November 17, 2025 • 34 mins
In Big Sur, 20-foot waves swept a little girl away, and her dad drowned while trying to save her. California rent controls have changed for the first time in 40 years, with rent hikes now capped at 4%. A Chilean inmate walked away from a California prison fire camp but has since been apprehended. New Netflix documentary “All the Empty Rooms” documents the left-behind bedrooms of school shooting victims. President Trump signed an executive order lowering most tariffs on beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas. On the flipside, the price of wine has gone up due to tariffs. Two people are suing Carnival Cruise Line following an alleged bedbug infestation in their cabin. In France, children were left screaming onboard a ferry when they were inadvertently subjected to a porn film that was mistakenly broadcast. This year, the Christmas tree trend is “Ralph Lauren Christmas,” which is a return to a more traditional look.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The week's been hogs on the geeze my mind. Turn
on the radio just in time, say funny Hobbs got
me feeling fine week? Yes, what's funny?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
K if I AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here filling in for Andy Reesemeyer
today from two to four pm, and he gets a
well deserved break, and luckily for him, it looks kind
of dry outside. It's still obviously wet on the ground
and other places, but it's not raining. The wetness is
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not currently falling from the sky, and as I turn
around and look out the window, it still seems to
be holding true, So that is a nice reprieve, but
not for long. And of course, the biggest story in
all of southern California right now is the rain.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
For sure. Updates.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
As you heard Aileen say, there's a little break, and
the National Weather Service says it's coming back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
There's a seventy percent chance today in La County and
Orange County. Evacuation orders in La County have been lifted,
but there is still a flood advisory for the vulnerable areas,
those burned scar areas in the Altadena and Palisades regions.
That is in effect until today about two forty five pm,
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so another thirty eight minutes or so for that flood advisory.
And we're also all being advised to watch out for
falling trees. Might not be the best time to park
your car beneath a large or small tree because of
the very saturated soil, so trees are also a bit compromised.
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Another storm system will hit tomorrow mid morning in the
Metro La area. Also not a good time to surf.
I'll give you a little awful story in a moment,
but let me give you some tallies. So some La
County areas saw as much as five inches of rain
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yesterday and into the overnight areas. Mount Baldy was our
top earner at just over five inches in La County.
Orange County topped out at about three and a half inches,
and that was marked at the Fullerton Airport. Ventura County
saw between four and five inches of rain everywhere, so
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it was coming down out there in Ventura County, and
then in San Bernardino County, Cuckamonga Canyon had the highest
total at just over four point three inches, so a
lot of rain fell and more is to come. Now
back to a good reason as to why you shouldn't
be going into the surf, and I know that whenever
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there's these.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Big waves, and it was really windy.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It was really windy for a period of time last
night and early morning.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And by the way, did you hear that thunder?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was actually at my gym and I was on
the ground level and looking out at the courtyard area,
and the entire thing lit up, lit up very brightly
around nine thirty or so. And the funny thing is
later the neighborhood crime apps and neighborhood watch apps were
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all a flutter with people asking what was that big sound?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Thunder?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's called thunder people, and it happened yesterday. But back
to the awful story about surfing. Don't get in the
water right now. You might be drawn to these big waves,
and they are big, but that also means that they
are very powerful. There's a story out of northern California.
Actually in the big sur area, there was a five
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year old girl who was swept off the shop door
line by fifteen to twenty foot waves created by the
same atmospheric river storm that we were just under that
we're still currently sitting under, although it seems to be
moving out, But that storm produced these huge waves up north.
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Her dad jumped in to save her and was unfortunately killed.
The five year old girl is still missing. An awful,
awful story out of the Big sur area. There are
other stories floating around, of course. The US Justice Department
has announced it's joining California Republicans in a lawsuit over
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California's new congressional maps that were made possible by the.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Passage of Prop. Fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And that passage happened earlier this month in an overwhelming vote.
But California Republicans and the US Justice Department are joining
forces to suit. They don't want it to happen, and
we'll see what happens with that lawsuit. LA has reformed
rent control for the first time in forty years, and
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under these reforms, which were approved by the majority overwhelming
majority of city council members, rent hikes will be capped
at four percent, and that's even if inflation in the
overall economy runs higher. LA has a current rent control
rule that guarantees that landlords have the right to raise
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rents at least three percent every year, but now it will.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Be capped at four percent annually.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Increases in the past have gone as high as ten
percent in some apartments during periods of high inflation also,
which has made it impossible to rent anything affordably. But
now this cap, which was passed by twelve of the
Council's fifteen members, will make it so landlords cannot go
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pass asked four person annually.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There was an.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Inmate who walked away earlier this week from a California
prison fire camp. Actually happened a week ago today. Alejandro Tobarfuintes,
thirty three years old, was at the Francisquito Conservation Camp
in La County and last Sunday night he walked away,
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and what happened was the search of the camp revealed
he was not on the property and local law enforcement
was notified. And this particular camp allows inmates to work
in wildline fire suppression and infrastructure maintenance in order to
shave time from their sentences. But Tobarfuintes walked away and
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he was located and taken into custody in Mecca, which
is a small town near the Coachella Valley. He was
arrested without incident and undoubtedly will have time now added
to his sentence, don't walk away from your fire camp.
And then there's a new documentary that is premiering on
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Netflix December first. This documentary is it's gonna do a lot,
It's going to pull at a lot of emotions, and
rightfully so. It's called All the Empty Rooms. And what
it does is it documents the left behind bedrooms of
school shooting victims. It follows veterans CBS News correspondent Steve
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Hartman and photographer Lou Bop as they embark on a
seven year project to document the empty bedrooms of children
killed in school shootings. That premiere is on Netflix on
December first. When we come back, we're going to talk tariffs.
I know we haven't been talking about them as much
as perhaps maybe a month or two ago, but now
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we're going to again because Trump is promising. President Trump
has promised to lower tariffs on these goods amongst concerns
about affordability. However, on the flip side, tariffs may be
raised for these things. Right at the holidays, the worst
possible time to see a tariff spike on these specific items.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All of this and more as I fill in here
for Andy Reesemeyer today from two to four. Tiffany Hobbs here.
We'll still have scammers gonna scam. We'll still have our
Deeper Dive segment. It's going to be a big fun show,
and I look forward to you joining us KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We were all here yesterday when it was pouring. Oh man,
last night around what was it, around nine or so.
It's just buckets buckets everywhere. It was just you know,
it's really fun to watch when you're inside, but commuting
was a mess. I hope you all have been able
to travel safely. And remember the rain is coming back.
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It's coming back starting tomorrow mid morning, and there's a
chance of rain every day throughout next week. So just prepare,
put the air in your tires, change your tires. I
know I have some things to do that way. Just
make sure you're ready, by an umbrella. For God's sake,
so many people walking around with just unprepared, unprepared Southern Californians.
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We are, but it's coming back, be ready. Something else
that's coming back, unfortunately, has to do with tariffs. But
before we get into the tariffs that will be increasing,
let's give us some good news about tariffs that will
be lowering. President Trump on Friday, just a couple of
(09:47):
days ago, signed an executive order that retroactively lowers tariffs
on beef, tomatoes, coffee, and bananas. Beef, tomatoes, coffee, and banana,
among other agricultural imports. This order that President Trump signed
excludes the goods from something called reciprocal tariff rates, which
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start at ten percent and can go as high as
fifty percent. For instance, tomatoes from Mexico, which is a
major supplier to the US, will continue to be tariffed
at seventeen percent. But many of the commodities that will
no longer face reciprocal tariffs have seen some of the
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biggest price increases since President Trump took office, and that's
in part because of the tariffs he imposed and a
lack of sufficient domestics supply.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So prices were already up on a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of these goods again, beef, tomatoes, coffee, bananas, and now
to try and mitigate those rising costs, President Trump is
lowering the tariffs. For instance, again, Brazil is the top
supplier of coffee to the US and they've faced tariffs
of fifty percent since August, which has resulted in consumers
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like you and I paying nearly twenty percent more for
coffee as of this past September compared to a year ago.
And that's according to Consumer Price Index data. We've all
been to the grocery store. We all see the sticker shock.
At this point, we're used to it, and we know
we normalize the shock of these rising prices. But hopefully
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as we enter into the holiday season, the deep holiday season,
some of these things will be relief. Some of these
high prices will start to come down. And that's what
this order is supposed to do now, while beef, tomatoes, coffee,
and bananas and some other agricultural imports will come down.
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On the flip side, I have some really, really bad
news for all of us who love our wine. I
don't know if Shannon Farrin's listening, but Shannon, sorry to
tell you this, and for me as well. I just
bought a bottle yesterday, and I'll tell you about sticker shock.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What used to be Okay, I buy the cheap wine.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What used to be six dollars seven bucks was last
night ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Luckily, make a couple extra bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I can't afford a ten dollars bottle of wine, but
still seeing the prices go up almost immediately is something
that can stop you in your tracks.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And tariffs are coming for our wine. First. They came
for our wine, and we did nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Shoppers can expect higher prices and possibly slimmer selections at
your local wine shops, those specialty wine shops, your total Wine,
your Bevco, and also at the grocery store as importers
are facing steep tariffs and shopkeepers are dealing with declining demand.
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Apparently people do not drink wine like they used to.
That was the bigger shock to me versus the prices
that there is a growing decrease in the amount of
wine consumption in the United States. Bottle wine prices have
risen nearly twenty percent over the past twenty five years
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and eight percent over the past decade, according to the
latest government data that tracks this, and several reasons are
to blame, including climate change which affects the grapes, of course, inflation,
and the rising costs of production. For instance, there's a
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shop in Manhattan and New York called mccab's Wine and Spirits,
and they are expecting to increase their prices between five
percent and twelve percent because of tariffs, shipping, manufacturing, and labels.
Here's the decline information shocker. Wine volume consumed in the
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United States has declined three percent between twenty nineteen and
twenty twenty four. I don't know if I should applaud
you guys, those of you who are drinking less wine
or be concerned that you're doing something else, and it's
expected to fall another four percent from twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty nine. That's according to an alcohol data
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insights firm called iws R. Domestic wines, which President Trump
thought the tariffs would help, also aren't selling any better
this year. Notably, tequila and mescal are exempt from tariffs
since both fall under a twenty eighteen free trade agreement
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that pre President Trump signed with Mexico during his first term.
Tequila and mesical our up wine is down as far
as consumption and then the opposite for pricing, and with
drastically smaller orders coming in from overseas, including a fifty
percent drop from France and a sixty six percent decline
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from Italy. Shoppers might see all of that reflected on
store shelves, and I know I did last night at
Von's as my beloved wine went from seven dollars to
ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And I stood there for a second.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I thought about it, and after I put two bottles
in my cart, I just kept it pushing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All right, when we.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Come back, we're going to talk terror on the seas
or on the ocean at least, or on the water
at least, because we have a pair of stories. One
that involves Carnival, often not good news with Carnival lately,
and something that happened in France on a ferry, not
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even out all the way in the ocean. This is
a ferry. This is a story I have to tell you.
So we have a carnival story about an infestation and
something on a ferry that children should not have heard
or seen. But did all of that more on the
other side of the break. Tiffany Hobbs here filling in
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for Andy reids Meyer until four kf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Filling in for Andy reids Meyer until four pm, and
then Chris Merrill will be aboard as usual. And I
think I spoke a little too soon because as I
turned around and looked out of our huge windows here
in the studio that show us everything that's happening below us,
it's raining. It's raining. It's rain on the windows, waters
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fall from the sky. It's raining. Not yet, cats and dogs,
but a little bit. So you know, just be forewarned
it's raining a little bit. Check in with us, use
the iHeart app and the talkback feature, and Nikki if
you get anything, let me know. Producer NICKI in there
in the room away from me. Let us know if
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there's any rainfalling where you are. Be our on the
ground meteorologists, because you guys are our best I guess
entry into what weather is happening currently, So let us know.
Is it raining where you're at?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it dry? Is this much ado about nothing? You know,
it's southern California.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
We have to report on the rain because it's a
major thing.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
It's a major thing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Another major thing is if you enjoy cruising, of which
I've never gone on a cruise before. Then you want
to hear this next story. Unfortunately, I've heard other instances
of this happening, but in this case, there's a lawsuit
which legitimizes it. It makes it real. And what happened
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is two Carnival cruise passengers are suing Carnival following an
alleged bed bug infestation in their cabin. A bedbug ill
can feel them, oh, a bedbug infestation in their cabin.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Now you think about cruising.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
People are coming from everywhere, all over the world, and
they're bringing their belongings, and they're putting their belongings in
these rooms. And then you stay in the room, and
who knows what's there. God forbid you have a black light,
let alone you see bedbugs. But that's what happened for
these poor passengers. Catherine Shockley and William Maycock from Maryland
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said they suffered more than thirty individual bites after sleeping
in a stateroom on board the Carnival Horizon back in February.
So this lawsuit is just now coming to light. And
according to a complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida,
Miss Shockley quote searched the state room and discovered live
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bedbugs in multiple stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs,
multiple stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs, multiple stages
of life, fecal spotting and eggs. Okay, okay. The complaint
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says that both passengers suffered numerous intensely itchy bites, resulting
in large, painful welts that required medical treatment and medication
and probably some mental health help as well, multiple dark splotches,
loss of sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
There.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It is mental distress, loss of personal property, and economic loss.
That's where the lawsuit comes in. They want to recoup
that economic loss and I'm sure for more than the
ticket they purchased.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Both passengers state that they alerted crew members to the
matter and that steps weren't taken to address the issue.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They said that the.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Carnival Cruise Line was negligent in warning them and did
not maintain the ship. A spokesperson for Carnival said that's rubbish.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
They said. They told The Independent.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The spokesperson that they don't comment on pending litigation, but
that they do have it quote extensive and thorough guest
room sanitation process, with staff trained to conduct weekly inspections
of every cabin well not, according to Catherine Shockley and
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William Maycock from Maryland, who spotted multiple bed but uggs
in various stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs. If
you are preparing to board a carnival ship or any ship,
watch out for multiple stages of life and fecal spotting
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and eggs. I guess I don't know if you can
specific specifically ask to not have that in your room,
or is that you know? Is is that part of
the fine print that that may happen. I don't know.
I don't cruise. This is one of the reasons I don't.
There's something about being confined out on the open ocean
with a lot of people whose hygiene practices or home
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environments or whatever it may be, you're not necessarily aware of,
and now you're all crammed together, and there it is.
You might walk away with bedbugs. On the other side
of the world, something happened in France doesn't involve a
cruise ship, but it does involve a ferry.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This one.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
This one not as bad as bed bugs, but definitely
not good for the company. A fairy company says that
they've apologized after children were left screaming when a pornographic
film was played on one of their ships that went
from France to Sussex. The faery company said, it's very sorry.
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I bet they are over the incident which happened a
boar at this ferry.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They said it was an adult film and.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It was broadcast mistakenly on the lounge television to passengers
who had been watching a Formula one Grand Prix, causing
children who were there on board to be exposed to
what one passenger described as hardcore porn. They were supposed
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to be watching the Grand Prix and instead they got
the Grand porn. A spokesperson said the incident took place
during a delay when the ferry was sent back to
France because of a technical fault, so they were at
port when this happened, and a group of passengers were bored.
They said, hey, can we watch the Grand Prix on
the TV in the lounge, And when they turned it on,
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what streamed out on this huge television for all to see,
including the poor children who were there, was adult content porn.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They said.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Once the crew were alerted to that content, the channel
was swiftly changed. You think who was the person that
brave person who was just got up and said, let's
just change the channel.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
People. People are running and screaming, just change the channel.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's said that the channel in question, which they don't
note specifically, has since been removed from the list of
available stations on the boat.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So there was.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There's a list of stations you can watch on these
communal TVs, and porn was there, and someone selected that
channel and before you know it, bingo banngo bongo right
there in your face. All right, They said, this will
not happen again. We are very sorry for the understandable
upset and anger that this caused. The one passenger said,
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suddenly kids ran out of the recliner lounge screaming. Some
parents came out, and they were asking the employee who
worked there to sort the TV out, and they were saying,
there's hardcore porn on the TV. I couldn't see it,
the passenger says, but it was audible.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh, it's just that's great.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
The passenger went on to say that a member of
staff got up to turn off the TV. They said
it was a mess and people were really disgruntled. I'm
sure there were a couple of people who were not
but they did not. They declined to comment for this story.
When we come back, we're going to talk about minimalism
at Christmas as far as decorations are concerned, and why
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it's out, and why we are back to classic Christmas
decorations and if our Christmas tree from out at Home
is any indication the one right here in the studio,
then classic is back and those beige trees are out.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We're going to talk about why.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs here
filling in for Andy Reismeyer until four KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It was really nice Mario Vibe. I love that.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I just that came out a few years ago and
it's always been one of my favorite rotations to play
this time of year. And I was like thinking in
on a fly, I was like, which one's on my
playlist my personal place?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was ay, this one that was nice? I like that.
Who's that by Pentatonics?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I think actually with the Ellen k Morning Show from
Coast Oh, that's part of that flip. Yes, the holiday season.
If I'm not mistaken they were with her. I think
she did a show at Disneyland, if I say something
like that, but I believe a member or two from
Pentatonics was there as well.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You know, whenever coast flips and it's earlier and earlier,
it seems, because we just love Christmas music. Once it
starts to get into this part of the year, it
just it automatically puts you in the Christmas spirit, whether
you want to be or not. It's just forced, but
it's it's kind of nice, so cozy, so cozy. Let
me ask you a question, Mario, when it comes to
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your Christmas tree, if you do decorator, you grew up decorating,
give me a little synopsis.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What did it look like? So we've always gone artificial.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I've never had the experience of getting a real Christmas tree,
and we've always gone for At some points we'd go
for the colors of the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
At other points we'd go for that warm golden glow.
Uh huh, you know, just mix in with the green
and the reds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So a nice little balance of the green and the
reds and the gold and other ears. Other years, colors
of the rainbows.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Okay, Well, you gotta get yourself a fresh Christmas tree
this year. Go pick one out. Yeah, I want to
look into that because I want to experience it at
least once.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And it smells good. Oh I bet it does.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Just make sure you don't keep it up too long,
as it's a pain and it'd just die everywhere in
your place. It's just you sweeping up pine needles until
Christmas next year. Eileen, what is your what's a favorite
type of Christmas tree for you? I know we were
talking off air about what we like share with us.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, we can't hear.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You, okay, can we hear can't hear you? Eileen, she's
just getting right into that story. There we push these buttons,
No worries. You put the buttons here.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I was recording something and sorry, some extra buttons.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You're working my bad. No worries.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
So I have a tinsel tree like those retro I
guess seventies tinsel trees pull out every year. But I
put colors on it. I don't keep it monochromatic. I
like to have different colors on there.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Got it.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Growing up we had the real tree and a huge
Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh, underneath it yeah, you guys went all out. Yeah.
Not honestly, I'm gonna tell you I hate Christmas. Humbug, bough, humbug. Sorry, buddy,
we have another month and a half of this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Is she and there?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Nikki?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Are you in there?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I am in Australia. What about Christmas? And what does
your tree look like?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Quickly, no trees in my household, because we are the
only Jews in Australia. But we do the sun burnt
Christmas because it's the height of summer, so usually people
go to the beach and drink beer and eat seafood.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Got it. Got it? As if I didn't know you
were Jewish.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We talk about this all the time and then here
I go throwing this question to you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It's fascinating. There are tens of us. That's great. I
love a traditional Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I grew up with mixture of either fresh or tinsoil
or artificial with tinsol or without. And the colors were
always traditional. We always went for the classic red, green, gold.
You know, maybe some pops of burgundy or purple in there,
but it was always typically traditional. And in recent years
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we've seen a departure from the traditional kind of maximalist
Christmas tree with all those ornaments and the ones you
remember from your childhood if you're north of say thirty
at this point, to a more streamlined gray, monochromatic silver,
even or tope or cream type of aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Maybe large bows, but not a lot of color.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And again, for many years, that seemed to be what
influencers were pushing, and we saw it show up from
showrooms to commercials to you know, perhaps maybe even people
in your own neighborhood or perhaps even in your own home.
That apparently is out and something called Ralph Lauren Christmas
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is in. And that's because it's based off of Ralph
Lauren's decadent festive window display at their Fifth Avenue Flagship's
store right there in New York, where they have beautiful furnishings.
They have silver, they have stockings, they have velvet, they
have pine covered garlands, red green gold. It's a return
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to that sort of look, green tartan cushions, velvet, ornaments again,
bushy garlands, big trees, lots and lots.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And lots of ornaments.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Perhaps a fireplace or a faux fireplace in the background,
the smell of gingerbread wafting through your home or a
diffuser if you don't bake at any rate. It's all back,
and it's being driven by influencers once again who are
saying we want color, we want maximalism, and they want
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more or less a nineties revival. It's based not just
on the Ralph Lauren look, but also on films like
Home Alone, these quintessential Christmas films that share so much
of that aesthetic and create a sense of nostalgia for
those of us who have been able to experience it.
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There's a timelessness to this, and even though it's a
trend this year, a lot of these people track trends
say that this could very well propel into further years.
Is not going to be a one and done. They
say it's a departure from the sad, cold and joyless
beige Christmas that's been paraded in the last few years.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Kim Kardashian comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Specifically, because she had a Christmas esthetic that was gray.
It was gray and oatmeal colored and plus and people
wanted to recreate that for some strange reason. I don't know,
but I'm really glad that we're back to going full
Home Alone. This Christmas. You can recreate it on a budget.
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It doesn't have to be Ralph Lauren. It could be anywhere,
as long as it brings you joy and as long
as it's colorful. And again, as I look at this
Autik Christmas tree here, it is gorgeous from their Autik
Homes Gold label. Go visit Autick out there in the valley.
I went a few weeks ago and we had a
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great time just walking through. We've made it a tradition
now annually just to walk through Autick and to look
at the trees. And it seems like they too are
re embracing a more colorful and traditional tree. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
I want to play something for you. A Mario is
gonna play it talking about Kevin McAllister and home alone.
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Let's take a walk down memory lane and we'll let
this take us into the break.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Let's go for it. Hey, yeah, the husband.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
By that, Harry, make the Christmas stop, so Marry, give
the REGs and give them ritches one for Christmas sake,
the trenches, some pain cans down to bread that let's
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go box down to meet them.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
So the DALs for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Then then is declared, when.
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May I do the thinking?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Please home alone too, Lost in New.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
York after schar.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Don't worry anybody's so can Rope caresy.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Merry Christmas. Deeper dives when we come back.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
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The week's been hogs on the geeze my mind. Turn
on the radio just in time, say funny Hobbs got
me feeling fine week? Yes, what's funny?
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K if I AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here filling in for Andy Reesemeyer
today from two to four pm, and he gets a
well deserved break, and luckily for him, it looks kind
of dry outside. It's still obviously wet on the ground
and other places, but it's not raining. The wetness is
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not currently falling from the sky, and as I turn
around and look out the window, it still seems to
be holding true, So that is a nice reprieve, but
not for long. And of course, the biggest story in
all of southern California right now is the rain.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
For sure. Updates.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
As you heard Aileen say, there's a little break, and
the National Weather Service says it's coming back.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
There's a seventy percent chance today in La County and
Orange County. Evacuation orders in La County have been lifted,
but there is still a flood advisory for the vulnerable areas,
those burned scar areas in the Altadena and Palisades regions.
That is in effect until today about two forty five pm,
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so another thirty eight minutes or so for that flood advisory.
And we're also all being advised to watch out for
falling trees. Might not be the best time to park
your car beneath a large or small tree because of
the very saturated soil, so trees are also a bit compromised.
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Another storm system will hit tomorrow mid morning in the
Metro La area. Also not a good time to surf.
I'll give you a little awful story in a moment,
but let me give you some tallies. So some La
County areas saw as much as five inches of rain
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yesterday and into the overnight areas. Mount Baldy was our
top earner at just over five inches in La County.
Orange County topped out at about three and a half inches,
and that was marked at the Fullerton Airport. Ventura County
saw between four and five inches of rain everywhere, so
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it was coming down out there in Ventura County, and
then in San Bernardino County, Cuckamonga Canyon had the highest
total at just over four point three inches, so a
lot of rain fell and more is to come. Now
back to a good reason as to why you shouldn't
be going into the surf, and I know that whenever
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there's these.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Big waves, and it was really windy.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It was really windy for a period of time last
night and early morning.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And by the way, did you hear that thunder?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was actually at my gym and I was on
the ground level and looking out at the courtyard area,
and the entire thing lit up, lit up very brightly
around nine thirty or so. And the funny thing is
later the neighborhood crime apps and neighborhood watch apps were
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all a flutter with people asking what was that big sound?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Thunder?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's called thunder people, and it happened yesterday. But back
to the awful story about surfing. Don't get in the
water right now. You might be drawn to these big waves,
and they are big, but that also means that they
are very powerful. There's a story out of northern California.
Actually in the big sur area, there was a five
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year old girl who was swept off the shop door
line by fifteen to twenty foot waves created by the
same atmospheric river storm that we were just under that
we're still currently sitting under, although it seems to be
moving out, But that storm produced these huge waves up north.
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Her dad jumped in to save her and was unfortunately killed.
The five year old girl is still missing. An awful,
awful story out of the Big sur area. There are
other stories floating around, of course. The US Justice Department
has announced it's joining California Republicans in a lawsuit over
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California's new congressional maps that were made possible by the.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Passage of Prop. Fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And that passage happened earlier this month in an overwhelming vote.
But California Republicans and the US Justice Department are joining
forces to suit. They don't want it to happen, and
we'll see what happens with that lawsuit. LA has reformed
rent control for the first time in forty years, and
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under these reforms, which were approved by the majority overwhelming
majority of city council members, rent hikes will be capped
at four percent, and that's even if inflation in the
overall economy runs higher. LA has a current rent control
rule that guarantees that landlords have the right to raise
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rents at least three percent every year, but now it will.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Be capped at four percent annually.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Increases in the past have gone as high as ten
percent in some apartments during periods of high inflation also,
which has made it impossible to rent anything affordably. But
now this cap, which was passed by twelve of the
Council's fifteen members, will make it so landlords cannot go
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pass asked four person annually.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There was an.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Inmate who walked away earlier this week from a California
prison fire camp. Actually happened a week ago today. Alejandro Tobarfuintes,
thirty three years old, was at the Francisquito Conservation Camp
in La County and last Sunday night he walked away,
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and what happened was the search of the camp revealed
he was not on the property and local law enforcement
was notified. And this particular camp allows inmates to work
in wildline fire suppression and infrastructure maintenance in order to
shave time from their sentences. But Tobarfuintes walked away and
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he was located and taken into custody in Mecca, which
is a small town near the Coachella Valley. He was
arrested without incident and undoubtedly will have time now added
to his sentence, don't walk away from your fire camp.
And then there's a new documentary that is premiering on
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Netflix December first. This documentary is it's gonna do a lot,
It's going to pull at a lot of emotions, and
rightfully so. It's called All the Empty Rooms. And what
it does is it documents the left behind bedrooms of
school shooting victims. It follows veterans CBS News correspondent Steve
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Hartman and photographer Lou Bop as they embark on a
seven year project to document the empty bedrooms of children
killed in school shootings. That premiere is on Netflix on
December first. When we come back, we're going to talk tariffs.
I know we haven't been talking about them as much
as perhaps maybe a month or two ago, but now
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we're going to again because Trump is promising. President Trump
has promised to lower tariffs on these goods amongst concerns
about affordability. However, on the flip side, tariffs may be
raised for these things. Right at the holidays, the worst
possible time to see a tariff spike on these specific items.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All of this and more as I fill in here
for Andy Reesemeyer today from two to four. Tiffany Hobbs here.
We'll still have scammers gonna scam. We'll still have our
Deeper Dive segment. It's going to be a big fun show,
and I look forward to you joining us KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We were all here yesterday when it was pouring. Oh man,
last night around what was it, around nine or so.
It's just buckets buckets everywhere. It was just you know,
it's really fun to watch when you're inside, but commuting
was a mess. I hope you all have been able
to travel safely. And remember the rain is coming back.
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It's coming back starting tomorrow mid morning, and there's a
chance of rain every day throughout next week. So just prepare,
put the air in your tires, change your tires. I
know I have some things to do that way. Just
make sure you're ready, by an umbrella. For God's sake,
so many people walking around with just unprepared, unprepared Southern Californians.
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We are, but it's coming back, be ready. Something else
that's coming back, unfortunately, has to do with tariffs. But
before we get into the tariffs that will be increasing,
let's give us some good news about tariffs that will
be lowering. President Trump on Friday, just a couple of
(09:47):
days ago, signed an executive order that retroactively lowers tariffs
on beef, tomatoes, coffee, and bananas. Beef, tomatoes, coffee, and banana,
among other agricultural imports. This order that President Trump signed
excludes the goods from something called reciprocal tariff rates, which
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start at ten percent and can go as high as
fifty percent. For instance, tomatoes from Mexico, which is a
major supplier to the US, will continue to be tariffed
at seventeen percent. But many of the commodities that will
no longer face reciprocal tariffs have seen some of the
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biggest price increases since President Trump took office, and that's
in part because of the tariffs he imposed and a
lack of sufficient domestics supply.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So prices were already up on a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Of these goods again, beef, tomatoes, coffee, bananas, and now
to try and mitigate those rising costs, President Trump is
lowering the tariffs. For instance, again, Brazil is the top
supplier of coffee to the US and they've faced tariffs
of fifty percent since August, which has resulted in consumers
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like you and I paying nearly twenty percent more for
coffee as of this past September compared to a year ago.
And that's according to Consumer Price Index data. We've all
been to the grocery store. We all see the sticker shock.
At this point, we're used to it, and we know
we normalize the shock of these rising prices. But hopefully
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as we enter into the holiday season, the deep holiday season,
some of these things will be relief. Some of these
high prices will start to come down. And that's what
this order is supposed to do now, while beef, tomatoes, coffee,
and bananas and some other agricultural imports will come down.
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On the flip side, I have some really, really bad
news for all of us who love our wine. I
don't know if Shannon Farrin's listening, but Shannon, sorry to
tell you this, and for me as well. I just
bought a bottle yesterday, and I'll tell you about sticker shock.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What used to be Okay, I buy the cheap wine.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What used to be six dollars seven bucks was last
night ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Luckily, make a couple extra bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I can't afford a ten dollars bottle of wine, but
still seeing the prices go up almost immediately is something
that can stop you in your tracks.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And tariffs are coming for our wine. First. They came
for our wine, and we did nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Shoppers can expect higher prices and possibly slimmer selections at
your local wine shops, those specialty wine shops, your total Wine,
your Bevco, and also at the grocery store as importers
are facing steep tariffs and shopkeepers are dealing with declining demand.
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Apparently people do not drink wine like they used to.
That was the bigger shock to me versus the prices
that there is a growing decrease in the amount of
wine consumption in the United States. Bottle wine prices have
risen nearly twenty percent over the past twenty five years
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and eight percent over the past decade, according to the
latest government data that tracks this, and several reasons are
to blame, including climate change which affects the grapes, of course, inflation,
and the rising costs of production. For instance, there's a
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shop in Manhattan and New York called mccab's Wine and Spirits,
and they are expecting to increase their prices between five
percent and twelve percent because of tariffs, shipping, manufacturing, and labels.
Here's the decline information shocker. Wine volume consumed in the
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United States has declined three percent between twenty nineteen and
twenty twenty four. I don't know if I should applaud
you guys, those of you who are drinking less wine
or be concerned that you're doing something else, and it's
expected to fall another four percent from twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty nine. That's according to an alcohol data
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insights firm called iws R. Domestic wines, which President Trump
thought the tariffs would help, also aren't selling any better
this year. Notably, tequila and mescal are exempt from tariffs
since both fall under a twenty eighteen free trade agreement
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that pre President Trump signed with Mexico during his first term.
Tequila and mesical our up wine is down as far
as consumption and then the opposite for pricing, and with
drastically smaller orders coming in from overseas, including a fifty
percent drop from France and a sixty six percent decline
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from Italy. Shoppers might see all of that reflected on
store shelves, and I know I did last night at
Von's as my beloved wine went from seven dollars to
ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And I stood there for a second.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I thought about it, and after I put two bottles
in my cart, I just kept it pushing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All right, when we.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Come back, we're going to talk terror on the seas
or on the ocean at least, or on the water
at least, because we have a pair of stories. One
that involves Carnival, often not good news with Carnival lately,
and something that happened in France on a ferry, not
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even out all the way in the ocean. This is
a ferry. This is a story I have to tell you.
So we have a carnival story about an infestation and
something on a ferry that children should not have heard
or seen. But did all of that more on the
other side of the break. Tiffany Hobbs here filling in
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for Andy reids Meyer until four kf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Filling in for Andy reids Meyer until four pm, and
then Chris Merrill will be aboard as usual. And I
think I spoke a little too soon because as I
turned around and looked out of our huge windows here
in the studio that show us everything that's happening below us,
it's raining. It's raining. It's rain on the windows, waters
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fall from the sky. It's raining. Not yet, cats and dogs,
but a little bit. So you know, just be forewarned
it's raining a little bit. Check in with us, use
the iHeart app and the talkback feature, and Nikki if
you get anything, let me know. Producer NICKI in there
in the room away from me. Let us know if
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there's any rainfalling where you are. Be our on the
ground meteorologists, because you guys are our best I guess
entry into what weather is happening currently, So let us know.
Is it raining where you're at?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it dry? Is this much ado about nothing? You know,
it's southern California.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
We have to report on the rain because it's a
major thing.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
It's a major thing.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Another major thing is if you enjoy cruising, of which
I've never gone on a cruise before. Then you want
to hear this next story. Unfortunately, I've heard other instances
of this happening, but in this case, there's a lawsuit
which legitimizes it. It makes it real. And what happened
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is two Carnival cruise passengers are suing Carnival following an
alleged bed bug infestation in their cabin. A bedbug ill
can feel them, oh, a bedbug infestation in their cabin.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Now you think about cruising.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
People are coming from everywhere, all over the world, and
they're bringing their belongings, and they're putting their belongings in
these rooms. And then you stay in the room, and
who knows what's there. God forbid you have a black light,
let alone you see bedbugs. But that's what happened for
these poor passengers. Catherine Shockley and William Maycock from Maryland
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said they suffered more than thirty individual bites after sleeping
in a stateroom on board the Carnival Horizon back in February.
So this lawsuit is just now coming to light. And
according to a complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida,
Miss Shockley quote searched the state room and discovered live
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bedbugs in multiple stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs,
multiple stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs, multiple stages
of life, fecal spotting and eggs. Okay, okay. The complaint
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says that both passengers suffered numerous intensely itchy bites, resulting
in large, painful welts that required medical treatment and medication
and probably some mental health help as well, multiple dark splotches,
loss of sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
There.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It is mental distress, loss of personal property, and economic loss.
That's where the lawsuit comes in. They want to recoup
that economic loss and I'm sure for more than the
ticket they purchased.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Both passengers state that they alerted crew members to the
matter and that steps weren't taken to address the issue.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They said that the.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Carnival Cruise Line was negligent in warning them and did
not maintain the ship. A spokesperson for Carnival said that's rubbish.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
They said. They told The Independent.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The spokesperson that they don't comment on pending litigation, but
that they do have it quote extensive and thorough guest
room sanitation process, with staff trained to conduct weekly inspections
of every cabin well not, according to Catherine Shockley and
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William Maycock from Maryland, who spotted multiple bed but uggs
in various stages of life, fecal spotting and eggs. If
you are preparing to board a carnival ship or any ship,
watch out for multiple stages of life and fecal spotting
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and eggs. I guess I don't know if you can
specific specifically ask to not have that in your room,
or is that you know? Is is that part of
the fine print that that may happen. I don't know.
I don't cruise. This is one of the reasons I don't.
There's something about being confined out on the open ocean
with a lot of people whose hygiene practices or home
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environments or whatever it may be, you're not necessarily aware of,
and now you're all crammed together, and there it is.
You might walk away with bedbugs. On the other side
of the world, something happened in France doesn't involve a
cruise ship, but it does involve a ferry.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This one.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
This one not as bad as bed bugs, but definitely
not good for the company. A fairy company says that
they've apologized after children were left screaming when a pornographic
film was played on one of their ships that went
from France to Sussex. The faery company said, it's very sorry.
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I bet they are over the incident which happened a
boar at this ferry.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They said it was an adult film and.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It was broadcast mistakenly on the lounge television to passengers
who had been watching a Formula one Grand Prix, causing
children who were there on board to be exposed to
what one passenger described as hardcore porn. They were supposed
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to be watching the Grand Prix and instead they got
the Grand porn. A spokesperson said the incident took place
during a delay when the ferry was sent back to
France because of a technical fault, so they were at
port when this happened, and a group of passengers were bored.
They said, hey, can we watch the Grand Prix on
the TV in the lounge, And when they turned it on,
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what streamed out on this huge television for all to see,
including the poor children who were there, was adult content porn.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They said.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Once the crew were alerted to that content, the channel
was swiftly changed. You think who was the person that
brave person who was just got up and said, let's
just change the channel.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
People. People are running and screaming, just change the channel.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's said that the channel in question, which they don't
note specifically, has since been removed from the list of
available stations on the boat.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So there was.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There's a list of stations you can watch on these
communal TVs, and porn was there, and someone selected that
channel and before you know it, bingo banngo bongo right
there in your face. All right, They said, this will
not happen again. We are very sorry for the understandable
upset and anger that this caused. The one passenger said,
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suddenly kids ran out of the recliner lounge screaming. Some
parents came out, and they were asking the employee who
worked there to sort the TV out, and they were saying,
there's hardcore porn on the TV. I couldn't see it,
the passenger says, but it was audible.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh, it's just that's great.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
The passenger went on to say that a member of
staff got up to turn off the TV. They said
it was a mess and people were really disgruntled. I'm
sure there were a couple of people who were not
but they did not. They declined to comment for this story.
When we come back, we're going to talk about minimalism
at Christmas as far as decorations are concerned, and why
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it's out, and why we are back to classic Christmas
decorations and if our Christmas tree from out at Home
is any indication the one right here in the studio,
then classic is back and those beige trees are out.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We're going to talk about why.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
On the other side of the break, Tiffany Hobbs here
filling in for Andy Reismeyer until four KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It was really nice Mario Vibe. I love that.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I just that came out a few years ago and
it's always been one of my favorite rotations to play
this time of year. And I was like thinking in
on a fly, I was like, which one's on my
playlist my personal place?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was ay, this one that was nice? I like that.
Who's that by Pentatonics?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I think actually with the Ellen k Morning Show from
Coast Oh, that's part of that flip. Yes, the holiday season.
If I'm not mistaken they were with her. I think
she did a show at Disneyland, if I say something
like that, but I believe a member or two from
Pentatonics was there as well.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
You know, whenever coast flips and it's earlier and earlier,
it seems, because we just love Christmas music. Once it
starts to get into this part of the year, it
just it automatically puts you in the Christmas spirit, whether
you want to be or not. It's just forced, but
it's it's kind of nice, so cozy, so cozy. Let
me ask you a question, Mario, when it comes to
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your Christmas tree, if you do decorator, you grew up decorating,
give me a little synopsis.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What did it look like? So we've always gone artificial.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I've never had the experience of getting a real Christmas tree,
and we've always gone for At some points we'd go
for the colors of the rainbow.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
At other points we'd go for that warm golden glow.
Uh huh, you know, just mix in with the green
and the reds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Got it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So a nice little balance of the green and the
reds and the gold and other ears. Other years, colors
of the rainbows.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Okay, Well, you gotta get yourself a fresh Christmas tree
this year. Go pick one out. Yeah, I want to
look into that because I want to experience it at
least once.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And it smells good. Oh I bet it does.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Just make sure you don't keep it up too long,
as it's a pain and it'd just die everywhere in
your place. It's just you sweeping up pine needles until
Christmas next year. Eileen, what is your what's a favorite
type of Christmas tree for you? I know we were
talking off air about what we like share with us.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh, we can't hear.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
You, okay, can we hear can't hear you? Eileen, she's
just getting right into that story. There we push these buttons,
No worries. You put the buttons here.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I was recording something and sorry, some extra buttons.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You're working my bad. No worries.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
So I have a tinsel tree like those retro I
guess seventies tinsel trees pull out every year. But I
put colors on it. I don't keep it monochromatic. I
like to have different colors on there.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Got it.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Growing up we had the real tree and a huge
Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh, underneath it yeah, you guys went all out. Yeah.
Not honestly, I'm gonna tell you I hate Christmas. Humbug, bough, humbug. Sorry, buddy,
we have another month and a half of this.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I know.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Is she and there?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Nikki?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Are you in there?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I am in Australia. What about Christmas? And what does
your tree look like?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Quickly, no trees in my household, because we are the
only Jews in Australia. But we do the sun burnt
Christmas because it's the height of summer, so usually people
go to the beach and drink beer and eat seafood.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Got it. Got it? As if I didn't know you
were Jewish.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We talk about this all the time and then here
I go throwing this question to you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It's fascinating. There are tens of us. That's great. I
love a traditional Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I grew up with mixture of either fresh or tinsoil
or artificial with tinsol or without. And the colors were
always traditional. We always went for the classic red, green, gold.
You know, maybe some pops of burgundy or purple in there,
but it was always typically traditional. And in recent years
(29:20):
we've seen a departure from the traditional kind of maximalist
Christmas tree with all those ornaments and the ones you
remember from your childhood if you're north of say thirty
at this point, to a more streamlined gray, monochromatic silver,
even or tope or cream type of aesthetic.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Maybe large bows, but not a lot of color.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And again, for many years, that seemed to be what
influencers were pushing, and we saw it show up from
showrooms to commercials to you know, perhaps maybe even people
in your own neighborhood or perhaps even in your own home.
That apparently is out and something called Ralph Lauren Christmas
(30:06):
is in. And that's because it's based off of Ralph
Lauren's decadent festive window display at their Fifth Avenue Flagship's
store right there in New York, where they have beautiful furnishings.
They have silver, they have stockings, they have velvet, they
have pine covered garlands, red green gold. It's a return
(30:30):
to that sort of look, green tartan cushions, velvet, ornaments again,
bushy garlands, big trees, lots and lots.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And lots of ornaments.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Perhaps a fireplace or a faux fireplace in the background,
the smell of gingerbread wafting through your home or a
diffuser if you don't bake at any rate. It's all back,
and it's being driven by influencers once again who are
saying we want color, we want maximalism, and they want
(31:03):
more or less a nineties revival. It's based not just
on the Ralph Lauren look, but also on films like
Home Alone, these quintessential Christmas films that share so much
of that aesthetic and create a sense of nostalgia for
those of us who have been able to experience it.
(31:24):
There's a timelessness to this, and even though it's a
trend this year, a lot of these people track trends
say that this could very well propel into further years.
Is not going to be a one and done. They
say it's a departure from the sad, cold and joyless
beige Christmas that's been paraded in the last few years.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Kim Kardashian comes to mind.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Specifically, because she had a Christmas esthetic that was gray.
It was gray and oatmeal colored and plus and people
wanted to recreate that for some strange reason. I don't know,
but I'm really glad that we're back to going full
Home Alone. This Christmas. You can recreate it on a budget.
(32:14):
It doesn't have to be Ralph Lauren. It could be anywhere,
as long as it brings you joy and as long
as it's colorful. And again, as I look at this
Autik Christmas tree here, it is gorgeous from their Autik
Homes Gold label. Go visit Autick out there in the valley.
I went a few weeks ago and we had a
(32:35):
great time just walking through. We've made it a tradition
now annually just to walk through Autick and to look
at the trees. And it seems like they too are
re embracing a more colorful and traditional tree. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
I want to play something for you. A Mario is
gonna play it talking about Kevin McAllister and home alone.
(32:58):
Let's take a walk down memory lane and we'll let
this take us into the break.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Let's go for it. Hey, yeah, the husband.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
By that, Harry, make the Christmas stop, so Marry, give
the REGs and give them ritches one for Christmas sake,
the trenches, some pain cans down to bread that let's
(33:35):
go box down to meet them.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
So the DALs for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Then then is declared, when.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
May I do the thinking?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Please home alone too, Lost in New.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
York after schar.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Don't worry anybody's so can Rope caresy.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Merry Christmas. Deeper dives when we come back.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
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