December 19, 2025 • 33 mins
Holiday travel is surging toward near-record levels despite California storms, raising concerns about traffic jams, airport delays, and dangerous road conditions just days before Christmas. The hour then turns to aviation safety as two separate small-plane crashes — one at Van Nuys Airport and another in North Carolina — highlight how unforgiving landings can be when something goes wrong. Powerball jackpot fever follows, with the prize swelling to an eye-popping $1.5 billion after yet another drawing without a winner. The hour wraps with a sobering look at the housing market as new Zillow data shows more than half of U.S. homes — including nearly 80% in the Los Angeles metro — lost value over the past year, even as most owners still hold significant equity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Good
Evening Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I AM six forty more are stimulating talk on demand
anytime in the iHeartRadio. I appreciate everybody that pops in
on the app, hits that talkback button, gives us, you know,
your thoughts, whatever's going on. I was listening to Tim
as he was carrying that press conference from the the
Brown University sounds like it Brown and Mit University shooter
(00:29):
which they found dead in the storage unit that they
were closing in on and I gotta search warrant for it.
They cracked it open and then they found the body inside.
So we'll we'll, we'll monitor, they'll monitor that situation. The
incredible Matt Toffler is producing the show remotely tonight and
I have given him very explicit instructions. I want you
(00:52):
to monitor the situation closely, and he said, as soon
as the game's over, I will do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All over that. Thanks. I believe that. Yeah, that's what
he's doing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
He keeps giving he keeps adding scoring updates to the
show Rundown and Rundown. Yeah, Go Dolphins, He's on it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Go Dolph dolphins. Yeah, he's all over it. So we are.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We are watching very closely during commercial breaks what's happening there.
We'll we'll get a little bit more into it as
more and more information sort of presents itself as the
as the evening goes on, which we're expecting, they say
they meeting authorities say they're going to do another press
conference at seven thirty mark.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Are we carrying that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Should I just tell Matt to monitor it closely for
any changes?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You interrupted me just as I was looking up some
information on so TBA.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Please stand? Okay, okay, standing standing? You want us to
wait now? Or should we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Because people love dead air? Okay, all right, Yeah, it's
the best my show has ever sounded. Oh yeah, Mike
Winter tonight of perfect, perfect good stuff. We're off to
a to a Crackerjack start, I say, we are. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
In the meantime, the other thing I was listening to
Tim talking about was this rain. He's been talking about
this rain coming for a while, and and I thought, okay, uh, Tim,
Kimmy kim a reno, how bad is it really gonna be?
How bad is this uh? How bad is this storm
(02:28):
gonna be? And uh, then I uh did a little more,
a little more snooping, and it sounds like it's gonna
rain like hell, So that Tim was all over it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is from Fox eleven.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Now to the potential for rain next week. So we
have a storm track that's been holding up north pretty
much all month long.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It is gradually shifting farther south.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Northern California is gonna get waves of heavy rain between
now and the end of the weekend. This keeps moving
southward as we go into next week. Maybe some rain Tuesday,
but a better chance I would say, on Wednesday, and
maybe still more to come on Thursday and Friday of
next week. That would be right through Christmas, even Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh boy, that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But I probably should stay off the roads, probably should
not go to the in laws.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean the weather.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, it's the traffic, The roads are gonna be
a mess. It's just why don't we just not go
to the in laws this year?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And the day after Christmas as well.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Now I'm gonna show you one computer model projection for
potential rain next week. This doesn't mean it's gonna play
out exactly like this, but multiple models are starting to
suggest more widespread rain.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh, multiple models making suggestions.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
And heavier rain. So look at this, this show's I
can't see. It's radio one to three inches and maybe
even more than that in some locations. As far as snow,
it's gonna be more of a kind of warmer system
for the time of year. So not much locally, although
this year Nevada will find maybe feet of snow coming
out of all this. Locally are very high mountaintops. You
see those little blue spots could pick up something. I
(03:48):
think the elevation for the snow is gonna be quite
high out of this though. All right, so the rainfores okay,
you can see that rain chance going us a little Tuesday,
but more so Wednesday of next week, all right, that's
Christmas Eve, and that's also what our temperatures are going down.
Tomorrow is warm for OH. Friday is in the low
seventies for LA. This weekend is more like upper sixties,
and those tempts keep falling as we go into next
week for the coast around seventy Tomorrow, sixties Friday, and
(04:11):
the weekend and next week is well, that's good finding
the balancy in an empire. Eighty degrees Friday seventies this week,
good and sixties next we got we got a seam.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're good, okay, thank you, Okay, So gonna rain like hell?
So does that mean that we're going to get off
the roads? The answer, of course is no, No, we're not.
We're just going to drive like total a holes because
that's how we do it. The estimations are one hundred
and twenty two point four million people. I don't know
(04:41):
how they come up with such a specific number when
they estimate, but they do think that a third of
the entire nation is going to travel at least fifty
miles from home between Saturday of this year and New
Year's Day. A third of the country is going to
be traveling. That is a ton That is an increase
over last year. And this is one of those weird
(05:05):
situations where we talk about the affordability crisis, we talk
about people worried about potential recession, people talk about tariffs, YadA, YadA, YadA,
all these other things, and then the anxiety doesn't really
match the behavior, because if I'm worried about money, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Blowing a bunch of money to get on a plane
and go see in laws.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh God, I'm not blowing anybody to go see in laws.
So again, the anxiety doesn't match the reality.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It just it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And I've got some more stories a little bit later
on tonight about some of that too, But it just
it is not. We're not behaving in a way that
says I'm concerned about money. Then again, we are not
a really bright species.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I always think about I think about Game of Thrones,
probably because it hit home whenever they kept talking about
winter is coming, Winter is coming, Winter is coming, which
was always this ominous warning, Winter is coming, Winter is coming.
And then, of course, is the books or the show
goes on, you realize that when winter comes, it is
(06:17):
it is a really big deal. It's like once every
hundred years, and it's a massive deal. Growing up in
a northern state, we started getting ready for winter. I
mean Labor Day hit and then you started thinking, Okay,
it's not gonna be long. The leaves are going to
be changing. That's nice, but you better make sure that
your snowblower has the oil changed in it. You've got
to make sure that you've got your snow tires ready
to be put on. I mean, we got ready for winter, right,
(06:39):
winter was coming? You prepared in the same way that
we keep getting these ominous warnings about the economy, and
we keep saying, wow, it could be bad.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We're starting to see some layoffs, unemployment ticks up a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But then we also have economists to say it's not
as bad as it could be, though, and that almost
gives us permission to put our head our heads back
in the sand. So as much as we keep saying, oh,
and you know, inflation is is at two point seven
percent latest numbers came out, which is still higher than
what the Fed wants. Unemployment ticked up just a little bit,
(07:11):
not a lot, a bit, just a little bit. And
so we've got all of these ominous, you know, not
ominous warnings, but we've got sort of some let's call
them yellow flags that are kind of popping up. And
how do we respond. We shrug our shoulders and we
get on a plane. It's not really getting ready for winter.
You're not really preparing. I tend to be a bit
of a worry war though, So maybe I'm overly cautious,
(07:34):
and maybe I'm just looking for an excuse not to
go to the in laws. I have a practical question,
and I'm hoping you can help me with this. It's
going to sound silly, but I'm trying to explain it
to my nieces and nephews. This is such a dumb
question that kids ask, and it's so so smart at
the same time. So my nephew asked me, if it rains,
(08:00):
does Santa have a raincoat?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I thought, what it's Santa? I mean, does it?
And all of a sudden my mind started going to
the weirdest places.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I thought, wait, does Santa have different gear when he's
delivering in Alaska versus Peru. I didn't know how to
answer his question, and I'm bad at lying to kids.
So I said, Santa's so fast he dodges rain drops.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Was that? I don't know what what else do you say? Well,
like he's like the flash, I guess, I.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Said, Santa has to move so fast to get from
house to house and deliver gifts all the kids.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He moves so fast he dodges the rain drops. Does
Santa tap into the speed force?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, yes, that bad?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Because he's got to go all over the world, right right?
And kids are easy to lie to, well, right. And
in that case, the kid he kind of believed it.
I was really worried because it as it's coming out
of my mouth, I was thinking, oh God, please don't
ask me if the reindeer get wet while they're waiting
for him to go down the chimney and come back up. Okay,
here's your That's what I was afraid he was gonna follow.
We follow up with, yeah, you gotta cut that right off.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Here's what you say, son, questions are a burden for others,
and then never let him ask another question.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's very deep. That's good.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's good parent Hang on, I'm the right there now,
that's good parenting advice. Don't ever ask me questions are
a burden for others. Yes, and Daddy's Scotch is low?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, perfect? Perfect? All right.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, you get on a small plane, you assume
the worst. That's gonnappen. You're gonna have a bumpy landing instead.
We've got two crashes today on two different coasts, and
they are raising the hackles and giving you a pause
before you climb aboard another puddle jumper. What investigators are
now looking at is next.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to KFI am six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I wanted to, and we'll do it after Mark's seven
thirty news here. I wanted to talk about the lottery.
The problem is, whenever there's a big jackpot, there is
rarely a new angle. I think I discovered a new
angle to discuss tonight. It's always like what would you
do with the money? And what are the taxes going
to be on that? That kind of thing, like those
(10:10):
are all the angles. I think I found a new angle.
I don't recall hearing anybody else talk about this before,
So we'll do that coming up here at seven thirty.
In the meantime, there was a braking news this afternoon,
a bizarre story out of Van Nines as somebody decided
to steal a plane.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Who's Chapter four was the first over the Van Nuys
airport after Lax police said someone stole this Sesna and
crashed into one of the airport hangars.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The FBI was here, tsa FAA airport police.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
After NBC four investigates broke this story, we spoke with
the owner of the plane.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I've had that particular plane for about three months now.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, you only owned it for three months.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Oh, Anthony nursessian runs the LA Flight Academy.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
I got a phone call at five am. On five
am that someone broke into the flight school and stole
one of the planes.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
He says.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
After a man broke in through their front door, he
found all the keys to their planes, then jumped in
and started this sess No. Two S model, a four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars plane.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The plane was parked where that plane is. Yeah, I
can't see it because it's radio. So he started the
engine there.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
It was texting this way, and the left wing of
the plane hit that hanger right there, and it caused
the nose to turn left, and so the end the
nose went inside this hangar and then it damaged the
porche that's inside.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The hanger as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh my gosh, would you even know how to start
a plane? No way, I would have a clue. I
mean I could find the keys, and I would know
the keys unlocked the door. But honestly, I swear to you,
I do not know the answer this dissessmas have. Do
they have ignition like where you have to put the
(12:01):
key in or is it do the key or do
you just get in and it's got a push button start,
like a lot of heavy equipment doesn't have a key,
and it'll just be like you lock the cab, the
key only goes to the cab, and the thinking is
if you're inside, then you can start it.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
And see that's kind of like I don't mind leaving
my car on as a prius because I know most
people that get in won't know how to drive it.
Because if you haven't never driven one, it's a little
bit of an experience.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Really.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Oh yeah, because the shifter isn't a different spot. You
have to, you know, put it in a certain one.
Obviously I've driven one, then you know what you're doing. Yeah,
like those, and I've driven to Tulsa ones that's also
very complicated, so you know it's like no one's. And
plus because it's a hybrid, it's gonna be off when
I walk away, like you're not gonna hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, I've owned the hybrids. In fact, that's what I
drive now is a hybrid, and same thing. You can't
tell if it's on or off, and that's why it's
got it. The first time first hybrid I bought, I
was sitting in my driveway I was living in Sandy.
I bought it in Poway, and I had a place
that was closer to the five and uh and I
took it back and I put it in the driveway,
(13:08):
and uh and I didn't I shut it off when
I When I went and got back in the car,
I hit the start button and the dashboard lit up.
But I didn't know if the car was I had
no idea, and no idea is this thing on? I
didn't know right it was the first time I had
driven it. And that's probably the same thing with with
obviously any evy is going to be the same. There's
(13:28):
like a there's is there an icon on the on
the Prius that tells you, okay, it's it's on, Like
I've got an icon.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Yeah, if you know, yeah, I'll tell you can see
it and I'll let you know. But yeah, so I
know what that means. I mean, obviously a plane is
a whole other world. But yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I would have no idea if if if the hair
brained idea to steal an airplane crossed my mind, I
wouldn't even know where to start.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I just wouldn't have a clue.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Meanwhile, tragedy on the East Coast. As kind of a
celebrity in the sports world, plane crash took him out.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Crowd to be in North Carolina. As we just mentioned,
NASCAR legend Greg Biffle, his wife, Christina, and their two
children died today when they're sessing a business jet crashed
while landing at Statesville Regional Airport. The jet burst into
flames and three other people on board also died.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That was landing. Landing is the most terrifying thing. I'm
telling you. Even if I could get the plane up
in the air, I don't think I could land it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
The investigation continues into the cause of that crash.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh man, so Greg Biffle, that is what. That's terrible.
That's terrible. What a horrible way to go to because
it's just got to be sheer panic for a brief
period of time, just absolute terror, frozen stiff, and you know,
(14:53):
we're going to get insight into what happened there. You know,
was there mechanical failure, was it pilot aer all that
kind of stuff. There's going to be the other you know,
investigations and the news will come out. But just a
terrible way to go, man, terrible way, Hey, if you
still have Christmas shopping to do, you are you're kind
of getting to the point where it's a bit late
to ship something out without paying an arm and a leg,
(15:13):
which means you really only have two options. One you
can deal with the crowds and deliver your goodies in person,
which nobody wants to do because then you have to
see the people face to face. Nobody wants that. Or
give them the gift of hope. And by the way,
if you're buying for me, I want the hope in
a neat little envelope. How much that hope could pay
off is next?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
One and a half billion dollars And would you even
finish your shift if you found out that you won
the next power Ball?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Well you should.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You should finish your shift because you don't want it.
You don't want people to suspect that you want it.
Worst thing you can do is tell anybody. And the
first thing you want to do is tell everybody today's
show this morning was giving us all the bad news.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
If you had power Ball tickets for last night's drawing, well,
your Christmas miracle is going to have to wait a
bit longer. There were no tickets matching all six numbers,
so nobody got it. But there were some one and
two million dollar winners. So we're taking a look at
the winning numbers on your screen. And here is some
more good news than.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah no, that's the radio no screen.
Speaker 11 (16:21):
Jackpot is on the move again. Up to one point
five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Savanah, I got three, sounding like she's got laryngitis or something.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
There.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
That is the fifth largest prize in power Ball history.
Next drawing's Saturday night. That would be Christmas y right there.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, she's fighting something that would be a perfect christ
I wonder how fast my wife would leave me if
we won the power Ball if you want it, well, no,
I mean we're married, so if if one of us
wins it, we win it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, but at that point she would have I.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Think, what is the lump some six hundred million dollars
or something like that, and they take thirty seven percent
for taxes and yeah, so anyway, I think I think
you you ended up clearing well out of the one
and a half billion, maybe you take into taxes, so
uh okay, so lump sum's gonna be seven fifty, then
you take another two hundred and fifty million for taxes.
(17:23):
And I'm just using rough numbers here, so roughly you'd
have about half a billion dollars that you'd take home
on a lump sum. And then uh, if we just
split in half. I think she dumped me. I think
she'd be gone in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Think so.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, she's got the means to do it now,
but it's inconvenient. But if you've got the if you've
got two hundred and fifty million dollars, that's enough to
hire somebody to clean the gutters and not have to
sleep with them, you know what I mean. Yeah, I
can just I can see her just being like, oh, good,
won the money. I'm gonna pay somebody to to put
(17:59):
up the Christmas lights, to clean the gutters, to do
all the crap that I need him around here for
because I don't want to do it. And then she
can be like, I'm done with you. I'm just I'm done.
I think she'd be done with me. I'd like to
think she wouldn't go on a cruise. We'd buy a
cruise ship and cruise on it. That's what we would do. Yeah,
(18:20):
let me see, it's always like the biggest winners tend
to come from California too, So once it hits a
billion dollars, it's almost like our odds go up.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Odds of course, one to.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Two hundred and ninety two million, which means if everybody
in the country played it, then we'd have probably one
winner the whole thing. But don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody,
and then get yourself a lawyer real fast, and a
financial planner real fast. I thought of I thought of
(18:49):
an angle. Whenever you do a lottery story, it's always
I mean, it's just kind of a side note. Oh
my goodness, the lottery is up to one point five
billion dollars and then oh, you know, where would you
spend the money? What would you do with it? And
it's yeah, look, it's fun. We all love to dream.
That's why we played the lottery in the first place.
All right, you can't play, you can't win if you
don't play, and it's just a lot of fun. And
it costs you a couple bucks to play it, and
(19:11):
that's great. But then I thought something else. I thought
about Christmas, and I thought about people who are buying
their friends and family lottery tickets for Christmas, and this happens.
I've had lots of bosses that do this too, in
lieu of a Christmas bonus we got you scratch your tickets. Okay,
(19:33):
it's better than nothing, so thank you. And every now
and again you get one of those stories where somebody
you know was given a lottery ticket in lieu of
a bonus from work and then they end up hitting
you know, one hundred thousand million dollars or something like
that makes for a great story, right, We love to
cover those stories. But I was thinking about the the
social aspect of it. So suppose suppose Mark, being the
(20:00):
complete pro you are, buy me a power Bowl ticket
for Christmas. Yes, and you said, listen, I wanted to
get you something that was very impersonal and super cheap.
But you know, let you know that I that I
acknowledged that we work together, and so you give me
a Powerball ticket. And let's suppose that the Powerball ticket
(20:21):
that you gave me for Christmas hits.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
How much do I have to share with you? I
don't think you're required to share anybody, ill legally or not.
If you were a decent human being as well as
being a complete pro you split it with me, not
fifty fifty what what do you mean not fill the wall?
What then if not fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, it was a gift. I mean, I'm definitely gonna
throw something your way. There's gonna be a thank So
let's say you win the one and a half billion,
you take the lump sum, and then you pay your
taxes and blah blah blah. By the way, California doesn't
charge any state taxes on lottery, but you still have
to pay your federal taxes. So it's basically it's like
thirty seven percent on any thing over a million or
something like whatever. It's the accountants are going to figure
(21:03):
that out for us. And so anyway, let's say we uh,
we end up the take home is five hundred million dollars. Okay,
I win five hundred I got five hundred million in cash.
How much do I have to give? I'm not giving
you two hundred and fifty million dollars. That was a
that was a Christmas present and basically you were it
was a cop out.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Then what do you think you're giving me one to
five million? What?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, what are you a Charles Dickens character? What what's
going on here?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Love?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
How you've got five hundred million and you're gonna give
me like a teeny tiny sliver of a percent.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Of I think, what if I give you five million dollars?
That's one percent?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you were trying to give me a ticket that
had in your mind zero value a one in two
hundred and ninety two million chants of winning. And now
all of a sudden, you think, you know what, what
if I gave you one?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Two?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Okay, So I will give you the same percentage, the
same odds.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So you you gave me something that had a one
and two hundred and ninety two million chance of hitting
I win roughly double that.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'll give you two dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Your largest That truly is unparalleled. And I mean that literally.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You just talked yourself out of five million dollars. Pal. Yeah,
you might have.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Been able to negotiate up to eight to ten, but no,
now you're down to two bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'll take his feat. I'm just gonna give you.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Back exactly what the odds were that you gave me
to start with. I think I'm on your wife's side
at this point. In fact, let me just speak to
your wife directly. Oh no, you haven't met my wife.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Zero.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
If it's up to her, you get you gonna be
be happy with the two dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, I was going to advise her to leave you,
as you were predicting earlier.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I don't think you have
to advise her. I think she's gonna realize that real fast, okay,
real real fas all right. I feel like there ought
to be this. This is one of those that you
need to write a letter to mismanners or the etiquette
queen or whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh, she would one hundred percent until you to split
it with me. There's no question about this. Fifty There's
no way any decent, ethic human being would know that
you got to split it with the person who gave
it to you.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh you would. Let's say that I'd buy you a ticket, Mark,
and you hit the jackpot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I would help much. Do you have to share with me?
You wouldn't even have to suggest it or say it
twice to me. I would split it with you without thought.
Fifty to fifty. Yeah, because that's the decent thing to do.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Wow, I mean I would be like, look, Mark, I'm
actually never going to talk to anybody else at the
station again, and I'm making a I'm making an effort
to talk to you and hand you a check for
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Here's a concept to that. As an American, maybe a
lot of us aren't really familiar with the concept is enough.
If I have five hundred million dollars, half of that
is enough I can share.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I was maybe I was going to open a school
for blind children, and you just took all that. You
just basically ensured blind children never learn brial.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I don't know how fancy in school these blind kids
are gonna need, but they're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It was gonna be it was gonna be a very
big school. Yeah, and I was gonna name it after you.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Well, make a smaller school, but lead them around it
twice because they won't be able to tell.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Wow, that is maybe the funniest thing you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Meanwhile, while Marcus in the Bahamas with my wife, he
was like, I wonder how what he's doing with the
blind kids.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Best of luck. God.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I'd like to say you're a horrible person, but I
think we're both just terrible people in general.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I think that's how it works. Well, except one of
us is a stingy, horrible person.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, well, one of us has four hundred and tinty
five million dollars and the other one is just whining
about not having anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
This is the worst conversation I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
If you're thinking about playing power Ball just so you
can afford it, down pay, God, just.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Lead them around twice. Regroup. If you're thing.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
If you're thinking about playing power Ball, just say you're
can afford a down payment.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Slow down.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
You might not need to because there's hope on the
horizon for millions of us around here, sir, are just
waiting for an opportunity to finally get into our very
own homes.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
How close you are is Next.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We'll give you an update on the Brown slash Mit
shooting suspect who was found in a storage unit deed
of a self inflicted gunshot wound. That is, you get
the latest on that story coming up here after marks
eight o'clock news. I'm Chris merrilk I AM six forty
more stimulating talking on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app,
(25:42):
Oh let me see, Oh, I asked a really good question.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I thought it was a good question.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I hate it when hosts declared their own questions as good,
but I always use it sarcastically. I thought, I asked
the most brilliant question that's ever been hypothesized, and I said,
if you are given a lottery to it as a
gift and it hits, how much do you have to
give to the person who who got you that as
a present? Mark says fifty percent? So if you hit
(26:13):
powerball on a gift that, say, your boss gave you
in lieu of a Christmas bonus, how much do you
have to give the boss? Well, let's suppose after taxes,
the lump some payout is five hundred million dollars on
this coming powerball jackpot. Ronner says, you got to give
up two hundred and fifty million dollars. I think he's insane,
(26:34):
but he says, no, that's only fair. That's split sees
from the talkback.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Hey, Chris, I completely agree with you, But what to
give Ronnor if you want the power ball?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Ooo?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Ronner? Okay? Rather unkind.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Kevin o'larry said, once you secure five million dollars, you'll
never run out of money. If you're smart about it.
And that's the great gift to give someone. If they
gave you ticket five million, push it up to ten.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
But that's that's fair. Thank you appreciate that. There you go,
one percent pocket change. Thanks, five million dollars pockets you
find out in your couch cushion.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
Wow, Chris, Yeah, Mark is crazy if he thinks that
the person has to divide the winnings fifty because they
purchased the ticket as a gift.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
F that's way too much, way too much.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
See, we have the smartest listeners, smartest listeners. What you're
just you just surprised me. Sometimes sometimes I just don't
know who you are. I wouldn't hesitate to give you
half if I won. Oh, I bet you would hesitate.
I bet you would hesitate the crap out of things.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I mean I probably attached some humiliating condition to it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Legally changed my name to complete pro It's something like that. Yeah,
but I'd still fork it over. It's the only fair
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Wow, No way, man, no way.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I mean, how about five million dollars and I take
you on vacation or something.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I pick up the tab.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh, how generous of you? How much do you need
to live comfortably the rest of your life and have
everything you want.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Come on, Okay, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And you think that I would act rationally if I
had two hundred fifty million dollars. But you see how
much people they win the lottery and then the next
thing you know, they're broke. So obviously whatever they won
was not enough. And I'd like to just assume I'm
as dumb as them, and two hundred fifty million dollars
isn't gonna cut it.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Five hundred million might get me to the end. You
might just into the finish line of life.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
You just drag yourself across the finish line with five hundreds, well,
four ninety five.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now, because I gave you five million.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You'd probably ask for it back at that point, Hey, can.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I get alone? Yeah, I'll pay you back.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Meanwhile, and maybe five million isn't enough. Maybe I would
maybe you could say, wow, that's really great. Hey, And
of course you you would not hesitate to say how
much you're gonna give me. And maybe I would say,
you know what, pick out the house you want and
I will buy that house for you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Well, if if it's in la that's a pretty big gift.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I will buy you whatever you pick out, whatever home
you want, and I will purchase that home for you.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I can find a two hundred and fifty million dollar
home and no, I can find one easy.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, Because I did see that a bunch of according
to Zillo, a bunch of homes have lost value.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This is from ABC.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Another Federal Reserve interest rate cut a major reason for
it to kickstart a frozen housing market that a new
Zillow analysis says has more homes declining in value than rising.
Fifty three percent of homes across the US are valued
lower today than they were the same time last year.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, I wonder what it is here. It's a different show.
I'm going to tell you. I mean that was a tease.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Share in every metro.
Speaker 13 (29:58):
Denver and Austin have the biggest s nine and ten
homes in both of these markets are down in value.
In Sacramento, California, it's eighty eight percent.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Were you following the.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Probably not following the housing market in Austin, But I
was reading a number of articles about the housing market
in Austin, how it was exploding. When Musk took Tesla
there and it was like the housing market. People couldn't
get there, They couldn't get a house. Austin couldn't build
them fast enough, and people were paying outrageous prices. Of course,
they're taking Bay Area money, and then they're going to
(30:31):
Texas where things are a lot cheaper, and they were
just inflating the value like wild and then all of
a sudden it shifted like jobs weren't there, and then
people couldn't sell their homes for anything, and everybody was
taken a bath.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Thirteen other metros as well, where three of every four
houses is down in value from last year, most of
them in the Sun Belt. How much homes are down
differents as well. Austin that boomtown gone Bus has whole
values down twenty one percent from their peak. Leans is
down sixteen percent. Pittsburgh, San Antonio and Tampa are down
thirteen percent. And really it also depends on the size
(31:08):
of your house. Smaller houses are down more than larger ones.
This means that the top of the market is not
as soft as the bottom.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But on the other hand, okay, top not as soft
as the bottom.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Okay, smaller homes have risen more in value compared to
the larger ones.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Okay, I'm gonna stop them there, because it's just a
lot of numbers to throw at us all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Here's what you gotta know.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Los Angeles Metro nearly four out of five homes lost
value last year. That puts us in the top ten
metro areas where And it's not that it's not that
homes are losing eighty percent of their value. It's that
eighty percent of lost value. But I should also point
out there's one more piece of very important information for clarification.
(31:50):
That is, these are zestimates. This is not home sale
prices that are dropping. This is what Zillow estimates your
house's work. That's a words estimate.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
This estimate. It's it's very zesty. It's this estimate.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah uh, and that is simply based on square footage
and comps in the neighborhood. Has nothing to do with
anybody actually going through your house. Your home could have
faulty foundation, it could have a hole in the roof,
it could have all kinds of a mess. I mean,
you could have you could have had damage from one
of the big fires. And then Zilla will say, oh,
(32:26):
your home is your home is worth you know, eight
hundred thousand dollars. Uh, and that's down from last year
where it was worth eight hundred twenty thousand dollars. Meanwhile,
you're looking around, You're like, my home's condemned. It's a
it's basically a rubble. It's you know, it's the land
is worth maybe three hundred thousand. There's not much other
value here, so it's only based on whatever their algorithm says.
(32:49):
And likewise, if you put a lot of money into
improving your home, doing some remodeling, new roof, maybe fixed foundation,
whatever it might be, upgrades here and there, Zilo doesn't
doesn't factor that. So take that for what it's worth.
But by and large, we are seeing a number of
homes that are starting to lose value, which is good
because when I buy mark Is home for picking up
(33:12):
that power ball ticket for me, I'm gonna save a
few times.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
The two hundred and fifty million dollar home.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There's no way you can't find it. Two hundred free minute,
you can't find it, two undre fifto minions.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
How much you want a bad no way, I'm gonna
zilow this while you're doing news. I'm gonna see if
I can find what is the most expensive home for
sale in California.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. Okay, all right, the
Ronner is standing by.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
We'll give you an update on what's happening with that.
That the shooter from Brown University and MIT. The authorities
kind of connected the two shootings together and then they
found the guy.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
The ending was not not a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That is next time, Chris merrilf I AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (33:49):
App, KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Good
Evening Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I AM six forty more are stimulating talk on demand
anytime in the iHeartRadio. I appreciate everybody that pops in
on the app, hits that talkback button, gives us, you know,
your thoughts, whatever's going on. I was listening to Tim
as he was carrying that press conference from the the
Brown University sounds like it Brown and Mit University shooter
(00:29):
which they found dead in the storage unit that they
were closing in on and I gotta search warrant for it.
They cracked it open and then they found the body inside.
So we'll we'll, we'll monitor, they'll monitor that situation. The
incredible Matt Toffler is producing the show remotely tonight and
I have given him very explicit instructions. I want you
(00:52):
to monitor the situation closely, and he said, as soon
as the game's over, I will do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All over that. Thanks. I believe that. Yeah, that's what
he's doing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
He keeps giving he keeps adding scoring updates to the
show Rundown and Rundown. Yeah, Go Dolphins, He's on it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Go Dolph dolphins. Yeah, he's all over it. So we are.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We are watching very closely during commercial breaks what's happening there.
We'll we'll get a little bit more into it as
more and more information sort of presents itself as the
as the evening goes on, which we're expecting, they say
they meeting authorities say they're going to do another press
conference at seven thirty mark.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Are we carrying that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Should I just tell Matt to monitor it closely for
any changes?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You interrupted me just as I was looking up some
information on so TBA.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Please stand? Okay, okay, standing standing? You want us to
wait now? Or should we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Because people love dead air? Okay, all right, Yeah, it's
the best my show has ever sounded. Oh yeah, Mike
Winter tonight of perfect, perfect good stuff. We're off to
a to a Crackerjack start, I say, we are. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
In the meantime, the other thing I was listening to
Tim talking about was this rain. He's been talking about
this rain coming for a while, and and I thought, okay, uh, Tim,
Kimmy kim a reno, how bad is it really gonna be?
How bad is this uh? How bad is this storm
(02:28):
gonna be? And uh, then I uh did a little more,
a little more snooping, and it sounds like it's gonna
rain like hell, So that Tim was all over it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is from Fox eleven.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Now to the potential for rain next week. So we
have a storm track that's been holding up north pretty
much all month long.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It is gradually shifting farther south.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Northern California is gonna get waves of heavy rain between
now and the end of the weekend. This keeps moving
southward as we go into next week. Maybe some rain Tuesday,
but a better chance I would say, on Wednesday, and
maybe still more to come on Thursday and Friday of
next week. That would be right through Christmas, even Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh boy, that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But I probably should stay off the roads, probably should
not go to the in laws.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean the weather.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, it's the traffic, The roads are gonna be
a mess. It's just why don't we just not go
to the in laws this year?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And the day after Christmas as well.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Now I'm gonna show you one computer model projection for
potential rain next week. This doesn't mean it's gonna play
out exactly like this, but multiple models are starting to
suggest more widespread rain.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh, multiple models making suggestions.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
And heavier rain. So look at this, this show's I
can't see. It's radio one to three inches and maybe
even more than that in some locations. As far as snow,
it's gonna be more of a kind of warmer system
for the time of year. So not much locally, although
this year Nevada will find maybe feet of snow coming
out of all this. Locally are very high mountaintops. You
see those little blue spots could pick up something. I
(03:48):
think the elevation for the snow is gonna be quite
high out of this though. All right, so the rainfores okay,
you can see that rain chance going us a little Tuesday,
but more so Wednesday of next week, all right, that's
Christmas Eve, and that's also what our temperatures are going down.
Tomorrow is warm for OH. Friday is in the low
seventies for LA. This weekend is more like upper sixties,
and those tempts keep falling as we go into next
week for the coast around seventy Tomorrow, sixties Friday, and
(04:11):
the weekend and next week is well, that's good finding
the balancy in an empire. Eighty degrees Friday seventies this week,
good and sixties next we got we got a seam.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're good, okay, thank you, Okay, So gonna rain like hell?
So does that mean that we're going to get off
the roads? The answer, of course is no, No, we're not.
We're just going to drive like total a holes because
that's how we do it. The estimations are one hundred
and twenty two point four million people. I don't know
(04:41):
how they come up with such a specific number when
they estimate, but they do think that a third of
the entire nation is going to travel at least fifty
miles from home between Saturday of this year and New
Year's Day. A third of the country is going to
be traveling. That is a ton That is an increase
over last year. And this is one of those weird
(05:05):
situations where we talk about the affordability crisis, we talk
about people worried about potential recession, people talk about tariffs, YadA, YadA, YadA,
all these other things, and then the anxiety doesn't really
match the behavior, because if I'm worried about money, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Blowing a bunch of money to get on a plane
and go see in laws.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh God, I'm not blowing anybody to go see in laws.
So again, the anxiety doesn't match the reality.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It just it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And I've got some more stories a little bit later
on tonight about some of that too, But it just
it is not. We're not behaving in a way that
says I'm concerned about money. Then again, we are not
a really bright species.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I always think about I think about Game of Thrones,
probably because it hit home whenever they kept talking about
winter is coming, Winter is coming, Winter is coming, which
was always this ominous warning, Winter is coming, Winter is coming.
And then, of course, is the books or the show
goes on, you realize that when winter comes, it is
(06:17):
it is a really big deal. It's like once every
hundred years, and it's a massive deal. Growing up in
a northern state, we started getting ready for winter. I
mean Labor Day hit and then you started thinking, Okay,
it's not gonna be long. The leaves are going to
be changing. That's nice, but you better make sure that
your snowblower has the oil changed in it. You've got
to make sure that you've got your snow tires ready
to be put on. I mean, we got ready for winter, right,
(06:39):
winter was coming? You prepared in the same way that
we keep getting these ominous warnings about the economy, and
we keep saying, wow, it could be bad.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We're starting to see some layoffs, unemployment ticks up a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But then we also have economists to say it's not
as bad as it could be, though, and that almost
gives us permission to put our head our heads back
in the sand. So as much as we keep saying, oh,
and you know, inflation is is at two point seven
percent latest numbers came out, which is still higher than
what the Fed wants. Unemployment ticked up just a little bit,
(07:11):
not a lot, a bit, just a little bit. And
so we've got all of these ominous, you know, not
ominous warnings, but we've got sort of some let's call
them yellow flags that are kind of popping up. And
how do we respond. We shrug our shoulders and we
get on a plane. It's not really getting ready for winter.
You're not really preparing. I tend to be a bit
of a worry war though, So maybe I'm overly cautious,
(07:34):
and maybe I'm just looking for an excuse not to
go to the in laws. I have a practical question,
and I'm hoping you can help me with this. It's
going to sound silly, but I'm trying to explain it
to my nieces and nephews. This is such a dumb
question that kids ask, and it's so so smart at
the same time. So my nephew asked me, if it rains,
(08:00):
does Santa have a raincoat?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I thought, what it's Santa? I mean, does it?
And all of a sudden my mind started going to
the weirdest places.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I thought, wait, does Santa have different gear when he's
delivering in Alaska versus Peru. I didn't know how to
answer his question, and I'm bad at lying to kids.
So I said, Santa's so fast he dodges rain drops.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Was that? I don't know what what else do you say? Well,
like he's like the flash, I guess, I.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Said, Santa has to move so fast to get from
house to house and deliver gifts all the kids.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He moves so fast he dodges the rain drops. Does
Santa tap into the speed force?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, yes, that bad?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Because he's got to go all over the world, right right?
And kids are easy to lie to, well, right. And
in that case, the kid he kind of believed it.
I was really worried because it as it's coming out
of my mouth, I was thinking, oh God, please don't
ask me if the reindeer get wet while they're waiting
for him to go down the chimney and come back up. Okay,
here's your That's what I was afraid he was gonna follow.
We follow up with, yeah, you gotta cut that right off.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Here's what you say, son, questions are a burden for others,
and then never let him ask another question.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's very deep. That's good.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's good parent Hang on, I'm the right there now,
that's good parenting advice. Don't ever ask me questions are
a burden for others. Yes, and Daddy's Scotch is low?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, perfect? Perfect? All right.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, you get on a small plane, you assume
the worst. That's gonnappen. You're gonna have a bumpy landing instead.
We've got two crashes today on two different coasts, and
they are raising the hackles and giving you a pause
before you climb aboard another puddle jumper. What investigators are
now looking at is next.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to KFI am six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I wanted to, and we'll do it after Mark's seven
thirty news here. I wanted to talk about the lottery.
The problem is, whenever there's a big jackpot, there is
rarely a new angle. I think I discovered a new
angle to discuss tonight. It's always like what would you
do with the money? And what are the taxes going
to be on that? That kind of thing, like those
(10:10):
are all the angles. I think I found a new angle.
I don't recall hearing anybody else talk about this before,
So we'll do that coming up here at seven thirty.
In the meantime, there was a braking news this afternoon,
a bizarre story out of Van Nines as somebody decided
to steal a plane.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Who's Chapter four was the first over the Van Nuys
airport after Lax police said someone stole this Sesna and
crashed into one of the airport hangars.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The FBI was here, tsa FAA airport police.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
After NBC four investigates broke this story, we spoke with
the owner of the plane.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I've had that particular plane for about three months now.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, you only owned it for three months.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Oh, Anthony nursessian runs the LA Flight Academy.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
I got a phone call at five am. On five
am that someone broke into the flight school and stole
one of the planes.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
He says.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
After a man broke in through their front door, he
found all the keys to their planes, then jumped in
and started this sess No. Two S model, a four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars plane.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The plane was parked where that plane is. Yeah, I
can't see it because it's radio. So he started the
engine there.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
It was texting this way, and the left wing of
the plane hit that hanger right there, and it caused
the nose to turn left, and so the end the
nose went inside this hangar and then it damaged the
porche that's inside.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The hanger as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh my gosh, would you even know how to start
a plane? No way, I would have a clue. I
mean I could find the keys, and I would know
the keys unlocked the door. But honestly, I swear to you,
I do not know the answer this dissessmas have. Do
they have ignition like where you have to put the
(12:01):
key in or is it do the key or do
you just get in and it's got a push button start,
like a lot of heavy equipment doesn't have a key,
and it'll just be like you lock the cab, the
key only goes to the cab, and the thinking is
if you're inside, then you can start it.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
And see that's kind of like I don't mind leaving
my car on as a prius because I know most
people that get in won't know how to drive it.
Because if you haven't never driven one, it's a little
bit of an experience.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Really.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Oh yeah, because the shifter isn't a different spot. You
have to, you know, put it in a certain one.
Obviously I've driven one, then you know what you're doing. Yeah,
like those, and I've driven to Tulsa ones that's also
very complicated, so you know it's like no one's. And
plus because it's a hybrid, it's gonna be off when
I walk away, like you're not gonna hear it?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, I've owned the hybrids. In fact, that's what I
drive now is a hybrid, and same thing. You can't
tell if it's on or off, and that's why it's
got it. The first time first hybrid I bought, I
was sitting in my driveway I was living in Sandy.
I bought it in Poway, and I had a place
that was closer to the five and uh and I
took it back and I put it in the driveway,
(13:08):
and uh and I didn't I shut it off when
I When I went and got back in the car,
I hit the start button and the dashboard lit up.
But I didn't know if the car was I had
no idea, and no idea is this thing on? I
didn't know right it was the first time I had
driven it. And that's probably the same thing with with
obviously any evy is going to be the same. There's
(13:28):
like a there's is there an icon on the on
the Prius that tells you, okay, it's it's on, Like
I've got an icon.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Yeah, if you know, yeah, I'll tell you can see
it and I'll let you know. But yeah, so I
know what that means. I mean, obviously a plane is
a whole other world. But yeah, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I would have no idea if if if the hair
brained idea to steal an airplane crossed my mind, I
wouldn't even know where to start.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I just wouldn't have a clue.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Meanwhile, tragedy on the East Coast. As kind of a
celebrity in the sports world, plane crash took him out.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Crowd to be in North Carolina. As we just mentioned,
NASCAR legend Greg Biffle, his wife, Christina, and their two
children died today when they're sessing a business jet crashed
while landing at Statesville Regional Airport. The jet burst into
flames and three other people on board also died.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That was landing. Landing is the most terrifying thing. I'm
telling you. Even if I could get the plane up
in the air, I don't think I could land it.
Speaker 10 (14:28):
The investigation continues into the cause of that crash.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh man, so Greg Biffle, that is what. That's terrible.
That's terrible. What a horrible way to go to because
it's just got to be sheer panic for a brief
period of time, just absolute terror, frozen stiff, and you know,
(14:53):
we're going to get insight into what happened there. You know,
was there mechanical failure, was it pilot aer all that
kind of stuff. There's going to be the other you know,
investigations and the news will come out. But just a
terrible way to go, man, terrible way, Hey, if you
still have Christmas shopping to do, you are you're kind
of getting to the point where it's a bit late
to ship something out without paying an arm and a leg,
(15:13):
which means you really only have two options. One you
can deal with the crowds and deliver your goodies in person,
which nobody wants to do because then you have to
see the people face to face. Nobody wants that. Or
give them the gift of hope. And by the way,
if you're buying for me, I want the hope in
a neat little envelope. How much that hope could pay
off is next?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
One and a half billion dollars And would you even
finish your shift if you found out that you won
the next power Ball?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Well you should.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You should finish your shift because you don't want it.
You don't want people to suspect that you want it.
Worst thing you can do is tell anybody. And the
first thing you want to do is tell everybody today's
show this morning was giving us all the bad news.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
If you had power Ball tickets for last night's drawing, well,
your Christmas miracle is going to have to wait a
bit longer. There were no tickets matching all six numbers,
so nobody got it. But there were some one and
two million dollar winners. So we're taking a look at
the winning numbers on your screen. And here is some
more good news than.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah no, that's the radio no screen.
Speaker 11 (16:21):
Jackpot is on the move again. Up to one point
five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Savanah, I got three, sounding like she's got laryngitis or something.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
There.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
That is the fifth largest prize in power Ball history.
Next drawing's Saturday night. That would be Christmas y right there.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yeah, she's fighting something that would be a perfect christ
I wonder how fast my wife would leave me if
we won the power Ball if you want it, well, no,
I mean we're married, so if if one of us
wins it, we win it.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, but at that point she would have I.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Think, what is the lump some six hundred million dollars
or something like that, and they take thirty seven percent
for taxes and yeah, so anyway, I think I think
you you ended up clearing well out of the one
and a half billion, maybe you take into taxes, so
uh okay, so lump sum's gonna be seven fifty, then
you take another two hundred and fifty million for taxes.
(17:23):
And I'm just using rough numbers here, so roughly you'd
have about half a billion dollars that you'd take home
on a lump sum. And then uh, if we just
split in half. I think she dumped me. I think
she'd be gone in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Think so.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I mean, she's got the means to do it now,
but it's inconvenient. But if you've got the if you've
got two hundred and fifty million dollars, that's enough to
hire somebody to clean the gutters and not have to
sleep with them, you know what I mean. Yeah, I
can just I can see her just being like, oh, good,
won the money. I'm gonna pay somebody to to put
(17:59):
up the Christmas lights, to clean the gutters, to do
all the crap that I need him around here for
because I don't want to do it. And then she
can be like, I'm done with you. I'm just I'm done.
I think she'd be done with me. I'd like to
think she wouldn't go on a cruise. We'd buy a
cruise ship and cruise on it. That's what we would do. Yeah,
(18:20):
let me see, it's always like the biggest winners tend
to come from California too, So once it hits a
billion dollars, it's almost like our odds go up.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Odds of course, one to.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Two hundred and ninety two million, which means if everybody
in the country played it, then we'd have probably one
winner the whole thing. But don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody,
and then get yourself a lawyer real fast, and a
financial planner real fast. I thought of I thought of
(18:49):
an angle. Whenever you do a lottery story, it's always
I mean, it's just kind of a side note. Oh
my goodness, the lottery is up to one point five
billion dollars and then oh, you know, where would you
spend the money? What would you do with it? And
it's yeah, look, it's fun. We all love to dream.
That's why we played the lottery in the first place.
All right, you can't play, you can't win if you
don't play, and it's just a lot of fun. And
it costs you a couple bucks to play it, and
(19:11):
that's great. But then I thought something else. I thought
about Christmas, and I thought about people who are buying
their friends and family lottery tickets for Christmas, and this happens.
I've had lots of bosses that do this too, in
lieu of a Christmas bonus we got you scratch your tickets. Okay,
(19:33):
it's better than nothing, so thank you. And every now
and again you get one of those stories where somebody
you know was given a lottery ticket in lieu of
a bonus from work and then they end up hitting
you know, one hundred thousand million dollars or something like
that makes for a great story, right, We love to
cover those stories. But I was thinking about the the
social aspect of it. So suppose suppose Mark, being the
(20:00):
complete pro you are, buy me a power Bowl ticket
for Christmas. Yes, and you said, listen, I wanted to
get you something that was very impersonal and super cheap.
But you know, let you know that I that I
acknowledged that we work together, and so you give me
a Powerball ticket. And let's suppose that the Powerball ticket
(20:21):
that you gave me for Christmas hits.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
How much do I have to share with you? I
don't think you're required to share anybody, ill legally or not.
If you were a decent human being as well as
being a complete pro you split it with me, not
fifty fifty what what do you mean not fill the wall?
What then if not fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, it was a gift. I mean, I'm definitely gonna
throw something your way. There's gonna be a thank So
let's say you win the one and a half billion,
you take the lump sum, and then you pay your
taxes and blah blah blah. By the way, California doesn't
charge any state taxes on lottery, but you still have
to pay your federal taxes. So it's basically it's like
thirty seven percent on any thing over a million or
something like whatever. It's the accountants are going to figure
(21:03):
that out for us. And so anyway, let's say we uh,
we end up the take home is five hundred million dollars. Okay,
I win five hundred I got five hundred million in cash.
How much do I have to give? I'm not giving
you two hundred and fifty million dollars. That was a
that was a Christmas present and basically you were it
was a cop out.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Then what do you think you're giving me one to
five million? What?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, what are you a Charles Dickens character? What what's
going on here?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Love?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
How you've got five hundred million and you're gonna give
me like a teeny tiny sliver of a percent.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Of I think, what if I give you five million dollars?
That's one percent?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you were trying to give me a ticket that
had in your mind zero value a one in two
hundred and ninety two million chants of winning. And now
all of a sudden, you think, you know what, what
if I gave you one?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Two?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Okay, So I will give you the same percentage, the
same odds.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
So you you gave me something that had a one
and two hundred and ninety two million chance of hitting
I win roughly double that.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'll give you two dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Your largest That truly is unparalleled. And I mean that literally.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You just talked yourself out of five million dollars. Pal. Yeah,
you might have.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Been able to negotiate up to eight to ten, but no,
now you're down to two bucks.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'll take his feat. I'm just gonna give you.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Back exactly what the odds were that you gave me
to start with. I think I'm on your wife's side
at this point. In fact, let me just speak to
your wife directly. Oh no, you haven't met my wife.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Zero.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
If it's up to her, you get you gonna be
be happy with the two dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, I was going to advise her to leave you,
as you were predicting earlier.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I don't think you have
to advise her. I think she's gonna realize that real fast, okay,
real real fas all right. I feel like there ought
to be this. This is one of those that you
need to write a letter to mismanners or the etiquette
queen or whatever.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh, she would one hundred percent until you to split
it with me. There's no question about this. Fifty There's
no way any decent, ethic human being would know that
you got to split it with the person who gave
it to you.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh you would. Let's say that I'd buy you a ticket, Mark,
and you hit the jackpot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I would help much. Do you have to share with me?
You wouldn't even have to suggest it or say it
twice to me. I would split it with you without thought.
Fifty to fifty. Yeah, because that's the decent thing to do.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Wow, I mean I would be like, look, Mark, I'm
actually never going to talk to anybody else at the
station again, and I'm making a I'm making an effort
to talk to you and hand you a check for
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Here's a concept to that. As an American, maybe a
lot of us aren't really familiar with the concept is enough.
If I have five hundred million dollars, half of that
is enough I can share.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I was maybe I was going to open a school
for blind children, and you just took all that. You
just basically ensured blind children never learn brial.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I don't know how fancy in school these blind kids
are gonna need, but they're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It was gonna be it was gonna be a very
big school. Yeah, and I was gonna name it after you.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Well, make a smaller school, but lead them around it
twice because they won't be able to tell.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Wow, that is maybe the funniest thing you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Meanwhile, while Marcus in the Bahamas with my wife, he
was like, I wonder how what he's doing with the
blind kids.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Best of luck. God.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I'd like to say you're a horrible person, but I
think we're both just terrible people in general.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I think that's how it works. Well, except one of
us is a stingy, horrible person.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, well, one of us has four hundred and tinty
five million dollars and the other one is just whining
about not having anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
This is the worst conversation I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
If you're thinking about playing power Ball just so you
can afford it, down pay, God, just.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Lead them around twice. Regroup. If you're thing.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
If you're thinking about playing power Ball, just say you're
can afford a down payment.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Slow down.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
You might not need to because there's hope on the
horizon for millions of us around here, sir, are just
waiting for an opportunity to finally get into our very
own homes.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
How close you are is Next.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We'll give you an update on the Brown slash Mit
shooting suspect who was found in a storage unit deed
of a self inflicted gunshot wound. That is, you get
the latest on that story coming up here after marks
eight o'clock news. I'm Chris merrilk I AM six forty
more stimulating talking on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app,
(25:42):
Oh let me see, Oh, I asked a really good question.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I thought it was a good question.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I hate it when hosts declared their own questions as good,
but I always use it sarcastically. I thought, I asked
the most brilliant question that's ever been hypothesized, and I said,
if you are given a lottery to it as a
gift and it hits, how much do you have to
give to the person who who got you that as
a present? Mark says fifty percent? So if you hit
(26:13):
powerball on a gift that, say, your boss gave you
in lieu of a Christmas bonus, how much do you
have to give the boss? Well, let's suppose after taxes,
the lump some payout is five hundred million dollars on
this coming powerball jackpot. Ronner says, you got to give
up two hundred and fifty million dollars. I think he's insane,
(26:34):
but he says, no, that's only fair. That's split sees
from the talkback.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Hey, Chris, I completely agree with you, But what to
give Ronnor if you want the power ball?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Ooo?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Ronner? Okay? Rather unkind.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Kevin o'larry said, once you secure five million dollars, you'll
never run out of money. If you're smart about it.
And that's the great gift to give someone. If they
gave you ticket five million, push it up to ten.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
But that's that's fair. Thank you appreciate that. There you go,
one percent pocket change. Thanks, five million dollars pockets you
find out in your couch cushion.
Speaker 12 (27:15):
Wow, Chris, Yeah, Mark is crazy if he thinks that
the person has to divide the winnings fifty because they
purchased the ticket as a gift.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
F that's way too much, way too much.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
See, we have the smartest listeners, smartest listeners. What you're
just you just surprised me. Sometimes sometimes I just don't
know who you are. I wouldn't hesitate to give you
half if I won. Oh, I bet you would hesitate.
I bet you would hesitate the crap out of things.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
I mean I probably attached some humiliating condition to it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Legally changed my name to complete pro It's something like that. Yeah,
but I'd still fork it over. It's the only fair
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Wow, No way, man, no way.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I mean, how about five million dollars and I take
you on vacation or something.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I pick up the tab.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh, how generous of you? How much do you need
to live comfortably the rest of your life and have
everything you want.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Come on, Okay, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And you think that I would act rationally if I
had two hundred fifty million dollars. But you see how
much people they win the lottery and then the next
thing you know, they're broke. So obviously whatever they won
was not enough. And I'd like to just assume I'm
as dumb as them, and two hundred fifty million dollars
isn't gonna cut it.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Five hundred million might get me to the end. You
might just into the finish line of life.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
You just drag yourself across the finish line with five hundreds, well,
four ninety five.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now, because I gave you five million.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You'd probably ask for it back at that point, Hey, can.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I get alone? Yeah, I'll pay you back.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Meanwhile, and maybe five million isn't enough. Maybe I would
maybe you could say, wow, that's really great. Hey, And
of course you you would not hesitate to say how
much you're gonna give me. And maybe I would say,
you know what, pick out the house you want and
I will buy that house for you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Well, if if it's in la that's a pretty big gift.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I will buy you whatever you pick out, whatever home
you want, and I will purchase that home for you.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I can find a two hundred and fifty million dollar
home and no, I can find one easy.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, Because I did see that a bunch of according
to Zillo, a bunch of homes have lost value.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This is from ABC.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Another Federal Reserve interest rate cut a major reason for
it to kickstart a frozen housing market that a new
Zillow analysis says has more homes declining in value than rising.
Fifty three percent of homes across the US are valued
lower today than they were the same time last year.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, I wonder what it is here. It's a different show.
I'm going to tell you. I mean that was a tease.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Share in every metro.
Speaker 13 (29:58):
Denver and Austin have the biggest s nine and ten
homes in both of these markets are down in value.
In Sacramento, California, it's eighty eight percent.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Were you following the.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Probably not following the housing market in Austin, But I
was reading a number of articles about the housing market
in Austin, how it was exploding. When Musk took Tesla
there and it was like the housing market. People couldn't
get there, They couldn't get a house. Austin couldn't build
them fast enough, and people were paying outrageous prices. Of course,
they're taking Bay Area money, and then they're going to
(30:31):
Texas where things are a lot cheaper, and they were
just inflating the value like wild and then all of
a sudden it shifted like jobs weren't there, and then
people couldn't sell their homes for anything, and everybody was
taken a bath.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Thirteen other metros as well, where three of every four
houses is down in value from last year, most of
them in the Sun Belt. How much homes are down
differents as well. Austin that boomtown gone Bus has whole
values down twenty one percent from their peak. Leans is
down sixteen percent. Pittsburgh, San Antonio and Tampa are down
thirteen percent. And really it also depends on the size
(31:08):
of your house. Smaller houses are down more than larger ones.
This means that the top of the market is not
as soft as the bottom.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But on the other hand, okay, top not as soft
as the bottom.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Okay, smaller homes have risen more in value compared to
the larger ones.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Okay, I'm gonna stop them there, because it's just a
lot of numbers to throw at us all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Here's what you gotta know.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Los Angeles Metro nearly four out of five homes lost
value last year. That puts us in the top ten
metro areas where And it's not that it's not that
homes are losing eighty percent of their value. It's that
eighty percent of lost value. But I should also point
out there's one more piece of very important information for clarification.
(31:50):
That is, these are zestimates. This is not home sale
prices that are dropping. This is what Zillow estimates your
house's work. That's a words estimate.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
This estimate. It's it's very zesty. It's this estimate.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah uh, and that is simply based on square footage
and comps in the neighborhood. Has nothing to do with
anybody actually going through your house. Your home could have
faulty foundation, it could have a hole in the roof,
it could have all kinds of a mess. I mean,
you could have you could have had damage from one
of the big fires. And then Zilla will say, oh,
(32:26):
your home is your home is worth you know, eight
hundred thousand dollars. Uh, and that's down from last year
where it was worth eight hundred twenty thousand dollars. Meanwhile,
you're looking around, You're like, my home's condemned. It's a
it's basically a rubble. It's you know, it's the land
is worth maybe three hundred thousand. There's not much other
value here, so it's only based on whatever their algorithm says.
(32:49):
And likewise, if you put a lot of money into
improving your home, doing some remodeling, new roof, maybe fixed foundation,
whatever it might be, upgrades here and there, Zilo doesn't
doesn't factor that. So take that for what it's worth.
But by and large, we are seeing a number of
homes that are starting to lose value, which is good
because when I buy mark Is home for picking up
(33:12):
that power ball ticket for me, I'm gonna save a
few times.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
The two hundred and fifty million dollar home.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There's no way you can't find it. Two hundred free minute,
you can't find it, two undre fifto minions.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
How much you want a bad no way, I'm gonna
zilow this while you're doing news. I'm gonna see if
I can find what is the most expensive home for
sale in California.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. Okay, all right, the
Ronner is standing by.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
We'll give you an update on what's happening with that.
That the shooter from Brown University and MIT. The authorities
kind of connected the two shootings together and then they
found the guy.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
The ending was not not a happy ending.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That is next time, Chris merrilf I AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
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