Join host Michael Monks as he explores the USC vs. UCLA rivalry game and shares why the unexpected cold and wet weather in Southern California is uplifting for him. He discusses the rising gas prices and their broader impact with USC Professor Michael Mische from the Marshall School of Business, who explains why costs may continue to increase. KFI's Nick Pagliochini and Tiffany Hobbs delve into the history of Black Friday and whether the deals are truly worthwhile. Michael also addresses the tragic incident of a teen bicyclist struck and killed in a possible road-rage attack near BMO Stadium, continuing his discussion on the dangers of road rage in SoCal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Michael Monks with you for the next two hours
on this cold, wet November Saturday night here in La Man.
This is football weather, and we are coming up on
a kickoff for a Big Ten clash at the Rose Bowl.
The USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins both tied for
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twelfth place in their first season in their new conference,
with the record of three and five. Like I said
to Tiffany just moments ago, it's still a little weird
for me, as a guy from the Upper South the
Midwest area, to see USC and UCLA in the Big Ten.
I imagine that must be true for some of you
fans around here as well. But little Rocky this first
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season in the Big Ten. Both still have a chance though,
to become Bowl eligible. Ucla is four and six. They'll
need to win out these last couple of games. USC
is five and five, so they could technically lose tonight,
but they got Notre Dame week, so that's a tough one.
We'll keep an eye on the kickoff and give you
some scores throughout for all of you who are just
casually paying attention to that game. But man, this is definitely,
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definitely some glorious football weather. And you know, this is
something that as a transplant as someone who is still
in the honeymoon phase with being an LA resident. It's
not quite yet two years for me, right, Okay, So
this is something that I love telling people back home about.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It gets cold here.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And so no matter where you live in America, I'm
from Kentucky, LA and California, they play a big part
of our cultural consciousness. You know, we see it all
the time in our media and our movies and our TV.
And it's sunny, and it's beaches and it's Hollywood glamour.
It is never this. We never see this part of LA.
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We never see this part of California back home. I
can tell you that the clouds, the rain, the cold.
But I'm gonna be honest, this is the weather that
made me want to live here.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So hear me out.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The reason is because this is basically as bad as
it's gonna get. Right, It gets a little colder right now,
it's about fifty six here in Burbank, gets a little rainier,
in the winter a little gloomier.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh, but it's fantastic back home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The forecast in Covington, Kentucky, for Thanksgiving is rainy with
a high of forty two. By the next Monday, December second,
it's cloudy, with the high of twenty six. December second,
winter hasn't even officially started yet, and on the same
day here in La.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Sunny with a high of seventy four.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So, yes, my friends, I will pay thousands of dollars
a month to live in a building in downtown La
where I have to step over human waste on the
sidewalk every day for so and seventy four on December second,
even for rainy and fifty six today, Yes, sir, it
means that much to me. I do not miss a
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high of twenty six in the first week of December.
But I will tell you there is a number back
home in Kentucky that I do miss right now my
old neighborhood. A gallon of gas is two dollars and
eighty nine cents. Two dollars and eighty nine cents. The
average price in La County four dollars and forty five cents.
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Orange County four dollars and thirty eight cents. That's actually
lower than any Thanksgiving those since twenty twenty. But those
prices are about to go up.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It seems.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A state agency, as you have undoubtedly heard by now,
has increased California's fuel standards, and by doing so, we
can all basically expect to pay more at the pump
in a state that is already the most expensive for gas.
And by the way, it's not just gonna hit you
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at the gas station. When gas costs more, sodaes just
about everything else. So all of those trucks you're maneuvering
around on the freeway, they gotta pay for gas. And
there are goods inside those trucks that are headed to
stores you shop at, and all of those little price
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increases are gonna trickle down to you. When gas costs more,
Soda is just about everything else. USC economics professor Michael
Miche says some research shows we could be paying up
to a dollar more per gallon next year, even as
gas prices are forecasted to drop just about everywhere else
in the country.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So gas is going up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Housing is expensive, income and sales taxes are high.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Our groceries cost more than anywhere else. Oh, but.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Then it's December second, and it's Sonny in seventy four.
You know where else do you want to be?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'll be talking to Professor Miche next. He's gonna explain
what's at stake for all of us as these potential
price hikes are coming, and I want to hear from
you too. Is the weather worth it? Am I still
naive in my honeymoon period? Here as a La resident
Sonny in seventy four on December second versus Cloudy in
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twenty six? Back home and Covington? K? Why am I wrong?
Am I stupid? It's so much cheaper back home? But man,
the weather is great here. You can join our conversation
too on the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talk back button.
Just leave us a little message. We're gonna play some
over the next couple of hours while we're here, So
send your message about that, send your message about everything really.
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But yeah, that's my main question right now, early in
the show. Is the weather here worth the cost of
everything else? Would you take a high of twenty six
on December second in order to get gas at two
dollars and eighty nine cents? Have the gas prices impacted
your travel plans. Can let us know. Also tonight, the
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mayor of Santa Anna has had it with unruly homeless
camps and this is just another local city changing its
approach in the wake of a US Supreme Court ruling
that has allowed cities do do just that, change their
approach to homeless camps, they can be removed. So Valerie
Amesqua is going to talk to us about what Santa
Anna has in store for the folks who are not
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just living on the streets because they are economically disadvantaged.
These are folks who are causing problems all the time.
And I know as a resident of downtown LA what
she's talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're going to get into that as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And then we're preparing for Black Friday shopping and the
holiday traditions that you need to check out in southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's another question.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm asking you to join us on the talkback if
you've got any good suggestions for us. What is something
that a newcomer to the region needs to see, or
what is something that somebody from the other side of
the region needs to finally jump in the car and
come down and see. In your neck of the woods.
What's a holiday tradition that cannot be missed in Southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It can be a big one that everybody probably knows about.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It can be a small one, like somebody on your
street has a great house decked out in beautiful lights.
Please let us know on the iHeartRadio app and click
on that talk back button, even if you just want
to let me know I was a fool for moving here.
We got a big two hours ahead for you, so
please tuck in, stay warm on this cold Saturday night
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in La. We're gonna have some fun, but we're also
gonna get serious with some of the news.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
KFIAM six and live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app bym
Michael Monks from KFI News. Here with you until nine
o'clock tonight, The fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef
Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five thousand
meals every week to kids in need in Southern California,
and your generosity makes it all happen. There are three
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ways you can help. You can donate now at KFIAM
six forty dot com slash Pastathon, and then you can
shop at any Smart and Final store and donate any
amount of the checkout, or head into any Wendy's restaurant
in southern California and donate five dollars or more and
get a coupon book for Wendy's goodies. We've also got
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a live broadcast all day long coming up from the
Anaheim White House. It'll be on Giving Tuesday, that's December third.
Come on out and see us from five am to
ten pm and donate on site and drop off all
the pasta and all all the sauce donations. Of those
donations goes to Katerina's Club, So please join us at
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the KFI Pastathon and get those donations in before the
cost of gas gets any higher. Michael Miche is an
economics professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. He
wrote an article recently warning Californians to brace for impact
and noting that policies like the higher fuel standards now
mandated by the state have consequences.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Professor, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, unfortunately, I think we're seeing an incry. We'll see
an increase in the gasoline prices in twenty twenty five,
and a lot of that will be due to legislative
action and regulatory actions which will drive up the price
of gasoline for the retail at the retail pump. For
the consumer, the question is how much will the price
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go up? And there are various studies indicating anywhere from
a few cents a gallon all the way up to
a dollar fifteen suns a gallon. And of course there's
the University of Pennsylvania study from the Climate Center of
Foreign of Energy Policy that has the price going up
to as much as a dollar fifty a gallon by
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twenty thirty five. So policies do have consequences.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And speaking of policies having consequences, we just got out
of a presidential election cycle where the consequences of government
policy played a significant role in the outcome, with folks
complaining about the cost of everything. And now here is
California setting a new potential increase for something people need
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every day gas. What type of impact can they expect
on their immediate lives because of this decision?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I think it's curious in the sense that you know,
I questioned myself, why does you know California. See the
cards California or Resource Board and ce see, you know,
what do they have against the California consumer. So I'm
not really not quite sure what's motivating that. I mean,
we all understand we need quality air, clean air and
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things like that, and there are targets. The unfortunate aspect is,
while the rest of the nation will be enjoying a
decline in energy costs at the pump and at the
utility meter in twenty twenty five as a result of
the administration's actions or planted actions, Californians will be stuck
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with an increase in their costs. So the question then
becomes why that dichotomy and why does that exist? And
for how much longer can the average California California put
up with it. You know, when you have an increase
in gasoline prices, it's regressive and it hits the lower
income Californians the hardest, the people who literally have to
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drive long distances to work and things like that. So
this is a curious move and contradictory to what we'll
see across the nation in under the Trump administration in
the coming years.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I find it curious as well because we're talking about
a state that has seen a decline in population. It
still has massive electoral college implications, but it's probably going
to lose some more electoral college seats because of the
declining population. And a lot of the reasons cited for
people who are bolting from California is just the cost
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of living here, and so gas is really just the
latest thing to cost the most. But it's expensive to
buy groceries. It's almost impossible for the average salary to
be able to afford the purchase of a home. People
are what they call rent poor, where too much of
their income is going towards their rent. I mean, when
you have something like this, is there some sort of
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estimation that somebody with your expertise can make that people
are going to become more fed up and leave.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well? I think so. I think that's a sad but
inadible out there. You know, under the last four years,
you take a look at the general economy, prices are
up in general twenty percent, real wages are up less
than that, around seventeen percent. Utilities are up well into
thirty percent, and so you know that's that's difficult enough.
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And then you look at California, which has exceptionally high
cost of living high tax rates. Only sixteen percent of
our population can afford our residents can afford to buy
a home. Yeah, they're going to look for other alternatives.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We're talking with Professor Michael mcha of the USC Marshall
School of Business about this looming height and gas prices
across California. And as we talk about the way people
are unable to buy things that they might want, barely
able to afford rent, and probably can't even dream about
owning their own home. You note that people who have
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to buy gas in this state, those who drive a car, frankly,
those who heat their homes with gas. I mean, they
need to have more money coming in just to break even,
and that's something that hasn't been rising with the rate
of the cost of things.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Income.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You suggest that people would need another six hundred to
one thousand dollars a year in pre tax income just
to break even with the new prices.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, that's unfortunately. So, I mean that's a consequence of
price increases. And so the question is if the price
of gasoline is probably going to go up faster than
the increase in someone's disposal income. And again we pay
for our fuel. We pay for our products on a
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post tax basis. So if the price of gasoline, say,
goes up four hundred dollars, well, we're paying for that
after we pay our taxes, So we need to gross
that up. And depending on your tax bracket, it can
be anywhere from you know, six hundred dollars to one
thousand dollars extra just to make up the increase in
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gasoline prices.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Unfortunately, the cost of gas impacts the cost of other things.
So yeah, it's coming out of your pocket when you're
filling up your own tank. But gosh, those truck drivers
and every other industry that relies on some sort of
gas to support their operations, whatever they're shipping, whatever they're selling,
that's probably going to cost more too, right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh absolutely. You know. Once, what we found from the seventies,
when we look back to the nineteen seventy three period
with the air boil and bargle occurring in October seventy three,
and then forward all the way all the way to today,
is that when energy costs begin to go up, they
have a compounding effect throughout the supply chain, and so
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you know, the farmer, who's who's killing the fields. The
price of gasoline goes up, the price of the crop
goes up, the processor for the food, the distributor, all
of the prices go up. So by the time it
gets to the retail chain they're much higher. So energy
costs such as this will have a compounding effect throughout
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the supply chain. Antvs. How is the gasoline tax going
to be replaced? How is the revenue loss from gasoline
tax going to be replaced? And so that would be
an interesting question to present to the legislature.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I noted Professor MChE at the beginning of this article
you wrote about the loving hike and gas prices that
you said policies have consequences. You end the article with
Californians must now brace for impact.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, unfortunately, you know, you have an economy something called
a displacement effect, and that is you have a finite
amount of money coming in and so the average consumer,
the average Californian will have to reallocate how they spend
their money. They'll be a little bit less maybe going
out on an erna, a little bit less travel, perhaps
making rather than making two trips a month down to
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Orange County to visit relatives. You'll make one trip a
month down to Orange County. So this whole fource an
adjustment in the consumer patterns and the behavior of average Californians.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's Professor Michael Miche from the USC Marshall School of Business.
You can read his commentary in the California Globe and
join the conversation here on the iHeartRadio app. Hit that
talkback button and tell us how you feel about what
we're talking about. And coming up next, we're going to
be discussing Black Friday. We're the best places to shop
around Southern California. What areas maybe should you consider avoiding
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as you prepare for the holiday shopping bonanza. We'll talk
about that next.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
KFI AM six forty and live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News here with you on
a cold November or Southern.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
California night until nine a clock.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And so it is the Saturday before Thanksgiving, which means
it's also the Saturday before Black Friday. And so you're
maybe making your Christmas list now, budgeting thinking about who
you like enough to buy a gift for and also
wondering one of the best places to get around to
where you have to shop in southern California, one of
the places you need to stay away from. We're gonna
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get a little history on this frenzy that is about
to descend upon us again. Joining us from our traffic
bureau is Nick Pauli o'kaney. Always a pleasure to see you, sir.
Good to see you as well, Michael.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is great because this is the first time we're
actually seeing each other face to face, which I think
is kind of exciting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
This is a weird place to work. I've said it
on this air before that we are voices that exist together. Yeah,
but it's so strange because it's such a big region
and such a lot of responsibilities that we have all
over the place, and that it's rare that we're ever
in the same place.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Very much so.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
And I also and it was something and she'll be
chiming in here very briefly, But Tiffany Hobbs, who you
just got to hear for a last couple of hours
here on KFI, she'll be joining us here briefly to
chime in, especially on the shopping side of the world here,
not to be sexist, but well she's got some insight.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
She does.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And Tiffany is here. And I do note that, Nick, Tiffany,
he seems to say briefly a lot about how much
you're going to be contributing to this part of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Are you on.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Side anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's one thing when you're the host versus the guest side.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's Nick limiting my exposure already.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
He's sabotaging me behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The virus, the vibes are on.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But what we do have We got this, like this
beautiful Christmas tree that we do very pink, very pink,
but very muchly. You may have heard that earlier in
the week on Tim Conway's show when this thing made
its debut. It's giving a nice glow. I'm in the spirit,
but I do believe in getting through Thanksgiving first, so
espous and I we put the Christmas stuff up on Friday.
We're looking forward to that. But give us the history, Nick,
what are we What is the point of all of this?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Okay, So Black Friday started back in the sixties, and
so it actually was started in Philadelphia, and it is
it has a bit of a jaded past. So it
started with police and bus drivers who used to describe
the chaotic crowds that were seen in a traffic that
was attributed the flooding the downtown area of Philadelphia, and
that was all happening around Thanksgiving, so that was where
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it all started. And then there was also a notice
that happened with stores that when this is what we
know for Black Friday, they were always in the red
and Thanksgiving is when they went into the black meaning no,
I thought that was a myth.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, and it really is true.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
We'll say allegedly, and that's the word that we love
using in news always, but it is something that the
books for stores have allegedly always gone definitely into the
black for meaning that they're making the most of their
sales for the holiday season, especially because everybody's going out
for it. So that's what happened, and that's really when
that became the concept of taking what was a negative
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originally in the sixties and hopefully making into a positive.
And that's when we started getting Black Friday sales because
that's when the folks that were working so hard to
make sure that we were able to get those discounts
and get those incredible deals were out there, you know,
and that's when we started seeing stores that were open
twenty four hours or they had you know, if you
think back to It's a Wonderful Life, and you think
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back to Miracle on thirty fourth Street and you had
Gimbals and you had Macy's, and you had all these
things that would go against each other. That's when you
had all these incredible sales that would go out or
you'd be able to find all those amazing deals.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So that was where that kind of came about.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But then you also not just had Black Friday, but
then you had Cyber Monday, which came into being in
the future down the road. And then you also have
Small Business Saturday, which actually started with a deal from
American Express trying to push more business to obviously banking,
but more so to smaller businesses. And that's something that
I loved really supporting, and we support here with Small
Business Shout Out. In fact, we did that a lot
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with The mo Kelly Show when we had it on
weekends here. And then you even got what we do
reached is a huge thing, which is Giving Tuesday, and
we do that here with pastathon, and that's where you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Find like a nice charity to give a few bucks
to exactly. So that's what we're doing with our live broadcast.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
As you noted on that Tuesday, it seems like a
lot of ways for money to part ways from now
our wallets, and there's a lot of scams that we
also eagerly fall into.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Tiffany, are you a Black Friday shopper?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Is that question posed to me because I'm the black
person in the room. Yes, Okay, okay, great, just to.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Get that clear, Okay, we'll get I like clear now
that now that we're clear, yes, I am, and I
am one of those people.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
But I'm just messing with you, Michael. This is one
of those.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
People who definitely understand that there is a gimmick to
it all. There is, you know, just another ploy to
separate you from your money. Because the deals on Black
Friday they've been proven to not necessarily be that great.
I think I've started shopping earlier now I find more
deals that way. I was telling you off air. There's
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a wonderful documentary on Netflix called by Now be Y Now,
and it's all about the marketing ploys and gimmicks behind
Black Friday and this season and how everything is, like course,
very intentional, but how it is, how it gets into
your brain. It's it's it's Amazon's way and other department
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stores and places way to kind of manipulate you as
a consumer. There's a whole science behind it. And after
seeing that today, I don't know if I want to
shop as much. Kind of guilts you into not wanting
to spend you know what I mean, You're just kind
of nodding at me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I know, I mean, I'm hearing you. I actually get it.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
My long winded way of saying, yes, I do shop
too much on Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But then I think and to tag you onto that
as well.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Black Friday has become such a different world because like
when you said, Amazon, it's already on Amazon right now.
So Black Friday started yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's not the same as the same exactly. I know
that my mother has always loved Black Friday. Now now
we are in you know, suburban northern Kentucky Cincinnati area,
so maybe a little different vibe.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But we would always be dragged out too these crazy
scenes and it would I don't I never enjoyed it,
but you know, you want to you want to give
back to the family and say, yeah, I'll accompany you.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And these scenes were wild.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
No, I was born and raised in the England Empire here,
so I was in the form of Kentucky for southern California.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I understand, is the Inland Empire, the Kentucky of
southern California.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What's called Fontucky, which is Fontana. Okay, I love you
if you're from Fontana. I am a respect to you
because Jennifer Jones Lee, who is used to be with
us here at KFI, she used to live in Fontana,
so yeah, that's correct, so we respect her greatly. And
but yeah, no, I find that a lot of places
will have Tucky tacked on at the end of their
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names as a form of insult by neighbors.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
And let me just tell you, you should all be
so lucky. Okay, okay, let me just tell you.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But see, you're giving it to us because you're from there,
so we actually are getting that firsthand knowledge that we
would normally not get the opportunity to hear.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
You guys have great fright chicken.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We do indeed good fried chicken, absolutely and and you
know o we uh, you know it's a good place.
We brought a lot of You know, there's no George
Clooney in Hollywood, there's no Johnny Depp in Hollywood without Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
They are from Kentucky, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ashley Judd the judge, don't get me started on country music,
and there would be no Michael Monks on k IF.
I am six forty on this beautiful Saturday night with
you fine people.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
See without what he was about Black Los Angeles, you
thought this was about right now, I got to found
out so much more about Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
And my aid.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I get a little defensive sometimes that I'm going to
be spending my dollars in fon Tucky. It sounds like Fontana.
Look out, I'm coming because it sounds like you're my people.
He all right, Tiffany, you need to get out of here.
You've been here all night.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, you can stay here.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, then stay because we are having Nick back in
the next hour to talk about holiday traditions that people need.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Right that is what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So I feel like you've been producing the show since
you came in, and I know a little bit. So
if you're familiar with me here on KFI, I was
a part of the inaugural year of this weekend with
a Nick on Later with Mo Kelly, I will be
doing a Michael Monks Live version for you in the
next hour, which means, if you're familiar, I have giveaways
for you, So make sure that you tune in in
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the next hour. I will be back talking about things
that you do not want to miss for the holiday
season now through the new year.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Be sure to tune in again.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I have some incredible giveaways for you to kick things
off just ahead of the holiday.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's coming up on the bottom half of the next hour.
So thank you for joining us here, Tiffany, thanks.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
For being here. You're welcome to stay. You are welcome
to stay.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
You're doing great.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Michael Monks Nick reluctantly I invite you to stay. Oh,
I will stay with I look forward to it. We'll
have more coming up and as well. In the next hour,
will be talking about homelessness and how Santa Anna is
going to be taking a different approach. They want to
get aggressive on cleaning up those camps.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Kf I AM six forty and live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
On this Saturday night here in La I gotta tell
you about a tragedy that has happened, and police are
asking for your help and identifying a vehicle that struck
and killed a sixteen year old kid on a bike
in a parking lot at Exposition Park. This was a
possible road rage episode, and this happened about four point
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thirty yesterday, according to the California Highway Patrol. They say
quote A preliminary report suggests an altercation occurred between a
group of bicyclists and a vehicle on Figaroa Street north
of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The altercation continued into
a parking lot on Exposition Park property, where the bicyclist
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was struck by a vehicle. An investigation is underway to
determine the circumstance surrounding the incident. The victim is described
as a Hispanic mail approximately sixteen years old, pronounced dead
at the scene by La City Fire Department. So K
CAL nine reports that around forty bicyclists riding south on
Figaroa Street entered that parking lot, and then there was
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a driver in a sedan who followed them inside that
area and accelerated toward the bicyclist and then struck that
sixteen year old and then sped away from the scene.
So they're asking anybody with details to call and get
to the bottom of that. That's terrible here at the holidays,
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and if you happen to catch us. Last Saturday night,
I talked a little bit about road rage and just
how strange it is to be a new driver in
California at LA, especially because of course we're known for traffic,
and that is certainly not a stereotype.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I've learned that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And there is just something that even I have felt
inside driving where I don't recognize myself with how angry
I can get all of a sudden by some of
the dangers that are felt by driving out there. And
I did hear some comments from a few of you
about the need to tough enough but maintain your awareness,
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and that is not the same as driving in the
South or the Midwest, where there is a certain level
of niceties that let people over or let some bad
behavior be excused. I was told to keep my cool
because you really don't know how quickly things can escalate
here that it can turn violent, and this is a
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stark reminder and a reminder that a family here in
our area is really feeling. We don't really know many
more of the circumstances outside of what's been released by
the California Highway Patrol, what's been reported by KKEL nine there.
But here we are entering the holiday season and a
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sixteen year old who is out on a bike is
dead and the person who hit him is on the run.
It's just so senseless and sad and scary. Forty bicycles
riding south on Figaroa Street entered that parking lot. This
is another site that's new to me to see, but
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I do see pretty frequently groups of young people riding
around on bikes, and it can be scary if you
are driving a car when this is happening. It's disruptive
to traffic. It's also illegal, and it is irritating. So
if that's what triggered this driver, I don't know, but
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it's sad that there's a dead sixteen year old. Something
else strange happening on the highways tragic as well. Three
people dead in separate incidents as pedestrians on the freeway.
Now two of them we know were identified by police
as homeless. We don't have any details on this third case,
(30:52):
but the latest one happened on the ten today in
El Monte. Happened very early this morning. California Highway Patrol
officers responded to the eastbound freeway and the Peck Road
on ramp at about four twelve am, where they learned
the victim had been fatally struck by a black Hondai.
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The pedestrian we don't know the name, the age, the
gender pronounced that at the scene. They had to close
the eastbound side of that highway for about two hours
while the Highway Patrol investigated the cause of that crash.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And that's on the heels of two different ones. On Wednesday,
there was.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
A homeless man who was walking on the eastbound Pomona
Expressway near Boyle Heights on Wednesday night he was struck
and killed. And then another guy on the same night
on the one ten in LA walking on the freeway
and killed. So there are certain dangers in LA that
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don't exist anywhere else. Very rarely do you hear about
estrians on the freeways, But we've got problems with homeless folks.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That extend beyond their lack of housing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That's something that we're going to be talking about in
our next hour and something that a lot of us
see each and every day. That it's more than just
a lack of access to housing. You are dealing with
folks who are having mental health breakdowns, They are drug addicted,
they are acting out, and then they become a danger
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to themselves, they become a danger to others. And so
when we talk about homelessness, it's a bigger issue than
access to housing. And one mayor in Orange County will
be talking to us about that city's efforts to clean
up their city from behavior just like this. It's not
(32:57):
just folks down on their luck, folks who are disrupting
the community, folks who are disrupting businesses, And what you'll
hear her talk about is folks who are refusing access
to help to get better. We will be joined by
the mayor of Santa Ana coming up in our next hour.
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Those of you casually paying attention to the UCLA usc
football game underway now at the Rose Bowl. The Bruins
have an early three to nothing lead. Midway through that
first quarter of the Bruins are.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Four and six.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The Trojans are five and five, rough debut and the
Big Ten for both of those programs trying to become
Bowl eligible this season. UCLA will need to win this
game and next week at Fresno State to get their
USC could afford to lose this game, but next week
they got to play Notre Dame to get their sixth
win if they were to lose to UCLA tonight. And
I got to tell you, Notre Dame just steamrolled Army,
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so tough look for the Trojans ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
More coming up in our next hour.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
KFI A sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Michael Monks with you for the next two hours
on this cold, wet November Saturday night here in La Man.
This is football weather, and we are coming up on
a kickoff for a Big Ten clash at the Rose Bowl.
The USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins both tied for
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twelfth place in their first season in their new conference,
with the record of three and five. Like I said
to Tiffany just moments ago, it's still a little weird
for me, as a guy from the Upper South the
Midwest area, to see USC and UCLA in the Big Ten.
I imagine that must be true for some of you
fans around here as well. But little Rocky this first
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season in the Big Ten. Both still have a chance though,
to become Bowl eligible. Ucla is four and six. They'll
need to win out these last couple of games. USC
is five and five, so they could technically lose tonight,
but they got Notre Dame week, so that's a tough one.
We'll keep an eye on the kickoff and give you
some scores throughout for all of you who are just
casually paying attention to that game. But man, this is definitely,
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definitely some glorious football weather. And you know, this is
something that as a transplant as someone who is still
in the honeymoon phase with being an LA resident. It's
not quite yet two years for me, right, Okay, So
this is something that I love telling people back home about.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It gets cold here.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And so no matter where you live in America, I'm
from Kentucky, LA and California, they play a big part
of our cultural consciousness. You know, we see it all
the time in our media and our movies and our TV.
And it's sunny, and it's beaches and it's Hollywood glamour.
It is never this. We never see this part of LA.
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We never see this part of California back home. I
can tell you that the clouds, the rain, the cold.
But I'm gonna be honest, this is the weather that
made me want to live here.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So hear me out.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The reason is because this is basically as bad as
it's gonna get. Right, It gets a little colder right now,
it's about fifty six here in Burbank, gets a little rainier,
in the winter a little gloomier.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh, but it's fantastic back home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The forecast in Covington, Kentucky, for Thanksgiving is rainy with
a high of forty two. By the next Monday, December second,
it's cloudy, with the high of twenty six. December second,
winter hasn't even officially started yet, and on the same
day here in La.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Sunny with a high of seventy four.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So, yes, my friends, I will pay thousands of dollars
a month to live in a building in downtown La
where I have to step over human waste on the
sidewalk every day for so and seventy four on December second,
even for rainy and fifty six today, Yes, sir, it
means that much to me. I do not miss a
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high of twenty six in the first week of December.
But I will tell you there is a number back
home in Kentucky that I do miss right now my
old neighborhood. A gallon of gas is two dollars and
eighty nine cents. Two dollars and eighty nine cents. The
average price in La County four dollars and forty five cents.
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Orange County four dollars and thirty eight cents. That's actually
lower than any Thanksgiving those since twenty twenty. But those
prices are about to go up.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It seems.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
A state agency, as you have undoubtedly heard by now,
has increased California's fuel standards, and by doing so, we
can all basically expect to pay more at the pump
in a state that is already the most expensive for gas.
And by the way, it's not just gonna hit you
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at the gas station. When gas costs more, sodaes just
about everything else. So all of those trucks you're maneuvering
around on the freeway, they gotta pay for gas. And
there are goods inside those trucks that are headed to
stores you shop at, and all of those little price
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increases are gonna trickle down to you. When gas costs more,
Soda is just about everything else. USC economics professor Michael
Miche says some research shows we could be paying up
to a dollar more per gallon next year, even as
gas prices are forecasted to drop just about everywhere else
in the country.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So gas is going up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Housing is expensive, income and sales taxes are high.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Our groceries cost more than anywhere else. Oh, but.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Then it's December second, and it's Sonny in seventy four.
You know where else do you want to be?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'll be talking to Professor Miche next. He's gonna explain
what's at stake for all of us as these potential
price hikes are coming, and I want to hear from
you too. Is the weather worth it? Am I still
naive in my honeymoon period? Here as a La resident
Sonny in seventy four on December second versus Cloudy in
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twenty six? Back home and Covington? K? Why am I wrong?
Am I stupid? It's so much cheaper back home? But man,
the weather is great here. You can join our conversation
too on the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talk back button.
Just leave us a little message. We're gonna play some
over the next couple of hours while we're here, So
send your message about that, send your message about everything really.
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But yeah, that's my main question right now, early in
the show. Is the weather here worth the cost of
everything else? Would you take a high of twenty six
on December second in order to get gas at two
dollars and eighty nine cents? Have the gas prices impacted
your travel plans. Can let us know. Also tonight, the
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mayor of Santa Anna has had it with unruly homeless
camps and this is just another local city changing its
approach in the wake of a US Supreme Court ruling
that has allowed cities do do just that, change their
approach to homeless camps, they can be removed. So Valerie
Amesqua is going to talk to us about what Santa
Anna has in store for the folks who are not
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just living on the streets because they are economically disadvantaged.
These are folks who are causing problems all the time.
And I know as a resident of downtown LA what
she's talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're going to get into that as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And then we're preparing for Black Friday shopping and the
holiday traditions that you need to check out in southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's another question.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm asking you to join us on the talkback if
you've got any good suggestions for us. What is something
that a newcomer to the region needs to see, or
what is something that somebody from the other side of
the region needs to finally jump in the car and
come down and see. In your neck of the woods.
What's a holiday tradition that cannot be missed in Southern California.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It can be a big one that everybody probably knows about.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It can be a small one, like somebody on your
street has a great house decked out in beautiful lights.
Please let us know on the iHeartRadio app and click
on that talk back button, even if you just want
to let me know I was a fool for moving here.
We got a big two hours ahead for you, so
please tuck in, stay warm on this cold Saturday night
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in La. We're gonna have some fun, but we're also
gonna get serious with some of the news.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
KFIAM six and live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app bym
Michael Monks from KFI News. Here with you until nine
o'clock tonight, The fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef
Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five thousand
meals every week to kids in need in Southern California,
and your generosity makes it all happen. There are three
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ways you can help. You can donate now at KFIAM
six forty dot com slash Pastathon, and then you can
shop at any Smart and Final store and donate any
amount of the checkout, or head into any Wendy's restaurant
in southern California and donate five dollars or more and
get a coupon book for Wendy's goodies. We've also got
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a live broadcast all day long coming up from the
Anaheim White House. It'll be on Giving Tuesday, that's December third.
Come on out and see us from five am to
ten pm and donate on site and drop off all
the pasta and all all the sauce donations. Of those
donations goes to Katerina's Club, So please join us at
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the KFI Pastathon and get those donations in before the
cost of gas gets any higher. Michael Miche is an
economics professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. He
wrote an article recently warning Californians to brace for impact
and noting that policies like the higher fuel standards now
mandated by the state have consequences.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Professor, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, unfortunately, I think we're seeing an incry. We'll see
an increase in the gasoline prices in twenty twenty five,
and a lot of that will be due to legislative
action and regulatory actions which will drive up the price
of gasoline for the retail at the retail pump. For
the consumer, the question is how much will the price
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go up? And there are various studies indicating anywhere from
a few cents a gallon all the way up to
a dollar fifteen suns a gallon. And of course there's
the University of Pennsylvania study from the Climate Center of
Foreign of Energy Policy that has the price going up
to as much as a dollar fifty a gallon by
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twenty thirty five. So policies do have consequences.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And speaking of policies having consequences, we just got out
of a presidential election cycle where the consequences of government
policy played a significant role in the outcome, with folks
complaining about the cost of everything. And now here is
California setting a new potential increase for something people need
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every day gas. What type of impact can they expect
on their immediate lives because of this decision?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I think it's curious in the sense that you know,
I questioned myself, why does you know California. See the
cards California or Resource Board and ce see, you know,
what do they have against the California consumer. So I'm
not really not quite sure what's motivating that. I mean,
we all understand we need quality air, clean air and
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things like that, and there are targets. The unfortunate aspect is,
while the rest of the nation will be enjoying a
decline in energy costs at the pump and at the
utility meter in twenty twenty five as a result of
the administration's actions or planted actions, Californians will be stuck
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with an increase in their costs. So the question then
becomes why that dichotomy and why does that exist? And
for how much longer can the average California California put
up with it. You know, when you have an increase
in gasoline prices, it's regressive and it hits the lower
income Californians the hardest, the people who literally have to
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drive long distances to work and things like that. So
this is a curious move and contradictory to what we'll
see across the nation in under the Trump administration in
the coming years.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I find it curious as well because we're talking about
a state that has seen a decline in population. It
still has massive electoral college implications, but it's probably going
to lose some more electoral college seats because of the
declining population. And a lot of the reasons cited for
people who are bolting from California is just the cost
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of living here, and so gas is really just the
latest thing to cost the most. But it's expensive to
buy groceries. It's almost impossible for the average salary to
be able to afford the purchase of a home. People
are what they call rent poor, where too much of
their income is going towards their rent. I mean, when
you have something like this, is there some sort of
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estimation that somebody with your expertise can make that people
are going to become more fed up and leave.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well? I think so. I think that's a sad but
inadible out there. You know, under the last four years,
you take a look at the general economy, prices are
up in general twenty percent, real wages are up less
than that, around seventeen percent. Utilities are up well into
thirty percent, and so you know that's that's difficult enough.
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And then you look at California, which has exceptionally high
cost of living high tax rates. Only sixteen percent of
our population can afford our residents can afford to buy
a home. Yeah, they're going to look for other alternatives.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We're talking with Professor Michael mcha of the USC Marshall
School of Business about this looming height and gas prices
across California. And as we talk about the way people
are unable to buy things that they might want, barely
able to afford rent, and probably can't even dream about
owning their own home. You note that people who have
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to buy gas in this state, those who drive a car, frankly,
those who heat their homes with gas. I mean, they
need to have more money coming in just to break even,
and that's something that hasn't been rising with the rate
of the cost of things.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Income.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You suggest that people would need another six hundred to
one thousand dollars a year in pre tax income just
to break even with the new prices.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well, that's unfortunately. So, I mean that's a consequence of
price increases. And so the question is if the price
of gasoline is probably going to go up faster than
the increase in someone's disposal income. And again we pay
for our fuel. We pay for our products on a
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post tax basis. So if the price of gasoline, say,
goes up four hundred dollars, well, we're paying for that
after we pay our taxes, So we need to gross
that up. And depending on your tax bracket, it can
be anywhere from you know, six hundred dollars to one
thousand dollars extra just to make up the increase in
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gasoline prices.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Unfortunately, the cost of gas impacts the cost of other things.
So yeah, it's coming out of your pocket when you're
filling up your own tank. But gosh, those truck drivers
and every other industry that relies on some sort of
gas to support their operations, whatever they're shipping, whatever they're selling,
that's probably going to cost more too, right.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh absolutely. You know. Once, what we found from the seventies,
when we look back to the nineteen seventy three period
with the air boil and bargle occurring in October seventy three,
and then forward all the way all the way to today,
is that when energy costs begin to go up, they
have a compounding effect throughout the supply chain, and so
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you know, the farmer, who's who's killing the fields. The
price of gasoline goes up, the price of the crop
goes up, the processor for the food, the distributor, all
of the prices go up. So by the time it
gets to the retail chain they're much higher. So energy
costs such as this will have a compounding effect throughout
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the supply chain. Antvs. How is the gasoline tax going
to be replaced? How is the revenue loss from gasoline
tax going to be replaced? And so that would be
an interesting question to present to the legislature.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I noted Professor MChE at the beginning of this article
you wrote about the loving hike and gas prices that
you said policies have consequences. You end the article with
Californians must now brace for impact.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
How do they do that?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, unfortunately, you know, you have an economy something called
a displacement effect, and that is you have a finite
amount of money coming in and so the average consumer,
the average Californian will have to reallocate how they spend
their money. They'll be a little bit less maybe going
out on an erna, a little bit less travel, perhaps
making rather than making two trips a month down to
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Orange County to visit relatives. You'll make one trip a
month down to Orange County. So this whole fource an
adjustment in the consumer patterns and the behavior of average Californians.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's Professor Michael Miche from the USC Marshall School of Business.
You can read his commentary in the California Globe and
join the conversation here on the iHeartRadio app. Hit that
talkback button and tell us how you feel about what
we're talking about. And coming up next, we're going to
be discussing Black Friday. We're the best places to shop
around Southern California. What areas maybe should you consider avoiding
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as you prepare for the holiday shopping bonanza. We'll talk
about that next.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
KFI AM six forty and live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News here with you on
a cold November or Southern.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
California night until nine a clock.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And so it is the Saturday before Thanksgiving, which means
it's also the Saturday before Black Friday. And so you're
maybe making your Christmas list now, budgeting thinking about who
you like enough to buy a gift for and also
wondering one of the best places to get around to
where you have to shop in southern California, one of
the places you need to stay away from. We're gonna
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get a little history on this frenzy that is about
to descend upon us again. Joining us from our traffic
bureau is Nick Pauli o'kaney. Always a pleasure to see you, sir.
Good to see you as well, Michael.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
This is great because this is the first time we're
actually seeing each other face to face, which I think
is kind of exciting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
This is a weird place to work. I've said it
on this air before that we are voices that exist together. Yeah,
but it's so strange because it's such a big region
and such a lot of responsibilities that we have all
over the place, and that it's rare that we're ever
in the same place.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Very much so.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
And I also and it was something and she'll be
chiming in here very briefly, But Tiffany Hobbs, who you
just got to hear for a last couple of hours
here on KFI, she'll be joining us here briefly to
chime in, especially on the shopping side of the world here,
not to be sexist, but well she's got some insight.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
She does.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And Tiffany is here. And I do note that, Nick, Tiffany,
he seems to say briefly a lot about how much
you're going to be contributing to this part of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Are you on.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Side anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's one thing when you're the host versus the guest side.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's Nick limiting my exposure already.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
He's sabotaging me behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The virus, the vibes are on.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
But what we do have We got this, like this
beautiful Christmas tree that we do very pink, very pink,
but very muchly. You may have heard that earlier in
the week on Tim Conway's show when this thing made
its debut. It's giving a nice glow. I'm in the spirit,
but I do believe in getting through Thanksgiving first, so
espous and I we put the Christmas stuff up on Friday.
We're looking forward to that. But give us the history, Nick,
what are we What is the point of all of this?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Okay, So Black Friday started back in the sixties, and
so it actually was started in Philadelphia, and it is
it has a bit of a jaded past. So it
started with police and bus drivers who used to describe
the chaotic crowds that were seen in a traffic that
was attributed the flooding the downtown area of Philadelphia, and
that was all happening around Thanksgiving, so that was where
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it all started. And then there was also a notice
that happened with stores that when this is what we
know for Black Friday, they were always in the red
and Thanksgiving is when they went into the black meaning no,
I thought that was a myth.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, and it really is true.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
We'll say allegedly, and that's the word that we love
using in news always, but it is something that the
books for stores have allegedly always gone definitely into the
black for meaning that they're making the most of their
sales for the holiday season, especially because everybody's going out
for it. So that's what happened, and that's really when
that became the concept of taking what was a negative
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originally in the sixties and hopefully making into a positive.
And that's when we started getting Black Friday sales because
that's when the folks that were working so hard to
make sure that we were able to get those discounts
and get those incredible deals were out there, you know,
and that's when we started seeing stores that were open
twenty four hours or they had you know, if you
think back to It's a Wonderful Life, and you think
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back to Miracle on thirty fourth Street and you had
Gimbals and you had Macy's, and you had all these
things that would go against each other. That's when you
had all these incredible sales that would go out or
you'd be able to find all those amazing deals.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So that was where that kind of came about.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But then you also not just had Black Friday, but
then you had Cyber Monday, which came into being in
the future down the road. And then you also have
Small Business Saturday, which actually started with a deal from
American Express trying to push more business to obviously banking,
but more so to smaller businesses. And that's something that
I loved really supporting, and we support here with Small
Business Shout Out. In fact, we did that a lot
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with The mo Kelly Show when we had it on
weekends here. And then you even got what we do
reached is a huge thing, which is Giving Tuesday, and
we do that here with pastathon, and that's where you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Find like a nice charity to give a few bucks
to exactly. So that's what we're doing with our live broadcast.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
As you noted on that Tuesday, it seems like a
lot of ways for money to part ways from now
our wallets, and there's a lot of scams that we
also eagerly fall into.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Tiffany, are you a Black Friday shopper?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Is that question posed to me because I'm the black
person in the room. Yes, Okay, okay, great, just to.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Get that clear, Okay, we'll get I like clear now
that now that we're clear, yes, I am, and I
am one of those people.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
But I'm just messing with you, Michael. This is one
of those.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
People who definitely understand that there is a gimmick to
it all. There is, you know, just another ploy to
separate you from your money. Because the deals on Black
Friday they've been proven to not necessarily be that great.
I think I've started shopping earlier now I find more
deals that way. I was telling you off air. There's
(22:45):
a wonderful documentary on Netflix called by Now be Y Now,
and it's all about the marketing ploys and gimmicks behind
Black Friday and this season and how everything is, like course,
very intentional, but how it is, how it gets into
your brain. It's it's it's Amazon's way and other department
(23:09):
stores and places way to kind of manipulate you as
a consumer. There's a whole science behind it. And after
seeing that today, I don't know if I want to
shop as much. Kind of guilts you into not wanting
to spend you know what I mean, You're just kind
of nodding at me.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I know, I mean, I'm hearing you. I actually get it.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
My long winded way of saying, yes, I do shop
too much on Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But then I think and to tag you onto that
as well.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Black Friday has become such a different world because like
when you said, Amazon, it's already on Amazon right now.
So Black Friday started yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's not the same as the same exactly. I know
that my mother has always loved Black Friday. Now now
we are in you know, suburban northern Kentucky Cincinnati area,
so maybe a little different vibe.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But we would always be dragged out too these crazy
scenes and it would I don't I never enjoyed it,
but you know, you want to you want to give
back to the family and say, yeah, I'll accompany you.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And these scenes were wild.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
No, I was born and raised in the England Empire here,
so I was in the form of Kentucky for southern California.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I understand, is the Inland Empire, the Kentucky of
southern California.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What's called Fontucky, which is Fontana. Okay, I love you
if you're from Fontana. I am a respect to you
because Jennifer Jones Lee, who is used to be with
us here at KFI, she used to live in Fontana,
so yeah, that's correct, so we respect her greatly. And
but yeah, no, I find that a lot of places
will have Tucky tacked on at the end of their
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names as a form of insult by neighbors.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
And let me just tell you, you should all be
so lucky. Okay, okay, let me just tell you.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But see, you're giving it to us because you're from there,
so we actually are getting that firsthand knowledge that we
would normally not get the opportunity to hear.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
You guys have great fright chicken.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We do indeed good fried chicken, absolutely and and you
know o we uh, you know it's a good place.
We brought a lot of You know, there's no George
Clooney in Hollywood, there's no Johnny Depp in Hollywood without Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
They are from Kentucky, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ashley Judd the judge, don't get me started on country music,
and there would be no Michael Monks on k IF.
I am six forty on this beautiful Saturday night with
you fine people.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
See without what he was about Black Los Angeles, you
thought this was about right now, I got to found
out so much more about Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
And my aid.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I get a little defensive sometimes that I'm going to
be spending my dollars in fon Tucky. It sounds like Fontana.
Look out, I'm coming because it sounds like you're my people.
He all right, Tiffany, you need to get out of here.
You've been here all night.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, you can stay here.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, then stay because we are having Nick back in
the next hour to talk about holiday traditions that people need.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Right that is what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So I feel like you've been producing the show since
you came in, and I know a little bit. So
if you're familiar with me here on KFI, I was
a part of the inaugural year of this weekend with
a Nick on Later with Mo Kelly, I will be
doing a Michael Monks Live version for you in the
next hour, which means, if you're familiar, I have giveaways
for you, So make sure that you tune in in
(26:07):
the next hour. I will be back talking about things
that you do not want to miss for the holiday
season now through the new year.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Be sure to tune in again.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I have some incredible giveaways for you to kick things
off just ahead of the holiday.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's coming up on the bottom half of the next hour.
So thank you for joining us here, Tiffany, thanks.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
For being here. You're welcome to stay. You are welcome
to stay.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
You're doing great.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Michael Monks Nick reluctantly I invite you to stay. Oh,
I will stay with I look forward to it. We'll
have more coming up and as well. In the next hour,
will be talking about homelessness and how Santa Anna is
going to be taking a different approach. They want to
get aggressive on cleaning up those camps.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
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Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
On this Saturday night here in La I gotta tell
you about a tragedy that has happened, and police are
asking for your help and identifying a vehicle that struck
and killed a sixteen year old kid on a bike
in a parking lot at Exposition Park. This was a
possible road rage episode, and this happened about four point
(27:16):
thirty yesterday, according to the California Highway Patrol. They say
quote A preliminary report suggests an altercation occurred between a
group of bicyclists and a vehicle on Figaroa Street north
of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The altercation continued into
a parking lot on Exposition Park property, where the bicyclist
(27:38):
was struck by a vehicle. An investigation is underway to
determine the circumstance surrounding the incident. The victim is described
as a Hispanic mail approximately sixteen years old, pronounced dead
at the scene by La City Fire Department. So K
CAL nine reports that around forty bicyclists riding south on
Figaroa Street entered that parking lot, and then there was
(28:00):
a driver in a sedan who followed them inside that
area and accelerated toward the bicyclist and then struck that
sixteen year old and then sped away from the scene.
So they're asking anybody with details to call and get
to the bottom of that. That's terrible here at the holidays,
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and if you happen to catch us. Last Saturday night,
I talked a little bit about road rage and just
how strange it is to be a new driver in
California at LA, especially because of course we're known for traffic,
and that is certainly not a stereotype.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I've learned that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
And there is just something that even I have felt
inside driving where I don't recognize myself with how angry
I can get all of a sudden by some of
the dangers that are felt by driving out there. And
I did hear some comments from a few of you
about the need to tough enough but maintain your awareness,
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and that is not the same as driving in the
South or the Midwest, where there is a certain level
of niceties that let people over or let some bad
behavior be excused. I was told to keep my cool
because you really don't know how quickly things can escalate
here that it can turn violent, and this is a
(29:22):
stark reminder and a reminder that a family here in
our area is really feeling. We don't really know many
more of the circumstances outside of what's been released by
the California Highway Patrol, what's been reported by KKEL nine there.
But here we are entering the holiday season and a
(29:44):
sixteen year old who is out on a bike is
dead and the person who hit him is on the run.
It's just so senseless and sad and scary. Forty bicycles
riding south on Figaroa Street entered that parking lot. This
is another site that's new to me to see, but
(30:05):
I do see pretty frequently groups of young people riding
around on bikes, and it can be scary if you
are driving a car when this is happening. It's disruptive
to traffic. It's also illegal, and it is irritating. So
if that's what triggered this driver, I don't know, but
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it's sad that there's a dead sixteen year old. Something
else strange happening on the highways tragic as well. Three
people dead in separate incidents as pedestrians on the freeway.
Now two of them we know were identified by police
as homeless. We don't have any details on this third case,
(30:52):
but the latest one happened on the ten today in
El Monte. Happened very early this morning. California Highway Patrol
officers responded to the eastbound freeway and the Peck Road
on ramp at about four twelve am, where they learned
the victim had been fatally struck by a black Hondai.
(31:13):
The pedestrian we don't know the name, the age, the
gender pronounced that at the scene. They had to close
the eastbound side of that highway for about two hours
while the Highway Patrol investigated the cause of that crash.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And that's on the heels of two different ones. On Wednesday,
there was.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
A homeless man who was walking on the eastbound Pomona
Expressway near Boyle Heights on Wednesday night he was struck
and killed. And then another guy on the same night
on the one ten in LA walking on the freeway
and killed. So there are certain dangers in LA that
(31:56):
don't exist anywhere else. Very rarely do you hear about
estrians on the freeways, But we've got problems with homeless folks.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
That extend beyond their lack of housing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That's something that we're going to be talking about in
our next hour and something that a lot of us
see each and every day. That it's more than just
a lack of access to housing. You are dealing with
folks who are having mental health breakdowns, They are drug addicted,
they are acting out, and then they become a danger
(32:33):
to themselves, they become a danger to others. And so
when we talk about homelessness, it's a bigger issue than
access to housing. And one mayor in Orange County will
be talking to us about that city's efforts to clean
up their city from behavior just like this. It's not
(32:57):
just folks down on their luck, folks who are disrupting
the community, folks who are disrupting businesses, And what you'll
hear her talk about is folks who are refusing access
to help to get better. We will be joined by
the mayor of Santa Ana coming up in our next hour.
(33:17):
Those of you casually paying attention to the UCLA usc
football game underway now at the Rose Bowl. The Bruins
have an early three to nothing lead. Midway through that
first quarter of the Bruins are.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Four and six.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The Trojans are five and five, rough debut and the
Big Ten for both of those programs trying to become
Bowl eligible this season. UCLA will need to win this
game and next week at Fresno State to get their
USC could afford to lose this game, but next week
they got to play Notre Dame to get their sixth
win if they were to lose to UCLA tonight. And
I got to tell you, Notre Dame just steamrolled Army,
(33:53):
so tough look for the Trojans ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
More coming up in our next hour.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
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