October 22, 2025 • 31 mins
The City of LA budget is tickling $1 billion! The LAFD says it needs $200 million for more firefighters, ambulances, general personnel and land management. Malibu will move homeless people along by declaring a local emergency during fire season and potentially arresting them. Last Sunday’s Camp Pendelton military event caused shrapnel to hit a car on the I-5 Freeway due to live artillery training, coinciding with the No Kings Day protest, and Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down the freeway in response. The Louvre Museum in Paris was broken into and several artefacts were stolen, including the French crown jewels, worth over $100 million.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
You never watch your favorite TV show? Now, this is
the old days.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Look, youngsters, there was a time that we used to
watch television on the broadcast or on cable and you
had to actually be there on time to see it.
And you would watch your favorite show, and then, especially
in the sitcoms, the show would seemingly end, but they
would take a little bit of a commercial break and
come back and give you a tease of about three
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or four minutes of an additional scene, and that was
kind of a way to get you to stick around
through that commercial break to watch the next thing. And
then you feel so good and you're happy, and you
got to watch whatever it was Growing Pains, the Brady Bunch,
whatever your era, and then the TV would remain on
and then the next show would come on and you'd go, hmm,
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this is not my favorite show. I'm Chris Merril. This
is six forty allowing Tim Conway Junior. Remember you can
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
Did you see where I was going with that? Smooth?
Thank you? I appreciate that. Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Uh who but Sam is in tonight, we've got Mark,
of course, who also skipped at Tim's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
This job Mark, uh, Nicky in here as well. Great
to have you guys. Hey, hey, it is good to
have everyone on board and in a way we go.
Great news.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
If you thought, my god, La, the city of La
just doesn't seem to spend enough money, there is really
good news for you because now we have an idea
of what next year's budget is going to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Be, and we are we're tickling a trillion.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's being just could you do look at about a
trillion dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right? Billion? Trillion? Am I right on that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Okay, he goes million, billion, trillion, right, I'm not the
I'm not skipping one.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nope, okay, great, So.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Budget changes adopted Budget twenty five twenty six is just
shive nine hundred Oh I'm sorry, dang, nine hundred million dollars.
I did skip one. It's a billion, it's a billion dollars.
Trillion seemed high? Trillion did seem high? Can we just
stop pause, go back and start the whole thing over again.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I know people are already disappointed.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's not the Tim show, but if we can just
really bone that up to start this program. Just rewind, guys,
just hit the dump button and go back to the start.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Good. Thank you, I appreciate that. Very good. Hey it's
Chris Merril. Kay if I am six forty more stimulating talk?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
If you thought this is working out splendidly? Boy, have
you thought jeepers? I sure wish LA would spend some
more money. Boy, have I got news for you. The
new budget is tickling a billion dollars. Some morons think
that that's almost a trillion, but it's a long way
from it. Nope, we're tickling at trillion dollars a billion.
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We're tackling a billion dollars. Boy, even when I know
I was wrong, I still do it again. Thank God
Sam's here to keep me on track. Where's the money going? Well,
the fire department says they need two two hund do million. Baby,
are a million dollars. It's a lot of shiny red
fire trucks. What are they going to spend it on?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now? Look in light of.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
The fires that we endured to start last year. You
know that's still fresh on the mind of the council
and they gotta be thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean, what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Say no to the fire department and then have another
massive fire come through in the fire department saying, well,
you know, we asked we got denied funding. I mean
we asked for two hundred trillion dollars of their six
hundred quadrillion dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That's not right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They asked for two hundred million, roughly one hundred ninety
nine point three, So we're right there, And what does
that go to? The fire department says like, we've got
to have more firefighters, so we have to have new
academy classes. We have to have more ambulances, we have
to have more paramedic training, we have to have more
field supervisors, and we got to start clearing some of
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this brush out so that the next time that we
do have some sort of an incendiary event that sounds official.
When we have an incendiary event, we'll be able to
be able to tackle it faster if we have all
that brush cleaned up. And then what else, Oh, they
want to do hydrant checks in the palisades. That seems
like something that would be effective at the end of
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twenty twenty four. But cool, I'm all for it. And
the additional Hella tanker funding. I don't know anybody that's
going to say no. Now, I don't know if you're
going to have a number of a number of officials
that will go through that the request with a fine
tooth comb and say, wait a minute, you don't need this,
you don't need that. But it is wildly unpopular to
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say no to the fire department. And it is even
more unpopular to say no to the fire department after
that entire mess that we had. Can you imagine what
it would look like to Mayor bass if she's already
catching hell over the Palisades fire, already talking about mismanaging things.
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Of course, she wasn't here, she was in Europe. So
imagine if she now comes out and says, yeah, I
don't want to give more money to the fire department. Now,
fire Department's gonna take advantage of this, and they're gonna
do everything they can to try to get more money,
and as well they should. If I'm in the fire department,
That's exactly what I'm doing, is I'm saying, Okay, now
we present the city with a wish list, and uh,
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it doesn't even matter if it's two hundred billion dollars
two hundred million, it's two hundred million dollars two hundred million. Meanwhile,
speaking of taking advantage of fires, see what Malibu is doing.
I don't know if I disagree with them, although it
does feel a little.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Opportunistic.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
NBCLA was talking about their new plan to uh move
the homeless along.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Malibu has declared a local emergency, saying worsening wildfire conditions
means the city needs to take extra steps to tackle
fire hazards.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh this is like out of the Trump playbook. This
is where you say, oh, we've got an emergency. I
have to do this thing that I've wanted to do
all along anyway, But there is there is some rationale.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Here according to city policy enacted in twenty twenty one,
that means stepping up enforcement of homeless encampments.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
What this does is it enables us to move a
little faster because of the urgency. We can't wait three days,
five days before having sent in when red flag weather,
we can't wait.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Just across from Malibu City Hall, it's it's Legacy Park
and then just full of items belonging to people experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
From Fortunately they don't have a home, so this is
our stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Those some in Nalbu may find this concerning public safety directors,
who's in Duenna says these items are typically cleared out
every night, so it's not the behavior the city is targeting.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
There's nothing illegal about having stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Instead of yeah, it was focusing on encampments since September
twenty ninth when the local emergency was declared. If people
are found illegally camping.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
We would contact them, let them know that the fire
dange is very high and because of that, we can't
have any encampments in the brush area.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And why is that Because when you talk about fires
getting started all too often, it's coming out of these encampments.
And look, it gets to the point where you go,
there really are two major reasons that wildfires start in
southern California. Now, I know, you could you could have
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somebody throwing a cigarette butt out the window. Absolutely that
person should be hung up by their toenails. You could
have somebody that's dragging trailer chains right sending off sparks.
We've all seen that on the freeway as well. Okay,
that could happen, but really, what are the two major
causes is of fires? The power companies right and arson. Now,
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whether it's intentional arson or not, that's for the course
to determine. But power companies and the power lines seems
to be a big driver, whether it's eton or whether
we've and we've seen it in northern California two PG
and he keeps.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Burning everybody's cities down. And then you've got arson.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Now in the case the Palisades, that was allegedly I
have to be careful here, the dufis who was setting
off fireworks and or you know whatever it was that
he set the fire. Fire department said it was out,
but it smoldered for a week and then the winds
kicked up just the same.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's arson.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But how many times do we hear about a fire
and we go, oh, you guys want to bet that
was a homeless person started that. I mean, it gets
to the point, especially the more populated the area, you go, oh,
that's homeless.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's a homeless person, homeless started that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So Malibu's got a little bit of a got a
little case to be made here, and now they're concerned
we're moving into Santa Anna season you got and I've
got audio of them actually talking to the uh, the
homeless and saying, look, you're gonna have to go somewhere else.
You you're gonna have to go be a firebug somewhere else.
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Here's here's that audio. This was straight and I nobody
else got this. I surreptitiously recorded this audio. Ready, hut
them up, move them out. That came with us on soundtrack, roll,
roll and rolling.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So then they just chase them off, and they go, hey,
why don't you go down to the next city and
be their problem.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now you're gonna have to pack up your encampment, off
you go.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We don't really do a very good job of solving
homelessness so much as we shuffle homelessness. So somebody else's
fired to deal with Meanwhile, I got investigators trying to
figure out why what appeared to be a very routine
drill turned into a very major incident one of the
busiest freeways in southern California. It's a screw up that
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is somehow making Gavin Newsome look good. To find out
what that is next time. Chris Meryl I AM six
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I AM six forty more stimulating talk. So you can
join me on Sunday afternoons and it's always rewarding for
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me anyway to talk with you on Sunday afternoon. I
just love it. I love doing the show. We do
a lot of interaction and it's fantastic. But I I
was talking this last weekend about the closure of Camp
Pendleton on Saturday, and they were doing this live fire event.
What I did not know at the time is that
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there had been a blast that went awry and it
hit a CHP vehicle. My understanding at that time, however,
was that it happened on base grounds. Evidently, uh, it did,
in fact toss shrapnel toward I five, so uh here.
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I was shocked to find that out, and I thought,
I mean, my my reaction was, how does that happen?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I mean, initially, if you're unfamiliar.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
With the with the the intricacies of this story and Mark,
feel free to jump in and correct me if I'm
wrong on any of this. But the the whole idea was, Oh,
we're gonna do this. It's preparation. We're doing live artillery training.
Uh and uh and we're gonna We're gonna do it.
On you know, Saturday. It happened to coincide with No
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King's Day. Now, I don't know if it was in
response to the schedule No King's Day or if I
don't know exactly what it was. I do know that
they are they're training for the two hundred and fiftieth
birthday of the Marine Corps.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, cool, So then JD.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Vance is going to be there and they're like, Hey,
we're gonna do this big thing and look we're we're mighty,
we're powerful, YadA YadA yadas.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So there's there's a performative aspect to it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
When the administration shows up for what is basically ad
dress rehearsal, Gavin Newsom jumps in and he says, oh,
this is too dangerous. We got to shut the roads down.
And Pendleton said, what, No, you don't have to. We're
doing all this in the approved area. This is this
is there's no reason to shut I five down. You
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don't have to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
This is.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Look, we're gonna be in the parameters that are considered safe.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And news Oh, no, we're shutting it down. We're shutting
it down. We're shutting it down.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And he thought Okay, is this just a silly standoff
where once again we're the pawns in the middle of
this little political game. The answer is probably yes. But
now all of a sudden, Newsome is looking prescient, like, oh,
thank goodness. Newsom was there to make sure that people
didn't get accidentally bombed, and now there's a big investigation
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to how this shrapnel got out there.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fox eleven was talking about it.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
We spoke with a retired Marine intelligence officer and he
gave us his perspective on what he thought had taken place,
and he says that it's likely there are multiple investigations
going on at this hour on the federal level, on
the state level as they try to figure out what
caused that device to prematurely release and what it could
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have done. Potentially, it even could have caused death.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Let's listen, Billy. Okay, very dramatic, but not wrong.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
The estrange that a round would explode mid air directly.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Over the I FI Freeway two.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Days after a celebration dubbed from Sea to Shore a
review of amphibious strength in which metal shrapnel from an
explosive ordinance fired over the five Freeway native prematurely striking
an unoccupied CHP vehicle and possibly a second one near
a CHP motorcycle. Everyone trying to figure out what went
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so wrong. Gravity No one was hurt in the incident,
said the CHP, but still very concerning. Monday evening, we
spoke to a retired Marine intelligence officer. You just said
that who did a couple of duties at Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
I don't personally recall us ever doing a live fire
from the west side of the I five, but I
do know there are firing points out there that can
be used, and I understand that they have been firing
from that side of the freeway going back decades. And
from what I heard, this is the first time anything
even close to this nothing. Nobody can remember anything like
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this ever happening before.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, which is why Peddleton said, you don't have to
shut the freeway down. That's silly, And now you're just
you're just playing politics with it, and then this happens.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Whoa timing here? Timing It's not great.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Well, as we said earlier, there are likely multiple investigations
going on at this hour. I asked him his opinion
on whether he thought it was actually wise in the
end that the governor did shut down the Five freeways.
We all know a lot of people pushed back on that.
They were very upset that their weekend would be disturbed.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, because it felt like, oh, look, we're stuck in
a four hour traffic jam because the president, excuse the
governor wants to play politics with the vice president by.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
The very busy five Freeway being shut down. He said
initially that he thought it was not necessary, but that
he would wait to render his opinion until all of
these investigations were finished.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well, now I'm freaked out anytime that they start doing anything.
I had no concerns before. I thought it was silly
that the freeway got shut down, and then all of
a sudden, you've got shrapnel flying across the freeway.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I think it's probably a bit of a freak accident.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I think it's but at the same time, it seems
like unnecessary risk, now, doesn't it. I don't know if
you ever dream of being that very special person that
gets to be a part of a team, an elite team,
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the kind of team that gets called upon when a
job no one else can do needs to be done. Well,
somewhere out there, there is a guy who is a
member of a team just like that, sitting around in
sweatpants eating cereal next to Napoleon's crown. You'll find out
where Interpol is looking next. I'm Chris Merrill. I AM
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
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My there cold even me Chris Merril, I AM six
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out on the app tonight. You guys are Dynamo one
of the boldest museum robberies. Well, you could say in
recent memory, but I think it's probably one of the
boldest ever ever.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Happened at the Louver. Of course you're familiar with this
mask thieves.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
They dressed up like construction workers, a little bit like YMCA.
They rated the Louver, smashed through glass cases, still eight
pieces of what they say is priceless jewelry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But that's a lie. It took them seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Investigators say the heist was either commissioned by a private
collector or tied to organized crime networks, so at some
point they got to fleece this crap, right, they got
to start trying to sell it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Now. I told you it was not priceless.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They say priceless, but everything has a price from ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And we have breaking news with a price tag. After
the heist at the Louver.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
The Paris prosecutors saying the crown jewels were taken they
were worth one hundred and two million dollars, but that
estimate doesn't include the historical value of France.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Eh, France would surrender that.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
The prosecutor says. At least one hundred investigators are on
the hunt for the suspects who stole those nine precious items. Meanwhile,
the president and director of the Louver Museum is under
security and scrutiny over museum security and set to appear
before front lawmakers tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, what in the world happened with security? So these
guys took a ladder truck, and I guess these are
really common in Paris. If you haven't been keeping up
on this, then you got to know these basics. If
you have, then pardon me while I make sure everybody's
on the same page. So imagine effectively a fire truck
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without the fire truck. Look it's just a ladder truck.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So this is the giant ladder truck that they use
in Paris to take down the narrow street so that
people can load furniture up and down off the balconies.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Actually kind of genius when you think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Much easier than trying to haul a sofa up twisty
staircases for four floors. So they take this thing and
they put on construction uniforms and they go up the
ladder and they take grinders, battery powered grinders. I'm assuming.
I don't think they had extension cords. And they start
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going at the window. Now this is making noise, right,
but O they're construction workers. And then they break the
window out and people inside the loof because it was
Sunday and they were, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Moving, and they they, oh, my god, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And I don't know if these guys jumped out and
said the classic this is a robbery, which would have
been cliche, but still cool.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And security is there.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
The alarms are going off, right, the alarms are wow, well, yeah,
this window has been shattered.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The alarms are going off. Security is there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I've seen a few different reports, many of them just
totally ignore what security even did. But it sounds like
these guys waved their grinder at security and said get
out of here, and security went, uh, here's my white flag,
very French. And then they they went and they had
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wine and cheese in the next room. They got all
the patrons out because they say, oh, the patron's security.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The safety is always our top priority.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Good it should be. But you're telling me no security
guards can do anything. There's the difference between Europe and
the United States. In the United States, the guards would
have had side arms or at least bear spray or something.
But also in the United States, the robbers would have
had side arms or bear spray or something, right, because
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you know, they would have expected a shootout of some sort.
But these guys then went to the they went to
where the jewels are being held, and they did a
little smash and grab and got out of there with
all these jewels. And everything I'm hearing is, oh, they
did it in under seven minutes, Like that's some sort
of an impressed feet. You're at the most famous museum
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in the world. The alarms are going off. Security guards
have already been scared away by grinders, and what the
French police couldn't eu eu eu their way over there and.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Try to stop these yahoos.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They got the jewels, they slid back down the ladder
and they not firetruck, and then they tried to set
the fire truck on fire. It didn't light because irony.
So then they jumped on waiting No did they know.
They didn't jump onto a waiting speedster. They didn't jump
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into the sind in a in a speed boat.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
They didn't even have a renault waiting buy.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
They jumped on mop heads and took off down the
road that paralleled the sin River.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And they're gone in the wind kaiser, so si off
they go.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It's got to be the most low tech, poorly planned,
most successful heist in history. This did not take oceans eleven.
This was not something where we had to have the
best of the best. These were Yahoo's who identified a
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really simple flaw in the system and took advantage of it.
And so now where are we We are in manhunt
mode ABC seven.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
It took all of seven minutes on a Sunday morning
in Paris.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
They make it sound like seven minutes is a short
amount of time, and granted it is, but You've been
listening to this segment for less than seven minutes, and
I guarantee in your mind you feel like it's been
going on forever.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
It's according to investigators who are now on a complex
manhunt for four robbers and the irreplaceable jewels they stole
from the Louver. Officials say four men disguised as construction
workers drove up to the side of the museum in
a truck mounted with a long ladder, extending that ladder to.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
A second story bout skip ahead.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Police say the men ransacked the Apollo Gallery, getting away
on scooters with eight pieces of jewelry.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Incredible mopet escape.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Including this elaborate diamond brooch the Louver bought.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
In two third right skip ahead.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
Today, ABC's James Longman spoke with France's Minister of Culture,
who is in charge of the Louver and leading the investigation.
She says all of the evidence so far points to
organized crime and did not rule out this could be
an inside Joboo.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All right, well, that might explain why the security was
so trash.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
French officials say among what they've submitted for DNA analysis
is a vest and a bottle of liquid. The robbers
allegedly used to try and set the truck on fire
before they took off. A new report from France his
main auditors examines a five year period ending last year
and finds the lou struggle to implement planned security upgrades,
which is set to include additional security cameras. The report
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notes swaths of rooms at the Louver have no cameras
at all.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh good, that's out there, now, great, there are swaths
of rooms with priceless artifacts with millions of dollars and
untold historical value. That is not being eyebold right now. Look,
this is not the Thomas Crown affair. This is this
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is more like a Guy Ritchie movie that didn't even
get greenlit because everyone thought this is the dumbest thing
we've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
The security seemed to have been beaten by their own hubris.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
I got to tell you, I think the scooters were
a pretty clever touch. I just watched a video of
a guy on a scooter absolutely clowning police in a
police car trying to get him. They didn't the cops
in have a chance, and neither did a guy chasing
him on foot.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
But wouldn't you go with something with a little more
juice than a scooter. I mean, I would understand a
motorcycle or dirt bike or something, right, but I mean
they can go, they can go places that that a
car can't go.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I understand Brendon.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
In Paris, there's tons of them.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh you think they did the whole Vanish in plain sight?
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Have you ever been to the Louver as well? I've been,
and there's tons of security there. Plus my father tripped
off the security alarm when he went to try to
touch the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh yeah, that's discouraged. Wowk. Yeah, no, they frowned on that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
There's a lot of because because the Mona Lisa was
stolen in the nineteen thirties, that's why it's a famous painting.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And she's now encased in glass, so even if you
try to take a photo of her, you just get
like the glare of the glass baiting back at your camera.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh yeah, that's because of the the NFTs, right, yeah,
you know the NFTs where everybody had like the pictures
of the frog and then they were they were like that.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Seems he's gonna copy exist anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I know, exactly exactly, because they didn't put glass over
the the NFTs, so everybody just stole it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Tell me if you've heard this one, A bear walks
into a bar ouch. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'll give you the rest of the story next. Thank you, Sam.
I really appreciated that one.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's Chris Meryl CAF six forty. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio web.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There is a new resist Dolls happening, and it's not
about politics this time. I will tell you about the
resist dolls that could save your job. Coming up here
after marks eight o'clock news, I'm Chris Merril kfi AM
six forty more stimulating talking on demand anytime on the
eye Heart Radio app. All right, I'm gonna give you
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two bear stories, and I will be perfectly frank with
you in the spirit of radio.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I'm gonna give you the not as good one first,
but I'm telling you that I'm doing that so that
you want to stick around for the better one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Okay, So let's start with the bear hunt in southern California,
which is the least interesting of the bear stories and
still pretty damn interesting.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Those bears just kind of made themselves at home.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
This is from NBCLA where they set their reporter out
bear hunting.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
See you guys, right now, we're driving around. I want
you to take a look at this. So we're driving
around right off Sepulvida and valle Vista, taking a look
at this neighborhood. So the bears, let's talk about the
timeline of this. They were first seen just before three
o'clock this morning at Sepulvida and Ventura, and then they
were seen making their way north toward valle Vista.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Now, the whole time she's driving around and you're watching
the scenery go around behind her, and you're just thinking,
wouldn't it be the coolest thing if she drives And
the whole time that she's talking, you're looking out the window.
She's sitting in the passenger seat. There's a camera on
here there doing the live shot. I assume she's got
a producer that's driving the car, and so you see everything.
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They're driving through a neighborhood, and the whole time thinking, God,
wouldn't be awesome if all of a sudden we just
saw the bear come out. So I'm watching this live
shot in the car and I'm just I'm just staring
right past the reporter the whole time, and I have
to give this reporter credit. Normally, when you watch TV news,
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they go, we're gonna go to so and so. They're
on the scene, and then it goes to this person
who's standing there with a stick mic like a garden gnome,
standing in front of a building in the dark, going
layer out the side of where they will be meeting
in another four hours to discuss what might happen in
another year.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And it's so irritating, but I loved this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Because there was something happening and I felt like I
was looking for the bear with the reporter.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
And then into this neighborhood. So we want to show
you some video. Yeah, there were crews out here really
early this morning, kind of fanning out, looking around, look
at their lights on, trying to find that mama bear
and her baby cups.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Are so far, no luck.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
And I can tell you I've been driving around all
morning through the neighborhood. I haven't seen anything yet, but
we are looking all right.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So could not find that bear, could not find populated area,
couldn't find the bear. If she'd have gone to West Hollywood,
she would have found the bear, but she couldn't find
it where she was looking.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It is the least interesting bear story I have for you.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So let's turn our attention to the Sequoia Park Zoo
in Eureka. We're going nor count so they're doing, uh,
they got the workers out there that are doing there
what they call the routine inspection of the Redwood.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Skywalk, which is kind of a it's a.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Tour through the redwoods, right and on the tour, a
black bear is leaning on a gate at this park zoo.
The black bear is leaning on the gate, did not
pay admission, is steering into the bear enclosure. The bear
became a tourists who went and looked at bears very
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much like humans around the time of Barnum and Bailey,
where we would just simply go look at humans who
were basically being paraded around for us to stare at.
According to the the people of the park zoo, they
said the wild bear to not appear aggressive and was
observed interacting with the other bears through their fencing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think that's awesome, they said.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We respond to bear calls within the city of Eureka
quite often, but having a wild bear get into the
zoo is the first.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
H Yeah, it's like breaking into prison. Kind of great.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Employees are accustomed to seeing wildlife like skunk's, raccoon, squirrels,
and possums around the zoo or a possum, as well
as wild black bears, foxes, deer, and even river otters
in the park, but they have not ever seen the
wild bear show up to go talk with the other bears.
One has to imagine they're probably planning their escape. I
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would pay to see that.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Look. I loved Cocaine Bear. I would love to go
see Escape from Alcatraz Bear. One hundred percent would pay
to watch it. I'm gonna try to save your job.
I'm gonna tell you how to join the resistance next.
I'm Chris Merril kf I AM six forty. We're live
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Speaker 1 (31:32):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
You never watch your favorite TV show? Now, this is
the old days.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Look, youngsters, there was a time that we used to
watch television on the broadcast or on cable and you
had to actually be there on time to see it.
And you would watch your favorite show, and then, especially
in the sitcoms, the show would seemingly end, but they
would take a little bit of a commercial break and
come back and give you a tease of about three
(00:30):
or four minutes of an additional scene, and that was
kind of a way to get you to stick around
through that commercial break to watch the next thing. And
then you feel so good and you're happy, and you
got to watch whatever it was Growing Pains, the Brady Bunch,
whatever your era, and then the TV would remain on
and then the next show would come on and you'd go, hmm,
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this is not my favorite show. I'm Chris Merril. This
is six forty allowing Tim Conway Junior. Remember you can
listen any time on demand and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Did you see where I was going with that? Smooth?
Thank you? I appreciate that. Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Uh who but Sam is in tonight, we've got Mark,
of course, who also skipped at Tim's birthday party.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
This job Mark, uh, Nicky in here as well. Great
to have you guys. Hey, hey, it is good to
have everyone on board and in a way we go.
Great news.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
If you thought, my god, La, the city of La
just doesn't seem to spend enough money, there is really
good news for you because now we have an idea
of what next year's budget is going to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Be, and we are we're tickling a trillion.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's being just could you do look at about a
trillion dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right? Billion? Trillion? Am I right on that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Okay, he goes million, billion, trillion, right, I'm not the
I'm not skipping one.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nope, okay, great, So.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Budget changes adopted Budget twenty five twenty six is just
shive nine hundred Oh I'm sorry, dang, nine hundred million dollars.
I did skip one. It's a billion, it's a billion dollars.
Trillion seemed high? Trillion did seem high? Can we just
stop pause, go back and start the whole thing over again.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I know people are already disappointed.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's not the Tim show, but if we can just
really bone that up to start this program. Just rewind, guys,
just hit the dump button and go back to the start.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Good. Thank you, I appreciate that. Very good. Hey it's
Chris Merril. Kay if I am six forty more stimulating talk?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
If you thought this is working out splendidly? Boy, have
you thought jeepers? I sure wish LA would spend some
more money. Boy, have I got news for you. The
new budget is tickling a billion dollars. Some morons think
that that's almost a trillion, but it's a long way
from it. Nope, we're tickling at trillion dollars a billion.
(03:01):
We're tackling a billion dollars. Boy, even when I know
I was wrong, I still do it again. Thank God
Sam's here to keep me on track. Where's the money going? Well,
the fire department says they need two two hund do million. Baby,
are a million dollars. It's a lot of shiny red
fire trucks. What are they going to spend it on?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now? Look in light of.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
The fires that we endured to start last year. You
know that's still fresh on the mind of the council
and they gotta be thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean, what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Say no to the fire department and then have another
massive fire come through in the fire department saying, well,
you know, we asked we got denied funding. I mean
we asked for two hundred trillion dollars of their six
hundred quadrillion dollar budget.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
That's not right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They asked for two hundred million, roughly one hundred ninety
nine point three, So we're right there, And what does
that go to? The fire department says like, we've got
to have more firefighters, so we have to have new
academy classes. We have to have more ambulances, we have
to have more paramedic training, we have to have more
field supervisors, and we got to start clearing some of
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this brush out so that the next time that we
do have some sort of an incendiary event that sounds official.
When we have an incendiary event, we'll be able to
be able to tackle it faster if we have all
that brush cleaned up. And then what else, Oh, they
want to do hydrant checks in the palisades. That seems
like something that would be effective at the end of
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twenty twenty four. But cool, I'm all for it. And
the additional Hella tanker funding. I don't know anybody that's
going to say no. Now, I don't know if you're
going to have a number of a number of officials
that will go through that the request with a fine
tooth comb and say, wait a minute, you don't need this,
you don't need that. But it is wildly unpopular to
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say no to the fire department. And it is even
more unpopular to say no to the fire department after
that entire mess that we had. Can you imagine what
it would look like to Mayor bass if she's already
catching hell over the Palisades fire, already talking about mismanaging things.
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Of course, she wasn't here, she was in Europe. So
imagine if she now comes out and says, yeah, I
don't want to give more money to the fire department. Now,
fire Department's gonna take advantage of this, and they're gonna
do everything they can to try to get more money,
and as well they should. If I'm in the fire department,
That's exactly what I'm doing, is I'm saying, Okay, now
we present the city with a wish list, and uh,
(05:36):
it doesn't even matter if it's two hundred billion dollars
two hundred million, it's two hundred million dollars two hundred million. Meanwhile,
speaking of taking advantage of fires, see what Malibu is doing.
I don't know if I disagree with them, although it
does feel a little.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Opportunistic.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
NBCLA was talking about their new plan to uh move
the homeless along.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Malibu has declared a local emergency, saying worsening wildfire conditions
means the city needs to take extra steps to tackle
fire hazards.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh this is like out of the Trump playbook. This
is where you say, oh, we've got an emergency. I
have to do this thing that I've wanted to do
all along anyway, But there is there is some rationale.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Here according to city policy enacted in twenty twenty one,
that means stepping up enforcement of homeless encampments.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
What this does is it enables us to move a
little faster because of the urgency. We can't wait three days,
five days before having sent in when red flag weather,
we can't wait.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Just across from Malibu City Hall, it's it's Legacy Park
and then just full of items belonging to people experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
From Fortunately they don't have a home, so this is
our stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Those some in Nalbu may find this concerning public safety directors,
who's in Duenna says these items are typically cleared out
every night, so it's not the behavior the city is targeting.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
There's nothing illegal about having stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Instead of yeah, it was focusing on encampments since September
twenty ninth when the local emergency was declared. If people
are found illegally camping.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
We would contact them, let them know that the fire
dange is very high and because of that, we can't
have any encampments in the brush area.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And why is that Because when you talk about fires
getting started all too often, it's coming out of these encampments.
And look, it gets to the point where you go,
there really are two major reasons that wildfires start in
southern California. Now, I know, you could you could have
(07:41):
somebody throwing a cigarette butt out the window. Absolutely that
person should be hung up by their toenails. You could
have somebody that's dragging trailer chains right sending off sparks.
We've all seen that on the freeway as well. Okay,
that could happen, but really, what are the two major
causes is of fires? The power companies right and arson. Now,
(08:07):
whether it's intentional arson or not, that's for the course
to determine. But power companies and the power lines seems
to be a big driver, whether it's eton or whether
we've and we've seen it in northern California two PG
and he keeps.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Burning everybody's cities down. And then you've got arson.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Now in the case the Palisades, that was allegedly I
have to be careful here, the dufis who was setting
off fireworks and or you know whatever it was that
he set the fire. Fire department said it was out,
but it smoldered for a week and then the winds
kicked up just the same.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's arson.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But how many times do we hear about a fire
and we go, oh, you guys want to bet that
was a homeless person started that. I mean, it gets
to the point, especially the more populated the area, you go, oh,
that's homeless.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's a homeless person, homeless started that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So Malibu's got a little bit of a got a
little case to be made here, and now they're concerned
we're moving into Santa Anna season you got and I've
got audio of them actually talking to the uh, the
homeless and saying, look, you're gonna have to go somewhere else.
You you're gonna have to go be a firebug somewhere else.
(09:20):
Here's here's that audio. This was straight and I nobody
else got this. I surreptitiously recorded this audio. Ready, hut
them up, move them out. That came with us on soundtrack, roll,
roll and rolling.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So then they just chase them off, and they go, hey,
why don't you go down to the next city and
be their problem.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now you're gonna have to pack up your encampment, off
you go.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We don't really do a very good job of solving
homelessness so much as we shuffle homelessness. So somebody else's
fired to deal with Meanwhile, I got investigators trying to
figure out why what appeared to be a very routine
drill turned into a very major incident one of the
busiest freeways in southern California. It's a screw up that
(10:11):
is somehow making Gavin Newsome look good. To find out
what that is next time. Chris Meryl I AM six
forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. Listen anytime
on demand of the iHeart Radio app. I'm Chris Merrill,
I AM six forty more stimulating talk. So you can
join me on Sunday afternoons and it's always rewarding for
(10:34):
me anyway to talk with you on Sunday afternoon. I
just love it. I love doing the show. We do
a lot of interaction and it's fantastic. But I I
was talking this last weekend about the closure of Camp
Pendleton on Saturday, and they were doing this live fire event.
What I did not know at the time is that
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there had been a blast that went awry and it
hit a CHP vehicle. My understanding at that time, however,
was that it happened on base grounds. Evidently, uh, it did,
in fact toss shrapnel toward I five, so uh here.
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I was shocked to find that out, and I thought,
I mean, my my reaction was, how does that happen?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I mean, initially, if you're unfamiliar.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
With the with the the intricacies of this story and Mark,
feel free to jump in and correct me if I'm
wrong on any of this. But the the whole idea was, Oh,
we're gonna do this. It's preparation. We're doing live artillery training.
Uh and uh and we're gonna We're gonna do it.
On you know, Saturday. It happened to coincide with No
(11:54):
King's Day. Now, I don't know if it was in
response to the schedule No King's Day or if I
don't know exactly what it was. I do know that
they are they're training for the two hundred and fiftieth
birthday of the Marine Corps.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, cool, So then JD.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Vance is going to be there and they're like, Hey,
we're gonna do this big thing and look we're we're mighty,
we're powerful, YadA YadA yadas.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So there's there's a performative aspect to it.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
When the administration shows up for what is basically ad
dress rehearsal, Gavin Newsom jumps in and he says, oh,
this is too dangerous. We got to shut the roads down.
And Pendleton said, what, No, you don't have to. We're
doing all this in the approved area. This is this
is there's no reason to shut I five down. You
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don't have to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
This is.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Look, we're gonna be in the parameters that are considered safe.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And news Oh, no, we're shutting it down. We're shutting
it down. We're shutting it down.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And he thought Okay, is this just a silly standoff
where once again we're the pawns in the middle of
this little political game. The answer is probably yes. But
now all of a sudden, Newsome is looking prescient, like, oh,
thank goodness. Newsom was there to make sure that people
didn't get accidentally bombed, and now there's a big investigation
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to how this shrapnel got out there.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Fox eleven was talking about it.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
We spoke with a retired Marine intelligence officer and he
gave us his perspective on what he thought had taken place,
and he says that it's likely there are multiple investigations
going on at this hour on the federal level, on
the state level as they try to figure out what
caused that device to prematurely release and what it could
(13:37):
have done. Potentially, it even could have caused death.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Let's listen, Billy. Okay, very dramatic, but not wrong.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
The estrange that a round would explode mid air directly.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Over the I FI Freeway two.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Days after a celebration dubbed from Sea to Shore a
review of amphibious strength in which metal shrapnel from an
explosive ordinance fired over the five Freeway native prematurely striking
an unoccupied CHP vehicle and possibly a second one near
a CHP motorcycle. Everyone trying to figure out what went
(14:10):
so wrong. Gravity No one was hurt in the incident,
said the CHP, but still very concerning. Monday evening, we
spoke to a retired Marine intelligence officer. You just said
that who did a couple of duties at Camp Pendleton.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
I don't personally recall us ever doing a live fire
from the west side of the I five, but I
do know there are firing points out there that can
be used, and I understand that they have been firing
from that side of the freeway going back decades. And
from what I heard, this is the first time anything
even close to this nothing. Nobody can remember anything like
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this ever happening before.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, which is why Peddleton said, you don't have to
shut the freeway down. That's silly, And now you're just
you're just playing politics with it, and then this happens.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Whoa timing here? Timing It's not great.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Well, as we said earlier, there are likely multiple investigations
going on at this hour. I asked him his opinion
on whether he thought it was actually wise in the
end that the governor did shut down the Five freeways.
We all know a lot of people pushed back on that.
They were very upset that their weekend would be disturbed.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, because it felt like, oh, look, we're stuck in
a four hour traffic jam because the president, excuse the
governor wants to play politics with the vice president by.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
The very busy five Freeway being shut down. He said
initially that he thought it was not necessary, but that
he would wait to render his opinion until all of
these investigations were finished.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well, now I'm freaked out anytime that they start doing anything.
I had no concerns before. I thought it was silly
that the freeway got shut down, and then all of
a sudden, you've got shrapnel flying across the freeway.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I think it's probably a bit of a freak accident.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I think it's but at the same time, it seems
like unnecessary risk, now, doesn't it. I don't know if
you ever dream of being that very special person that
gets to be a part of a team, an elite team,
(16:20):
the kind of team that gets called upon when a
job no one else can do needs to be done. Well,
somewhere out there, there is a guy who is a
member of a team just like that, sitting around in
sweatpants eating cereal next to Napoleon's crown. You'll find out
where Interpol is looking next. I'm Chris Merrill. I AM
six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
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My there cold even me Chris Merril, I AM six
forty more stimulating talk and listen anytime on demand of
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out on the app tonight. You guys are Dynamo one
of the boldest museum robberies. Well, you could say in
recent memory, but I think it's probably one of the
boldest ever ever.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Happened at the Louver. Of course you're familiar with this
mask thieves.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
They dressed up like construction workers, a little bit like YMCA.
They rated the Louver, smashed through glass cases, still eight
pieces of what they say is priceless jewelry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
But that's a lie. It took them seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Investigators say the heist was either commissioned by a private
collector or tied to organized crime networks, so at some
point they got to fleece this crap, right, they got
to start trying to sell it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Now. I told you it was not priceless.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They say priceless, but everything has a price from ABC seven.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And we have breaking news with a price tag. After
the heist at the Louver.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
The Paris prosecutors saying the crown jewels were taken they
were worth one hundred and two million dollars, but that
estimate doesn't include the historical value of France.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Eh, France would surrender that.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
The prosecutor says. At least one hundred investigators are on
the hunt for the suspects who stole those nine precious items. Meanwhile,
the president and director of the Louver Museum is under
security and scrutiny over museum security and set to appear
before front lawmakers tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, what in the world happened with security? So these
guys took a ladder truck, and I guess these are
really common in Paris. If you haven't been keeping up
on this, then you got to know these basics. If
you have, then pardon me while I make sure everybody's
on the same page. So imagine effectively a fire truck
(18:41):
without the fire truck. Look it's just a ladder truck.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So this is the giant ladder truck that they use
in Paris to take down the narrow street so that
people can load furniture up and down off the balconies.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Actually kind of genius when you think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Much easier than trying to haul a sofa up twisty
staircases for four floors. So they take this thing and
they put on construction uniforms and they go up the
ladder and they take grinders, battery powered grinders. I'm assuming.
I don't think they had extension cords. And they start
(19:16):
going at the window. Now this is making noise, right,
but O they're construction workers. And then they break the
window out and people inside the loof because it was
Sunday and they were, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Moving, and they they, oh, my god, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And I don't know if these guys jumped out and
said the classic this is a robbery, which would have
been cliche, but still cool.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And security is there.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
The alarms are going off, right, the alarms are wow, well, yeah,
this window has been shattered.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The alarms are going off. Security is there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I've seen a few different reports, many of them just
totally ignore what security even did. But it sounds like
these guys waved their grinder at security and said get
out of here, and security went, uh, here's my white flag,
very French. And then they they went and they had
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wine and cheese in the next room. They got all
the patrons out because they say, oh, the patron's security.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The safety is always our top priority.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Good it should be. But you're telling me no security
guards can do anything. There's the difference between Europe and
the United States. In the United States, the guards would
have had side arms or at least bear spray or something.
But also in the United States, the robbers would have
had side arms or bear spray or something, right, because
(20:42):
you know, they would have expected a shootout of some sort.
But these guys then went to the they went to
where the jewels are being held, and they did a
little smash and grab and got out of there with
all these jewels. And everything I'm hearing is, oh, they
did it in under seven minutes, Like that's some sort
of an impressed feet. You're at the most famous museum
(21:04):
in the world. The alarms are going off. Security guards
have already been scared away by grinders, and what the
French police couldn't eu eu eu their way over there and.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Try to stop these yahoos.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They got the jewels, they slid back down the ladder
and they not firetruck, and then they tried to set
the fire truck on fire. It didn't light because irony.
So then they jumped on waiting No did they know.
They didn't jump onto a waiting speedster. They didn't jump
(21:43):
into the sind in a in a speed boat.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
They didn't even have a renault waiting buy.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
They jumped on mop heads and took off down the
road that paralleled the sin River.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And they're gone in the wind kaiser, so si off
they go.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
It's got to be the most low tech, poorly planned,
most successful heist in history. This did not take oceans eleven.
This was not something where we had to have the
best of the best. These were Yahoo's who identified a
(22:26):
really simple flaw in the system and took advantage of it.
And so now where are we We are in manhunt
mode ABC seven.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
It took all of seven minutes on a Sunday morning
in Paris.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
They make it sound like seven minutes is a short
amount of time, and granted it is, but You've been
listening to this segment for less than seven minutes, and
I guarantee in your mind you feel like it's been
going on forever.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
It's according to investigators who are now on a complex
manhunt for four robbers and the irreplaceable jewels they stole
from the Louver. Officials say four men disguised as construction
workers drove up to the side of the museum in
a truck mounted with a long ladder, extending that ladder to.
Speaker 11 (23:11):
A second story bout skip ahead.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Police say the men ransacked the Apollo Gallery, getting away
on scooters with eight pieces of jewelry.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Incredible mopet escape.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Including this elaborate diamond brooch the Louver bought.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
In two third right skip ahead.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
Today, ABC's James Longman spoke with France's Minister of Culture,
who is in charge of the Louver and leading the investigation.
She says all of the evidence so far points to
organized crime and did not rule out this could be
an inside Joboo.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All right, well, that might explain why the security was
so trash.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
French officials say among what they've submitted for DNA analysis
is a vest and a bottle of liquid. The robbers
allegedly used to try and set the truck on fire
before they took off. A new report from France his
main auditors examines a five year period ending last year
and finds the lou struggle to implement planned security upgrades,
which is set to include additional security cameras. The report
(24:11):
notes swaths of rooms at the Louver have no cameras
at all.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh good, that's out there, now, great, there are swaths
of rooms with priceless artifacts with millions of dollars and
untold historical value. That is not being eyebold right now. Look,
this is not the Thomas Crown affair. This is this
(24:37):
is more like a Guy Ritchie movie that didn't even
get greenlit because everyone thought this is the dumbest thing
we've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
The security seemed to have been beaten by their own hubris.
Speaker 12 (24:48):
I got to tell you, I think the scooters were
a pretty clever touch. I just watched a video of
a guy on a scooter absolutely clowning police in a
police car trying to get him. They didn't the cops
in have a chance, and neither did a guy chasing
him on foot.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
But wouldn't you go with something with a little more
juice than a scooter. I mean, I would understand a
motorcycle or dirt bike or something, right, but I mean
they can go, they can go places that that a
car can't go.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, I understand Brendon.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
In Paris, there's tons of them.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh you think they did the whole Vanish in plain sight?
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Have you ever been to the Louver as well? I've been,
and there's tons of security there. Plus my father tripped
off the security alarm when he went to try to
touch the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh yeah, that's discouraged. Wowk. Yeah, no, they frowned on that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
There's a lot of because because the Mona Lisa was
stolen in the nineteen thirties, that's why it's a famous painting.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And she's now encased in glass, so even if you
try to take a photo of her, you just get
like the glare of the glass baiting back at your camera.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh yeah, that's because of the the NFTs, right, yeah,
you know the NFTs where everybody had like the pictures
of the frog and then they were they were like that.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Seems he's gonna copy exist anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I know, exactly exactly, because they didn't put glass over
the the NFTs, so everybody just stole it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Tell me if you've heard this one, A bear walks
into a bar ouch. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'll give you the rest of the story next. Thank you, Sam.
I really appreciated that one.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's Chris Meryl CAF six forty. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio web.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There is a new resist Dolls happening, and it's not
about politics this time. I will tell you about the
resist dolls that could save your job. Coming up here
after marks eight o'clock news, I'm Chris Merril kfi AM
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eye Heart Radio app. All right, I'm gonna give you
(26:46):
two bear stories, and I will be perfectly frank with
you in the spirit of radio.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I'm gonna give you the not as good one first,
but I'm telling you that I'm doing that so that
you want to stick around for the better one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Okay, So let's start with the bear hunt in southern California,
which is the least interesting of the bear stories and
still pretty damn interesting.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Those bears just kind of made themselves at home.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
This is from NBCLA where they set their reporter out
bear hunting.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
See you guys, right now, we're driving around. I want
you to take a look at this. So we're driving
around right off Sepulvida and valle Vista, taking a look
at this neighborhood. So the bears, let's talk about the
timeline of this. They were first seen just before three
o'clock this morning at Sepulvida and Ventura, and then they
were seen making their way north toward valle Vista.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Now, the whole time she's driving around and you're watching
the scenery go around behind her, and you're just thinking,
wouldn't it be the coolest thing if she drives And
the whole time that she's talking, you're looking out the window.
She's sitting in the passenger seat. There's a camera on
here there doing the live shot. I assume she's got
a producer that's driving the car, and so you see everything.
(27:57):
They're driving through a neighborhood, and the whole time thinking, God,
wouldn't be awesome if all of a sudden we just
saw the bear come out. So I'm watching this live
shot in the car and I'm just I'm just staring
right past the reporter the whole time, and I have
to give this reporter credit. Normally, when you watch TV news,
(28:19):
they go, we're gonna go to so and so. They're
on the scene, and then it goes to this person
who's standing there with a stick mic like a garden gnome,
standing in front of a building in the dark, going
layer out the side of where they will be meeting
in another four hours to discuss what might happen in
another year.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
And it's so irritating, but I loved this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Because there was something happening and I felt like I
was looking for the bear with the reporter.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
And then into this neighborhood. So we want to show
you some video. Yeah, there were crews out here really
early this morning, kind of fanning out, looking around, look
at their lights on, trying to find that mama bear
and her baby cups.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Are so far, no luck.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
And I can tell you I've been driving around all
morning through the neighborhood. I haven't seen anything yet, but
we are looking all right.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So could not find that bear, could not find populated area,
couldn't find the bear. If she'd have gone to West Hollywood,
she would have found the bear, but she couldn't find
it where she was looking.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It is the least interesting bear story I have for you.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So let's turn our attention to the Sequoia Park Zoo
in Eureka. We're going nor count so they're doing, uh,
they got the workers out there that are doing there
what they call the routine inspection of the Redwood.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Skywalk, which is kind of a it's a.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Tour through the redwoods, right and on the tour, a
black bear is leaning on a gate at this park zoo.
The black bear is leaning on the gate, did not
pay admission, is steering into the bear enclosure. The bear
became a tourists who went and looked at bears very
(30:03):
much like humans around the time of Barnum and Bailey,
where we would just simply go look at humans who
were basically being paraded around for us to stare at.
According to the the people of the park zoo, they
said the wild bear to not appear aggressive and was
observed interacting with the other bears through their fencing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think that's awesome, they said.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We respond to bear calls within the city of Eureka
quite often, but having a wild bear get into the
zoo is the first.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
H Yeah, it's like breaking into prison. Kind of great.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Employees are accustomed to seeing wildlife like skunk's, raccoon, squirrels,
and possums around the zoo or a possum, as well
as wild black bears, foxes, deer, and even river otters
in the park, but they have not ever seen the
wild bear show up to go talk with the other bears.
One has to imagine they're probably planning their escape. I
(31:07):
would pay to see that.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Look. I loved Cocaine Bear. I would love to go
see Escape from Alcatraz Bear. One hundred percent would pay
to watch it. I'm gonna try to save your job.
I'm gonna tell you how to join the resistance next.
I'm Chris Merril kf I AM six forty. We're live
(31:29):
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
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