December 29, 2024 • 35 mins
Marla Tellez talks with ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY TODD SPITZER about the now viral Seal Beach PD social media campaign "Don't Steal in Seal," also Prop 36 and crime in general, as well as new 2025 California laws.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Happy Sunday, Good afternoon to you on this final Sunday
of December. In the final Sunday, of course, of twenty
twenty four. I'm Marla Teas. It's good to be back.
Maybe you heard me last week. I'm sitting in for
the next couple of hours from two to four. I
did the same shift last Sunday. I guess I didn't
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burn down the place, so they invited me back. It's
nice to be back. We have Richie qin Taro here, producer.
Thank you so much for it's nice to work with you.
This is the first time I've done this as a
solo host and having you here to sort.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Of, you know, watch my back, help me out.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know, we have a whole two hours plan for you,
but of course we want to get to the breaking
news that we're following. It's a sad day for the
United States of America. This is not an unexpected passing.
We knew that this was imminent. But I want to
get straight to the loss of the thirty ninth President
of the United States, Jimmy Carter. As you heard Andrew
carrolla in the news block talking about his legacy a
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little bit. I want to delve a little bit deeper,
because this man deserves the respect. He was died today
peacefully at his home in his hometown of Plains, Georgia,
his family confirming this again, this wasn't unexpected. He had
been in hospice. It would have been two years this
coming February. So he lasted a lot longer than I
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think his family imagined and a lot of us imagined,
passing away at one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
He turned one hundred on.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
October first, of just a couple of months ago of
this year, of course, the first president to live to
one hundred years old, the oldest living president, of course,
a great humanitarian. In fact, he has known more for
his humanitarian work since leaving the White House in nineteen
eighty one than really for his time his tenure in
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the White House. He outlived his wife, Rosalind Rosalind. She
passed away in twenty twenty three. She was ninety six
years old. Let's talk a little bit more about his legacy.
Carter was credited with encouraging a peace agreement in the
Middle East that ultimately resulted in the Camp David Accords
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and then this. The White House Archives lists the Panama
Canal Treaties and an agreement between the US and the
Soviet Union restricting nuclear weapon productions as some of Carter's
biggest victories overseas.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You heard Andrew mention this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Perhaps the US Department of Education and Energy also launched
during his time in office, but of course it was overshadowed.
A lot of his presidency was. It's often remembered by
the Iran hostage crisis and struggles at home as the
US faced an economic downturn. Of course, his time in
office as president was from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen
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eighty one, and it was the Iran hostage crisis and
those struggles at home that really impacted his re election bid,
which as we know, was unsuccessful. He was followed by
Ronald Reagan. Of course, he is a Nobel Prize winner.
I mentioned his humanitarian efforts. That's what he was known for.
In two thousand and two, he was honored by the
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Norwegian Nobel Committee for the two thousand and two Nobel
Peace Prize for his decades of untiring effort to find
peaceful solutions to international conflicts to advance democracy and human rights,
and to promote economic and social development. He also is
known for in that vein the Habitat for Humanity. He
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and that team in the Carter Center, which was founded
several years ago, they have built dozens, if not hundreds
of homes in the southern California area and Habitat for Humanity.
This project builds affordable homes for low income families and
raises awareness of the city's housing crisis. He's come to
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hear himself and helped build home and Watts. He's helped
build homes around La and San Pedro, most recently in
twenty twenty four. The Carter Center did that. So that
just happened this year. It is a loss and we
want to hear from you. We want to get your
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thoughts on the passing of the thirty ninth President of
the United States. Jimmy Carter dying today on this final
Sunday of twenty twenty four at the age of one
hundred years old. He is survived by his four children, Jack, James, Donnell,
and Amy. Of course several grandchildren and great great grandchildren
as well great grandchildren. I put an extra grade on there,
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but hit us up on the talkback and leave your
thoughts on the passing of Jimmy Carter. If you have
a comment about the show, please give.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Us your thoughts. We liked hearing from you last week.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I want this to be as interactive as possible, so
you can find us on the iHeartRadio app. You see
the little microphone icon and it was your thoughts on
the passing of Jimmy Carter passing away today at the
age of one hundred. Okay, if I've just talked for
the last what five minutes on that, and you're thinking,
who in the heck are you, let me just give
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you a quick quick refresher before we have, before I
set the table for you what's coming up in the
next couple of hours. So again, my name is Marla Teez.
I am here every once in a while as a
fill in. If you've heard me here on the radio,
if it wasn't last Sunday, then it's been during the
Gary and Channon time slot of course, that's Monday through
Friday nine to one. I have not had the opportunity
to work with the incomparable Shannon Farren. I would love
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that opportunity, but I've worked with Gary Hoffman he's amazing,
he's witty, he's smart, he's great to listen to. I
know a lot of you are big fans. I've sat
next to Neil Savadra, of course, the well fed host.
I think that's what he calls himself for the Fork Report,
the Fork reporter himself, and also Mark Thompson. So it's
fun to be here when they asked me to be here,
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and then my day job because I actually do have
a full time job that's at Fox eleven. So if
you were in the Southern California area, you can check
us out on Fox eleven. You can find me on
weeknights from six to seven, the Fox eleven News at
six alongside my co anchor Elex Michaelson, and at eleven o'clock,
our final newscast of the night is called good Night LA.
(06:19):
It's from eleven to eleven thirty a quick, down and dirty,
just recap of the day's news.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So check us out, give us some love.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And I know a lot of you are listening from
outside the Southern California viewing area.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Guess what, you can stream.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Us live just as you're listening to us live right here,
and I'm coming to you live from Burbank. You can
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Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, you must be a big deal because when
I posted that I was with you last week here
at the studio, my phone blew up from all of
my friends that watch news locally, like you must be
their go to person for news.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Who paid you off?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
No, I'm sirious.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah I did not.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I did not realize how big Marlow was until.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Even Bella's laughing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, well Bella's young, she doesn't own a television sent.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, well that's so kind. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know, I've been in the news business all age
myself for more than twenty five years. It's been twenty
six years. I started as a producer and and a rider,
and I had no intention of ever being in front
of the camera in fact, and I made that transition
several years into my broadcast industry career. And yeah, I've
been a news reporter and now I'm an anchor in
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Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And what was your craziest like as a reporter, like
not in studio, Like craziest thing you've ever been called out.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To, Oh, come on, you're putting me on the spot
the craziest thing. I mean, I've covered the big fires,
I've covered the earthquakes. You know, of course, we cover
pursuits a lot at Fox eleven, and I know you
carry them here and we appreciate that. But if you
want a specific story, I'll have to hit you up
on that or I have to get.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Back to you next. Good ones, too many good ones.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I've covered a lot in my day, and I'm sad
to be covering the loss of Jimmy Carter today. So
coming up, we have a couple of guests, a few
guests booked in the next couple of hours. Orange County
District Attorney Todd Spitzer, he's going to take time out
of his busy Sunday and he's going to join us
next because I want to get his thoughts. If you
don't follow the Seal Beach Police Department on social media,
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I'm sorry, but you need.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
To because they are.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They went viral this week for their posts that they
did about shoplifting in Seal Beach. Their big campaign is
don't steal and seal its tongue in cheek, but it's
doing a lot to raise awareness about crime and if
you commit a crime, you're going to pay the consequences.
So Da Spitzer has a lot to say about this,
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where we will get his thoughts when he joins us
live on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You're listening to KFI six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mar LETTEA is sitting in for the next couple of
hours until four o'clock this afternoon. I'm happy to be here,
hoping that you are enjoying. The final Sunday of twenty
twenty four were, of course, following the breaking news the
passing the death of the thirty ninth President of the
United States, Jimmy Carter, passing away today peacefully at his
home and Planes, Georgia, his hometown, at the age of
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one hundred years old. All right, bringing it back here locally,
I want to talk about and give some much deserved
love to Orange County and the Seal Beach Police Department. Please,
if you're on social media, if you don't follow them already,
follow Seal Beach PD on Instagram. They have some incredible
social media posts that really highlights the problem of organized theft,
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organized crime and in other words, it does not pay.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Crime doesn't pay.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
In Orange County, which is, I know, a slogan of
the Orange County just attorney's office and in Seal Beach specifically,
don't steal and seal In fact, one of their posts
this week went viral.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It made national news. So here's that clip that we're
going to set the table for you. Set the stage.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It is of two shoplifters in the back of a
Seal Beach patrol car and one of them is surprised
to hear that stealing is a felony because they stole
more than nine hundred dollars worth. Here's their exchange. It
might be hard to hear. I will translate it for
you after the fact.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Take a listen, that's a felony. New laws.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Stealing is a felon and this is Orange County.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They don't, okay, So one of the suspects says it's
a felony and the other one says, b B new laws,
Stealing is a felony and this is Orange County. B
they don't and play what's the beat part? Yeah, you know,
I'm sure you could say it. Oh, okay, I might
get in trouble. I'll leave that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
In short, it rhymes with rich gotcha.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, you know, if anyone of the talkback wants let
us know, just you know, let us know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, exactly live give us your thoughts on the talkback,
hit the little microphone icon.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We also want to hear from the Orange County District
Attorney Todd Spitzer.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
He joined us on the line. Hey, I know it's
a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm hoping you typically don't work on Sundays, but I
appreciate you calling in here at KFI.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Good to have you, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It's so great to be on with you. And let
me tell you, we all work twenty four to seven. Right,
we're working to keep Orange County stafe in California. And
look Prop thirty six passed by overwhelming numbers in Orange County.
In fact, it passed statewide by sixty eight percent. In
Orange County was almost seventy eight percent. So people were
really clear in my county they're not going to put
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up with any of this nonsense. And you know, you know,
we went too far with Top forty seven ten years ago.
George Gascone was the poster child for Prop forty seven,
and look how it ended his career and he ran
the Orange County season the lada's office into the ground,
and I'll tell you it was a big compliment mother.
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Those young ladies paid me in the county. They said,
we don't play. And I can tell you Nathan Hawkman,
the new GA in LA, he ain't going to play either. So, yeah,
there's a lot of changes in California with Oakland DA
getting kicked out from Francisco's die. So we're making some big,
big changes and we're not crazy. We're not going to
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go back to some kind of caveman mentality, but we
are not going to put up with the kind of
reckless disregard for people's property that we've seen, you know,
since the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, I mean you brought a prop for thirty six.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm glad you did, because that's of course what Seal
Beach PD is hoping to highlight here on their social
media account. Now that's sort of the shift away from
the progressive and now into this is barely two weeks
old Prop thirty six.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Voters, as you said, overwhelmingly passed it.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
This increases penalties for repeat offenders organized theft, and so
this is now statewide not just in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Seal BEACHPD doing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Great things, actually talked to the off It's an officer
who's responsible for that account and he remains anonymous, and
his whole point is, you know, if you come to
our city and you commit a crime, you're going to pay.
And now that is statewide. That's that's the goal, right
mister Spitzer. And to that end, you had that billboard
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campaign crime isn't paying Orange County?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Are you board?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Ever, at every entrance to Range County, we had a
billboard that made it clear that we still pronsecute crime
in Orange County. This was before Prop thirty six, and
you know, we have such a great relationship with the
police departments. Steel Beach has done a phenomenal job. That
video is I mean, I can't stop laughing. I probably shouldn't,
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but I can't stop laughing every time I watch that
video because it's the woman who's speaking is actually on
probation for stealing fior to Pop thirty six. But this
time when she goes to court next week, she's going
to be looking at a whole different set of circumstances
and a probation violation. And her other friend is pretty
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silent through the whole thing, and he tells her, Hey,
it's a felony. Now you steal. But the highest compliment
of criminal can pay to you is telling you that
you don't pay, you don't play.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I say, Hey, we're in Orange County. We're in big trouble.
You know, there's a lot of people commit climbs just
across from Long Beach actually where George Gascon lives in
Los Alnidos and Steel Beach. Those are our border north
border communities Orange County. And when they arrest people, they'll say, oh,
it's no big deal, George Gascon. Well, you know the
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police will tell they'll say, no, I'm sorry, but you're
you crossed across the river there and you are now
in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You're now in the OC, baby, you're now in the OC. Well,
as we know, you mentioned Nathan Hawkman. He took over
just this month for DA Gascon, so he is a
new DA.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In La County.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I know there wasn't a bunch of relationship between you
and Gascon. What's the relationship, like the working relationship between
you and Hawkman now that he is the DA.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Well, I think it's gonna be excellent. Sheriff Barnes, the
sheriff of Orange County and myself, we did a big
fundraiser for Nathan in Orange County. I'm very proud we
were able to pull people together in Orange County for
Nathan because they didn't really know who he was. And
I was at his inauguration or excuse me, his election
night victory, and I just count him as a good
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He's very serious, he's very focused, and I'm just looking
forward to having a relationship with him like I do
with the other major county das. I mean all the
other das San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside. We're all very close,
we work close together, and LA has been an outlier
and it's been frustrating for us. But I'm so excited
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that Nathan has made it very clear he plans to
work with all of us. He'll be his own person.
He has his own constituency to address, no doubt about it.
LA is not Orange County. He's got constituencies that I
don't have to deal with and vice versa, and he's
got a tough county to deal with. But at the
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end of the day, I don't care what you're what
party you're in, what strikes you count I don't care
anything about who you love, who you want to marry.
Everybody wants to be safe and deserves to be safe.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, A man, That's a perfect place to end the
conversation there. That's, of course, the DA of Orange County,
where they don't play. Todd Spitzer, I thank you so
much for taking time out on your Sunday and you're
and you're right.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
As a DA, I know, I know there's no days off,
so thanks again for joining us here in KFI. Okay,
I love him, he he, He doesn't play. And it's
good to have Nathan Hawkman in office here in La County,
and I'm happy to hear that they will have a
good working relationship. All Right, Andrew Caravella, I have an
answer for you. You asked me, what's the craziest thing
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that I've covered? Yeah, the one that keeps on giving.
And we're actually going to talk about this a little
later later in the show. I covered from start to
finish the Scott Peterson murder trial.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Oh yeah, I remember that in high school they were
actually putting that on.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now I feel in high school I was in the courtroom.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
In the courtroom.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I was in the courtroom every day, So that was that.
That is a story that obviously was revived this year. Again,
we're going to talk about that because we're going to
look back at some of the top headlines of twenty
twenty four, and that is one of the headlines that
I have chosen to discuss because it's a remarkable case
and it's there's still more to come.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
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Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't think I've ever heard this song I'm too old.
Apparently I work with people who are much younger than me. Bella,
I appreciate you on the board. Thank you so much
of course, keeping me young here at KFI k if
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Hello on this Sunday. I keep saying it, but it's
a good reminder. It's a final Sunday of twenty twenty four,
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so make it count. Sorry to have to report, as
Andrew Caravella has been talking about too, the loss of
Jimmy Carter dying at one hundred years old, the first
president to live that long, first to reach one hundred
years old, is passing today. That's one of the stories
that we're following in the KFI newsroom. Speaking of headlines,
we will get into the the top headlines of twenty
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twenty four. I've curated my own list. It actually took
me quite a bit of time, Richie producer Richie. I actually,
if you go online and you can, you know, you
can google it, and every network has put out their
top stories and flashback of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But I wanted to do my own.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know what's really kind of cool is I challenge
everybody to go in your camera role and go back
to January, and I guarantee you you'll be surprised at
the memories that you forgot about. So essentially I did
that with the headlines. That's cool, and I'm like, oh my,
I forgot that that happened. I forgot that that happened.
So we will delve into the top headlines my own
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curated list a little bit later on. That's coming up
in the three o'clock hour, and this hour we're gonna
look forward. In this block, I should say, we're looking
forward to twenty twenty five, and let's talk about some
new laws that are coming in twenty twenty five, which
is in what two days?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, literally around the corner.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, so December goes out, says, we say goodbye to
December on Tuesday. January one, twenty twenty five is Wednesday.
So some new laws, and I think this is going
to impact all of us, starting with the day lighting law.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Have you heard of this one? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You have? Okay, So this is Assembly Bill four thirteen.
This is impacting California drivers. You can no longer park
as of Wednesday within twenty feet of any marked or
unmarked crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It doesn't even have to be marked. And the whole goal.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
According to proponents, is to improve visibility and improve safety
by increasing visibility. So if you're parking close to a crosswalk,
you could potentially hinder seeing a pedestrian in a crosswalk,
whether it's marked or not. So this is a lot
that applies to all intersections statewide, regardless of whether a
red curb or a no parking sign or present. Because
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they haven't been able to get to all the curbs
around town. As you can imagine, that's a big feat.
So if you get caught, you get a warning first
for the first sixty days. In terms of enforcement, to
just get a warning and then beginning March first, you
have until March first to remember this. Drivers who break
the law will face a sixty five dollars Fine, what
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do you think about that? I think that's gonna you
know what, I think in San Francisco, they're already doing this,
and I've heard that it's already crowded. It's hard enough
to park right, you know, and especially in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Right, it's a headache for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, all around. It's so compact here in southern California.
So I think that's going to make parking a little
bit more difficult. But again, proponents say it's going to
save live So we'll see. What about this. This is
Senate Bill nine oh five, and I was actually stunned
to learn this that this is how it goes if
your car gets broken into, right, the onus is, the
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burden is on the victim to prove that your car
was locked. Prosecutors have to prove that your car was
actually locked. And this was a loophole in the California
Criminal Code. So send a bill nine oh four. It
now says that car owners and prosecutors don't have to
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prove a car was locked, just that forcible entry occurred
in order to prosecute a car burglar, which is a
good thing. So now you know if your car gets
broken into, no matter if you forgot to lock it
or not, whether they broke a window or not. Whomever
that car burglar, that suspect is, they can be The
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prosecution doesn't have to have you testify and say, yeah,
I forgot to unlock my I forgot to lock my car.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Also, having cameras, you know, just having a camera inside
your car, you know I don't have one, or getting
it stolen. Actually that would kind of suck. Also having
a camera and then gets stolen.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You know, it's funny. It's funny that I don't have one,
given that I work around cameras all the time. You know,
I'm on camera at Fox. You need a little break, Marlin, Yeah, exactly.
I don't want to be on camera, which is why
I like being a Kafi. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Then what about medical debt? Most medical debt can no
longer hurt your credit score. And I think a lot
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of a lot of people and this is in California
and estimated almost forty percent of people carry some type
of medical debt, and that figure climbs to more than half,
especially for low income residents.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's all according to the California Healthcare Foundation.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So as of January one, this new state law will
prohibit health providers and debt collectors from reporting medical debt
to credit agency. So it's not going to hurt your
credit score anymore. And you know, I mean bad credit
score means that will impact a whole lot.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Of what you want to do.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
So good news.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The one that's the most controversial, I think is the
California ban banning schools from forcing teachers to out LGBTQ students.
This is something that we've talked a lot at here
at KFI course, but also on Fox eleven. This came
in response to a handful of school boards adopting policies
that require teachers and other school staff to notify parents
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if a student identifies as a gender other than what's
on their school records. And this happened at Chino Valley Unified.
We've covered there, Temecula Unified that covered it there. The
notification parental notification notice well, now you can't do that
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according to the new law that passes ABE nineteen fifty
five that takes effect on January first. Governor Gavin Newsom
says teachers can still talk to their parents. What they
can't do is fire a teacher for not being a snitch.
I don't think teachers should be gender police. I know
this gets people riled up on both sides. This is
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a win, certainly for the LGBTQ community. Obviously those at
Chino Valley and Temecula Unified. They're still fighting this, so
that will see what comes of that. But that is
another one that will take effect on January first. There's
an increase to the minimum wage in California from sixteen
dollars to sixteen fifty. If you voted in November, I
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hope you did. There was an effort to increase the
minimum wage to eighteen dollars, but that was defeated. Nonetheless,
just because of inflation, the minimum wage will rise to
sixteen fifty. But of course we've covered this year at
KFI and Fox eleven that the minimum wage for fast
food workers as of April of this year rose to
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twenty dollars. I know that captured a lot of headlines
as well. So these are some of the laws, maybe
twenty four to ninety nine workers jury duty. I know
we all love jury duty rights, cercific duty favorite. You
can use sick time. You can use sick time now
to perform jury duty. You can do that before. So
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that new law also expands the re the reasons workers
can take unpaid protective leave when they are victims of crime.
So that is not just for jury duty. But if
you have jury duty, you can use sick time. Andrew,
I can't do it. You can't do it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I am not a fan of jerry duty.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Same, so you just do everything you can to get
out of it.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I have written one of the books on how to
get out of jerry.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Come on, it's your civic duty. You don't want to
be on a you know, a historic trial one of
these days.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Perhaps Listen.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I live in a county just outside of La where
nothing historic happens.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Wait, which county is that?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Which was San Bernardino County?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh, come on, you got to give some love to
your home county. Is that where you grew up?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Well, I actually grew up in part of LA County.
I was born in Montabello lived in Monteree Park, and
then my family decided, you know, in the late eighties
early nineties, oh, let's let's move out west because everything's
going that way. Only we went too far. So I
grew up in the high desert. But like every weekend
we're seeing. We have a big family. So aunts, uncles, cousins,
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they all lived in Orange and La County. So I've
always been in the area.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The Caravellas, they're all over southern California. Yeah, taking it over. Yeah,
and now look at you, a big city boy in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Given the news.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Come on now, sunny Burbank, California. Here I am.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You know what, speaking of it's beautiful over here.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I came from the west side today and it was
socked in low visibility.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It was terrible. That's because we control the weather on
this side. Oh yeah, of course the Hollywood towers just
over the hill right there, and it stops everything on
your side.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, thanks for thanks for the blue skies. I appreciate it,
no problem. We're going to give some love to the
Culver City Police Department when we come back. They have
an incredible program that you probably don't know about.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
When you go on vacation. You may be concerned about,
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
The rising crime, which hopefully Prop thirty six will help,
but the rising crime.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Uh, and you need somebody to sort of watch your house.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Well, apparently local police departments will do extra patrols when
you're gone.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Richie likes this song go Yeah, You're feeling the beat
on that one. It sounds like the Go Gos. I
think it's a remix of the Go Gos. No, I
don't know where they are.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
They you know, you don't know who the Go Gos are?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Thank you, Andrew, Come on now.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, they are the ones that do that vacation song
from Okay, see, I don't I'm not good with names.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So I just had the honor of interviewing Blinda Carlisle.
She was one. I know.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Everyone's faces went blank. She's part of the Go Gos.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
People.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's a good thing, you know what. I actually spent
my Saturday when I got my hair dyed. I got
my grays dyed.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
People. I'm not old. She's not fabulous. You're so funny. Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
I'm Marltea is sitting in until four o'clock. Always a
play to be here at KFI. We are live in
Burbank where there are some blue skies. It wasn't that
way when I left home on the West Side today,
so it's nice to have the blue skies. Hope you're
enjoying the final Sunday of December. We're just hearing from
President Joe Biden. He's commenting on the loss of Jimmy Carter.
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He calls him an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian. He says,
with his combation and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease,
forged piece, advanced civil rights and human rights, promote free
and fair elections, how's the homeless, and will always advocate
for the least among us. He saved, lifted and changed
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the lives of people all across the globe. He was
a man of great character and courage, hope and optimism.
We will always cherish seeing him in Rosalind together. That's
part of a statement that Biden put out just moments ago.
It is a long one. Also, President elect Trump, he
took to his true social and he put out a
statement that reads, in part he just heard of the
(30:00):
news about the passing of the President Jimmy Carter. The
challenges Jimmy face as president came at a pivotal time
for our country, and he did everything in his power
to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we
all owe him a debt of gratitude. Milania and I
are thinking warmly of the Carter family and their loved
ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep
them in their hearts and prayers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I was going to bring that up that he did
become president when things were not so good here in
the country. I'm curious had he become president at a
different time, would he have served two terms?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeh, you make a great point, because whomever is in office,
and it's a bad economy as we just witnessed right
with inflation, and that president gets the blame no matter what.
So great point, Andrew. I appreciate that, and we want
to hear from you. By the way, have we gotten
any talkbacks?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Not one?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay at this point I'm going to get offended. Find
us on the iHeartRadio app. Please. We had a lot
of talkbacksles last Sunday. I want to hear from you
hit us up. You just look for the microphone icon
in the iHeartRadio app and you can leave us a message.
You just hit it and you got thirty seconds to say,
say your piece, make a confession.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
That's shy. They're just sy. I maybe I don't know.
I'm not intimidating. Come on now.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
So I gave some love to the Seal Beach Police
Department a little bit earlier, and now Culver City Police
Department is doing something and apparently they say other local
police departments do, so I want you to weigh in
on this too. They call it the vacation Check program.
The department will actually add extra patrol checks near your
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home to help keep your home safe while you're away.
And it's a service that is free. And here is
the public information officer from Culver City Police explaining how
it works.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
We will come out and do additional patrol checks of
the residents, and all our residents need to do is
reach out, give our front desk a call and we
will come out during the duration of their vacation.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And just keep an extra set of eyes.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
And the patrol officers doing the course of their regular
duties will do additional drive buys to make sure there's
no suspicious behavior and the residents appear secured.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
All right, what do you think of that?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
That's pretty cool, right, Yeah, a little peace of mind
while you're on vacation, why not.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I didn't know that this was a thing. So
the officers in Culver City, we thank you for what
you do. You know, they say, while you're planning your vacation,
if you have any concerns, you know, your booking your hotel,
your booking your flight, give them a call and just
let them know, give me your address. And they apparently
have enough officers to be able to take the time
out to actually do that, because I was thinking, and
(32:40):
let me make that point again that she said that
it's not just her department, it's not just Culver City.
It's also other local departments will provide this service if
you just call and you ask. You don't know unless
you ask, right, So give it a shot in your
in your neighborhood next time you go away.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
If you're concerned about crime.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
But you know there's so much talk about For instance,
laped is down more than a thousand officers. I think
they're in the eight thousand range of officers. And for
you know, the city of la and how many there's
four million people in the city itself, that is, they
should have at least ten thousand officers. So it's interesting that,
(33:18):
you know, I'm curious of LAPD and if we have
an LAPD officer or somebody within the department who knows this.
I'm curious if you actually provide the vacation check program. Yeah,
you know, because it's a great, great service. I know
a lot of people are concerned about the rising crime
and we see those home break ins all the time,
especially in the valley.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We cover those so many, so many.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And we did this over the with the holidays coming
up and just over Christmas, you know, and there. And
it's gotten to the point where we have all heard
about the neighborhood watch groups. And that's great, and that's
been going on for a long time. National Night Out
that that's what that's all about. But now, I mean
it's getting to the point where neighbors are having to
band together and watch each other's back. When yeah, because
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police departments are strapped. So in the meantime, I guess
culover city, they're doing something right because they have time
to check out your home when you're when you're out
of town. I think that's a great service. So give
your police department to call and see if they offer it.
I think that could give you some peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Coming up in the next hour, we have a couple
of guestbooked. One of them is going to talk about
the revamping of the La Times. The owner, Patrick Soon
Shong basically was saying that it's gone to opinion, not
just the editorial board, but the actual news articles have
become two opinion based. It's not necessarily journalism anymore. So
(34:43):
he has plans to revamp it. We're gonna get some
thoughts on that from a beloved USC professor of communication
who I just love.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
She's got a great personality. You're going to love her too.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
She's going to weigh on weigh in on this, and
one of the themes I'm gonna ask her about is
the distrust of media. I feel it as a local
news anchor, a lot of people don't trust us anymore.
We're going to delve into that conversation. We're going to
get deep here at KFI. That's what's coming up. But
for now I'm looking for my notes. I'm Marl teas.
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This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (35:19):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Happy Sunday, Good afternoon to you on this final Sunday
of December. In the final Sunday, of course, of twenty
twenty four. I'm Marla Teas. It's good to be back.
Maybe you heard me last week. I'm sitting in for
the next couple of hours from two to four. I
did the same shift last Sunday. I guess I didn't
(00:24):
burn down the place, so they invited me back. It's
nice to be back. We have Richie qin Taro here, producer.
Thank you so much for it's nice to work with you.
This is the first time I've done this as a
solo host and having you here to sort.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Of, you know, watch my back, help me out.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You know, we have a whole two hours plan for you,
but of course we want to get to the breaking
news that we're following. It's a sad day for the
United States of America. This is not an unexpected passing.
We knew that this was imminent. But I want to
get straight to the loss of the thirty ninth President
of the United States, Jimmy Carter. As you heard Andrew
carrolla in the news block talking about his legacy a
(01:03):
little bit. I want to delve a little bit deeper,
because this man deserves the respect. He was died today
peacefully at his home in his hometown of Plains, Georgia,
his family confirming this again, this wasn't unexpected. He had
been in hospice. It would have been two years this
coming February. So he lasted a lot longer than I
(01:25):
think his family imagined and a lot of us imagined,
passing away at one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
He turned one hundred on.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
October first, of just a couple of months ago of
this year, of course, the first president to live to
one hundred years old, the oldest living president, of course,
a great humanitarian. In fact, he has known more for
his humanitarian work since leaving the White House in nineteen
eighty one than really for his time his tenure in
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the White House. He outlived his wife, Rosalind Rosalind. She
passed away in twenty twenty three. She was ninety six
years old. Let's talk a little bit more about his legacy.
Carter was credited with encouraging a peace agreement in the
Middle East that ultimately resulted in the Camp David Accords
(02:16):
and then this. The White House Archives lists the Panama
Canal Treaties and an agreement between the US and the
Soviet Union restricting nuclear weapon productions as some of Carter's
biggest victories overseas.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You heard Andrew mention this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Perhaps the US Department of Education and Energy also launched
during his time in office, but of course it was overshadowed.
A lot of his presidency was. It's often remembered by
the Iran hostage crisis and struggles at home as the
US faced an economic downturn. Of course, his time in
office as president was from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen
(02:54):
eighty one, and it was the Iran hostage crisis and
those struggles at home that really impacted his re election bid,
which as we know, was unsuccessful. He was followed by
Ronald Reagan. Of course, he is a Nobel Prize winner.
I mentioned his humanitarian efforts. That's what he was known for.
In two thousand and two, he was honored by the
(03:16):
Norwegian Nobel Committee for the two thousand and two Nobel
Peace Prize for his decades of untiring effort to find
peaceful solutions to international conflicts to advance democracy and human rights,
and to promote economic and social development. He also is
known for in that vein the Habitat for Humanity. He
(03:37):
and that team in the Carter Center, which was founded
several years ago, they have built dozens, if not hundreds
of homes in the southern California area and Habitat for Humanity.
This project builds affordable homes for low income families and
raises awareness of the city's housing crisis. He's come to
(03:57):
hear himself and helped build home and Watts. He's helped
build homes around La and San Pedro, most recently in
twenty twenty four. The Carter Center did that. So that
just happened this year. It is a loss and we
want to hear from you. We want to get your
(04:18):
thoughts on the passing of the thirty ninth President of
the United States. Jimmy Carter dying today on this final
Sunday of twenty twenty four at the age of one
hundred years old. He is survived by his four children, Jack, James, Donnell,
and Amy. Of course several grandchildren and great great grandchildren
as well great grandchildren. I put an extra grade on there,
(04:43):
but hit us up on the talkback and leave your
thoughts on the passing of Jimmy Carter. If you have
a comment about the show, please give.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Us your thoughts. We liked hearing from you last week.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I want this to be as interactive as possible, so
you can find us on the iHeartRadio app. You see
the little microphone icon and it was your thoughts on
the passing of Jimmy Carter passing away today at the
age of one hundred. Okay, if I've just talked for
the last what five minutes on that, and you're thinking,
who in the heck are you, let me just give
(05:12):
you a quick quick refresher before we have, before I
set the table for you what's coming up in the
next couple of hours. So again, my name is Marla Teez.
I am here every once in a while as a
fill in. If you've heard me here on the radio,
if it wasn't last Sunday, then it's been during the
Gary and Channon time slot of course, that's Monday through
Friday nine to one. I have not had the opportunity
to work with the incomparable Shannon Farren. I would love
(05:36):
that opportunity, but I've worked with Gary Hoffman he's amazing,
he's witty, he's smart, he's great to listen to. I
know a lot of you are big fans. I've sat
next to Neil Savadra, of course, the well fed host.
I think that's what he calls himself for the Fork Report,
the Fork reporter himself, and also Mark Thompson. So it's
fun to be here when they asked me to be here,
(05:57):
and then my day job because I actually do have
a full time job that's at Fox eleven. So if
you were in the Southern California area, you can check
us out on Fox eleven. You can find me on
weeknights from six to seven, the Fox eleven News at
six alongside my co anchor Elex Michaelson, and at eleven o'clock,
our final newscast of the night is called good Night LA.
(06:19):
It's from eleven to eleven thirty a quick, down and dirty,
just recap of the day's news.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
So check us out, give us some love.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And I know a lot of you are listening from
outside the Southern California viewing area.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Guess what, you can stream.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Us live just as you're listening to us live right here,
and I'm coming to you live from Burbank. You can
listen to US live on the iHeartRadio app and on
Fox eleven. You can stream US live foxla dot com
slash Live.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You know, you must be a big deal because when
I posted that I was with you last week here
at the studio, my phone blew up from all of
my friends that watch news locally, like you must be
their go to person for news.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Who paid you off?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
No, I'm sirious.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah I did not.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I did not realize how big Marlow was until.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Even Bella's laughing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, well Bella's young, she doesn't own a television sent.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, well that's so kind. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know, I've been in the news business all age
myself for more than twenty five years. It's been twenty
six years. I started as a producer and and a rider,
and I had no intention of ever being in front
of the camera in fact, and I made that transition
several years into my broadcast industry career. And yeah, I've
been a news reporter and now I'm an anchor in
(07:36):
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And what was your craziest like as a reporter, like
not in studio, Like craziest thing you've ever been called out.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To, Oh, come on, you're putting me on the spot
the craziest thing. I mean, I've covered the big fires,
I've covered the earthquakes. You know, of course, we cover
pursuits a lot at Fox eleven, and I know you
carry them here and we appreciate that. But if you
want a specific story, I'll have to hit you up
on that or I have to get.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Back to you next. Good ones, too many good ones.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I've covered a lot in my day, and I'm sad
to be covering the loss of Jimmy Carter today. So
coming up, we have a couple of guests, a few
guests booked in the next couple of hours. Orange County
District Attorney Todd Spitzer, he's going to take time out
of his busy Sunday and he's going to join us
next because I want to get his thoughts. If you
don't follow the Seal Beach Police Department on social media,
(08:29):
I'm sorry, but you need.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
To because they are.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They went viral this week for their posts that they
did about shoplifting in Seal Beach. Their big campaign is
don't steal and seal its tongue in cheek, but it's
doing a lot to raise awareness about crime and if
you commit a crime, you're going to pay the consequences.
So Da Spitzer has a lot to say about this,
(08:54):
where we will get his thoughts when he joins us
live on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You're listening to KFI six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Mar LETTEA is sitting in for the next couple of
hours until four o'clock this afternoon. I'm happy to be here,
hoping that you are enjoying. The final Sunday of twenty
twenty four were, of course, following the breaking news the
passing the death of the thirty ninth President of the
United States, Jimmy Carter, passing away today peacefully at his
home and Planes, Georgia, his hometown, at the age of
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one hundred years old. All right, bringing it back here locally,
I want to talk about and give some much deserved
love to Orange County and the Seal Beach Police Department. Please,
if you're on social media, if you don't follow them already,
follow Seal Beach PD on Instagram. They have some incredible
social media posts that really highlights the problem of organized theft,
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organized crime and in other words, it does not pay.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Crime doesn't pay.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
In Orange County, which is, I know, a slogan of
the Orange County just attorney's office and in Seal Beach specifically,
don't steal and seal In fact, one of their posts
this week went viral.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It made national news. So here's that clip that we're
going to set the table for you. Set the stage.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It is of two shoplifters in the back of a
Seal Beach patrol car and one of them is surprised
to hear that stealing is a felony because they stole
more than nine hundred dollars worth. Here's their exchange. It
might be hard to hear. I will translate it for
you after the fact.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Take a listen, that's a felony. New laws.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Stealing is a felon and this is Orange County.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They don't, okay, So one of the suspects says it's
a felony and the other one says, b B new laws,
Stealing is a felony and this is Orange County. B
they don't and play what's the beat part? Yeah, you know,
I'm sure you could say it. Oh, okay, I might
get in trouble. I'll leave that to you.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
In short, it rhymes with rich gotcha.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, you know, if anyone of the talkback wants let
us know, just you know, let us know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, exactly live give us your thoughts on the talkback,
hit the little microphone icon.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We also want to hear from the Orange County District
Attorney Todd Spitzer.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
He joined us on the line. Hey, I know it's
a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm hoping you typically don't work on Sundays, but I
appreciate you calling in here at KFI.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Good to have you, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It's so great to be on with you. And let
me tell you, we all work twenty four to seven. Right,
we're working to keep Orange County stafe in California. And
look Prop thirty six passed by overwhelming numbers in Orange County.
In fact, it passed statewide by sixty eight percent. In
Orange County was almost seventy eight percent. So people were
really clear in my county they're not going to put
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up with any of this nonsense. And you know, you know,
we went too far with Top forty seven ten years ago.
George Gascone was the poster child for Prop forty seven,
and look how it ended his career and he ran
the Orange County season the lada's office into the ground,
and I'll tell you it was a big compliment mother.
(12:18):
Those young ladies paid me in the county. They said,
we don't play. And I can tell you Nathan Hawkman,
the new GA in LA, he ain't going to play either. So, yeah,
there's a lot of changes in California with Oakland DA
getting kicked out from Francisco's die. So we're making some big,
big changes and we're not crazy. We're not going to
(12:39):
go back to some kind of caveman mentality, but we
are not going to put up with the kind of
reckless disregard for people's property that we've seen, you know,
since the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, I mean you brought a prop for thirty six.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm glad you did, because that's of course what Seal
Beach PD is hoping to highlight here on their social
media account. Now that's sort of the shift away from
the progressive and now into this is barely two weeks
old Prop thirty six.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Voters, as you said, overwhelmingly passed it.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
This increases penalties for repeat offenders organized theft, and so
this is now statewide not just in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Seal BEACHPD doing.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Great things, actually talked to the off It's an officer
who's responsible for that account and he remains anonymous, and
his whole point is, you know, if you come to
our city and you commit a crime, you're going to pay.
And now that is statewide. That's that's the goal, right
mister Spitzer. And to that end, you had that billboard
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campaign crime isn't paying Orange County?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Are you board?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Ever, at every entrance to Range County, we had a
billboard that made it clear that we still pronsecute crime
in Orange County. This was before Prop thirty six, and
you know, we have such a great relationship with the
police departments. Steel Beach has done a phenomenal job. That
video is I mean, I can't stop laughing. I probably shouldn't,
(14:10):
but I can't stop laughing every time I watch that
video because it's the woman who's speaking is actually on
probation for stealing fior to Pop thirty six. But this
time when she goes to court next week, she's going
to be looking at a whole different set of circumstances
and a probation violation. And her other friend is pretty
(14:32):
silent through the whole thing, and he tells her, Hey,
it's a felony. Now you steal. But the highest compliment
of criminal can pay to you is telling you that
you don't pay, you don't play.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I say, Hey, we're in Orange County. We're in big trouble.
You know, there's a lot of people commit climbs just
across from Long Beach actually where George Gascon lives in
Los Alnidos and Steel Beach. Those are our border north
border communities Orange County. And when they arrest people, they'll say, oh,
it's no big deal, George Gascon. Well, you know the
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police will tell they'll say, no, I'm sorry, but you're
you crossed across the river there and you are now
in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You're now in the OC, baby, you're now in the OC. Well,
as we know, you mentioned Nathan Hawkman. He took over
just this month for DA Gascon, so he is a
new DA.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In La County.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I know there wasn't a bunch of relationship between you
and Gascon. What's the relationship, like the working relationship between
you and Hawkman now that he is the DA.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Well, I think it's gonna be excellent. Sheriff Barnes, the
sheriff of Orange County and myself, we did a big
fundraiser for Nathan in Orange County. I'm very proud we
were able to pull people together in Orange County for
Nathan because they didn't really know who he was. And
I was at his inauguration or excuse me, his election
night victory, and I just count him as a good
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He's very serious, he's very focused, and I'm just looking
forward to having a relationship with him like I do
with the other major county das. I mean all the
other das San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside. We're all very close,
we work close together, and LA has been an outlier
and it's been frustrating for us. But I'm so excited
(16:23):
that Nathan has made it very clear he plans to
work with all of us. He'll be his own person.
He has his own constituency to address, no doubt about it.
LA is not Orange County. He's got constituencies that I
don't have to deal with and vice versa, and he's
got a tough county to deal with. But at the
(16:43):
end of the day, I don't care what you're what
party you're in, what strikes you count I don't care
anything about who you love, who you want to marry.
Everybody wants to be safe and deserves to be safe.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, A man, That's a perfect place to end the
conversation there. That's, of course, the DA of Orange County,
where they don't play. Todd Spitzer, I thank you so
much for taking time out on your Sunday and you're
and you're right.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
As a DA, I know, I know there's no days off,
so thanks again for joining us here in KFI. Okay,
I love him, he he, He doesn't play. And it's
good to have Nathan Hawkman in office here in La County,
and I'm happy to hear that they will have a
good working relationship. All Right, Andrew Caravella, I have an
answer for you. You asked me, what's the craziest thing
(17:34):
that I've covered? Yeah, the one that keeps on giving.
And we're actually going to talk about this a little
later later in the show. I covered from start to
finish the Scott Peterson murder trial.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Oh yeah, I remember that in high school they were
actually putting that on.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now I feel in high school I was in the courtroom.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
In the courtroom.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I was in the courtroom every day, So that was that.
That is a story that obviously was revived this year. Again,
we're going to talk about that because we're going to
look back at some of the top headlines of twenty
twenty four, and that is one of the headlines that
I have chosen to discuss because it's a remarkable case
and it's there's still more to come.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't think I've ever heard this song I'm too old.
Apparently I work with people who are much younger than me. Bella,
I appreciate you on the board. Thank you so much
of course, keeping me young here at KFI k if
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Hello on this Sunday. I keep saying it, but it's
a good reminder. It's a final Sunday of twenty twenty four,
(18:39):
so make it count. Sorry to have to report, as
Andrew Caravella has been talking about too, the loss of
Jimmy Carter dying at one hundred years old, the first
president to live that long, first to reach one hundred
years old, is passing today. That's one of the stories
that we're following in the KFI newsroom. Speaking of headlines,
we will get into the the top headlines of twenty
(19:01):
twenty four. I've curated my own list. It actually took
me quite a bit of time, Richie producer Richie. I actually,
if you go online and you can, you know, you
can google it, and every network has put out their
top stories and flashback of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
But I wanted to do my own.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know what's really kind of cool is I challenge
everybody to go in your camera role and go back
to January, and I guarantee you you'll be surprised at
the memories that you forgot about. So essentially I did
that with the headlines. That's cool, and I'm like, oh my,
I forgot that that happened. I forgot that that happened.
So we will delve into the top headlines my own
(19:40):
curated list a little bit later on. That's coming up
in the three o'clock hour, and this hour we're gonna
look forward. In this block, I should say, we're looking
forward to twenty twenty five, and let's talk about some
new laws that are coming in twenty twenty five, which
is in what two days?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, literally around the corner.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, so December goes out, says, we say goodbye to
December on Tuesday. January one, twenty twenty five is Wednesday.
So some new laws, and I think this is going
to impact all of us, starting with the day lighting law.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Have you heard of this one? Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You have? Okay, So this is Assembly Bill four thirteen.
This is impacting California drivers. You can no longer park
as of Wednesday within twenty feet of any marked or
unmarked crosswalk.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It doesn't even have to be marked. And the whole goal.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
According to proponents, is to improve visibility and improve safety
by increasing visibility. So if you're parking close to a crosswalk,
you could potentially hinder seeing a pedestrian in a crosswalk,
whether it's marked or not. So this is a lot
that applies to all intersections statewide, regardless of whether a
red curb or a no parking sign or present. Because
(20:53):
they haven't been able to get to all the curbs
around town. As you can imagine, that's a big feat.
So if you get caught, you get a warning first
for the first sixty days. In terms of enforcement, to
just get a warning and then beginning March first, you
have until March first to remember this. Drivers who break
the law will face a sixty five dollars Fine, what
(21:14):
do you think about that? I think that's gonna you
know what, I think in San Francisco, they're already doing this,
and I've heard that it's already crowded. It's hard enough
to park right, you know, and especially in downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Right, it's a headache for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, all around. It's so compact here in southern California.
So I think that's going to make parking a little
bit more difficult. But again, proponents say it's going to
save live So we'll see. What about this. This is
Senate Bill nine oh five, and I was actually stunned
to learn this that this is how it goes if
your car gets broken into, right, the onus is, the
(21:47):
burden is on the victim to prove that your car
was locked. Prosecutors have to prove that your car was
actually locked. And this was a loophole in the California
Criminal Code. So send a bill nine oh four. It
now says that car owners and prosecutors don't have to
(22:09):
prove a car was locked, just that forcible entry occurred
in order to prosecute a car burglar, which is a
good thing. So now you know if your car gets
broken into, no matter if you forgot to lock it
or not, whether they broke a window or not. Whomever
that car burglar, that suspect is, they can be The
(22:33):
prosecution doesn't have to have you testify and say, yeah,
I forgot to unlock my I forgot to lock my car.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Also, having cameras, you know, just having a camera inside
your car, you know I don't have one, or getting
it stolen. Actually that would kind of suck. Also having
a camera and then gets stolen.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You know, it's funny. It's funny that I don't have one,
given that I work around cameras all the time. You know,
I'm on camera at Fox. You need a little break, Marlin, Yeah, exactly.
I don't want to be on camera, which is why
I like being a Kafi. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Then what about medical debt? Most medical debt can no
longer hurt your credit score. And I think a lot
(23:15):
of a lot of people and this is in California
and estimated almost forty percent of people carry some type
of medical debt, and that figure climbs to more than half,
especially for low income residents.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's all according to the California Healthcare Foundation.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So as of January one, this new state law will
prohibit health providers and debt collectors from reporting medical debt
to credit agency. So it's not going to hurt your
credit score anymore. And you know, I mean bad credit
score means that will impact a whole lot.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Of what you want to do.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
So good news.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The one that's the most controversial, I think is the
California ban banning schools from forcing teachers to out LGBTQ students.
This is something that we've talked a lot at here
at KFI course, but also on Fox eleven. This came
in response to a handful of school boards adopting policies
that require teachers and other school staff to notify parents
(24:10):
if a student identifies as a gender other than what's
on their school records. And this happened at Chino Valley Unified.
We've covered there, Temecula Unified that covered it there. The
notification parental notification notice well, now you can't do that
(24:31):
according to the new law that passes ABE nineteen fifty
five that takes effect on January first. Governor Gavin Newsom
says teachers can still talk to their parents. What they
can't do is fire a teacher for not being a snitch.
I don't think teachers should be gender police. I know
this gets people riled up on both sides. This is
(24:52):
a win, certainly for the LGBTQ community. Obviously those at
Chino Valley and Temecula Unified. They're still fighting this, so
that will see what comes of that. But that is
another one that will take effect on January first. There's
an increase to the minimum wage in California from sixteen
dollars to sixteen fifty. If you voted in November, I
(25:16):
hope you did. There was an effort to increase the
minimum wage to eighteen dollars, but that was defeated. Nonetheless,
just because of inflation, the minimum wage will rise to
sixteen fifty. But of course we've covered this year at
KFI and Fox eleven that the minimum wage for fast
food workers as of April of this year rose to
(25:36):
twenty dollars. I know that captured a lot of headlines
as well. So these are some of the laws, maybe
twenty four to ninety nine workers jury duty. I know
we all love jury duty rights, cercific duty favorite. You
can use sick time. You can use sick time now
to perform jury duty. You can do that before. So
(25:57):
that new law also expands the re the reasons workers
can take unpaid protective leave when they are victims of crime.
So that is not just for jury duty. But if
you have jury duty, you can use sick time. Andrew,
I can't do it. You can't do it.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I am not a fan of jerry duty.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Same, so you just do everything you can to get
out of it.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I have written one of the books on how to
get out of jerry.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Come on, it's your civic duty. You don't want to
be on a you know, a historic trial one of
these days.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Perhaps Listen.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
I live in a county just outside of La where
nothing historic happens.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Wait, which county is that?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Which was San Bernardino County?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh, come on, you got to give some love to
your home county. Is that where you grew up?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Well, I actually grew up in part of LA County.
I was born in Montabello lived in Monteree Park, and
then my family decided, you know, in the late eighties
early nineties, oh, let's let's move out west because everything's
going that way. Only we went too far. So I
grew up in the high desert. But like every weekend
we're seeing. We have a big family. So aunts, uncles, cousins,
(27:12):
they all lived in Orange and La County. So I've
always been in the area.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The Caravellas, they're all over southern California. Yeah, taking it over. Yeah,
and now look at you, a big city boy in Burbank.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Given the news.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Come on now, sunny Burbank, California. Here I am.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You know what, speaking of it's beautiful over here.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I came from the west side today and it was
socked in low visibility.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It was terrible. That's because we control the weather on
this side. Oh yeah, of course the Hollywood towers just
over the hill right there, and it stops everything on
your side.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, thanks for thanks for the blue skies. I appreciate it,
no problem. We're going to give some love to the
Culver City Police Department when we come back. They have
an incredible program that you probably don't know about.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
When you go on vacation. You may be concerned about,
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
The rising crime, which hopefully Prop thirty six will help,
but the rising crime.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Uh, and you need somebody to sort of watch your house.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Well, apparently local police departments will do extra patrols when
you're gone.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Richie likes this song go Yeah, You're feeling the beat
on that one. It sounds like the Go Gos. I
think it's a remix of the Go Gos. No, I
don't know where they are.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
They you know, you don't know who the Go Gos are?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Thank you, Andrew, Come on now.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, they are the ones that do that vacation song
from Okay, see, I don't I'm not good with names.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So I just had the honor of interviewing Blinda Carlisle.
She was one. I know.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Everyone's faces went blank. She's part of the Go Gos.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
People.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It's a good thing, you know what. I actually spent
my Saturday when I got my hair dyed. I got
my grays dyed.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
People. I'm not old. She's not fabulous. You're so funny. Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
I'm Marltea is sitting in until four o'clock. Always a
play to be here at KFI. We are live in
Burbank where there are some blue skies. It wasn't that
way when I left home on the West Side today,
so it's nice to have the blue skies. Hope you're
enjoying the final Sunday of December. We're just hearing from
President Joe Biden. He's commenting on the loss of Jimmy Carter.
(29:16):
He calls him an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian. He says,
with his combation and moral clarity, he worked to eradicate disease,
forged piece, advanced civil rights and human rights, promote free
and fair elections, how's the homeless, and will always advocate
for the least among us. He saved, lifted and changed
(29:38):
the lives of people all across the globe. He was
a man of great character and courage, hope and optimism.
We will always cherish seeing him in Rosalind together. That's
part of a statement that Biden put out just moments ago.
It is a long one. Also, President elect Trump, he
took to his true social and he put out a
statement that reads, in part he just heard of the
(30:00):
news about the passing of the President Jimmy Carter. The
challenges Jimmy face as president came at a pivotal time
for our country, and he did everything in his power
to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we
all owe him a debt of gratitude. Milania and I
are thinking warmly of the Carter family and their loved
ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep
them in their hearts and prayers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I was going to bring that up that he did
become president when things were not so good here in
the country. I'm curious had he become president at a
different time, would he have served two terms?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeh, you make a great point, because whomever is in office,
and it's a bad economy as we just witnessed right
with inflation, and that president gets the blame no matter what.
So great point, Andrew. I appreciate that, and we want
to hear from you. By the way, have we gotten
any talkbacks?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Not one?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay at this point I'm going to get offended. Find
us on the iHeartRadio app. Please. We had a lot
of talkbacksles last Sunday. I want to hear from you
hit us up. You just look for the microphone icon
in the iHeartRadio app and you can leave us a message.
You just hit it and you got thirty seconds to say,
say your piece, make a confession.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
That's shy. They're just sy. I maybe I don't know.
I'm not intimidating. Come on now.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
So I gave some love to the Seal Beach Police
Department a little bit earlier, and now Culver City Police
Department is doing something and apparently they say other local
police departments do, so I want you to weigh in
on this too. They call it the vacation Check program.
The department will actually add extra patrol checks near your
(31:39):
home to help keep your home safe while you're away.
And it's a service that is free. And here is
the public information officer from Culver City Police explaining how
it works.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
We will come out and do additional patrol checks of
the residents, and all our residents need to do is
reach out, give our front desk a call and we
will come out during the duration of their vacation.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And just keep an extra set of eyes.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
And the patrol officers doing the course of their regular
duties will do additional drive buys to make sure there's
no suspicious behavior and the residents appear secured.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
All right, what do you think of that?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
That's pretty cool, right, Yeah, a little peace of mind
while you're on vacation, why not.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, I didn't know that this was a thing. So
the officers in Culver City, we thank you for what
you do. You know, they say, while you're planning your vacation,
if you have any concerns, you know, your booking your hotel,
your booking your flight, give them a call and just
let them know, give me your address. And they apparently
have enough officers to be able to take the time
out to actually do that, because I was thinking, and
(32:40):
let me make that point again that she said that
it's not just her department, it's not just Culver City.
It's also other local departments will provide this service if
you just call and you ask. You don't know unless
you ask, right, So give it a shot in your
in your neighborhood next time you go away.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
If you're concerned about crime.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
But you know there's so much talk about For instance,
laped is down more than a thousand officers. I think
they're in the eight thousand range of officers. And for
you know, the city of la and how many there's
four million people in the city itself, that is, they
should have at least ten thousand officers. So it's interesting that,
(33:18):
you know, I'm curious of LAPD and if we have
an LAPD officer or somebody within the department who knows this.
I'm curious if you actually provide the vacation check program. Yeah,
you know, because it's a great, great service. I know
a lot of people are concerned about the rising crime
and we see those home break ins all the time,
especially in the valley.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
We cover those so many, so many.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And we did this over the with the holidays coming
up and just over Christmas, you know, and there. And
it's gotten to the point where we have all heard
about the neighborhood watch groups. And that's great, and that's
been going on for a long time. National Night Out
that that's what that's all about. But now, I mean
it's getting to the point where neighbors are having to
band together and watch each other's back. When yeah, because
(34:06):
police departments are strapped. So in the meantime, I guess
culover city, they're doing something right because they have time
to check out your home when you're when you're out
of town. I think that's a great service. So give
your police department to call and see if they offer it.
I think that could give you some peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Coming up in the next hour, we have a couple
of guestbooked. One of them is going to talk about
the revamping of the La Times. The owner, Patrick Soon
Shong basically was saying that it's gone to opinion, not
just the editorial board, but the actual news articles have
become two opinion based. It's not necessarily journalism anymore. So
(34:43):
he has plans to revamp it. We're gonna get some
thoughts on that from a beloved USC professor of communication
who I just love.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
She's got a great personality. You're going to love her too.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
She's going to weigh on weigh in on this, and
one of the themes I'm gonna ask her about is
the distrust of media. I feel it as a local
news anchor, a lot of people don't trust us anymore.
We're going to delve into that conversation. We're going to
get deep here at KFI. That's what's coming up. But
for now I'm looking for my notes. I'm Marl teas.
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