who's kind of shady,
new rule, no cameras got a mountain of photos tied
in one of the most notorious criminal cases in recent memory.
It is hitting DC and lawmakers are dropping images that
show power players and cryptic messages and even disturbing scenes.
(09:43):
The latest trunch of body picks and why it matters
before a major federal deadline is next.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The latest on the new Epstein picture Dumb that hit today.
You'll get that coming up here after Marks eight thirty news.
I did want to give you an update because we
had a very important conversation in the first hour prior
to talking about the serious business of the Brown University shooter.
(10:15):
It's when Mark basically tried to extort from me two
hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, I tried to shame you into fairness. Okay, So
for those that were not listening, and I don't blame you.
I said, if somebody gives you a lottery ticket and
you win the lottery, how much I mean, ethically, morally speaking,
should you share with them? And Mark said, you got
(10:42):
to give me half? And I think that's absolute insanity,
absolute insanity.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
From the talkbacks, let me see here, Chris, Yeah, why
is Mark so upset by this? I don't know, Like really,
I don't know, you struck some sort of a nerve
with him, and that what's with this guy? What's with
this guy? This guy that was helpful? I like that
(11:08):
this guy. What's with this guy? What's with this I
can't answer that. I guess we don't have that kind
of time.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
What is with this guy?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Well, I have money on the Dallas in Detroit games,
so I'm taking this opportunity to distract myself because I'm
stressed out watching the score.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Mmmmm sports chicks. Yeah, okay, go on.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't think that you owe him fifty percent, and
I think that him acting entitled to fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So smark means that you shouldn't get anything. Oh, don't
buy gifts expecting something back.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah, harsh, harsh, Yes, yes, like that. All right, So
you win, you owe me nothing. You win off the
ticket that I bought you. Yeah, and that's for.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Somebody who's she's literally gambling as we speak.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And you have no no obligation to the person who
give it to you, exactly none.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Hey, Chris, I knew a guy who advised the guy
not to buy at store A, but go across the store,
across the street to Store B, and the guy did
win like a million bucks. It was before Superlatto, it
was just lottery.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
He didn't reward his friend with anything zero Wow, And
they never talked again.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Who do you owe money? I mean, do you have
to do you have to give money to? Like siblings?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Well, that's a that depends on the kind of relationship
you have with your family. But the person who hooked
you up, you pay that person. I don't know if
I would give my brother any money. We're not like
a strange We're just not close.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I don't know if i'd give him any money. I
would definitely do things like, Hey, we're gonna do a
family vacation. I'm gonna fly everyone to Hawaii and we're
gonna you know, we're gonna rent the billow for two
weeks or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know I would do that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What about your friends who's stuck with you before you
hit it big? I that's that's a really good question.
Because I've got a group of guys that I'm close with.
I don't think I would. I don't think I would
hand them any money. Although we meet up in Vegas
every year. I might go, hey, guys, everybody's getting fifty
grand for the weekend, you know, enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I think I read some story about George Clooney doing
something similar, like when he had some huge payday, he
got all his friends around who'd been friends with and
correct me if I have anything wrong about this. Yeah,
but he got his old friends around who stuck with
him from the beginning before he was successful, and gave
them all massive checks. Really just handed the money. That's
my understanding of it. But it's been a while and
(13:47):
I might be fuzzy on some of the deep I'd be.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Worried about leaving somebody out. Sure, Yeah, but see that's
how you know who the closest ones are. Yeah, but
I would definitely take my buddies to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I'd probably reach out to some friends.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I would talk to him a long time, you know,
it is guy friends like I haven't talked to him,
but as soon as soon as we connect, then it'll
be like no time has passed.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You know, Yeah, you got friends like that.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I mean, my thinking is that people in our line
of work, it's so insecure and spotty, and you know,
like a woman who sticks with you through all that
especially deserves to be rewarded. If you're in the entertainment field,
and sometimes you're working, sometimes you're not.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, they deserve a big payoff. I agree. At least
get her own personal poll at your place. Yeah, yeh please,
I mean she's been there for you through so much,
her separate wing of the house.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Exactly exactly Once my brother saw me put it in
a lottery tickets and a birthday card, and he asked me,
he goes, what if they win?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And I said, hey, number one, they're not going to win.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Number two. Hopefully they reward me somehow, or they're not
my friend.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
See yeah, and not just a token reward and a
pat on the head either.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Like you know, by the way, I did make mention
that for Mark, I might not give him two hundred
and fifty million dollars, but I might say, you know what,
since you brought me that ticket, you go pick out
a home, any home you want. I will buy that home.
And Mark said, I'm gonna go find a home. It's
two hundred and fifty million dollars and you're not gonna
be able to find one. Although you can think producer
(15:12):
Matt because he immediately went to Zillo and found you
a one hundred and seventy five million dollar home.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I mean, I would consider that, but I could add
enough for it to come to two fifty, because first
of all, I want a library and a big one,
and I want one of those No, just hear me out,
I'm not done. I want one of those miniature Chuchu
trains that goes around the whole property. And now we're
getting up toward two fifty. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that ain't happen.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
No, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The case you go find yourself a fifty million dollar
home and then you do your add ons. Well, thanks, Elon,
that's all you get, Okay. This one has an infinity
pulling spot, has a bowling alley, a wine sun cellar,
a lighted tennis court, unobstructed views, a wellness center, and
an open courtyard with fountains in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
One hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Add on a massive bunker for disasters, and you could
get up to two fifty underground bunker.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Like Fort five, with several always trying to get more
on of me, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, it's only my fair shared's of God.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You don't have to be such a miser about. Wow,
I'm lawyering up. I'm lawyering up.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The latest fallout from the Epstein photo drop is next.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Foush is making sure the show runs on the rails Mark.
Ronner and I both trying to take it off the
rails mark, of course, with the news update here in
about ten minutes, Mark, more people weighing in on your
assertion that if you buy me a lottery ticket for
a Christmas gift and I win the jackpot, that you're
entitled to half.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Hey, I was going, Chris, Mark this canny from the
High Desert, and I definitely like smoking some hybrid.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, all right, the important stuff up front, You know what.
I appreciate his transparent Oh he just to listen. You
just need to know that what I'm about to tell
you is completely drugon. Dudes, I like him already, all right.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
So you guys, So my dad was given a scratcher
back in the nineties from his buddy. He scratched it
was chance, chance, chance. He went on the Big Spin
the show back in the days. He want twenty five
thousand after taxes, was like nineteen thousand, and he did
split it with his buddy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
See all right, Ryan, the dude who's high says you're right.
So what does that tell you?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
You know, back in the old days, if like my
dad came home and said somebody gave him a scratcher,
that's when you head to the clinic.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's not she times have changed.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Is the room? Is the rim shot too far away? Fus?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Or was it not even rimshotworthy? He's been sick for
a while's uh yeah, all right, it was okay, I
am in a really really good mood because my team won. Anyway, Oh,
this is the lady that was watching. She was she
was betting on sports and she was getting too nervous,
so she turned us on and uh yeah that's great, okay,
all right, good. And she thought that Ronner was on
(18:12):
crack because he's not entitled to half. That's because she
wanted the money to gamble.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Listen, this is the favorite show of gambling addicts everywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So Stoner's in the high desert and gambling addicts love
this prograle.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's what we call our our p one. I also
liked that she used us as her like downer. Oh
that's good, Yeah, that's great. All right, she continues on here.
I just and remember she's a sports chick.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So hm, I just listened to he played my talk back,
and I just want to say, even though.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You're poor, Mark and you're not going to get a dime,
I think you're hot. So a little in column A,
a little in column B. There. Oh man, that was
a backhanded compliment like no other. All right, okay, then
though you're poor, I still think you're still hot. Oh
that's awesome. Got to take up gambling. How is it
(19:08):
the sports girls are attracted to you? I mean that
is the last thing you ever want to talk about
in sports.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
True.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that's great, people say, sir mystifying.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
If I was giving lottery tickets to people as gifts,
I would print the same numbers for myself too, So
I would have a lottery ticket with the same number
that I gave oh other people as a gift. So
if they win, I went, I don't have to worry
about it. It'll be split anyway, fifty to fifty. And
if I win the lottery, Mark, I'm going to give
you some money.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
See bye bye, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Look at how nice people are, Chris, Great, she's going
to hook you up. You want me to save that
for legal purposes? No, I just don't guess she wins.
You can say, wait, wait, she she made a verbal commitment.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I think you should save it and replay it to
yourself over and over again to remind yourself of what
a sociopath you've turned into in your later years.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Genuine question before I get to the Epstein crap here. So, no,
this is I'm this is for real. Are you in
the office lotto pool?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah? You are? Okay? So am I? Foosh?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Are you yes? Sir?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Very good. Undoubtedly there are some people around us that
are not. I think we can all assume that Conway
and his entire staff are all in the lotto pool, right,
a bunch of degenerates?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is Cobolt in the in the lotto pool. Let's just suppose, hypothetically,
let's say that he's not okay, and let's say that
we win, right, And how many of us are in
that pool? A couple dozen? I think, well, yeah, thirty
is like eighty something. But I think that dropped a
little wow. Oh yeah, because fewer people work here. All right,
let's say there's fifty. Okay, let's say there's fifty, so
(20:43):
that breaks down to, like, you know, after taxes, if
we hit the next lottery, that will be like ten
million dollars per person after taxes. Like, is somebody going
to give money to like cobalt or or you know,
somebody who's not in the pool about and I'm sure
handles now spending money in a lotto pool. Is somebody
going to be like, oh, handle, you're a great guy.
(21:04):
You should have been in the pool. Here's five hundred thousand.
Not as far as yeah, I mean they had every
opportunity to get in on the lotto pool, right, and
if you don't, you're just sol.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, they can start at gofund me. They're on their own. Yeah,
because no one's forcing you. Right, is ten ten millions
enough to quit?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Right? Are we all quitting?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't know. You You got to be careful about that.
Wait till the money's in your hand. I agree, But
how awkward is it going to be around the office
if it's like, oh, I won the lottery, I've got
ten million dollars and every time you see handle.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It's like, uh, you know, he's gonna be mad, like, oh,
I think you'd like ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I suspect he's doing okay, don't you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, he's doing fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Didn't he just have a destination wedding and rent out
an entire country? Did he rent out all of Italy
for that wedding? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He and Bezos. I think they went pretty pretty close. Yeah, yeah,
very good.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Meanwhile, the more news out of Washington as the Democrats
released more Epstein photos. Of course, the big drop is
supposed tomorrow, right is the deadline to release all of
the files. Even though there's still gonna be some reactions,
there's still gonna be a bunch of stuff in there.
But the big release is supposed to happen tomorrow. But
the Democrats keep sort of they keep dropping these little
(22:19):
these little treats along the way, like trying to create
this trail that leads back to Trump.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This was an ABC seven reporting on it.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Today's release includes about seventy new photos house oversight. Democrats
say these are part of tens of thousands of images
provided by the Epstein estate without context, timing, or locations,
and that is how they are publishing them now we're
just starting to review these new photos. Some of the
prominent men photographed with Epstein in these release pictures include
(22:46):
Bill Gates and others.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bill Gates have been rumored for a long time he
was in the files, so right, and that may have
been a factor in his wife leaving him?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh is that right? That was part of it?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I say it may have been a factor.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And notice how I hedged that in every right. Yeah, okay,
there's reporting did he may have had disgusting ingrown toenails
and it may have been a factor and his wife
leaving him. You can hear any actual you can bring
that all perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
The photographs again provided without contexts, and the men photograph
with Epstein have not been accused of any wrongdoing in
connection with the case. Other photos show what appears to
be a woman's foot with a quote from the novel
Lolita for dacted, photos of women's passports, and a screenshot
of a message exchange from someone who is discussing recruiting girls.
(23:39):
The message gross Messages goes The message goes on to
include the description of a woman said to be eighteen.
This is the latest release of photos by House Oversight
Democrats one day before the deadline for the Justice Department
to release files on Jeffrey Epstein when two thousand and
eight pleaded guilties to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh yeah, that was what he pled guilty to.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And then the whole thing about I've seen in two
thousand and eight is such a joke, such a joke.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
The guy was given like eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He was charged with I think two felony accounts, pled
guilty to one felony account and got eighteen months, was
basically given it an entire wing, not in a jail cell,
and then he was allowed to complete work release and
I mean it was it was an absolute joke. And
then when they were asked about it, the prosecutor at
the time said, I can't touch him because he belongs
(24:29):
to intelligence, meaning I'm guessing I'm guessing the intelligence community
knew that he had dirt on some pretty big names
going all the way back then, and they basically stepped
in and said, Uh, don't give him anything that's going
to make him angry.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's how that and that, I mean, you talk about
a sweetheart deal.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
He died by suicide while facing federal sex trafficking charges.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
At least that's the story.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
So Cal Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the
oversight Panels, said quote, we must end this White House
cover up and the d o J must release the
Epstein files now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
All right, So they're gonna come out tomorrow, and I'm
gonna tell you this. There's not gonna be any smoking
gun in there. There will not be anything that is.
There's not gonna be any pictures of Trump with an
underage girl in there, So there's not gonna be any
of that.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
In fact, the big.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Susie Wiles story for Mystery of the Chief of Staff,
and she spoke with a Vanity Fair. She was asked
about Trump in the files, and she said, yeah, he's
in the files. I mean specifically, she said he's in
the files. And then she also said he's in the file.
He's in the file.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
He's in the file, but not doing anything awful. Nothing
in the files indicates any wrongdoing according to the Epstein
what we know so far. She claimed that he was
on a Stein's playing He's on the manifest and described
(26:03):
their relationship as two young single playboys together. She also
disputed Trump's claim about Bill Clinton being incriminated in the
files and said there is no evidence that supported Trump's
allegations that Bill Clinton had even visited Epstein's private island.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So there's not going to be any smoking gun. There's nothing.
And even it doesn't matter if there is, because you're
gonna have supporters. Look, there was. It took it took a.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Stained blue dress to make Clinton actually tell the truth,
because remember, I did not have sex with that woman,
Monica Lewinsky, right, remember that.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And then it's like, oh, I got a stain blue
dress that actually has DNA on it. You got me. Boom, Hey,
there it is, you got me.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And still he had supporters that were lining up to
vacuhim at the time. All right, so don't there's not
any there's not any stained blue dress that's going to
come out with DNA on it. This is going to
be this is going to be weighed in the court
of public opinion. And the Democrats are going to try
to make Hay on this as long as they possibly can,
because they see this as a real winning angle of
(27:13):
attack on the president because his base is completely intolerant
of even a whiff of child predators and the idea
that he had a close relationship and that they were
a couple of playboys. Hanging out with young girls makes
everyone uncomfortable, especially if you're a supporter.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Makes you very uncomfortable to say that's my guy. Yew.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So the Democrats see that as an angle of attack.
They're going to keep hitting the hell out of it. Well,
the Lolita quote was a little on the nose.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If you haven't read the book, aren't familiar.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
With it's cool, right, Yeah, it's about a middle aged
professor having an affair with a teenage girl.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, and again I feel it just talking about it too. Well,
tomorrow's big story. Hey, have fun talking about that tomorrow. Mark,
I'm off tomorrow NW. I'm starting to feel sick. Yeah.
Oh that's a good plan, coming down with something. Yeah,
I bet you are.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Hey, you know, when you hit fifty you start seeing ads.
They don't say happy Birthday, they say life alert. And
while everyone fights over Gen Z and millennials, there's one
generation that has real money and has completely forgotten and.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
That is so on brand.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
We have more talkbacks. In fact, we got the talkback
for Foosh tonight, Mark, you gonna want to hear this.
We'll let's do a We'll do a week in review
on personalized talkbacks. They do want to give you this.
So our producer tonight is Matt and he's one of
my favorite producers to work with. And Matt was producing
from home, and he's been upditting the score of the
the Ram Seahawks game all night. I don't know that
(28:52):
he's been paying attention to the show, although he has
dropped some things into our show Rundown. Here's the show's
been going on, So I think he's multitasking doing a
good job of that. And I just saw I checked
a bit ago and the Rams had scored started the
fourth quarter, they were up thirty to fourteen. And then
(29:13):
I kept checking, and the next thing I know, I
see that it's tied thirty to thirty and it's going
into overtime. And then I see an overtime, the Rams
took the lead. They scored a touchdown thirty seven to thirty.
Seahawks just scored a touchdown, and then they decided to
go for two to win the game, and they got it.
So Seattle wins, Rams lose. Wow Wow wow wow wow
(29:39):
wow wow. Is this that is the good division this year?
So yeah, sorry Rams fans not great. Sorry about that.
All right, Now we can review on personalized talkbacks. I
always appreciate you guys. You're great. So let's see. Here's
what people were saying about me.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Chris Merrill's show is absolutely terrific.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, that one hurt uck horrific. And then of course
Ronner had a fan.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
You, sir, are an idiot. Get off the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's not me, and there's no mention of my name.
And then foosh, foush, you're there's sexiest. I love you,
I love you, I love you, I love you, I
love you, and I'm your biggest fan. Whoosh. Hey, now
Fush basically got a little lip action on the air.
Good job, buddy, Oh my, oh my, oh my, very good.
(30:36):
Why is it we get get off the radio. You're horrific.
Foosh is like you're my favorite and I love you. Yeah,
it's a nice job. Good poll, buddy, good poll.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Holiday shopping season is uh, I mean, we're we're getting
into the crunch time here.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
You got to you got a week left, right, so
you better get on it. H and many gen X.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Consumers saying that retailers are totally ignoring them in favor
of younger generations. That is so on brand for us.
Gen Xers are spending more. We also have a little
bit of money saved, and also have both parents and children.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
To buy for.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
If we're lucky, we still have both sides of the
generations to buy for. So why isn't anybody advertising to us?
It seems to be that. Oh and get this, seventy
two percent of gen xers expect to overspend this holiday season.
So gen X again forty five to sixty years old roughly,
(31:34):
And the thinking is, well, they don't have all the
disposable income of the boomers, and they don't have the
needs and the small children and all the others that
they have to buy for of the millennials and gen xers,
So they just completely excuse me gen zors.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
They just kind of.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Completely ignore gen X. Gen X is in what they
call an uncomfortable middle ground. Not young enough to be trendy.
Oh that's the other thing too, all the trendy gifts.
We're not young enough to be trendy, and we're not
old enough to be openly catered to. Sociologically, we are
financial glue, supporting up and down the age ladder while
rarely demanding any attention. Yeah that's us psychologically, gen X
(32:11):
a customer to being overlooked. Yeah, we're latch key kids.
We are loyal when noticed, but dismissive when we're ignored.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Retailers are chasing growth narratives, and they might be missing
the most valuable customer in the room.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's all right, you just keep doing what you do.
I don't care. Just that's fine.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You just keep talking to Grandpa and then the whipper
snappers and just let me go on. I was trying
to figure out what the ideal gift is. You know,
if it's a young person, an ideal gift is something
that's electronics.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Right, Oh, it's a new phone. It's something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
If it's if it's a boomer, ideal gift is something comfortable.
My dad would always love a nice recliner. You know,
what's the right gift for a gen X. Recliners are expensive.
He's my father. Okay, we only got one. I split
it with him. Yeah, just like the lottery tickets, just
(33:05):
split it big whoever, whoever I'm sharing with all right,
So what's the what's the I was thinking, what is
a nice gift for gen X? And the best thing
I could come up with was a high end crock pot.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I was like, you know what sounds good right now?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Soup?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeap, aiming high.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's us gen X, always known for keeping our feet
on the ground and reaching for the stars.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And loving soup. How about an air fryer? Oh, now
you're talking. Now you're talking. Everybody asks those everybody.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm down.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'm down with that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Hey, you think the FCC just a bunch of nerds
who slap fines on robo callars. But the chair is
sitting in the hot seat right before the senators, and
what he's saying could change what you see and hear
on the internets and on your TVs.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I'm Chris Merril KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six on de Mand
You're listening to kfi AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But they think they found the body of the guy
responsible for the shooting at Brown and at MI.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I T good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Chris Merril kfi AM six forty more stimulating talk
and on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. We do
have more updates of people who think that Mark Ronner
is a horrible person, and I think that's an important
thing to share with you, But probably not during the segment, however,
Mark you were you were giving update there with what
you had on the latest from the the I guess
(00:33):
press conference, right where all the authorities are standing around
and talking about what a great job they did.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, we decided not to run that live. Yeah, we
wanted to boil it down.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, they had they had a press conference to start
with where they didn't really say anything other than we're
really great at our jobs and and boy, if not
for us, we couldn't have done this.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I've been through so many of those in my previous
life as a reporter that I just I wanted to
spare people that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Just tune out, right total tune out.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So anyway, they just did another press conference and it
they offered a little bit more information, including the shooter's
name who.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm not going to dignify it, but it was not
about a side note.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It was not the person that crazy right wing social
media was speculating on earlier this week. I had so
many people sending me like, oh, according to this nutter
on X, it's this person with a Muslim sounding name.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh must be it. Oh stop stop with that turned
out to not be anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Here's the press conference from the FBI talking about this
dude that they picked up.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
An individual was identified as Claudium Nevis Valenti natal birth
and he was a forty eight year old man.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
He was a brown student.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He was a Portuguese national's last name noan address was
in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh god, all is this going to turn into an
immigration argument? He was a He's a Portuguese national who
was studying here. This is gonna oh god, this is
going to turn into an immigration thing, isn't it crap?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And I will tell you that he took his own
life tonight. He looked at financial records, we looked at
video footages, and in a specific incident, it was actually
a video that provided us with a description.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of a vehicle.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Huh, that was corroborated through a tip that was received
through the tip center. That room was packed with detectives
agents receiving calls on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We started early and left late.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How about crackpots? Do you think called in?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's one thing I see repeated constantly in crime dramas,
and I have to believe there's an element of truth
to it. I don't think this is just a fabrication
from the writer's room that whenever you do a tip line.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Crackpots love to call the tip line. They just love it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Crackpots can't wait to tell you that the shooters stole
their cat or something like that, right, and they have
to sift through all that garbage. But man, they work.
I mean, we get you get tip lines to solve crimes.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
They do, but man, is it a lot of manpower.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Then Flock and again, those guys were answering the tip line,
as he said, early in the morning till late at night.
But it was basically one tip that that did the trick.
That's just it's that's some hard gumshoe police work right there.
That is just some hard work. So kudos to them.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Then, FLOCK, and the LPR was able to provide us
with this description of this vehicle. That vehicle was picked
up by FLOCK, which led us to a car and.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Us FLOCK is that FLOCK is that that data data agency? Right,
They're the ones that that review all the traffic cams.
They operate the traffic cams, and then cities pay them
as a contractor for for all that stuff, whether it's
speed cameras or highway security cameras or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I saw another story about this and that that FLOCK
kind of basically tracks cars and helps CBP determine whether
or not that car is doing something suspicious like traveling
too often between two sites known for trafficking such you know,
things like that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Which led us to a car rental place in Massachusetts.
Through that, the agents and their work as well, were
able to get us footage of this individual as well
as a copy of the agreement which provided his real name.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh, he rented the car using his real name. Yeah,
that's wild because he was using fake credit cards and
things like that. According to the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts,
the suspect used a phone that disguised his location and
used credit cards that were not in his name. I
don't even know you could get a phone that would
disguise your location. I mean, I know you can use
(05:13):
a VPN if you're, you know, surfing the internet, but
I didn't know that you could do that where it
doesn't show where you're, you know, whatever the cell tower
is that you're pinging off of.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I had no idea. I gotta get me in one
of those.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The video of that subject matched the description of that
person of interest.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
At least police department.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Was desperate to put handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
On the Okay, so I guess somebody's at the door,
so uh, I think it was. It did end up
being that guy. They put the video out a couple
of days ago, and the video was but you know,
this is this grainy video. We've tried to enhance it. It
was kind of tough to see. We talked about it
in this show. We said, the guys wearing it looked
like he was wearing like a satchel or a cross
(05:56):
body bag. He looked like what they call it stocky
who doesn't love being referred to as stocky, A black
like a ninety five mask kind of thing. And they said, oh,
if you know who this is, call us, and I
think that's when the tip line just kind of blew up,
with people going, oh, I think that might be my
uncle ted. But evidently it worked, it paid off. And
(06:18):
then I saw how they were connecting the dots in
some of the press release stuff that they were putting
out during this press conference. I think it was the
same guy. I think that was the guy, So good job.
The search focus on video clips of a figure seen
walking past doorbell cams.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
This from the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They're live feed reporting here in the neighborhood east of
Brown's campus, Providence, Rhode Island. His face was largely obscured
behind a medical mask. It's unusual for a suspect in
a shooting attack attack to evade capture for multiple days. Yeah,
I think we know that. But they got him. They
got him, or at least they think they do. I
(06:57):
don't have any reason to doubt this. But they tracked
him back to this storage unit, and then they got
a warrant to get into the storage unit, and I
guess this car from the rental company was there.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
And.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They got in and when they opened it, his body
was in there. So so probably not going to get
the deposit back on that rental car. Now, why is
it that they think that he was related to the
MIT professor who was shot. So we know that there
was a shooting on the campus of Brown University. Two
students were killed. But why the MIT professor Because as
(07:35):
the as the crow flies, Brown University is south. It's
in Providence, Rhode Island, that is south of Boston. MIT
is where Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Boston. And
then they found him in Salem, New Hampshire, about the
same distance. The same distance from Brown to MIT is
about the distance from MIT to this storage facility in Salem.
(07:58):
And so I guess he was just moving up the
east coast that way. So why do they think it
was the same guy? Fox News was diving into that
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I have to admit the possibility here that just geographically,
perpetrator here ends up in New Hampshire by going through Massachusetts,
and my tea is in that area Massachusetts. Oh, I
said that, And so he must have transferred through that
area to get to New Hampshire. In fact, the reporting
is that's when he tripped the LPR going from Massachusetts
(08:29):
to New Hampshire. So if that's the case, just by proximity,
you had to say, is a nexus there? Here's another question,
O Kelly inn if the ballistics could have connected the two.
I can't imagine that that wasn't done with great rapidity
that they didn't say, pull the ballistics. Pull the shells
that were found at the scene in the MIT homicide,
(08:51):
and the shells and the live rounds that were found here,
do they match? Because once you got that, then you
know it's the same perpetrator. They mustn't have matched, because
you can do that very quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So then they said, yeah, okay, you know what, we
didn't know it was the same person, but then all
of a sudden, we had some evidence to show up,
and it does appear that it was the same shooter
or at least the same gun used. And then they
just they then pulled that surveillance of highway camera footage
and there you go.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Now you got it. Now you go.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Speaking of cameras, boy boy, if you're doing something shady,
or if you've got a friend who's kind of shady,
new rule, no cameras got a mountain of photos tied
in one of the most notorious criminal cases in recent memory.
It is hitting DC and lawmakers are dropping images that
show power players and cryptic messages and even disturbing scenes.
(09:43):
The latest trunch of body picks and why it matters
before a major federal deadline is next.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The latest on the new Epstein picture Dumb that hit today.
You'll get that coming up here after Marks eight thirty news.
I did want to give you an update because we
had a very important conversation in the first hour prior
to talking about the serious business of the Brown University shooter.
(10:15):
It's when Mark basically tried to extort from me two
hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, I tried to shame you into fairness. Okay, So
for those that were not listening, and I don't blame you.
I said, if somebody gives you a lottery ticket and
you win the lottery, how much I mean, ethically, morally speaking,
should you share with them? And Mark said, you got
(10:42):
to give me half? And I think that's absolute insanity,
absolute insanity.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
From the talkbacks, let me see here, Chris, Yeah, why
is Mark so upset by this? I don't know, Like really,
I don't know, you struck some sort of a nerve
with him, and that what's with this guy? What's with
this guy? This guy that was helpful? I like that
(11:08):
this guy. What's with this guy? What's with this I
can't answer that. I guess we don't have that kind
of time.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
What is with this guy?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Well, I have money on the Dallas in Detroit games,
so I'm taking this opportunity to distract myself because I'm
stressed out watching the score.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Mmmmm sports chicks. Yeah, okay, go on.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't think that you owe him fifty percent, and
I think that him acting entitled to fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So smark means that you shouldn't get anything. Oh, don't
buy gifts expecting something back.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Yeah, harsh, harsh, Yes, yes, like that. All right, So
you win, you owe me nothing. You win off the
ticket that I bought you. Yeah, and that's for.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Somebody who's she's literally gambling as we speak.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And you have no no obligation to the person who
give it to you, exactly none.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Hey, Chris, I knew a guy who advised the guy
not to buy at store A, but go across the store,
across the street to Store B, and the guy did
win like a million bucks. It was before Superlatto, it
was just lottery.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
He didn't reward his friend with anything zero Wow, And
they never talked again.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Who do you owe money? I mean, do you have
to do you have to give money to? Like siblings?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Well, that's a that depends on the kind of relationship
you have with your family. But the person who hooked
you up, you pay that person. I don't know if
I would give my brother any money. We're not like
a strange We're just not close.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I don't know if i'd give him any money. I
would definitely do things like, Hey, we're gonna do a
family vacation. I'm gonna fly everyone to Hawaii and we're
gonna you know, we're gonna rent the billow for two
weeks or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know I would do that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What about your friends who's stuck with you before you
hit it big? I that's that's a really good question.
Because I've got a group of guys that I'm close with.
I don't think I would. I don't think I would
hand them any money. Although we meet up in Vegas
every year. I might go, hey, guys, everybody's getting fifty
grand for the weekend, you know, enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I think I read some story about George Clooney doing
something similar, like when he had some huge payday, he
got all his friends around who'd been friends with and
correct me if I have anything wrong about this. Yeah,
but he got his old friends around who stuck with
him from the beginning before he was successful, and gave
them all massive checks. Really just handed the money. That's
my understanding of it. But it's been a while and
(13:47):
I might be fuzzy on some of the deep I'd be.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Worried about leaving somebody out. Sure, Yeah, but see that's
how you know who the closest ones are. Yeah, but
I would definitely take my buddies to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I'd probably reach out to some friends.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I would talk to him a long time, you know,
it is guy friends like I haven't talked to him,
but as soon as soon as we connect, then it'll
be like no time has passed.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You know, Yeah, you got friends like that.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I mean, my thinking is that people in our line
of work, it's so insecure and spotty, and you know,
like a woman who sticks with you through all that
especially deserves to be rewarded. If you're in the entertainment field,
and sometimes you're working, sometimes you're not.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, they deserve a big payoff. I agree. At least
get her own personal poll at your place. Yeah, yeh please,
I mean she's been there for you through so much,
her separate wing of the house.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Exactly exactly Once my brother saw me put it in
a lottery tickets and a birthday card, and he asked me,
he goes, what if they win?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And I said, hey, number one, they're not going to win.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Number two. Hopefully they reward me somehow, or they're not
my friend.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
See yeah, and not just a token reward and a
pat on the head either.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Like you know, by the way, I did make mention
that for Mark, I might not give him two hundred
and fifty million dollars, but I might say, you know what,
since you brought me that ticket, you go pick out
a home, any home you want. I will buy that home.
And Mark said, I'm gonna go find a home. It's
two hundred and fifty million dollars and you're not gonna
be able to find one. Although you can think producer
(15:12):
Matt because he immediately went to Zillo and found you
a one hundred and seventy five million dollar home.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I mean, I would consider that, but I could add
enough for it to come to two fifty, because first
of all, I want a library and a big one,
and I want one of those No, just hear me out,
I'm not done. I want one of those miniature Chuchu
trains that goes around the whole property. And now we're
getting up toward two fifty. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that ain't happen.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
No, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The case you go find yourself a fifty million dollar
home and then you do your add ons. Well, thanks, Elon,
that's all you get, Okay. This one has an infinity
pulling spot, has a bowling alley, a wine sun cellar,
a lighted tennis court, unobstructed views, a wellness center, and
an open courtyard with fountains in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
One hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Add on a massive bunker for disasters, and you could
get up to two fifty underground bunker.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Like Fort five, with several always trying to get more
on of me, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, it's only my fair shared's of God.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You don't have to be such a miser about. Wow,
I'm lawyering up. I'm lawyering up.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The latest fallout from the Epstein photo drop is next.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Foush is making sure the show runs on the rails Mark.
Ronner and I both trying to take it off the
rails mark, of course, with the news update here in
about ten minutes, Mark, more people weighing in on your
assertion that if you buy me a lottery ticket for
a Christmas gift and I win the jackpot, that you're
entitled to half.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Hey, I was going, Chris, Mark this canny from the
High Desert, and I definitely like smoking some hybrid.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, all right, the important stuff up front, You know what.
I appreciate his transparent Oh he just to listen. You
just need to know that what I'm about to tell
you is completely drugon. Dudes, I like him already, all right.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
So you guys, So my dad was given a scratcher
back in the nineties from his buddy. He scratched it
was chance, chance, chance. He went on the Big Spin
the show back in the days. He want twenty five
thousand after taxes, was like nineteen thousand, and he did
split it with his buddy.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
See all right, Ryan, the dude who's high says you're right.
So what does that tell you?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
You know, back in the old days, if like my
dad came home and said somebody gave him a scratcher,
that's when you head to the clinic.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's not she times have changed.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Is the room? Is the rim shot too far away? Fus?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Or was it not even rimshotworthy? He's been sick for
a while's uh yeah, all right, it was okay, I
am in a really really good mood because my team won. Anyway, Oh,
this is the lady that was watching. She was she
was betting on sports and she was getting too nervous,
so she turned us on and uh yeah that's great, okay,
all right, good. And she thought that Ronner was on
(18:12):
crack because he's not entitled to half. That's because she
wanted the money to gamble.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Listen, this is the favorite show of gambling addicts everywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So Stoner's in the high desert and gambling addicts love
this prograle.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's what we call our our p one. I also
liked that she used us as her like downer. Oh
that's good, Yeah, that's great. All right, she continues on here.
I just and remember she's a sports chick.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
So hm, I just listened to he played my talk back,
and I just want to say, even though.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You're poor, Mark and you're not going to get a dime,
I think you're hot. So a little in column A,
a little in column B. There. Oh man, that was
a backhanded compliment like no other. All right, okay, then
though you're poor, I still think you're still hot. Oh
that's awesome. Got to take up gambling. How is it
(19:08):
the sports girls are attracted to you? I mean that
is the last thing you ever want to talk about
in sports.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
True.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that's great, people say, sir mystifying.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
If I was giving lottery tickets to people as gifts,
I would print the same numbers for myself too, So
I would have a lottery ticket with the same number
that I gave oh other people as a gift. So
if they win, I went, I don't have to worry
about it. It'll be split anyway, fifty to fifty. And
if I win the lottery, Mark, I'm going to give
you some money.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
See bye bye, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Look at how nice people are, Chris, Great, she's going
to hook you up. You want me to save that
for legal purposes? No, I just don't guess she wins.
You can say, wait, wait, she she made a verbal commitment.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I think you should save it and replay it to
yourself over and over again to remind yourself of what
a sociopath you've turned into in your later years.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Genuine question before I get to the Epstein crap here. So, no,
this is I'm this is for real. Are you in
the office lotto pool?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah? You are? Okay? So am I? Foosh?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Are you yes? Sir?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Very good. Undoubtedly there are some people around us that
are not. I think we can all assume that Conway
and his entire staff are all in the lotto pool, right,
a bunch of degenerates?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is Cobolt in the in the lotto pool. Let's just suppose, hypothetically,
let's say that he's not okay, and let's say that
we win, right, And how many of us are in
that pool? A couple dozen? I think, well, yeah, thirty
is like eighty something. But I think that dropped a
little wow. Oh yeah, because fewer people work here. All right,
let's say there's fifty. Okay, let's say there's fifty, so
(20:43):
that breaks down to, like, you know, after taxes, if
we hit the next lottery, that will be like ten
million dollars per person after taxes. Like, is somebody going
to give money to like cobalt or or you know,
somebody who's not in the pool about and I'm sure
handles now spending money in a lotto pool. Is somebody
going to be like, oh, handle, you're a great guy.
(21:04):
You should have been in the pool. Here's five hundred thousand.
Not as far as yeah, I mean they had every
opportunity to get in on the lotto pool, right, and
if you don't, you're just sol.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, they can start at gofund me. They're on their own. Yeah,
because no one's forcing you. Right, is ten ten millions
enough to quit?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Right? Are we all quitting?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't know. You You got to be careful about that.
Wait till the money's in your hand. I agree, But
how awkward is it going to be around the office
if it's like, oh, I won the lottery, I've got
ten million dollars and every time you see handle.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It's like, uh, you know, he's gonna be mad, like, oh,
I think you'd like ten million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I suspect he's doing okay, don't you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, he's doing fine.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Didn't he just have a destination wedding and rent out
an entire country? Did he rent out all of Italy
for that wedding? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
He and Bezos. I think they went pretty pretty close. Yeah, yeah,
very good.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Meanwhile, the more news out of Washington as the Democrats
released more Epstein photos. Of course, the big drop is
supposed tomorrow, right is the deadline to release all of
the files. Even though there's still gonna be some reactions,
there's still gonna be a bunch of stuff in there.
But the big release is supposed to happen tomorrow. But
the Democrats keep sort of they keep dropping these little
(22:19):
these little treats along the way, like trying to create
this trail that leads back to Trump.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This was an ABC seven reporting on it.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Today's release includes about seventy new photos house oversight. Democrats
say these are part of tens of thousands of images
provided by the Epstein estate without context, timing, or locations,
and that is how they are publishing them now we're
just starting to review these new photos. Some of the
prominent men photographed with Epstein in these release pictures include
(22:46):
Bill Gates and others.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bill Gates have been rumored for a long time he
was in the files, so right, and that may have
been a factor in his wife leaving him?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh is that right? That was part of it?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I say it may have been a factor.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And notice how I hedged that in every right. Yeah, okay,
there's reporting did he may have had disgusting ingrown toenails
and it may have been a factor and his wife
leaving him. You can hear any actual you can bring
that all perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
The photographs again provided without contexts, and the men photograph
with Epstein have not been accused of any wrongdoing in
connection with the case. Other photos show what appears to
be a woman's foot with a quote from the novel
Lolita for dacted, photos of women's passports, and a screenshot
of a message exchange from someone who is discussing recruiting girls.
(23:39):
The message gross Messages goes The message goes on to
include the description of a woman said to be eighteen.
This is the latest release of photos by House Oversight
Democrats one day before the deadline for the Justice Department
to release files on Jeffrey Epstein when two thousand and
eight pleaded guilties to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Oh yeah, that was what he pled guilty to.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And then the whole thing about I've seen in two
thousand and eight is such a joke, such a joke.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
The guy was given like eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He was charged with I think two felony accounts, pled
guilty to one felony account and got eighteen months, was
basically given it an entire wing, not in a jail cell,
and then he was allowed to complete work release and
I mean it was it was an absolute joke. And
then when they were asked about it, the prosecutor at
the time said, I can't touch him because he belongs
(24:29):
to intelligence, meaning I'm guessing I'm guessing the intelligence community
knew that he had dirt on some pretty big names
going all the way back then, and they basically stepped
in and said, Uh, don't give him anything that's going
to make him angry.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's how that and that, I mean, you talk about
a sweetheart deal.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
He died by suicide while facing federal sex trafficking charges.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
At least that's the story.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
So Cal Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the
oversight Panels, said quote, we must end this White House
cover up and the d o J must release the
Epstein files now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
All right, So they're gonna come out tomorrow, and I'm
gonna tell you this. There's not gonna be any smoking
gun in there. There will not be anything that is.
There's not gonna be any pictures of Trump with an
underage girl in there, So there's not gonna be any
of that.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
In fact, the big.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Susie Wiles story for Mystery of the Chief of Staff,
and she spoke with a Vanity Fair. She was asked
about Trump in the files, and she said, yeah, he's
in the files. I mean specifically, she said he's in
the files. And then she also said he's in the file.
He's in the file.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
He's in the file, but not doing anything awful. Nothing
in the files indicates any wrongdoing according to the Epstein
what we know so far. She claimed that he was
on a Stein's playing He's on the manifest and described
(26:03):
their relationship as two young single playboys together. She also
disputed Trump's claim about Bill Clinton being incriminated in the
files and said there is no evidence that supported Trump's
allegations that Bill Clinton had even visited Epstein's private island.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So there's not going to be any smoking gun. There's nothing.
And even it doesn't matter if there is, because you're
gonna have supporters. Look, there was. It took it took a.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Stained blue dress to make Clinton actually tell the truth,
because remember, I did not have sex with that woman,
Monica Lewinsky, right, remember that.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And then it's like, oh, I got a stain blue
dress that actually has DNA on it. You got me. Boom, Hey,
there it is, you got me.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And still he had supporters that were lining up to
vacuhim at the time. All right, so don't there's not
any there's not any stained blue dress that's going to
come out with DNA on it. This is going to
be this is going to be weighed in the court
of public opinion. And the Democrats are going to try
to make Hay on this as long as they possibly can,
because they see this as a real winning angle of
(27:13):
attack on the president because his base is completely intolerant
of even a whiff of child predators and the idea
that he had a close relationship and that they were
a couple of playboys. Hanging out with young girls makes
everyone uncomfortable, especially if you're a supporter.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Makes you very uncomfortable to say that's my guy. Yew.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So the Democrats see that as an angle of attack.
They're going to keep hitting the hell out of it. Well,
the Lolita quote was a little on the nose.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
If you haven't read the book, aren't familiar.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
With it's cool, right, Yeah, it's about a middle aged
professor having an affair with a teenage girl.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, and again I feel it just talking about it too. Well,
tomorrow's big story. Hey, have fun talking about that tomorrow. Mark,
I'm off tomorrow NW. I'm starting to feel sick. Yeah.
Oh that's a good plan, coming down with something. Yeah,
I bet you are.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Hey, you know, when you hit fifty you start seeing ads.
They don't say happy Birthday, they say life alert. And
while everyone fights over Gen Z and millennials, there's one
generation that has real money and has completely forgotten and.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
That is so on brand.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You're listening to KFI A six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
We have more talkbacks. In fact, we got the talkback
for Foosh tonight, Mark, you gonna want to hear this.
We'll let's do a We'll do a week in review
on personalized talkbacks. They do want to give you this.
So our producer tonight is Matt and he's one of
my favorite producers to work with. And Matt was producing
from home, and he's been upditting the score of the
the Ram Seahawks game all night. I don't know that
(28:52):
he's been paying attention to the show, although he has
dropped some things into our show Rundown. Here's the show's
been going on, So I think he's multitasking doing a
good job of that. And I just saw I checked
a bit ago and the Rams had scored started the
fourth quarter, they were up thirty to fourteen. And then
(29:13):
I kept checking, and the next thing I know, I
see that it's tied thirty to thirty and it's going
into overtime. And then I see an overtime, the Rams
took the lead. They scored a touchdown thirty seven to thirty.
Seahawks just scored a touchdown, and then they decided to
go for two to win the game, and they got it.
So Seattle wins, Rams lose. Wow Wow wow wow wow
(29:39):
wow wow. Is this that is the good division this year?
So yeah, sorry Rams fans not great. Sorry about that.
All right, Now we can review on personalized talkbacks. I
always appreciate you guys. You're great. So let's see. Here's
what people were saying about me.
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Chris Merrill's show is absolutely terrific.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, that one hurt uck horrific. And then of course
Ronner had a fan.
Speaker 10 (30:07):
You, sir, are an idiot. Get off the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's not me, and there's no mention of my name.
And then foosh, foush, you're there's sexiest. I love you,
I love you, I love you, I love you, I
love you, and I'm your biggest fan. Whoosh. Hey, now
Fush basically got a little lip action on the air.
Good job, buddy, Oh my, oh my, oh my, very good.
(30:36):
Why is it we get get off the radio. You're horrific.
Foosh is like you're my favorite and I love you. Yeah,
it's a nice job. Good poll, buddy, good poll.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Holiday shopping season is uh, I mean, we're we're getting
into the crunch time here.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
You got to you got a week left, right, so
you better get on it. H and many gen X.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Consumers saying that retailers are totally ignoring them in favor
of younger generations. That is so on brand for us.
Gen Xers are spending more. We also have a little
bit of money saved, and also have both parents and children.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
To buy for.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
If we're lucky, we still have both sides of the
generations to buy for. So why isn't anybody advertising to us?
It seems to be that. Oh and get this, seventy
two percent of gen xers expect to overspend this holiday season.
So gen X again forty five to sixty years old roughly,
(31:34):
And the thinking is, well, they don't have all the
disposable income of the boomers, and they don't have the
needs and the small children and all the others that
they have to buy for of the millennials and gen xers,
So they just completely excuse me gen zors.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
They just kind of.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Completely ignore gen X. Gen X is in what they
call an uncomfortable middle ground. Not young enough to be trendy.
Oh that's the other thing too, all the trendy gifts.
We're not young enough to be trendy, and we're not
old enough to be openly catered to. Sociologically, we are
financial glue, supporting up and down the age ladder while
rarely demanding any attention. Yeah that's us psychologically, gen X
(32:11):
a customer to being overlooked. Yeah, we're latch key kids.
We are loyal when noticed, but dismissive when we're ignored.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Retailers are chasing growth narratives, and they might be missing
the most valuable customer in the room.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's all right, you just keep doing what you do.
I don't care. Just that's fine.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You just keep talking to Grandpa and then the whipper
snappers and just let me go on. I was trying
to figure out what the ideal gift is. You know,
if it's a young person, an ideal gift is something
that's electronics.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Right, Oh, it's a new phone. It's something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
If it's if it's a boomer, ideal gift is something comfortable.
My dad would always love a nice recliner. You know,
what's the right gift for a gen X. Recliners are expensive.
He's my father. Okay, we only got one. I split
it with him. Yeah, just like the lottery tickets, just
(33:05):
split it big whoever, whoever I'm sharing with all right,
So what's the what's the I was thinking, what is
a nice gift for gen X? And the best thing
I could come up with was a high end crock pot.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I was like, you know what sounds good right now?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Soup?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeap, aiming high.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's us gen X, always known for keeping our feet
on the ground and reaching for the stars.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And loving soup. How about an air fryer? Oh, now
you're talking. Now you're talking. Everybody asks those everybody.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I'm down.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'm down with that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Hey, you think the FCC just a bunch of nerds
who slap fines on robo callars. But the chair is
sitting in the hot seat right before the senators, and
what he's saying could change what you see and hear
on the internets and on your TVs.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I'm Chris Merril KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six on de Mand
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Betrayal: Weekly
Betrayal Weekly is back for a brand new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-4 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.