October 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Dream team Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs join forces for tonight’s show! Last night’s Dodgers’ game was a bust, with the Blue Jays up three games to two. SNAP benefits are running out this weekend due to government shutdowns. The Prop 50 election is coming up next Tuesday. It looks like it’s going to pass with ease. LA County has opened an additional 140 vote centers. Research monkeys from Tulane University escaped from the wreckage of a crash in Mississippi. Rumors they were infected with contagious diseases have been disputed, but most were still shot and killed by law enforcement. A grandfather was boiled alive in a hotel shower in San Jose.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Michael Monks from kf I News with you till
ten o'clock tonight. I'm not alone. I've got Tiffany Hobbes
with me tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You're never alone, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Don't say it like that.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
There's always a little voice in your head and it's
probably me.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It is you him, Michael, You're saying horrible things to
me sometimes in the middle of the night. Did you
know that, the little voice.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
In my head?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I try to motivate you in any way I can,
and look, you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We made it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It must have worked.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's like Saturdays on a Thursday. Of course, our listeners
know you from Saturdays with Tiffany and I come on
after you on Saturday Nights with Michael Monks Reports. But
the dream Team on Saturday, Yeah, called off the JV
bench to host the Varsity seven o'clock Thursday Night Halloween E.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Everyone else said, no, that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're happy to be here. We're happy to be here.
And by the way, did you or did you not
turn the air conditioning on this week?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I did?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You did?
Speaker 6 (00:54):
I did?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I ran it two days, and then in the evening,
I said to myself, it's really cold. So my bill
is going to be ridiculous because I went from air
to heat and now I have the sniffles, and we
know how that thing is exactly super random and aggressive
heat wave out of nowhere, out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And it's been so beautiful, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And here's the thing I am, and we're kind of
talking about this off air. I am a person who
does enjoy Halloween and dressing up. And my whole thing
was it better not be in the nineties come Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's over right, it can't take it. The heat's over.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, I mean, is it ever really over?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's California, it's Los Angeles. But for now it's supposed
to be back to more moderate temperatures. But we did
have a two and a half day heat wave. Uncharacteristic
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It was not I mean, it got to be ninety
seven in downtown Los Angeles. It didn't feel that hot
to me down there. I know you're not far from
where I live. Also, Hikey, yeah you felt bad.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I didn't like it, and as well many people across
the southern California basin found that their power was cut.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Off because of precaution.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Was exactly so just not something you're looking forward to
at this stage in the fall, the time changes on Sunday,
like we should be entering into boots and sweater.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Back home in Kentucky, we always have something that we
call false fall. And so like summer you think is over,
and you've got the leaves starting to turn, you've got
the cool breezes, and the football game is happening, and
then summer kind of roars back for a couple of
weeks of last moment, Halloween scares. That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We had, absolutely, and false fall is perfect because now
we are going to enter into pre winter or pretend winter,
and we'll be back in some other amalgamation of all
of that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I have to say, as a transplant, winter in southern
California is.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The best there's a winter here. I think so, and
I think that it's the news. It does get cold.
It gets cold. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
When I was moving here and I came out to
like sign the documents and all of that, I remember
sitting in Santa Monic, I'm on the beach and it
was December and it felt great to me because I'm
coming from, you know, the Cincinnati area, which was freezing.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Everybody who's listening to you right now outside of southern
California is hating this point in the conversation. They hate
this because they're cold, and we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Warm, That's what I mean. But it, you know, it's relative.
So I'm sitting there on the beach on a bench,
you know, reflecting on what I've just done, this big decision.
I've signed the documents, I'm coming to Los Angeles, and
I saw and it felt really good though to me.
And I saw a woman walking a dog and she
was bundled up gloves. Oh and oh this is oh
the shame, But I won't. You know, you can't shame
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people on where they're from because you're just bred differently, right,
You're you're you're made for certain types of temperatures, and
when it gets cold in southern California, people feel cold,
but they would absolutely die where I'm from. There's no
doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You're saying, basically, in so many words, that those of
us who are in southern California are pansies.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No, I'm not saying that at all, I'm actually hyping
up a little bit. No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I think I love my.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Neighbors, I love my new neighbors, and I'm grateful for
the weather here. But I'm not I'm not judging people
in southern California for wearing a coat when it's say,
fifty eight degrees, because we've still got the pool open, right, yeah, shorts,
shorts there. I know that people are a little hot
after the Dodgers game last night, because now the series
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is going back to Toronto and the Dodgers are on
the ropes. The Blue Jays up three games to two
after that marathon game Tuesday yesterday, you know, a little rough.
It's what do we think?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Kee? What did it?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
The marathon game on Tuesday just tired everybody out. Everyone's
tuckered out. No one on the Dodgers wants to play anymore.
Our bullpen is struggling getting into sports talk sports talk,
but you know, right now Toronto wants it more. So
we'll see what happens tomorrow. It's either going to be
a really scary Halloween for good reason or for bad reason.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, there's something else that I've noticed about people in
Los Angeles especially Dodgers fans, especially rowdy Dodgers fans. Maybe
these aren't the real fans. I don't know if people
like to separate themselves from this, but being a resident
of Downtown, I will tell you the celebration last year
after the World Series was how do you say raucus?
It was a little too raucous for my liking. And
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I'm not saying that I'm rooting against the Dodgers, but
the Blue Jays were to win. It were a little
quiet this weekend Downtown. I'm not going to be upset
about it.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh oh, shame, shame, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But why do people need to celebrate by, you know,
lighting a metro bus on fire for example?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well you judge.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I don't judge how you celebrate, Michael. I don't know
what you do when you're really happy. You know, it
is what it is. And hopefully we'll see what happens
come tomorrow, and if not, then it will progress to
a Game seven, of which no one wants.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But at this rate it ain't looking good.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Go Dodgers, Well they're gonna need a game seven. I mean,
the Dodgers are absolutely hoping for a Game seven at
this point down three games to do and math is
it mathing? No, It's okay, that's all right. And I
know that our friends on LA Sports A five seventy
they're looking forward to that too. You can always hear
the Dodgers games right there. Big news coming this weekend,
regardless of the outcome in sports, Regardless if anything somehow
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miraculously happens in Washington, DC and the government reopens, it's
really too late to stop this at this point. Foodstamp benefits,
Snap benefits, how fresh those things gone.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
A lot of people are gonna lose a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And it could get ugly because not only are we
talking about people who are already among the most vulnerable
in our society missing out on the monthly payment that
they would use to buy food. You've got patrols being
added in some cities outside grocery stores in anticipation of unrest.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, and it is indicative of what the expectation is
is that there's going to be a mass flocking to
these sorts of free and support services. Because there are
five point five million residents in California who are recipients
of the cow Fresh Slash Snap benefits, of which two
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million of those are children, so it is a very
scary time.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Indeed, a lot of those are here in southern California.
We're going to talk more about that next. We'll hear
from you as well. All you've got to do is
open up the iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button.
You've got Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs with you till
ten o'clock going through all the news of the day.
So join us.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Michael Monks from KFI News with you till ten o'clock
alongside the Tiffany Hobbes. Yes, indeed, good to see you tonight.
Than we are facing some challenges this weekend and it
could get really ugly, not just for a lot of families,
but for the community at large. We're talking about snap
benefits running out because of the ongoing federal government shutdown,
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and folks that would typically get their grocery money loaded
onto their cards on November the first, as they do
on the first of every month, will not get it
this weekend, and that's bad news for millions.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
The fact that the timing would never be good for this,
but to have it be during the month where arguably
or not arguably, we spend probably the most on food,
especially given you know, the celebration aspect of it obviously
is just insult to injury. It's beyond the pale, and
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a lot of people again our recipients of food subsidies
and social services, and you may not realize that. I
think people think it's only the most destitute of the population,
and in fact, many working people are on these food
benefit services.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
When I first moved here, and I moved here without
a job, was waiting to get a good job, and
it took me a long time, so I ended up
working at the Alpoyo logo. I've told the story on
the areasount. I know it was great, but like I
couldn't get a job anywhere. So I'm working as cashier
at the Alpoyo Loco at Third and Broadway downtown.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And was always a little bit surprised by some of
the folks who would take out And this is me
perhaps being judgemental and expecting, you know, like a mom
with kids to pull out a cow fresh card. But
I saw a lot of people with their work tags
around their neck pulling out young guys twenty seven ish
if I win to guests. Yeah, and they're using this,
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but as of Saturday, that's going to run out, even
if the federal government somehow manages to reopen tomorrow. Now,
California governor knew some Attorney General Bond did. They say
there is money in the agriculture cabinets funds to support SNAP,
regardless of whether the government is open or not. So
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they have joined other states ensuing. Here's Attorney General Rob Bonda.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Every state but one. Now warning snappist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let me try that. That was not BoNT at all.
Let me try this one youthy.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Federal administration has cut off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
or SNAP, allowing more than forty one million Americans.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Who rely on federal food assistants to go hungry.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
So those funds are sitting there, unspent, and it is unconscionable,
it is a moral.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It is illegal.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
They chose to leave billions of dollars earmarked for this
purpose untouched, without an adequate explanation, without an adequate plan.
Trump's US Department of Agriculture chose this. This was a decision,
This was a choice. It chose to let more than
forty one million Americans go hungry.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So the contention there from Democratic state officials, including some
in Congress, is the money's there, do not let these
folks go.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hungry, right, And I think that when you when you
consider that the money is there, it again just adds
for complication to how could we get to this point
if there are reserve funds to prevent something like this
from happening. And a lot of people are saying the
money should come in the form of direct payments.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's going to food banks, and people are expressing some
hesitation with that and wanting again these more direct payments.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, you've got people who would typically have a grocery
list that they would go out and fulfill on their
own based on the amount of money that they're getting,
and instead they're going to be going to food banks
and they will not have the choices that they typically have.
I know that here in southern California, various government entities
and local organizations like food banks are mobilizing to prepare
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for this. The LA School District has said that they
will be doing meal pickups. We know that the county
government has set aside ten million dollars. But that's only
ten million dollars. Do you know Los Angeles County alone
receives three hundred twenty million dollars every month from the
federal government to support Californa.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
The numbers that have been coming out about this have
been astronomical and highly surprising. Again, do not realize just
how many people benefit from these sort of programs.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
One and a half million people in Los Angeles County
use these benefits, three hundred ten thousand in Orange County
use these benefits. The stakes are high.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Every state but one now warning snap assistance will halt
for Americans like single mother Melissa Miles in Michigan, relying
on the program to feed her son.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't see how we are one of the wealthiest
countries in the world, yet we're willing to let people
go hungry all because people can't communicate and agree.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Across the country, food banks scrambling.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Honestly, I feel like if lawmakers are reasonable, rational and responsible,
that they can come together and do the right thing,
and the right thing is being there for the people,
and right now they're.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Not, and that's what's lost. I think in this new
political climate that is governance by meme. There may be
real conversations to have about fraud in this particular program,
there may be real conversations to have about work requirements.
But regardless of your position on the benefits of these benefits,
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they are going away on Saturday, and that's going to
cause a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think you said something really pivotal a little while
ago as well. Many schools, if not all schools in
California benefit from these sorts of subsidies as well. Their
meal programs are directly related to these funds, and so
when these funds go away for however long they do,
school lunches, school breakfasts are going to be altered in
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so many ways. And many children, especially in the Los
Angeles Unified School District, depend on these free meals for
their meals or or their subsistence of the day. Without them,
what do they have. It's a dire situation. It's dire,
and it could get ugly.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Barstow says that it is planning extra police patrols at
grocery stores to stop theft as these food stamp programs
run out on Saturday. And what we're what we're seeing
in some of the media reports out of Barstow is
that the Barstow Police Department posted on Facebook. We understand
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that these circumstances may cause additional stress for many families.
To help ensure the safety of residents, customers, and business owners,
officers will be conducting extra patrols around local grocery stores,
convenience stores, and shopping centers. They are calling it a
preventative a preventive measure to maintain public safety, to ter
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theft and reassure the community that law enforcement is present
and ready to help.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That sounds very comfortable going to a and being sarcastic,
going to a grocery store and seeing all these armed patrolmen.
As you've seen, I know we have to break but
as we've seen, we've had this increase of this heavily
armed almost like a militia presence at different grocery stores.
I see them at the targets and major you know,
major areas of the city or at grocery stores. Like
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I said, and it doesn't necessarily make you feel comfortable.
It makes you feel like you're in a situation that
is potentially violent or primed for violence.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And this is going to be the norm going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Very scary situation for folks who live on the edge.
And you know, I think there's a certain point in
adulthood where if you're fortunate to be professional and you've
got a decent job, where you start to go to
the grocery store without that worry, where you can go
in you ha me have a list, but you can
buy something you didn't anticipate, the expensive bag of pretzels,
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or something that was on the shelf that you didn't
expec seeen chocolate. This year, I mean, things are going
there's no question about it. You know, things are getting
more expensive. But there are certain luxuries that a lot
of us enjoy, simple luxuries like going in and saying, ah,
you know what, I can buy this bread because I
don't have to worry about that. But there are folks
who do worry about it, and they will be worrying
extra hard this weekend. Local government officials have asked folks
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to contribute to food banks that they think they can
reach and support. And we'll continue this conversation. Hope p
will join it as well. Open up the iHeartRadio app,
click on the talkback button. We'll get to some of
your comments just ahead. It's Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks
with you right here until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs sitting in tonight from seven
to ten.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You can do so, of course, on the iHeartRadio app
or live on your radio. And what we do want
you to do is go to the talkback feature and
let us know what you think of what we've been
talking about. So far, we've covered the Snap benefits, we've
talked about the Dodgers, we've talked about the heat, and
next we're going to talk about Prop fifty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I think if there's one thing that can calm everyone's
nerves over the pending SNAP defunding this weekend, it's an
election on Tuesday. As if the country can't be more polarized,
A special election. It's a bow on it. It is
a special election here in California. Prop fifty that would temporarily,
they say, I guess, sideline the Independent Redistricting Commission and
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draw new congressional districts that pretty much favor Democrats to
pick up five additional seats. Now, yes, Democrats here say
this is a direct counter to what Texas is doing.
Texas is redrawing its maps. They plan to send about
five more Republicans to Washington. But here's what's happening, Tiffany.
There are other states now mobilizing Ohio, Tommy Moore, Michael, Yeah,
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Maryland's possibly looking at it, North Carolina. All of these states,
we are often the trendsetters. It does start in California. Yeah,
Texas did it. Then California's doing it. And now it
seems like the race for control of the House of Representatives,
which would typically take place in November of twenty twenty six,
is happening now much earlier, and it won't matter who
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the candidates are because folks' seats are going to be
drawn so comfortably that this state's going to send and
a very predictable number of Republicans, this state's going to
send a very predictable number of Democrats. Look, redistricting is
not new, no, But to have it as weaponized as
it is on a national scale like this, I think
that is new. And that's what we'll be watching for.
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We'll be covering this very hard. On Tuesday night. Chris
Meryl will actually be with me from seven to ten election. Yeah,
we'll be back here in seven to ten. Bring the
election result. It's not the only election that's taking place
that New York mayor has gotten a lot of attention.
We're watching that one.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's going to be an interesting Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Some bell weathers whether Democrats or Republicans have momentum in
the New Jersey gubernatorial race, the Virginia gubernatorial race. But
here in California, it looks like Prop fifty is going
to pass with ease.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, and again if people the polls are showing
that if voters are pulled today, that this prop would
overwhelmingly pass, and it's just been trending further and further
toward that being in the affirmative.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The Republican opposition to this was robust vocally, but they
did not raise a lot of money compared to the
supporters of this proposition, and reporting is indicated that they
have completely stopped trying to fight it. They've accepted their fate.
And if this goes through, it almost certainly means the
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end of the congressional careers of multiple members of the
California Republican delegation.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
And it can mean the beginning of Governor Newsom's career
beyond Governor of California, because should this go in his favor,
given that Governor Newsom has been the main image behind
Prop fifty, then this could lend itself to what we
can expect in the twenty twenty eight election.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
There is no question that Governor Newsom has found his
foe in President Trump, and not in the way other
Democratic governors would. He is meeting him where President Trump
is in the mud. President Trump loves a good insult.
President Trump loves a good troll. There's no fight that's
too small for President Trump to get into. He's an
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entertainer at heart. Let's not forget that. I mean, he
is from Hollywood. He is a Hollywood guy himself. He's
a showman. Governor Newsom recognizes that, and that's why you
see the shift in his social media taking on some
of those attributes of President Trump's social commentary. And Governor
Newsom has said recently that he's not ruling out a
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run for president, and so this you're absolutely right, Tiffany.
This fight in California is to show America that Governor
Newsom fights back against President Trump.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, and it's to establish himself as a viable candidate
against the Republican Party. He is propping himself up as
more or less the superhero of the Democratic Party. Whether
or not people will buy that is yet to be seen,
but Prop fifty is trending in the way of like
we've been discussing, being voted yes on.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And even though jerry mandering is probably not something that
on its face is popular with rank and file voters,
it's been pivoted. It's been positioned as a way to
punch back at President Trump, and in all of the
campaign materials you have seen that this is California fighting
against Trump. And so in a way, Governor Newsom, who
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has pushed this issue, is already taking an electoral battle
against the President, and if he can claim this victory,
it could propel his campaign across the country to say
I fought President Trump, I won. Before I can fight
them and win again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I mean, at this point, when the boxing starts on
the White House lawn, I imagine Gavin and President Trump
will be amongst the first to enter into a fight.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I know you've got your tongue firmly in cheek, but
how far off do you really think we are.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Don't worry about where my tongue is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, gosh, but how far do
you think we are from White House? I mean, there's
gonna be like UFC fights there soon, I think. Yeah,
remember hearing, Yeah, it won't be long before our elections
are chosen in the old way.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Absolutely, you're going to oil up a few of these
politicians and get them out there and let them just
duke it out and may the best person win.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, don't threaten me with a good time. Next Tuesday,
that is election day. Of course, in California, you're already voting.
La County has opened an additional one one hundred and
forty vote centers this weekend, and that will be in
addition to the one hundred and eleven sites already established
for the November fourth statewide special election on congressional redistricting.
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All two hundred and fifty one vote centers will be
open daily from ten am to seven pm for in
person voting, voter registration and vote by mail ballot returns.
And again we will have those results coming to you live.
If the governor speaks on Tuesday as well, we'll carry
that and we'll bring you the results from across the country.
Will be a raucous good time on Tuesday night. Chris Merril,
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Michael Monks here on KFI bringing you that coverage. Tiffany.
There's a couple of weird stories, one tragic and one
very strange, and we're going to get to those.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Next things, both in time for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No kidding, monkeys on the loose with illnesses or not
or no find out, and an old guy getting killed
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
This really really surreal way at that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We'll get those stories to you next.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Michael Monks and rock and roll girl Tiffany Hobbs with
you until ten o'clock tonight. Boy, oh boy, something scary
Halloween esque was happening.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Urgent search for dangerous research Monkeys that escaped from the
wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway. Video showing
several monkeys crawling in the grass. Heavily armed officers responding
to the scene. Authority say a truck carrying nearly two
dozen reesis monkeys from two Lane University overturned on Interstate
fifty nine in Jasper County.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So this has a couple of Halloween angles. Listening to
that report one monkeys on the loose from a university,
that's obviously the opener to something horrifying, but to call
them Reeseiss monkeys makes them sound kind of delicious.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
This story is so complicated and it had so many legs,
no pun intended, poor monk keys. When the story broke
on Tuesday, there was pandemonium. I saw this thing all
over social media. Monkeys on the loose, truck crashes, Mississippi,
kind of this, you know, cauldron of just elements, and
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all of it led to again chaos. But as the
detail started to unfold, the numbers changed. Oh, there are
this many monkeys. There are this many monkeys. The what
the monkeys possessed in the form of possible diseases was
being shared and then retracted. What was said by the
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truck driver was disputed by the university, Tulane University, and
what it has amounted to is a bunch of lies
and monkeys that were shot and killed and that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Shouldn't have been.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
How many monkeys, oh, goodness, total, there were how many
there were? Well, I know they were forty pounds total.
And goodness, of course in this story that's okay, that's okay,
But there were quite a few monkeys there were.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Good well, that was the initial report, Tiffany, was that
these are monkeys that have some sort of horrible disease.
I'm gonna look it up, and they need to be shot.
And originally some of them had been put down, but
like a couple were still on the loose. And now
that's going to create panic in the community because there
are monkeys who are contagious with something horrible and they're
on the loose in a place where they should not be.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Twenty one monkeys total. Three are still outstanding. Five were
quote unquote destroyed, which is code for killed. But of
the total of the twenty one monkeys, Tulane University disputed
the truck driver's assertions that they were carrying infectious diseases
to lane set. That's not what happened. These were not
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monkeys that were in danger. You were not in danger
as the public of these things coming into contact with
you and harming you that way, that they could get
aggressive as monkeys do, but that they should not have
been killed. They should have all been returned. Three are
still on the loose, and I say, go monkeys.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Five put down, Five put down, and the rest had
been captured.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And returned to two lane, and then three are on
the loose, which I'm rooting for them.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm for them now too, because originally you think, oh no,
I mean, it's it's a very sad, unfortunate situation. But
if there are some sort of diseases running through these
monkeys that are harmful to people, then we got to
catch those monkeys. Now I'm team monkey.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now, I'm totally team monkey.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
And this was again all predicated upon the truck driver's
account at the time, and who knows. We haven't heard
a lot about the truck driver himself or herself, but
we do know that what was said initially was false.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Who is the natural enemy of the monkey in the wild,
the truck driver?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, I think I think so too this point, all
truck drivers can't trust it.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What a tragic story involving a grandfather who they're saying
he was basically boiled alive. This story is horrible. In
a scalding hot hotel shower, Katila reports in a lawsuit
filed earlier this month in Santa Clara County Superior court.
Family members of LA resident Terrell Johnson. He was seventy two.
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They alleged scalding shower water as hot as one hundred
and thirty six degrees led to his death in a
hotel in San Jose, oh.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He was there to visit his granddaughter, who's a gymnast
graduate from San Jose State University, and when taking a shower,
something went really really wrong and his grandson actually is
who found him. I can't imagine what that was like
for the grandson said. He went into the bathroom, the
grandson to check on his grandfather after he'd been in
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there for quite a while, and found grandfather unresponsive, partially
submerged in the bathtub, and water that was quoted as
being so hot that family members were unable to immediately
pull him out. They think it got as hot as
one hundred and thirty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Coumbing code for California for individual showers and tub showers
should be no hotter than one hundred twenty degrees. Again,
this lawsuit says that it was as hot as one
thirty four to six.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
King showers that are one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I like a hot shower, but I don't. I don't
know what the temperature is.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I like to turn a little red every now and then.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's why your skin looks so supple. Now I understand, yeah,
you got to boil it out.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Goh, But I bet that this was so hot that
it shocked him, yeah, and put him down, you know,
on the ground, and he died.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And and that there is what a lot of people
are surmising. And the coroner's report will undoubtedly be able
to determine the exact cause of death, whether it happened
prior or after the water actually made contact. But the coroner,
the medical examiner there in Santa Clara County, did say
that Terrell Johnson suffered burns to more than thirty three
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percent of his body and those burns were caused by
severe scalding. I just I can't imagine. Being burned is
one of the worst possible things. And then this it is.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And when you're in a hotel, it takes a moment
to figure out the you know, the handles on the
shower and you know, like whish direction to move it
and what temperature you need. But once you get it right,
there's really nothing better than the hotel's shower because you're
not paying for it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's like we talked about the AC at the top
of the hour, whether you turn on the AC, you know,
you can run the AC in a hotel room on
full blast and you do get free.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You're completely beholden to that greed.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
And this is according to the court documents that were
filed on behalf of Tarrell Johnson and his family. But
this was not a freak ass accident that it was
the quote direct result of the defendant's gross negligence and
failure to meet even basic safety obligations, the defendant being
the hotel owner and in sweets at the San Jose Airports,
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if you stay there, check your water, Check your water,
Yeah that is.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I just don't know though, if it's so hot, how
far into the water you get. I mean, like I
think everybody has, you know, you dip a toe in,
you dip a hand in a little bit, and you
pull back if it's too hot. I mean, don't I
don't know what the circumstances would have been for somebody
to feel water as hot as they say it was
and then to get all of the way into the shower.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
He might have fallen who knows passed out and again
the coroner's report will share with that is autopsy will
share what that is, but tragic, horrible, horrible story.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
More tales of horror and tragedy and scariness. Because it
is Halloween Eve here in Burbank and across the USA,
and we're gonna talk our next hour about Halloween. I'm
gonna tell you right now, I don't like Halloween and
you like it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
This is my sports Yeah, I hate it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We want to hear from you all coming up in
the next hour, just about Halloween, but also the serious
topics we've been going through. How are you feeling about
the Prop fifty vote next Tuesday? What are your concerns
about the benefits? The snap benefits running out as of
Saturday this coming weekend. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on the talkback button. We see the ones we received already.
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We're going to play some of those at the top
of the next hour as we continue here with Tiffany
Hobbs and Michael Monks on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Michael Monks from kf I News with you till
ten o'clock tonight. I'm not alone. I've got Tiffany Hobbes
with me tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
You're never alone, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Don't say it like that.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
There's always a little voice in your head and it's
probably me.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
It is you him, Michael, You're saying horrible things to
me sometimes in the middle of the night. Did you
know that, the little voice.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
In my head?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
You know?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I try to motivate you in any way I can,
and look, you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We made it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It must have worked.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's like Saturdays on a Thursday. Of course, our listeners
know you from Saturdays with Tiffany and I come on
after you on Saturday Nights with Michael Monks Reports. But
the dream Team on Saturday, Yeah, called off the JV
bench to host the Varsity seven o'clock Thursday Night Halloween E.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Everyone else said, no, that's why we're here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We're happy to be here. We're happy to be here.
And by the way, did you or did you not
turn the air conditioning on this week?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I did?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
You did?
Speaker 6 (00:54):
I did?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I ran it two days, and then in the evening,
I said to myself, it's really cold. So my bill
is going to be ridiculous because I went from air
to heat and now I have the sniffles, and we
know how that thing is exactly super random and aggressive
heat wave out of nowhere, out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
And it's been so beautiful, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And here's the thing I am, and we're kind of
talking about this off air. I am a person who
does enjoy Halloween and dressing up. And my whole thing
was it better not be in the nineties come Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's over right, it can't take it. The heat's over.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, I mean, is it ever really over?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's California, it's Los Angeles. But for now it's supposed
to be back to more moderate temperatures. But we did
have a two and a half day heat wave. Uncharacteristic
it was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It was not I mean, it got to be ninety
seven in downtown Los Angeles. It didn't feel that hot
to me down there. I know you're not far from
where I live. Also, Hikey, yeah you felt bad.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I didn't like it, and as well many people across
the southern California basin found that their power was cut.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Off because of precaution.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Was exactly so just not something you're looking forward to
at this stage in the fall, the time changes on Sunday,
like we should be entering into boots and sweater.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Back home in Kentucky, we always have something that we
call false fall. And so like summer you think is over,
and you've got the leaves starting to turn, you've got
the cool breezes, and the football game is happening, and
then summer kind of roars back for a couple of
weeks of last moment, Halloween scares. That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We had, absolutely, and false fall is perfect because now
we are going to enter into pre winter or pretend winter,
and we'll be back in some other amalgamation of all
of that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I have to say, as a transplant, winter in southern
California is.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The best there's a winter here. I think so, and
I think that it's the news. It does get cold.
It gets cold. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
When I was moving here and I came out to
like sign the documents and all of that, I remember
sitting in Santa Monic, I'm on the beach and it
was December and it felt great to me because I'm
coming from, you know, the Cincinnati area, which was freezing.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Everybody who's listening to you right now outside of southern
California is hating this point in the conversation. They hate
this because they're cold, and we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Warm, That's what I mean. But it, you know, it's relative.
So I'm sitting there on the beach on a bench,
you know, reflecting on what I've just done, this big decision.
I've signed the documents, I'm coming to Los Angeles, and
I saw and it felt really good though to me.
And I saw a woman walking a dog and she
was bundled up gloves. Oh and oh this is oh
the shame, But I won't. You know, you can't shame
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people on where they're from because you're just bred differently, right,
You're you're you're made for certain types of temperatures, and
when it gets cold in southern California, people feel cold,
but they would absolutely die where I'm from. There's no
doubt about that.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You're saying, basically, in so many words, that those of
us who are in southern California are pansies.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No, I'm not saying that at all, I'm actually hyping
up a little bit. No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I think I love my.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Neighbors, I love my new neighbors, and I'm grateful for
the weather here. But I'm not I'm not judging people
in southern California for wearing a coat when it's say,
fifty eight degrees, because we've still got the pool open, right, yeah, shorts,
shorts there. I know that people are a little hot
after the Dodgers game last night, because now the series
(04:26):
is going back to Toronto and the Dodgers are on
the ropes. The Blue Jays up three games to two
after that marathon game Tuesday yesterday, you know, a little rough.
It's what do we think?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Kee? What did it?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
The marathon game on Tuesday just tired everybody out. Everyone's
tuckered out. No one on the Dodgers wants to play anymore.
Our bullpen is struggling getting into sports talk sports talk,
but you know, right now Toronto wants it more. So
we'll see what happens tomorrow. It's either going to be
a really scary Halloween for good reason or for bad reason.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, there's something else that I've noticed about people in
Los Angeles especially Dodgers fans, especially rowdy Dodgers fans. Maybe
these aren't the real fans. I don't know if people
like to separate themselves from this, but being a resident
of Downtown, I will tell you the celebration last year
after the World Series was how do you say raucus?
It was a little too raucous for my liking. And
(05:24):
I'm not saying that I'm rooting against the Dodgers, but
the Blue Jays were to win. It were a little
quiet this weekend Downtown. I'm not going to be upset
about it.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh oh, shame, shame, Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But why do people need to celebrate by, you know,
lighting a metro bus on fire for example?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well you judge.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I don't judge how you celebrate, Michael. I don't know
what you do when you're really happy. You know, it
is what it is. And hopefully we'll see what happens
come tomorrow, and if not, then it will progress to
a Game seven, of which no one wants.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But at this rate it ain't looking good.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Go Dodgers, Well they're gonna need a game seven. I mean,
the Dodgers are absolutely hoping for a Game seven at
this point down three games to do and math is
it mathing? No, It's okay, that's all right. And I
know that our friends on LA Sports A five seventy
they're looking forward to that too. You can always hear
the Dodgers games right there. Big news coming this weekend,
regardless of the outcome in sports, Regardless if anything somehow
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miraculously happens in Washington, DC and the government reopens, it's
really too late to stop this at this point. Foodstamp benefits,
Snap benefits, how fresh those things gone.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
A lot of people are gonna lose a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And it could get ugly because not only are we
talking about people who are already among the most vulnerable
in our society missing out on the monthly payment that
they would use to buy food. You've got patrols being
added in some cities outside grocery stores in anticipation of unrest.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, and it is indicative of what the expectation is
is that there's going to be a mass flocking to
these sorts of free and support services. Because there are
five point five million residents in California who are recipients
of the cow Fresh Slash Snap benefits, of which two
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million of those are children, so it is a very
scary time.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Indeed, a lot of those are here in southern California.
We're going to talk more about that next. We'll hear
from you as well. All you've got to do is
open up the iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button.
You've got Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs with you till
ten o'clock going through all the news of the day.
So join us.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Michael Monks from KFI News with you till ten o'clock
alongside the Tiffany Hobbes. Yes, indeed, good to see you tonight.
Than we are facing some challenges this weekend and it
could get really ugly, not just for a lot of families,
but for the community at large. We're talking about snap
benefits running out because of the ongoing federal government shutdown,
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and folks that would typically get their grocery money loaded
onto their cards on November the first, as they do
on the first of every month, will not get it
this weekend, and that's bad news for millions.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
The fact that the timing would never be good for this,
but to have it be during the month where arguably
or not arguably, we spend probably the most on food,
especially given you know, the celebration aspect of it obviously
is just insult to injury. It's beyond the pale, and
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a lot of people again our recipients of food subsidies
and social services, and you may not realize that. I
think people think it's only the most destitute of the population,
and in fact, many working people are on these food
benefit services.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
When I first moved here, and I moved here without
a job, was waiting to get a good job, and
it took me a long time, so I ended up
working at the Alpoyo logo. I've told the story on
the areasount. I know it was great, but like I
couldn't get a job anywhere. So I'm working as cashier
at the Alpoyo Loco at Third and Broadway downtown.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And was always a little bit surprised by some of
the folks who would take out And this is me
perhaps being judgemental and expecting, you know, like a mom
with kids to pull out a cow fresh card. But
I saw a lot of people with their work tags
around their neck pulling out young guys twenty seven ish
if I win to guests. Yeah, and they're using this,
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but as of Saturday, that's going to run out, even
if the federal government somehow manages to reopen tomorrow. Now,
California governor knew some Attorney General Bond did. They say
there is money in the agriculture cabinets funds to support SNAP,
regardless of whether the government is open or not. So
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they have joined other states ensuing. Here's Attorney General Rob Bonda.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Every state but one. Now warning snappist.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let me try that. That was not BoNT at all.
Let me try this one youthy.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Federal administration has cut off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
or SNAP, allowing more than forty one million Americans.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Who rely on federal food assistants to go hungry.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
So those funds are sitting there, unspent, and it is unconscionable,
it is a moral.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It is illegal.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
They chose to leave billions of dollars earmarked for this
purpose untouched, without an adequate explanation, without an adequate plan.
Trump's US Department of Agriculture chose this. This was a decision,
This was a choice. It chose to let more than
forty one million Americans go hungry.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So the contention there from Democratic state officials, including some
in Congress, is the money's there, do not let these
folks go.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Hungry, right, And I think that when you when you
consider that the money is there, it again just adds
for complication to how could we get to this point
if there are reserve funds to prevent something like this
from happening. And a lot of people are saying the
money should come in the form of direct payments.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
It's going to food banks, and people are expressing some
hesitation with that and wanting again these more direct payments.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, you've got people who would typically have a grocery
list that they would go out and fulfill on their
own based on the amount of money that they're getting,
and instead they're going to be going to food banks
and they will not have the choices that they typically have.
I know that here in southern California, various government entities
and local organizations like food banks are mobilizing to prepare
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for this. The LA School District has said that they
will be doing meal pickups. We know that the county
government has set aside ten million dollars. But that's only
ten million dollars. Do you know Los Angeles County alone
receives three hundred twenty million dollars every month from the
federal government to support Californa.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
The numbers that have been coming out about this have
been astronomical and highly surprising. Again, do not realize just
how many people benefit from these sort of programs.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
One and a half million people in Los Angeles County
use these benefits, three hundred ten thousand in Orange County
use these benefits. The stakes are high.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Every state but one now warning snap assistance will halt
for Americans like single mother Melissa Miles in Michigan, relying
on the program to feed her son.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't see how we are one of the wealthiest
countries in the world, yet we're willing to let people
go hungry all because people can't communicate and agree.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Across the country, food banks scrambling.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Honestly, I feel like if lawmakers are reasonable, rational and responsible,
that they can come together and do the right thing,
and the right thing is being there for the people,
and right now they're.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Not, and that's what's lost. I think in this new
political climate that is governance by meme. There may be
real conversations to have about fraud in this particular program,
there may be real conversations to have about work requirements.
But regardless of your position on the benefits of these benefits,
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they are going away on Saturday, and that's going to
cause a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think you said something really pivotal a little while
ago as well. Many schools, if not all schools in
California benefit from these sorts of subsidies as well. Their
meal programs are directly related to these funds, and so
when these funds go away for however long they do,
school lunches, school breakfasts are going to be altered in
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so many ways. And many children, especially in the Los
Angeles Unified School District, depend on these free meals for
their meals or or their subsistence of the day. Without them,
what do they have. It's a dire situation. It's dire,
and it could get ugly.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Barstow says that it is planning extra police patrols at
grocery stores to stop theft as these food stamp programs
run out on Saturday. And what we're what we're seeing
in some of the media reports out of Barstow is
that the Barstow Police Department posted on Facebook. We understand
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that these circumstances may cause additional stress for many families.
To help ensure the safety of residents, customers, and business owners,
officers will be conducting extra patrols around local grocery stores,
convenience stores, and shopping centers. They are calling it a
preventative a preventive measure to maintain public safety, to ter
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theft and reassure the community that law enforcement is present
and ready to help.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That sounds very comfortable going to a and being sarcastic,
going to a grocery store and seeing all these armed patrolmen.
As you've seen, I know we have to break but
as we've seen, we've had this increase of this heavily
armed almost like a militia presence at different grocery stores.
I see them at the targets and major you know,
major areas of the city or at grocery stores. Like
(15:18):
I said, and it doesn't necessarily make you feel comfortable.
It makes you feel like you're in a situation that
is potentially violent or primed for violence.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And this is going to be the norm going forward.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Very scary situation for folks who live on the edge.
And you know, I think there's a certain point in
adulthood where if you're fortunate to be professional and you've
got a decent job, where you start to go to
the grocery store without that worry, where you can go
in you ha me have a list, but you can
buy something you didn't anticipate, the expensive bag of pretzels,
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or something that was on the shelf that you didn't
expec seeen chocolate. This year, I mean, things are going
there's no question about it. You know, things are getting
more expensive. But there are certain luxuries that a lot
of us enjoy, simple luxuries like going in and saying, ah,
you know what, I can buy this bread because I
don't have to worry about that. But there are folks
who do worry about it, and they will be worrying
extra hard this weekend. Local government officials have asked folks
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to contribute to food banks that they think they can
reach and support. And we'll continue this conversation. Hope p
will join it as well. Open up the iHeartRadio app,
click on the talkback button. We'll get to some of
your comments just ahead. It's Tiffany Hobbs and Michael Monks
with you right here until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs sitting in tonight from seven
to ten.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
You can do so, of course, on the iHeartRadio app
or live on your radio. And what we do want
you to do is go to the talkback feature and
let us know what you think of what we've been
talking about. So far, we've covered the Snap benefits, we've
talked about the Dodgers, we've talked about the heat, and
next we're going to talk about Prop fifty.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I think if there's one thing that can calm everyone's
nerves over the pending SNAP defunding this weekend, it's an
election on Tuesday. As if the country can't be more polarized,
A special election. It's a bow on it. It is
a special election here in California. Prop fifty that would temporarily,
they say, I guess, sideline the Independent Redistricting Commission and
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draw new congressional districts that pretty much favor Democrats to
pick up five additional seats. Now, yes, Democrats here say
this is a direct counter to what Texas is doing.
Texas is redrawing its maps. They plan to send about
five more Republicans to Washington. But here's what's happening, Tiffany.
There are other states now mobilizing Ohio, Tommy Moore, Michael, Yeah,
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Maryland's possibly looking at it, North Carolina. All of these states,
we are often the trendsetters. It does start in California. Yeah,
Texas did it. Then California's doing it. And now it
seems like the race for control of the House of Representatives,
which would typically take place in November of twenty twenty six,
is happening now much earlier, and it won't matter who
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the candidates are because folks' seats are going to be
drawn so comfortably that this state's going to send and
a very predictable number of Republicans, this state's going to
send a very predictable number of Democrats. Look, redistricting is
not new, no, But to have it as weaponized as
it is on a national scale like this, I think
that is new. And that's what we'll be watching for.
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We'll be covering this very hard. On Tuesday night. Chris
Meryl will actually be with me from seven to ten election. Yeah,
we'll be back here in seven to ten. Bring the
election result. It's not the only election that's taking place
that New York mayor has gotten a lot of attention.
We're watching that one.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's going to be an interesting Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Some bell weathers whether Democrats or Republicans have momentum in
the New Jersey gubernatorial race, the Virginia gubernatorial race. But
here in California, it looks like Prop fifty is going
to pass with ease.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah, and again if people the polls are showing
that if voters are pulled today, that this prop would
overwhelmingly pass, and it's just been trending further and further
toward that being in the affirmative.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The Republican opposition to this was robust vocally, but they
did not raise a lot of money compared to the
supporters of this proposition, and reporting is indicated that they
have completely stopped trying to fight it. They've accepted their fate.
And if this goes through, it almost certainly means the
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end of the congressional careers of multiple members of the
California Republican delegation.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
And it can mean the beginning of Governor Newsom's career
beyond Governor of California, because should this go in his favor,
given that Governor Newsom has been the main image behind
Prop fifty, then this could lend itself to what we
can expect in the twenty twenty eight election.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
There is no question that Governor Newsom has found his
foe in President Trump, and not in the way other
Democratic governors would. He is meeting him where President Trump
is in the mud. President Trump loves a good insult.
President Trump loves a good troll. There's no fight that's
too small for President Trump to get into. He's an
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entertainer at heart. Let's not forget that. I mean, he
is from Hollywood. He is a Hollywood guy himself. He's
a showman. Governor Newsom recognizes that, and that's why you
see the shift in his social media taking on some
of those attributes of President Trump's social commentary. And Governor
Newsom has said recently that he's not ruling out a
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run for president, and so this you're absolutely right, Tiffany.
This fight in California is to show America that Governor
Newsom fights back against President Trump.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, and it's to establish himself as a viable candidate
against the Republican Party. He is propping himself up as
more or less the superhero of the Democratic Party. Whether
or not people will buy that is yet to be seen,
but Prop fifty is trending in the way of like
we've been discussing, being voted yes on.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And even though jerry mandering is probably not something that
on its face is popular with rank and file voters,
it's been pivoted. It's been positioned as a way to
punch back at President Trump, and in all of the
campaign materials you have seen that this is California fighting
against Trump. And so in a way, Governor Newsom, who
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has pushed this issue, is already taking an electoral battle
against the President, and if he can claim this victory,
it could propel his campaign across the country to say
I fought President Trump, I won. Before I can fight
them and win again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I mean, at this point, when the boxing starts on
the White House lawn, I imagine Gavin and President Trump
will be amongst the first to enter into a fight.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I know you've got your tongue firmly in cheek, but
how far off do you really think we are.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Don't worry about where my tongue is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, gosh, but how far do
you think we are from White House? I mean, there's
gonna be like UFC fights there soon, I think. Yeah,
remember hearing, Yeah, it won't be long before our elections
are chosen in the old way.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Absolutely, you're going to oil up a few of these
politicians and get them out there and let them just
duke it out and may the best person win.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, don't threaten me with a good time. Next Tuesday,
that is election day. Of course, in California, you're already voting.
La County has opened an additional one one hundred and
forty vote centers this weekend, and that will be in
addition to the one hundred and eleven sites already established
for the November fourth statewide special election on congressional redistricting.
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All two hundred and fifty one vote centers will be
open daily from ten am to seven pm for in
person voting, voter registration and vote by mail ballot returns.
And again we will have those results coming to you live.
If the governor speaks on Tuesday as well, we'll carry
that and we'll bring you the results from across the country.
Will be a raucous good time on Tuesday night. Chris Merril,
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Michael Monks here on KFI bringing you that coverage. Tiffany.
There's a couple of weird stories, one tragic and one
very strange, and we're going to get to those.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Next things, both in time for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No kidding, monkeys on the loose with illnesses or not
or no find out, and an old guy getting killed
in the shower.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
This really really surreal way at that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
We'll get those stories to you next.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Michael Monks and rock and roll girl Tiffany Hobbs with
you until ten o'clock tonight. Boy, oh boy, something scary
Halloween esque was happening.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Urgent search for dangerous research Monkeys that escaped from the
wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway. Video showing
several monkeys crawling in the grass. Heavily armed officers responding
to the scene. Authority say a truck carrying nearly two
dozen reesis monkeys from two Lane University overturned on Interstate
fifty nine in Jasper County.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So this has a couple of Halloween angles. Listening to
that report one monkeys on the loose from a university,
that's obviously the opener to something horrifying, but to call
them Reeseiss monkeys makes them sound kind of delicious.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
This story is so complicated and it had so many legs,
no pun intended, poor monk keys. When the story broke
on Tuesday, there was pandemonium. I saw this thing all
over social media. Monkeys on the loose, truck crashes, Mississippi,
kind of this, you know, cauldron of just elements, and
(25:15):
all of it led to again chaos. But as the
detail started to unfold, the numbers changed. Oh, there are
this many monkeys. There are this many monkeys. The what
the monkeys possessed in the form of possible diseases was
being shared and then retracted. What was said by the
(25:35):
truck driver was disputed by the university, Tulane University, and
what it has amounted to is a bunch of lies
and monkeys that were shot and killed and that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Shouldn't have been.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
How many monkeys, oh, goodness, total, there were how many
there were? Well, I know they were forty pounds total.
And goodness, of course in this story that's okay, that's okay,
But there were quite a few monkeys there were.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Good well, that was the initial report, Tiffany, was that
these are monkeys that have some sort of horrible disease.
I'm gonna look it up, and they need to be shot.
And originally some of them had been put down, but
like a couple were still on the loose. And now
that's going to create panic in the community because there
are monkeys who are contagious with something horrible and they're
on the loose in a place where they should not be.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Twenty one monkeys total. Three are still outstanding. Five were
quote unquote destroyed, which is code for killed. But of
the total of the twenty one monkeys, Tulane University disputed
the truck driver's assertions that they were carrying infectious diseases
to lane set. That's not what happened. These were not
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monkeys that were in danger. You were not in danger
as the public of these things coming into contact with
you and harming you that way, that they could get
aggressive as monkeys do, but that they should not have
been killed. They should have all been returned. Three are
still on the loose, and I say, go monkeys.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Five put down, Five put down, and the rest had
been captured.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And returned to two lane, and then three are on
the loose, which I'm rooting for them.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm for them now too, because originally you think, oh no,
I mean, it's it's a very sad, unfortunate situation. But
if there are some sort of diseases running through these
monkeys that are harmful to people, then we got to
catch those monkeys. Now I'm team monkey.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now, I'm totally team monkey.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
And this was again all predicated upon the truck driver's
account at the time, and who knows. We haven't heard
a lot about the truck driver himself or herself, but
we do know that what was said initially was false.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Who is the natural enemy of the monkey in the wild,
the truck driver?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, I think I think so too this point, all
truck drivers can't trust it.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What a tragic story involving a grandfather who they're saying
he was basically boiled alive. This story is horrible. In
a scalding hot hotel shower, Katila reports in a lawsuit
filed earlier this month in Santa Clara County Superior court.
Family members of LA resident Terrell Johnson. He was seventy two.
(28:12):
They alleged scalding shower water as hot as one hundred
and thirty six degrees led to his death in a
hotel in San Jose, oh.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He was there to visit his granddaughter, who's a gymnast
graduate from San Jose State University, and when taking a shower,
something went really really wrong and his grandson actually is
who found him. I can't imagine what that was like
for the grandson said. He went into the bathroom, the
grandson to check on his grandfather after he'd been in
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there for quite a while, and found grandfather unresponsive, partially
submerged in the bathtub, and water that was quoted as
being so hot that family members were unable to immediately
pull him out. They think it got as hot as
one hundred and thirty six degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Coumbing code for California for individual showers and tub showers
should be no hotter than one hundred twenty degrees. Again,
this lawsuit says that it was as hot as one
thirty four to six.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
King showers that are one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I like a hot shower, but I don't. I don't
know what the temperature is.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I like to turn a little red every now and then.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's why your skin looks so supple. Now I understand, yeah,
you got to boil it out.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Goh, But I bet that this was so hot that
it shocked him, yeah, and put him down, you know,
on the ground, and he died.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And and that there is what a lot of people
are surmising. And the coroner's report will undoubtedly be able
to determine the exact cause of death, whether it happened
prior or after the water actually made contact. But the coroner,
the medical examiner there in Santa Clara County, did say
that Terrell Johnson suffered burns to more than thirty three
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percent of his body and those burns were caused by
severe scalding. I just I can't imagine. Being burned is
one of the worst possible things. And then this it is.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And when you're in a hotel, it takes a moment
to figure out the you know, the handles on the
shower and you know, like whish direction to move it
and what temperature you need. But once you get it right,
there's really nothing better than the hotel's shower because you're
not paying for it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's like we talked about the AC at the top
of the hour, whether you turn on the AC, you know,
you can run the AC in a hotel room on
full blast and you do get free.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You're completely beholden to that greed.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
And this is according to the court documents that were
filed on behalf of Tarrell Johnson and his family. But
this was not a freak ass accident that it was
the quote direct result of the defendant's gross negligence and
failure to meet even basic safety obligations, the defendant being
the hotel owner and in sweets at the San Jose Airports,
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if you stay there, check your water, Check your water,
Yeah that is.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I just don't know though, if it's so hot, how
far into the water you get. I mean, like I
think everybody has, you know, you dip a toe in,
you dip a hand in a little bit, and you
pull back if it's too hot. I mean, don't I
don't know what the circumstances would have been for somebody
to feel water as hot as they say it was
and then to get all of the way into the shower.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
He might have fallen who knows passed out and again
the coroner's report will share with that is autopsy will
share what that is, but tragic, horrible, horrible story.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
More tales of horror and tragedy and scariness. Because it
is Halloween Eve here in Burbank and across the USA,
and we're gonna talk our next hour about Halloween. I'm
gonna tell you right now, I don't like Halloween and
you like it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
This is my sports Yeah, I hate it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We want to hear from you all coming up in
the next hour, just about Halloween, but also the serious
topics we've been going through. How are you feeling about
the Prop fifty vote next Tuesday? What are your concerns
about the benefits? The snap benefits running out as of
Saturday this coming weekend. Open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on the talkback button. We see the ones we received already.
(32:19):
We're going to play some of those at the top
of the next hour as we continue here with Tiffany
Hobbs and Michael Monks on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
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