December 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Andy opens the hour breaking down the wild power of the internet, explaining how online communities, Reddit users, and everyday citizens sharing Ring and dashcam footage helped identify the suspect in the Brown University and MIT professor killings. Andy and Rahner talk about how “see something, say something” has evolved in the digital age — and why crowdsourced sleuthing now plays a real role in modern investigations.
The hour then turns lighter as Andy dissects a familiar LA phenomenon: restaurants going viral by claiming “no one is talking about this” or “everyone is talking about this,” and why that phrasing works so well with social media algorithms. Things get even more relatable as last-minute Christmas shopping chaos takes over, with Rahner describing Costco as “apocalypse busy,” before Andy shares the unbelievable story of a missing Kentucky woman found alive with a new identity more than four decades later — a case straight out of peak America’s Most Wanted era. Andy wraps the hour by opening the phone lines ahead of an upcoming game with his friend and show “music man,” Jack Primavera.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, the holidays can be kind of lonely. Are
you working Christmas Eve? I will not be.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm working the day after Christmas at like five in
the morning, which is kind of its own hell. But
that's okay. I said, yes, I'll be in for Melvin
on that Friday. I believe that's a Friday after Christmas.
I'm sure Melvin will appreciate this. Yeah, you know, I'm
doing my best to help out Melvin. I remember when
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we used to do. I used to fill in for
Sam Ruben when he was and he was still alive.
Miss him a lot. And I remember one time there
was a day after Thanksgiving show and I remember he
found out that Frank was out, Jess was out, Mark
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Chrisky was out. They were all going to have fill ins,
and I remember him emailing me and also the executive
producer saying, uh Andy, you're gonna have to take over
for me tomorrow because I cannot. I simply cannot sit
with strangers. It was kidding, he was joking, but he.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Was great. It was really fun and it's nice.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's nice to be on that show and I get
to be on that show every day now, which is
really really fun, and you know, Melvin's doing a good job,
and it's great to be able to still be asked
to fill in for that role, which I really love. Hey,
this is a crazy story about the power of the
Internet and when you see something that seems afoot the
rare times it actually is a foot I'm talking about
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the shooting at Brown University last week. Two students were killed,
nine were injured. The suspect, named Claudio Manuel Nives Valante,
is thought to have also killed a professor from MIT
A couple days later. Last night, he was found dead
of a self inflicted gunshot in a store unit in
New Hampshire. The forty eight year old is a Portuguese national.
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He had been in the United States for school at
Brown two decades ago and went back to Portugal and
returned to the US more recently. There's no clear motive
here for what happened, but the manhunt stretched into the
week after this last weekend shooting and made a lot
of people think what the hell is going on up there.
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There was very little intel release to the public. They
had somebody in custody, then that guy was released we
had a couple surveillance photos, a little video, couldn't really
tell much from it, and as it turns out, it
appears a post on Reddit is what blew open the case.
An anonymous tip led police to who ended up being
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the suspect. On Reddit, the post said, I'm being dead serious,
the police need to look into a gray niss On
with Florida plates might have been a rental. When police
reached out to the person who wrote the post, the tipster,
who they called John, said he met the suspect a
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couple hours before the first shots rang out there in
a bathroom on the ground floor of the same building
where it happened. John said the suspect's clothing was inappropriate
for the weather and that they had made eye contact.
John told the police that he followed the man after
he left the building to a Nissan with a Florida plate,
but instead of getting in the car, the suspect walked
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around the block with John behind him. John said it
was a game of cat and mouse. At one point
the two spoke to each other, with John saying, your
car is back there, why are you circling the block?
And then the suspect said, why are you harassing me,
and then John went on his own way. Through some
old fashioned police work, they tracked the car to an
Alamo rental office in Boston. On the rental agreement, the
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guy used his actual name, Valante. Then they found his
apartment in Boston, tracked the car to a storage unit
where then Valante's body was found. Now the tip was
essential because the shooter was said to have used a
phone that scrambled his location, and then he was also
using credit cards that weren't in his name. He swapped
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the Florida plates to Main plates. And you gotta think
with this witness, like, how many times are you somewhere
you think something weird is going on because we all
watch too much true crime and it's usually nothing right,
but you look over and you think, what that's weird?
Like my mom does this all the time. She sees
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what she thinks is a clue to a murder. Every
single day she's at the juice bar, like some guy
walks in, looks at the menu, turns around and walks out,
and she follows him out to the parking lot and
gets his blade because she's like, sure, she's going to
the Williams Sonoma there's there's a knife out on the
cutting board, fingerprinted. She gets home to her nice house
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in a nice neighborhood and does a check to see
if anybody's hiding for her in the closets. But it
is one of those times with this guy where you
see something weird, and it was weird. It was legitimately
the piece of intel that broke up in the case,
which is crazy because that means sort of that read
it kind of solved or at least helped with this
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case in a serious way, like if it hadn't been
for our witness, this guy might not have ever been found,
or at least not as quickly. The MIT professor, by
the way, who was shot. His name is Nuno Lurero.
He had worked as a researcher at a nuclear fusion
institute in Lisbon, Portugal. And of course the internet is
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going insane with all this wondering if he knew something
about a breakthrough in nuclear energy or something and then
he had he got whacked because of it. Obviously we
don't know a lot. Still, the story is very strange.
Why was he yet brown? Also, what was the motive behind?
How were they connected at all? Was it random? Very
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very interesting story, Roner, I have all the things that
happened this week. Yes, Reesemeyer, what a fascinating, strange story.
We need vigilant good citizens. I feel like Batman, for
the Adam West version of Batman, should be saying that
to people. Yeah, that's actually you know what, you kind
of have an Adam West Batman thing.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It's unconscious, is it really?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, but I did have Bert Warren on one night
when I was filling in. Oh, that's awesome. I totally
hijacked the conversation with that. By the way, he's up
with John Tesh. No.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I mean I I've done, I said everything I needed
to say on that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But your mom sounds like a vigilant good citizen.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
She's like, I'm always like, Mom, you'd be so lucky
if you were involved in some kind of true crime situation.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You've got to keep your eyes peeled at all times.
I love it. And it's like she means, well, but
she does.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
She'll look around me like that's weird, and man, coming
from Indiana coming out to LA it's just like a.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Field day for her. Well, you know the thing about
this this alleged criminal whose body was found after two
days in the storage unit. Is As an ex crime
beat reporter and also an ex police candidate, I find
that criminals and police aren't anything like they're depicted on
TV movies.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But this sort of has a Jason Borne this to it.
I mean, he is not the physique of Jason Bourne.
But switching your plates.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Not everybody would do that, or the phone scramblers, that's
it's pretty high tech. But you know, renting the car
in your own name isn't exactly a day of the
jackal type move. You know, that's pretty dumb.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's pretty It might have been the fatal flaw with
the I didn't know you were going to be a cop.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's pretty cool. I went through a period coming out
of college. We've got a lot of secrets. I almost
went down that route, but instead I went down this route,
which is known for its being lucrative and stable.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And you've got a pension now I do. Oh no, sorry,
that's if you would have been a police officer. Oh yeah,
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
One way you can beat all of the inclement weather.
That really is, you know, obviously not that bad, is
to go to one of the top restaurants of twenty
twenty five. Now, I'm not going to say what was
awarded one of the top restaurants in the valley by
one local news publication, because I did eat at that
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restaurant this year, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It was incredibly expensive. It was a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
The people thought that they were doing something very special,
you know, when you go to a restaurant in their life,
we do things a little differently here. It was definitely
one of those places you had to put all your
food in it once. It ended up being like, I
think five hundred dollars to have a meal there for
two and a half people.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I went with, Yeah, I went with.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
My mom and my girlfriend and we went and it
was like, I think it was like five hundred dollars,
and we didn't get individually, you know, of course, we
shared a bunch of small plates.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And I think that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There was a point in the experience where I laughed
out loud because one of the things that was brought
to the table was so silly and over the top.
It was like it was like a science project where
they brought this meal and then they stood there with
a little foam gun, like a bubble gun that like
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blew bubbles into the thing that I was going to eat.
And I was just like, this is so ridiculous, Like
what are we doing. Chilis cost one hundred dollars a
person who got to eat now, and we're going to
these restaurants where I mean, it's nuts, and I thought,
God I left. I was like that was there was
a lot of money. And we get out of there
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and I'm walking down the street and I'm looking at
my girlfriend. I like that kind of sucked. She's like, yeah,
it kind of sucked. And it reminded me of the
Seinfeld bit that he actually just posted today that was
about how life just kind of sucks and it's okay,
it's okay, and that it sucks.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All of it just want of sucks. You go to
a baseball game, you have a hot dog.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
It's called.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But you like it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But how everything now is like it's over the top,
it's too much. And I even started to see this
in in Instagram reviews, which are just like every single
Instagram review is the exact same thing now, and I
want to I want to prove it to you. Listen,
this restaurant has one of the best views in LA
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So why is no one talking about it?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Antay is genuinely the perfect place for a date. Think
did you hear that this restaurant has one of the
best views in LA So? Why is no one talking
about it?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Why is no one talking about it? This is a
new thing that's in every single clip. Here's another one.
This food marketplace just open in West Adams and everyone
is talking about it called Oh, everyone is talking about it.
I don't know why. That's a thing that is going
in the algorithm now. It's making things work when everybody
either everyone is talking about it or no one is
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talking about it, or people need to be talking about it.
And by everyone we mean I don't I don't know
a few people. Here's how you do it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Boy bar is quite the spot. Any bar with a
secret back entrance count me in.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Formerly the Oyster House, the studio City Dive has evolved
in a remarkable way.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's a reason everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, whoops, I guess I'm I'm guilty of it too.
To be fair, they did Oibar did get written up
by the La Times when I did that story. But listen,
If everyone is talking about it, it's great. If no
one is talking about it, I guess it's also great.
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If more people should be talking about it, it is
also great.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think more reviews should should have this. Everyone's talking
to topic everyone everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
When eeveryone anyone says everybody's talked about this on the internet,
it's like, no, there's four or five people talking about it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm obsessed now with the place. You spent five hundred
dollars for two and a half people. Now, he's crazy.
How is that even possible? Were you eating platinum? What
were you eating?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Bamboozled? It's one of those like farmed table. There's a
fire pit on one side of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Farmed a table. Was there a human sacrifice? What's five
hundred bucks? It was?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We got like a short rib situation, a couple like
side dishes.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's distressing me so much that I'm starting to talk
like Shatner. What was five hundred bucks? Spar Yeah, And
we didn't like order a bottle of wine either. We
had like a couple of drinks, I think a couple
of glasses of wine. It was bonkers, And it's just
like I think that that's just the way it is now.
Everything kind of sucks and it's it's way too expensive.
And you can't really blame the restaurants because the food
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cost is crazy, the labor cost is crazy, the rent
is crazy. Yeah, I eat it home. I guess, so,
I guess five. That stings. I'm feeling like secondhand pain
for you.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm still not going to be able to financially recover
from it, at least until probably next quarter. So thank
you for your condolences. No, this is You've done this
more than once to me now, and I'm still I've
made you feel bad.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm still ruminating over the date you went on when
your date ordered an extra dish for herself for later on,
You've really suffered. Yeah, that's a great story. I ordered it.
I ordered. I went on a date, first date with
a woman. Men.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You came around, thought she was going to order assert
she put it in another entree to go, and I
paid for it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
If you're looking for gifts last minute, you're gonna have
to get them in person, because I think ordering I
was just looking right now to see how long it
would take to order some stuff. I got some unexpected
guests coming over to the house, and I'm like, do
I need to order some things so that they've got
some things Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And I have to go. I gotta go do in person?
Too late. That's okay though, Try Costco. Yeah, yeah, I
went there before work yesterday in.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Just like a big old bulk thing of ramen, like
a twenty pack of Ramen.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, whatever you need, but be prepared to fight for
your life. I was lucky to escape without any serious injuries.
Is it even for a parking spot? I felt like
people were for homicide on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The scale of nobody to like. The week COVID happened,
How busy is it?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's the apocalypse busy. Wow, that's how busy it is.
So it's close to the COVID. The week of COVID.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I knew things were going to get bad because I
saw how freaked out everybody was and they were clearing
out the shelves of Costco in March of twenty twenty,
and I remember thinking like, this is now something that
I think that I was already working in the news,
so theoretically I should have been.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Paying attention to it. You get busy, You get busy.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
There's a lot of time that people spend just doing stuff,
getting busy into their lives. Forty two years can go
by in an instant, But what if you spent forty
two years of that time, of that life on the lamb.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
As uniform deputies pull up to this woman's house, a.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Neighbor cracks a joke about why they're there.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh, oh, they're coming.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
For you, Sharon.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
They don't want why they were in fact coming for Sharon.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
But this is no joke.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We're here for you, ma'am, definitely here for you. WHOA
why do you have a want for your rest?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It's a moment Sharon Neely feared was coming for forty
two years. Her real name is not Sharon Neely, it's
Deborah Newton, and she's been on the lamb for her
entire adult life. Please say. She abducted her three year
old daughter, Michelle in nineteen eighty three. This is Michelle today.
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Did you see the video of your mom's arrest?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
That was heartbreaking? That's my mom. I don't think anybody
wants to see their mom putting me.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
In cuffs, And God Almighty, so are you following this?
She abducted her daughter in the early nineteen eighties, and
she's lived a separate life with her daughter outside of
their family for forty two years.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
This is Michelle today. You see the video of your
mom's arrest.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
That was heartbreaking. That's my mom. I don't think anybody
wants to see their mom put me in cuffs, and
I prefer not to have to watch it again.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The search for little Michelle was a big news story
back then. Flyers were mailed to fifty three million homes,
and the FBI listed her mother at number eight on
the agency's Parental Abduction's Most Wanted list.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
This is back when people used to watch America's Most Wanted.
You know, this is the peak time of America's Most
Wanted watching.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
As recently as last year, the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children created this age progression poster of how
Michelle might look as an adult. For all these years,
Michelle's family in Louisville, Kentucky never gave up hope that
they would find Michelle. Every Christmas, they would put gifts
under the tree for her. It was a tip to
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crime stoppers that finally led cops to the accused runaway mom.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
After more than forty years.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
We don't get a details for what the tip was
or how it actually happened. But crime Stoppers America's most
wanted John Walsh still got it, still bringing kids home.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
After more than forty years.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Deborah Newton's arrest took place in the Villages, the famous
Florida retirement community outside Orlando.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Not America's friendliest hometown.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
She has remarried. Her husband, Reggie, is a retired cop
and is said to be stunned to learn that his
wife is an alleged FBI fugitive.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Her arrest led to an emotional reunion between Michelle and
Joseph Newton, the father she had not seen since she
was three.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
This is insane, but over the last few weeks, it
just feels like everything has been flipped upside down.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You have since discovered that your dad is out there.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You have siblings, you met them.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
My dad and I have steps which, yeah, I've tons
of cousins, aunts and uncles. I have an amazing family.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The suspected runaway mom is charged with felony custodial interference.
She was released on thirty five thousand dollars bail and
has pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What will happen to her potentially? I mean, like, I'm
assuming there probably is no statute limitations on kidnapping a
kid that you continue to have for the rest of
your life. I wonder if you're the if you're the daughter,
if you really want your mom to go to jail
for this.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You'd think they could cut her some slack after four
decades have passed. Well, it just feels it is a right.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean, if I'm the daughter, I'm like, can you
just I mean, I guess I know that that's the law,
that's the rule.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You break the rules, you go to jail. I mean,
I think we all agree that we believe in the law.
But there seems to be a bit of gray area here,
don't you think?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yes, I do think, but I'm trying to look up
right now, Deborah Newton, if she will face any kinds
of looking it up? Sorry, sorry, sorry, Now I'll tell
you later. How about that that's a tease. I'll do
some more research, do some journalism, and then when I
come back, we'll talk about it. We have a couple
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of minutes here before we before we hand it back
off to you, mister Honnor, right, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah? Okay, great.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I want to bring it back here to Los Angeles,
where a surprising statistic from our friend Chip Yost at
KTLA led to this story.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
If you're one of those who think rolling back O
dometers on cars is a thing of the past, car.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I am one of those. Are you one of those?
Mark Ronnor? Of course? Foosh, do you think about rollback
odometer rollback?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I hope not. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Carfact says it's not.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
In a new report word, Carfax says it's.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Actually on the rise.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
If you're in the market for a used car, the
people at Carfax say, be careful.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
The car you're.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
About to buy might be a lot more used than you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Think it is.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
So Carfax Stata finds about two and a half million
bugles on the road right now are suspected to have
had their O domeinters rolled back. And that's about a
fourteen percent increase from just twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And that's especially concerning because if we.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Compare the year over year rate, it's dramatically higher than
the years prior.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Everything is a robot now, I don't know how hard
it is to hack into a computer and change the
numbers that are listed on the odometer. But it's it's
not like you got to go in there and crank
those little dials back.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
The motive is clear.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Used cars with fewer miles fetch higher prices. Josh Ingel
of Atlanta Speedometers said, the scammers can roll back odometers
using legitimate tool.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So so you don't put it up on a block,
put it into reverse, and put a brick on the
gas pedal.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Now that's a Ferris Bueller trick that doesn't actually work,
and you know it is a Ferris Bueller trick. It doesn't.
I don't think it works in Ferris Bueller either. No, No,
they had their come up.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And didn't they They definitely got They definitely ended up
in a far worse than a few hundred miles.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
This is a mileage correction tool. This is available on
the internet. Prices have come down substantially the past few years,
but the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster program the correct mileage to
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it and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I just did a quick search on Amazon for a
bi directional scan tool with resets and mileage correction. A
couple of things here. I don't know if these would work,
but three hundred and seventy bucks three seventy five, two
hundred dollars two thirty nine. I mean, I think that
if you have a car dealership that's of ill repute
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and you're looking to make a make a dollar or two,
that's a pretty low amount of money to have to spend.
Not that anybody has ever done that here, just saying.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is a mileage.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
But the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster, program the correct mileage to it,
and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You can't get struck by lightning and you have to
replace the instrument cluster. What a crazy world we live in,
all right, quick break, When we come back, we will
be talking about the Newport Beach Christmas boat Parade.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Love it down there in Orange County. I would give
ah would.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I wouldn't hobble myself, but I'd get close to live
down there in Orange County. We're gonna go behind the
scenes at the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade, the one
hundred and seventeenth year.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How about that, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Let's go down to Orange County, diehard Disney fans in
SOCl in search of more sometimes dream ahead and east
to check out Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Of course,
like anything Disney, that will cost you. And so people
on the internet are debating, with all the inflation, instead
of going to Disney World in Florida, is it actually
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cheaper to go to Disney Tokyo? Check this out. A
one day ticket in Tokyo is between fifty and seventy dollars,
Orlando one hundred and twenty to two hundred and seventy
five dollars. The current exchange rate makes American money a
lot stronger against the Japanese. Yet now there's a lot
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of caveats here. It's farther to flight to Japan than Florida.
It's a hassle with kids. Airfare probably more expensive depending
on the time you go. Hotels can be cheaper in
Japan than in Orlando. But remember you're in Japan. Chances
are you're going to want to stay in the country
and explore, which will cost you a bit more. As
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a matter of fact, I think it's required that you
stay in the country and explore. If you just go
to Japan to go to Disneyland Tokyo and you don't
do anything else on that island, hoo boy missed opportunity.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Even if it is cheaper to go to Tokyo, many
pointed out, a ticket gets you more. At Walt Disney World,
They've got four parks compared to Tokyo's two. By the way,
if you do end up in Orlando, you gotta go,
of course to the other parks there. Universal Studios, Orlando,
Florida or my co worker Jessica Holmes used to do
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Slime Time live back in the day Nickelodeon Studios. Remember
that when you were in the night. Maybe you don't remember,
but I do absolutely. Clarissa explains it all. It was
filmed in front of a live studio audience at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida.
I thought growing up in the Midwest. Orlando, Florida was
the singular greatest place in the entire world.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, I know what you mean. I wanted to be
there so bad.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I wanted to be there so bad, and I saw
those kids doing those shows and hanging out, and I
did end up going eventually on a little trip with
my dad and my brother, and we were there. They
were filming something on the lot, and they had a
backlot there, similarly in the way they have a back
lot and in La except it's actually in the theme park.
So they shut down part of the theme park so
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you can't go through New York Street because they were
filming a music video and they had changed the entire
lot into I think they had like they brought in
these water tanks, so they made it like they flooded
New York Street so they could do a music video
for do you know what band? Can you guess which band?
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There's a very famous music video from the early two
thousands of a maybe cringey band that they filmed in
a flooded New York. Flooded New York. There's like a
little Lady in the water Dragon the lead singers on
a boat and he's like singing.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh no, that's not that's I will.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I will put this out there because we're gonna open
the We're gonna open the phone lines here for the
next hour. One hundred five two zero one five to
three four. If you remember in early two thousands, I
can say what the genre is, alt rock, kind of
post grunge, but some might refer to it as butt rock.
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You've also heard that. One hundred and five two zero
one five three four. If you know what music video
I'm talking about it is. It is memorable to me
because while we were there watching the music video being
filled filmed, all of a sudden, everybody started run around
like crazy and they're like parks clothes, parks clothes, get out
of here because a crane. They had a bunch of
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stuff in the water, right, like cars and like it
was like a flood scene and they had they were
trying to move the cars around in the water with
a giant crane, and nobody did the math to identify that. Yes, indeed,
when you have a car and it fills up with water,
it becomes a lot heavier to move. So they're trying
to move this car in the water, and the crane
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collapsed straight face planet, wheels up in the air, crane
in the water. I don't think anybody was injured, but
they did make us go home that day, and I
was only able to ride the Back to the Future
ride like four or five times as opposed to fifteen.
Give us a call one hundred and five D zero
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one five to three four, and we will answer your
call on the other side of the break. If we
have anybody who has We're gonna do have a whole
music hour here. It's gonna be Friday night music. We're
gonna have have a fun game. We're gonna play can
you guess the solo? Can you guess what music video
I'm talking about? And should I get a haircut? It's
CAFI AM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (29:15):
App KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, the holidays can be kind of lonely. Are
you working Christmas Eve? I will not be.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm working the day after Christmas at like five in
the morning, which is kind of its own hell. But
that's okay. I said, yes, I'll be in for Melvin
on that Friday. I believe that's a Friday after Christmas.
I'm sure Melvin will appreciate this. Yeah, you know, I'm
doing my best to help out Melvin. I remember when
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we used to do. I used to fill in for
Sam Ruben when he was and he was still alive.
Miss him a lot. And I remember one time there
was a day after Thanksgiving show and I remember he
found out that Frank was out, Jess was out, Mark
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Chrisky was out. They were all going to have fill ins,
and I remember him emailing me and also the executive
producer saying, uh Andy, you're gonna have to take over
for me tomorrow because I cannot. I simply cannot sit
with strangers. It was kidding, he was joking, but he.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Was great. It was really fun and it's nice.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's nice to be on that show and I get
to be on that show every day now, which is
really really fun, and you know, Melvin's doing a good job,
and it's great to be able to still be asked
to fill in for that role, which I really love. Hey,
this is a crazy story about the power of the
Internet and when you see something that seems afoot the
rare times it actually is a foot I'm talking about
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the shooting at Brown University last week. Two students were killed,
nine were injured. The suspect, named Claudio Manuel Nives Valante,
is thought to have also killed a professor from MIT
A couple days later. Last night, he was found dead
of a self inflicted gunshot in a store unit in
New Hampshire. The forty eight year old is a Portuguese national.
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He had been in the United States for school at
Brown two decades ago and went back to Portugal and
returned to the US more recently. There's no clear motive
here for what happened, but the manhunt stretched into the
week after this last weekend shooting and made a lot
of people think what the hell is going on up there.
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There was very little intel release to the public. They
had somebody in custody, then that guy was released we
had a couple surveillance photos, a little video, couldn't really
tell much from it, and as it turns out, it
appears a post on Reddit is what blew open the case.
An anonymous tip led police to who ended up being
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the suspect. On Reddit, the post said, I'm being dead serious,
the police need to look into a gray niss On
with Florida plates might have been a rental. When police
reached out to the person who wrote the post, the tipster,
who they called John, said he met the suspect a
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couple hours before the first shots rang out there in
a bathroom on the ground floor of the same building
where it happened. John said the suspect's clothing was inappropriate
for the weather and that they had made eye contact.
John told the police that he followed the man after
he left the building to a Nissan with a Florida plate,
but instead of getting in the car, the suspect walked
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around the block with John behind him. John said it
was a game of cat and mouse. At one point
the two spoke to each other, with John saying, your
car is back there, why are you circling the block?
And then the suspect said, why are you harassing me,
and then John went on his own way. Through some
old fashioned police work, they tracked the car to an
Alamo rental office in Boston. On the rental agreement, the
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guy used his actual name, Valante. Then they found his
apartment in Boston, tracked the car to a storage unit
where then Valante's body was found. Now the tip was
essential because the shooter was said to have used a
phone that scrambled his location, and then he was also
using credit cards that weren't in his name. He swapped
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the Florida plates to Main plates. And you gotta think
with this witness, like, how many times are you somewhere
you think something weird is going on because we all
watch too much true crime and it's usually nothing right,
but you look over and you think, what that's weird?
Like my mom does this all the time. She sees
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what she thinks is a clue to a murder. Every
single day she's at the juice bar, like some guy
walks in, looks at the menu, turns around and walks out,
and she follows him out to the parking lot and
gets his blade because she's like, sure, she's going to
the Williams Sonoma there's there's a knife out on the
cutting board, fingerprinted. She gets home to her nice house
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in a nice neighborhood and does a check to see
if anybody's hiding for her in the closets. But it
is one of those times with this guy where you
see something weird, and it was weird. It was legitimately
the piece of intel that broke up in the case,
which is crazy because that means sort of that read
it kind of solved or at least helped with this
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case in a serious way, like if it hadn't been
for our witness, this guy might not have ever been found,
or at least not as quickly. The MIT professor, by
the way, who was shot. His name is Nuno Lurero.
He had worked as a researcher at a nuclear fusion
institute in Lisbon, Portugal. And of course the internet is
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going insane with all this wondering if he knew something
about a breakthrough in nuclear energy or something and then
he had he got whacked because of it. Obviously we
don't know a lot. Still, the story is very strange.
Why was he yet brown? Also, what was the motive behind?
How were they connected at all? Was it random? Very
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very interesting story, Roner, I have all the things that
happened this week. Yes, Reesemeyer, what a fascinating, strange story.
We need vigilant good citizens. I feel like Batman, for
the Adam West version of Batman, should be saying that
to people. Yeah, that's actually you know what, you kind
of have an Adam West Batman thing.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It's unconscious, is it really?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, but I did have Bert Warren on one night
when I was filling in. Oh, that's awesome. I totally
hijacked the conversation with that. By the way, he's up
with John Tesh. No.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I mean I I've done, I said everything I needed
to say on that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But your mom sounds like a vigilant good citizen.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
She's like, I'm always like, Mom, you'd be so lucky
if you were involved in some kind of true crime situation.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You've got to keep your eyes peeled at all times.
I love it. And it's like she means, well, but
she does.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
She'll look around me like that's weird, and man, coming
from Indiana coming out to LA it's just like a.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Field day for her. Well, you know the thing about
this this alleged criminal whose body was found after two
days in the storage unit. Is As an ex crime
beat reporter and also an ex police candidate, I find
that criminals and police aren't anything like they're depicted on
TV movies.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But this sort of has a Jason Borne this to it.
I mean, he is not the physique of Jason Bourne.
But switching your plates.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Not everybody would do that, or the phone scramblers, that's
it's pretty high tech. But you know, renting the car
in your own name isn't exactly a day of the
jackal type move. You know, that's pretty dumb.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's pretty It might have been the fatal flaw with
the I didn't know you were going to be a cop.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's pretty cool. I went through a period coming out
of college. We've got a lot of secrets. I almost
went down that route, but instead I went down this route,
which is known for its being lucrative and stable.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And you've got a pension now I do. Oh no, sorry,
that's if you would have been a police officer. Oh yeah,
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
One way you can beat all of the inclement weather.
That really is, you know, obviously not that bad, is
to go to one of the top restaurants of twenty
twenty five. Now, I'm not going to say what was
awarded one of the top restaurants in the valley by
one local news publication, because I did eat at that
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restaurant this year, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It was incredibly expensive. It was a lot to do.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
The people thought that they were doing something very special,
you know, when you go to a restaurant in their life,
we do things a little differently here. It was definitely
one of those places you had to put all your
food in it once. It ended up being like, I
think five hundred dollars to have a meal there for
two and a half people.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I went with, Yeah, I went with.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
My mom and my girlfriend and we went and it
was like, I think it was like five hundred dollars,
and we didn't get individually, you know, of course, we
shared a bunch of small plates.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And I think that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There was a point in the experience where I laughed
out loud because one of the things that was brought
to the table was so silly and over the top.
It was like it was like a science project where
they brought this meal and then they stood there with
a little foam gun, like a bubble gun that like
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blew bubbles into the thing that I was going to eat.
And I was just like, this is so ridiculous, Like
what are we doing. Chilis cost one hundred dollars a
person who got to eat now, and we're going to
these restaurants where I mean, it's nuts, and I thought,
God I left. I was like that was there was
a lot of money. And we get out of there
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and I'm walking down the street and I'm looking at
my girlfriend. I like that kind of sucked. She's like, yeah,
it kind of sucked. And it reminded me of the
Seinfeld bit that he actually just posted today that was
about how life just kind of sucks and it's okay,
it's okay, and that it sucks.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All of it just want of sucks. You go to
a baseball game, you have a hot dog.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
It's called.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But you like it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But how everything now is like it's over the top,
it's too much. And I even started to see this
in in Instagram reviews, which are just like every single
Instagram review is the exact same thing now, and I
want to I want to prove it to you. Listen,
this restaurant has one of the best views in LA
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So why is no one talking about it?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Antay is genuinely the perfect place for a date. Think
did you hear that this restaurant has one of the
best views in LA So? Why is no one talking
about it?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Why is no one talking about it? This is a
new thing that's in every single clip. Here's another one.
This food marketplace just open in West Adams and everyone
is talking about it called Oh, everyone is talking about it.
I don't know why. That's a thing that is going
in the algorithm now. It's making things work when everybody
either everyone is talking about it or no one is
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talking about it, or people need to be talking about it.
And by everyone we mean I don't I don't know
a few people. Here's how you do it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Boy bar is quite the spot. Any bar with a
secret back entrance count me in.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Formerly the Oyster House, the studio City Dive has evolved
in a remarkable way.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's a reason everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, whoops, I guess I'm I'm guilty of it too.
To be fair, they did Oibar did get written up
by the La Times when I did that story. But listen,
If everyone is talking about it, it's great. If no
one is talking about it, I guess it's also great.
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If more people should be talking about it, it is
also great.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think more reviews should should have this. Everyone's talking
to topic everyone everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
When eeveryone anyone says everybody's talked about this on the internet,
it's like, no, there's four or five people talking about it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm obsessed now with the place. You spent five hundred
dollars for two and a half people. Now, he's crazy.
How is that even possible? Were you eating platinum? What
were you eating?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Bamboozled? It's one of those like farmed table. There's a
fire pit on one side of the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Farmed a table. Was there a human sacrifice? What's five
hundred bucks? It was?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We got like a short rib situation, a couple like
side dishes.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's distressing me so much that I'm starting to talk
like Shatner. What was five hundred bucks? Spar Yeah, And
we didn't like order a bottle of wine either. We
had like a couple of drinks, I think a couple
of glasses of wine. It was bonkers, And it's just
like I think that that's just the way it is now.
Everything kind of sucks and it's it's way too expensive.
And you can't really blame the restaurants because the food
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cost is crazy, the labor cost is crazy, the rent
is crazy. Yeah, I eat it home. I guess, so,
I guess five. That stings. I'm feeling like secondhand pain
for you.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm still not going to be able to financially recover
from it, at least until probably next quarter. So thank
you for your condolences. No, this is You've done this
more than once to me now, and I'm still I've
made you feel bad.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm still ruminating over the date you went on when
your date ordered an extra dish for herself for later on,
You've really suffered. Yeah, that's a great story. I ordered it.
I ordered. I went on a date, first date with
a woman. Men.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You came around, thought she was going to order assert
she put it in another entree to go, and I
paid for it.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
If you're looking for gifts last minute, you're gonna have
to get them in person, because I think ordering I
was just looking right now to see how long it
would take to order some stuff. I got some unexpected
guests coming over to the house, and I'm like, do
I need to order some things so that they've got
some things Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And I have to go. I gotta go do in person?
Too late. That's okay though, Try Costco. Yeah, yeah, I
went there before work yesterday in.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Just like a big old bulk thing of ramen, like
a twenty pack of Ramen.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well, whatever you need, but be prepared to fight for
your life. I was lucky to escape without any serious injuries.
Is it even for a parking spot? I felt like
people were for homicide on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The scale of nobody to like. The week COVID happened,
How busy is it?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's the apocalypse busy. Wow, that's how busy it is.
So it's close to the COVID. The week of COVID.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I knew things were going to get bad because I
saw how freaked out everybody was and they were clearing
out the shelves of Costco in March of twenty twenty,
and I remember thinking like, this is now something that
I think that I was already working in the news,
so theoretically I should have been.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Paying attention to it. You get busy, You get busy.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
There's a lot of time that people spend just doing stuff,
getting busy into their lives. Forty two years can go
by in an instant, But what if you spent forty
two years of that time, of that life on the lamb.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
As uniform deputies pull up to this woman's house, a.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Neighbor cracks a joke about why they're there.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Oh, oh, they're coming.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
For you, Sharon.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
They don't want why they were in fact coming for Sharon.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
But this is no joke.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We're here for you, ma'am, definitely here for you. WHOA
why do you have a want for your rest?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It's a moment Sharon Neely feared was coming for forty
two years. Her real name is not Sharon Neely, it's
Deborah Newton, and she's been on the lamb for her
entire adult life. Please say. She abducted her three year
old daughter, Michelle in nineteen eighty three. This is Michelle today.
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Did you see the video of your mom's arrest?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
That was heartbreaking? That's my mom. I don't think anybody
wants to see their mom putting me.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
In cuffs, And God Almighty, so are you following this?
She abducted her daughter in the early nineteen eighties, and
she's lived a separate life with her daughter outside of
their family for forty two years.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
This is Michelle today. You see the video of your
mom's arrest.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
That was heartbreaking. That's my mom. I don't think anybody
wants to see their mom put me in cuffs, and
I prefer not to have to watch it again.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
The search for little Michelle was a big news story
back then. Flyers were mailed to fifty three million homes,
and the FBI listed her mother at number eight on
the agency's Parental Abduction's Most Wanted list.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
This is back when people used to watch America's Most Wanted.
You know, this is the peak time of America's Most
Wanted watching.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
As recently as last year, the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children created this age progression poster of how
Michelle might look as an adult. For all these years,
Michelle's family in Louisville, Kentucky never gave up hope that
they would find Michelle. Every Christmas, they would put gifts
under the tree for her. It was a tip to
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crime stoppers that finally led cops to the accused runaway mom.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
After more than forty years.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
We don't get a details for what the tip was
or how it actually happened. But crime Stoppers America's most
wanted John Walsh still got it, still bringing kids home.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
After more than forty years.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Deborah Newton's arrest took place in the Villages, the famous
Florida retirement community outside Orlando.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Not America's friendliest hometown.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
She has remarried. Her husband, Reggie, is a retired cop
and is said to be stunned to learn that his
wife is an alleged FBI fugitive.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I don't know anything.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Her arrest led to an emotional reunion between Michelle and
Joseph Newton, the father she had not seen since she
was three.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
This is insane, but over the last few weeks, it
just feels like everything has been flipped upside down.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You have since discovered that your dad is out there.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
You have siblings, you met them.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
My dad and I have steps which, yeah, I've tons
of cousins, aunts and uncles. I have an amazing family.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The suspected runaway mom is charged with felony custodial interference.
She was released on thirty five thousand dollars bail and
has pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What will happen to her potentially? I mean, like, I'm
assuming there probably is no statute limitations on kidnapping a
kid that you continue to have for the rest of
your life. I wonder if you're the if you're the daughter,
if you really want your mom to go to jail
for this.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You'd think they could cut her some slack after four
decades have passed. Well, it just feels it is a right.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mean, if I'm the daughter, I'm like, can you
just I mean, I guess I know that that's the law,
that's the rule.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You break the rules, you go to jail. I mean,
I think we all agree that we believe in the law.
But there seems to be a bit of gray area here,
don't you think?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yes, I do think, but I'm trying to look up
right now, Deborah Newton, if she will face any kinds
of looking it up? Sorry, sorry, sorry, Now I'll tell
you later. How about that that's a tease. I'll do
some more research, do some journalism, and then when I
come back, we'll talk about it. We have a couple
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of minutes here before we before we hand it back
off to you, mister Honnor, right, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah? Okay, great.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I want to bring it back here to Los Angeles,
where a surprising statistic from our friend Chip Yost at
KTLA led to this story.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
If you're one of those who think rolling back O
dometers on cars is a thing of the past, car.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I am one of those. Are you one of those?
Mark Ronnor? Of course? Foosh, do you think about rollback
odometer rollback?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I hope not. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Carfact says it's not.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
In a new report word, Carfax says it's.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Actually on the rise.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
If you're in the market for a used car, the
people at Carfax say, be careful.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
The car you're.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
About to buy might be a lot more used than you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Think it is.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
So Carfax Stata finds about two and a half million
bugles on the road right now are suspected to have
had their O domeinters rolled back. And that's about a
fourteen percent increase from just twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And that's especially concerning because if we.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Compare the year over year rate, it's dramatically higher than
the years prior.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Everything is a robot now, I don't know how hard
it is to hack into a computer and change the
numbers that are listed on the odometer. But it's it's
not like you got to go in there and crank
those little dials back.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
The motive is clear.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Used cars with fewer miles fetch higher prices. Josh Ingel
of Atlanta Speedometers said, the scammers can roll back odometers
using legitimate tool.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So so you don't put it up on a block,
put it into reverse, and put a brick on the
gas pedal.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Now that's a Ferris Bueller trick that doesn't actually work,
and you know it is a Ferris Bueller trick. It doesn't.
I don't think it works in Ferris Bueller either. No, No,
they had their come up.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And didn't they They definitely got They definitely ended up
in a far worse than a few hundred miles.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
This is a mileage correction tool. This is available on
the internet. Prices have come down substantially the past few years,
but the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster program the correct mileage to
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it and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I just did a quick search on Amazon for a
bi directional scan tool with resets and mileage correction. A
couple of things here. I don't know if these would work,
but three hundred and seventy bucks three seventy five, two
hundred dollars two thirty nine. I mean, I think that
if you have a car dealership that's of ill repute
(23:09):
and you're looking to make a make a dollar or two,
that's a pretty low amount of money to have to spend.
Not that anybody has ever done that here, just saying.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is a mileage.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
But the valid reason for this is sometimes we have
a cluster that cannot be repaired. So whether that's water damage, lightning,
anything like that, we have the capability to get a
new or used instrument cluster, program the correct mileage to it,
and then get it back to the consumer.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You can't get struck by lightning and you have to
replace the instrument cluster. What a crazy world we live in,
all right, quick break, When we come back, we will
be talking about the Newport Beach Christmas boat Parade.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Love it down there in Orange County. I would give
ah would.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I wouldn't hobble myself, but I'd get close to live
down there in Orange County. We're gonna go behind the
scenes at the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade, the one
hundred and seventeenth year.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How about that, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Let's go down to Orange County, diehard Disney fans in
SOCl in search of more sometimes dream ahead and east
to check out Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Of course,
like anything Disney, that will cost you. And so people
on the internet are debating, with all the inflation, instead
of going to Disney World in Florida, is it actually
(24:44):
cheaper to go to Disney Tokyo? Check this out. A
one day ticket in Tokyo is between fifty and seventy dollars,
Orlando one hundred and twenty to two hundred and seventy
five dollars. The current exchange rate makes American money a
lot stronger against the Japanese. Yet now there's a lot
(25:04):
of caveats here. It's farther to flight to Japan than Florida.
It's a hassle with kids. Airfare probably more expensive depending
on the time you go. Hotels can be cheaper in
Japan than in Orlando. But remember you're in Japan. Chances
are you're going to want to stay in the country
and explore, which will cost you a bit more. As
(25:25):
a matter of fact, I think it's required that you
stay in the country and explore. If you just go
to Japan to go to Disneyland Tokyo and you don't
do anything else on that island, hoo boy missed opportunity.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Even if it is cheaper to go to Tokyo, many
pointed out, a ticket gets you more. At Walt Disney World,
They've got four parks compared to Tokyo's two. By the way,
if you do end up in Orlando, you gotta go,
of course to the other parks there. Universal Studios, Orlando,
Florida or my co worker Jessica Holmes used to do
(26:02):
Slime Time live back in the day Nickelodeon Studios. Remember
that when you were in the night. Maybe you don't remember,
but I do absolutely. Clarissa explains it all. It was
filmed in front of a live studio audience at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida.
I thought growing up in the Midwest. Orlando, Florida was
the singular greatest place in the entire world.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, I know what you mean. I wanted to be
there so bad.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I wanted to be there so bad, and I saw
those kids doing those shows and hanging out, and I
did end up going eventually on a little trip with
my dad and my brother, and we were there. They
were filming something on the lot, and they had a
backlot there, similarly in the way they have a back
lot and in La except it's actually in the theme park.
So they shut down part of the theme park so
(26:47):
you can't go through New York Street because they were
filming a music video and they had changed the entire
lot into I think they had like they brought in
these water tanks, so they made it like they flooded
New York Street so they could do a music video
for do you know what band? Can you guess which band?
(27:08):
There's a very famous music video from the early two
thousands of a maybe cringey band that they filmed in
a flooded New York. Flooded New York. There's like a
little Lady in the water Dragon the lead singers on
a boat and he's like singing.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh no, that's not that's I will.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I will put this out there because we're gonna open
the We're gonna open the phone lines here for the
next hour. One hundred five two zero one five to
three four. If you remember in early two thousands, I
can say what the genre is, alt rock, kind of
post grunge, but some might refer to it as butt rock.
(27:52):
You've also heard that. One hundred and five two zero
one five three four. If you know what music video
I'm talking about it is. It is memorable to me
because while we were there watching the music video being
filled filmed, all of a sudden, everybody started run around
like crazy and they're like parks clothes, parks clothes, get out
of here because a crane. They had a bunch of
(28:12):
stuff in the water, right, like cars and like it
was like a flood scene and they had they were
trying to move the cars around in the water with
a giant crane, and nobody did the math to identify that. Yes, indeed,
when you have a car and it fills up with water,
it becomes a lot heavier to move. So they're trying
to move this car in the water, and the crane
(28:34):
collapsed straight face planet, wheels up in the air, crane
in the water. I don't think anybody was injured, but
they did make us go home that day, and I
was only able to ride the Back to the Future
ride like four or five times as opposed to fifteen.
Give us a call one hundred and five D zero
(28:54):
one five to three four, and we will answer your
call on the other side of the break. If we
have anybody who has We're gonna do have a whole
music hour here. It's gonna be Friday night music. We're
gonna have have a fun game. We're gonna play can
you guess the solo? Can you guess what music video
I'm talking about? And should I get a haircut? It's
CAFI AM six forty. I'm Andy Reesmeyer. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio
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