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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven, and I saw
Michael Monks flitting about, so he'll absolutely be here toward
the end of the show and we'll find out what's
going on with him.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He looks so summer ready.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Can't wait to describe the outfit he's wearing for you
when he comes on around six fifty two, six fifty three,
So stay tuned for that. Before we get into our
Deeper Dives segment, of which we're going to talk about
what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down actually means.
Let's hear a talk back from a listeners who's send
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us a talkback before I think what is the acking?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hobbs, I was about, yeah, turning your program off, and
then you came up with the sixty Tarantula voice. You
got me.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Now, wait, first of all, why are you turning it off?
And then why are you being turned back? Why are
you being turned back on? Why are you tuning back
in for Sexy Tarantula's I don't want to know?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
As always, Raoul, I think it has to ask you, Raoul,
have you ever been around a tarantula?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I like them, I don't mind them as much.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Out in the wild not so much, but like controlled
environments not your thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You ever held one?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
No animals, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No animals.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I mean if I had a dog, I will, but
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh you're like full on animal adverse.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No, I do love I love animals. They used to
dogs it. But but tarantula's lizards, snakes.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, thank you, no, thank you, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What do you imagine, Raoul, that tarantula mating might look like?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, who knows a pretzel?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm pretty sure it's like some on top action. That's
that's the best I can come up with.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Thank you. That's pretty weird, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Any of you who are really good at animation, please
send us that email email Kyla and let us know
what you think the tarantula mating might look like. Perhaps
we can make it into some sort of sticker that'd
be great to give away on Saturday, right give away
tarantula mating stickers.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'd be yeah, I'm gonna work on that. That's AI
can help with that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'll have AI design that and we'll have tarantula mating stickers.
Let me write that down, tarantula mating stickers to give
a way. Absolutely stories we're watching before we get into
our deeper dive segment. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is
maintaining the pause on ice raids in California. Ice raids
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have been paused, and the lower court says that that
pause will continue indefinitely, and that is until the Trump
administration finds a way to overturn it. They go back
and forth with this, but as of right now, the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is pausing the ice raids
in California. Trump's late of tariff proposals could take effect
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next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You could be.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Paying more for clothes, shoes, in computers, electronics, toys, just
in time for the holiday season. But the majority of
the impact of these price increases will not be felt
for another, say, eight months. And that's according to analysts
from Goldman Sachs, who say we can look for the
you know, the real kind of tangible consequence of tariffs
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in the spring.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
In the spring.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jeffrey Epstein's BFF Forever Galain Maxwell has been transferred to
a minimum security prison in Texas. She is being deemed
a very low risk threat and because of that, she
is enjoying the comforts, the creature comforts of this minimum
security prison in which she can learn things and basket
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weave and walk around unfettered, uncontrolled, patrolled, even they may
not even have fences there. And then, lastly, a very
sad story coming out of the Koreatown area. A nine
year old boy was killed by an RV in a
collision on Thursday. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of
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dui in addition to hitting the boy. So, whatever that
charge may be, that suspect is looking at a world
of hurt, and rightfully so. Residents are urging for city
leaders to increase policing in the area, increase lighting, very
dark area. A lot of copper theft. One of the
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first things we ever talked about here on Saturdays with
Tiffany is the proliferation of copper theft around southern California.
It's been talked about a lot more since then over
the last year.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's been about a year, guys almost coming up, and
it is affecting the Koreatown neighborhood and has caused, or
at least contrue it to according to neighbors, a lot
of accidents in that area. This accident being caused by intoxication.
According to police, that suspect arrested on suspicions of being
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under the influence. Now for our deeper dive segment, the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They're shutting down.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They announced on Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that
they would begin winding down their operations after President Donald
Trump rescinded one point one billion dollars in funding for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonprofit, which has existed for decades.
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It's helped sustain n PR, PBS and hundreds of local
public media stations across the country. And when you think
about this, especially when you start to open up what
NPR and PBS and these other local public media stations
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have contributed, I'm urged to consider PBS first. I am
a child of the eighties. Some of you might be
prior to that or even after that, or same with me,
and I remember Frontline being on PBS. Arthur, Remember Arthur.
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Arthur was a fantastic show still is a fantastic show,
and let me not breeze over Frontline. Frontline had a
lot of investigative reports, wonderful reports. I remember things like
mister Rogers Neighborhood on PBS reruns. I believe that still
live on PBS. Who can forget Sesame Street. Sesame Street
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something that we all have watched or perhaps you have
exposed young people in your life too. I don't think
anyone escapes this life without seeing Sesame Street if you
live in the United States of America specifically, and then
there are all sorts of other programs, different TV shows,
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PBS News, our Nature programs, and the like. PBS has
been a huge part of a lot of our lives.
Masterpiece theater, Masterpiece theater a big one if you have
involved yourself with PBS. So just a lot of influence
coming out of that particular network. And they're saying the
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting that despite extraordinary efforts of millions
of Americans who call, wrote, petitioned Congress to preserve that
federal funding, that they now face the difficult reality of
having to close down their operations. That comes from CPB
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President and c Patricia Harrison. She released that in a statement.
She went on to say that CPB would work to
support its partners during the transition with transparency and care. Now,
the loss of federal support is a broader part of
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the recisions package that was signed by President Trump just
last month in July, and that nine billion dollar recisions
package will not bring an immediate ind to national programming
like PBS's News Hour or NPR's Morning Edition, but the
decision is expected to pose serious challenges to the network
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of smaller and often more rural public broadcasters that have
depended on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and their funding
for their survival. When we come back, we're going to
continue the conversation about what this shutdown of the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting means for NPR, for PBS, what will
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it look like in the coming future, and is there
any possible way.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
To save it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know, but it is a really hard thing
to reckon with, especially since we've all existed with the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS and NPR for the better
part of at least fifty years. Will continue the conversation
on the other side for our deeper Dive segment on
Saturdays with Tiffany right here. I am six forty live
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Tiffany Hobbs here.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I also appreciate, in addition to your talkbacks, those of
you who reach out on social media. I get quite
a few messages via Instagram. My Instagram is at tiff
hobbs on here. All one word at tif hobbs on here,
easy to find, and people will message me and share
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how they feel about things and whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And I love that. I do really love that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You're listening and that you are wanting to talk about things,
and it's just it's awesome. This is an awesome job.
I look at it as a blessing, even when you're
arguing with me. I just I love it. I love
to be here, and I thank you for that. We're
in the middle of our deep Dive segment and as
we conclude this what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut
down means for NPR and PBS. Just want to give
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you some more things that you should know about these
funding cuts again. Last week, President Trump rescinded one point
one billion dollars in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
And so what does that mean in terms of budget
cuts funding cuts? Well, first you need to know a
little bit more about the CPB, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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It was founded in eighteen sixty seven under the Public
Broadcasting Act. CPB was created as a nonpartisan, nonprofit Okay,
not supposed to be on any side of the aisle.
It is nonpartisan, right down the middle, and it was
created to channel federal appropriations to public television and radio
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stations across the country. That includes affiliates of PBS and NPR. Now,
Republicans did push to eliminate CPB funding back in April.
President Trump and his cabinet have long accused here here
it is Here's why. Have long accused NPR and PBS
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of leaning left. They say NPR and PBS are leftist,
and they've argued that taxpayer dollars should not support news
organizations that they the Trump administration see as ideologically biased. Sure,
news is not supposed to be biased. If you are
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holding the integrity, holding the line of true news, you
are not supposed to be biased and the CPB was
created to be nonpartisan. But President Trump and his cabinets
say that's not the case, so they resend it that
one point one billion dollar package. President Trump wrote on
Truth Social back in April, quote no more funding for
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NPR A total scam, a liberal disinformation machine. Now, after
gaining unified control of Congress this year, Republicans pushed to
eliminate the CPB's funding. In that process, which is known
as a recision, eliminating that one point one billion dollars
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meant that money that had already been appropriated through the
fiscal year of twenty twenty seven for the CPB would
go away. Now, not all of the Republicans agreed with this.
There were four Republicans in both chambers of Congress who
broke with their party and voted with the Democrats to
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keep the one point one billion dollars. Those Republicans include
Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Representatives
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mike Turner of Ohio. The
four of them went against their party, wanting for a
stay to the one point one billion dollar appropriations for CPB.
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So what does this mean overall four NPRPBS and local stations. Well,
programs like PBS News Hour, which you might enjoy, or
All Things Considered, or children shows like Sesame Street or
Arthur they won't disappear overnight, luckily we do love them,
but the loss of CPB funding threatens the financial stability
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of the local stations that carry these shows, particularly in
regions that are rural or underserved and have long depended
on federal support to stay on the air. This can
have also a significant a significant impact on local journalism.
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Those stations that are affected may seek and can seek
new funding from state governments or even private donors, but
that as a solution is thought to pale in comparison
to the funding provided by the government. One point one
billion dollars is a hell of a lot, and it's
a hell of a lot to lose and not know
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where you're necessarily going to make that up from. So
we just learned the changes won't happen overnight. Programming won't
magically poof and disappear, but it is a gradual phasing out,
especially in areas that are dependent upon the local broadcasting networks.
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So unfortunately, it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away.
Nothing lasts forever. I thought that would I thought we
would see PBS and NPR forever, but apparently not. When
we come back, we're gonna get into our scammers Gonna
scam segment as well as some talkbacks, a lot of
talkbacks about Tarantula's You guys seem to know a lot
more than I.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I can't wait to share them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So Scammer's gonna scam and continue conversation about Tarantula's mating.
Apparently on the other side of the break, it's KFI
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand k
if I Am.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs Here.
It's Saturdays with Tiffany. So you guys likes our Tarantula
love making mating season conversation. It's it's something that you
probably don't get to necessarily have conversation about in your
normal day to day. I know, you know for me
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that wouldn't be too out of the norm. I I
regularly have like random animal facts, so talking about tarantula's
mating or animal activity of any kind is right up
my alley. But for you, apparently you and you enjoyed it.
Let's let's hear what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Hey, Tiffany, good to hear you on the radio.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
All ready to spatch cocker chicken and put it on
the smoker. Anyway, I grew up a Tarantela's We used
to catch them. Yeah, they're all over California. People don't
know that, but yeah, catch them, hold them. They're pretty docile.
They eat everything from pinkies, which are a little tiny
baby mice, to big giant grasshoppers everything else. They're great creatures.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He's going to spatch cock a chicken. Sounds sounds delightful.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Sounds Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He went from dispatchcocking into tarantula mating effortlessly.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah that was a segue, if ever, did hear one?
That was perfect? That was really well done.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And then gave us some more facts about what tarantulists eat.
I did not know that they well it's not probably
makes sense, but yeah, baby mice, aw well, everything has
to eat. He said, pinkies, and I thought he meant
like fingers, of which then I started to recall all
the times I've now held tarantelism and how much danger
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I put myself in, but apparently not so. Yes, we
are working. We can't play the other one. It's a
little too inappropriate. You guys really let your imaginations run
with this tarantula mating stuff, especially the sounds of what
they might sound like when they're doing the do so
we couldn't play that. Not going to play that, we'd
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get pulled off the air. But thank you for your
ingenuity and your creativity. Really enjoyed it. Might listen to
that later on the way home. Too bad as well,
I said to that. Coming up with some sort of
sticker or some sort of something as a giveaway for
our remote at Disconso Restaurant next Saturday on the heels
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of the Fork Report, where we'll be out there from
two to seven, Neil and I broadcasting, Kayla, the whole crew.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We're gonna make stickers and.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We've already had submitted to us a design for Tarantula's mating.
I showed Kayla and she said, it's adorable, really cute,
because they're not really, they're not mating. They're like pre mating.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's like the like they're they're loving on each other.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They're they're they're looking lovingly into each other's eight or
twelve eyes or twenty four eyes, however many eyes they have,
and it's it's really sweet. And so we're gonna make
that into a sticker. We also have new logos for
Saturdays with Tiffany, and I can't wait for you to
see them. They're so cool and they're so unique, and
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you can slap them on a sticker or excuse me,
a computer, or slap them on your bumper of your car,
or slap them on somebody. I don't care, but come
out to Disconso Restaurant next Saturday, the ninth of August,
from two to seven. Stay until seven, have a meal,
have a drink, have a conversation, have an experience, and
enjoy the Fork Report and Saturdays with Tiffany and you
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will walk away with a.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Sticker or two or more.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We'll see Scammer's gonna scam. It's time another story, another week,
a series of stories in which scammers are trying to
do what separate you from your money, And in this case,
we have a Redux we have a return to scams
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that have already kind of been talked about. They went
away for a while because they don't want you to
get used to their scams. They want you to become numb,
become neutral, and then they'll bring them back as if
they're brand new. And this particular scam has to do
with those of you who have iPhones. I'm an Android person.
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It's not to say that this won't make it to us,
but right now, iPhone users are the targeted group. And
what is this. This was brought to us by kfi's
own rich DeMuro rich on Tech on Instagram. He has
that really great Saturday show and he talked about or
excuse me this morning. Earlier this morning, he talked about
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fake iPhone viruses. Fake iPhone viruses. So what it is
is a pop up that appears on your iPhone and
it will say something like you have fourteen viruses.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's a pop up.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So you're on your phone, you're scrolling your Facebook or
whatever it is, and you get to pop up and
says fourteen viruses, or it might say privacy breach one
or both of those pop ups. Those are not real
short what you're seeing on your screen is a pop
up that's it's real. It's a digital image appearing or word,
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but the alert, the notification, the worry is not real.
These are fake warnings trying to scare you into installing
something that you actually don't need. So what it will
do is this pop up will happen. Then it will
send you a link to install some sort of scamware,
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some sort of protective app or whatever it may be,
so that you can get the scam or the viruses
off of your phone so that your privacy can be resecured.
And you'll click the link thinking that you're just doing
what you need to do to protect your privacy or
clear your phone or whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But it then starts to ask you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
For more information like payment, like passwords, create a password,
whatever it is, and now you will fall victim to
these scammers. They will then gain access to you know,
your most sensitive information.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It always is like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They always want information that you can use, that they
can use against you, and for some reason we keep
giving it to them. It's probably because they keep getting smarter.
So this is what you do first. If these pop
ups happen, all you have to do is swipe up
from the bottom of your screen and fully close out
your Internet browser. Most iPhone users I believe are using Safari,
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So this pop up happens and you just swipe up
with your finger, just boop boop, and it clears the
screen and fully closes out Safari. That way, it just
literally goes away, and that's all you have to do.
If it pops up again, you close your screen again.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's no entering of information, there's no uh, you know,
alerting the authorities. Just close Safari. It's just a pop up.
You don't need it. Don't click any link. Share this
with people who you know are susceptible. Maybe you're outers,
maybe young kids.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Whatever. It may be.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
People acting earnestly, but it can be very harmful. Another
scam that's back that can affect any sort of mobile user,
not just iPhones, are these DMV scam texts. They are back,
and this time they're using an official DMV logo that's
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fake but looks surprisingly and alarmingly real, but it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is still absolutely fake. It is fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The DMV will not send you text messages soliciting any
information from you, but in this case, the text will
say that you you've received a ticket, You've received some
sort of traffic violation.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Here's the interesting tidbit.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I received this text a few days ago, and I'm
scrolling down now to find it. But I received a
text from what was said to be the DMV, and
it says right here final notice enforcement penalties begin on
August first, according to our records, your traffic citation is
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yet unpaid per California law, and to give a code.
If unresolved by July thirty first, which has already passed,
the penalties outlined will be enacted. I will have my
registration suspended yesterday. I'll have a violation entered into the
DMV records. I'll have a thirty day suspension of my
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driver's license. I'll have debt transferred to collections at a
plus thirty five percent charge. I'll have possible court action
and credit damage. And to subvert all of that. To
get around it, I can pay immediately right here at
this little link that if I click it and enter
any information, will then clearly drain me of my finances.
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I got this text on Wednesday of last week at
five eighteen in the morning from the DMV. Don't click
any link it's going around. Tell the people you know
could be sensitive to this sort of thing, because that's
who they're looking for. And it got me at first.
It kind of shook me, Oh shoot, what if I
do do anything? And they definitely wouldn't contact you via text,
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So that scammer's gonna scam. When we come back, we're
going to talk about the incentives being offered to people
who are being recruited to become ICE agents. It's a
very attractive package that's being proposed, and I'll share with
you what that package includes, and we'll talk to Michael
Monks and find out what's going on on his big
show Saturdays with Tiffany Right here till seven I Am
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six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
With Tiffany coming to a close KFA I Am six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let me remind
you next Saturday, we are not in the studio because
we are taking this little show that can.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're going to Disconso restaurant will share boulevard across the
street from the LaBrea tar Pits for an all day
broadcast starting with the Fork Report Neil Savadra from two
to five, and then we Saturdays with Tiffany will be
hanging out from five to seven for hours show Come out,
Come one, Come all.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
We have giveaways.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Neil has giveaways or complementary appetizers, and if you want
to come, which I hope you.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Do, you should r SVP.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Here's how you're gonna email r SVP at Desconso Restaurant
dot com. This is the Los Angeles location, not the
coast to Mesa location. Desconzo is spelled d e s
c A n so, So you're gonna email OURSVP at
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Disconso Restaurant dot com. Leave your name, your email, and
you can bring up to three people with you to
meet us and hang out and just listen and just
have a great day. It's gonna be a beautiful broadcast.
We are still celebrating Neil's birthday. We're gonna have some
cool guests. We're gonna have giveaways, have stickers that are
being made, tarantula mating stickers, new logo stickers, other things,
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and whatever Neil has in store. It's gonna be so
fun and you don't want fomo you do not want
to miss out. Fear of missing out is real. Be
there so we can enjoy it together before we get
into the last story and before we have Michael Monks
come aboard. Today is officially our last day live in
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studio with Raoul, because.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Raoul is going on to other things.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
He's going on to other things and we have to
let him go, and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We don't want to. I don't want to.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Okay, wow, I mean I will still be on the earth.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Please.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Today's our last official day together. You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You've been you've been supportive, you have taught me so much.
You've been in my corner, in Kayla's corner, and everyone's
corner on the weekend, and this show is what it
has become because of you. And I thank you so much,
so much the bottom of my heart for everything you've
done sight seeing and unseen, because I know you work
your magic without us even knowing too, and like make
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sure you clean up a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You're the best.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You're welcome. No, you're the best, Kayla, everybody.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
You guys are awesome. You guys are gonna do great.
Trust me, Raoul.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh you guys, stop it. Okay, okay, we'll stop, We'll stop.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We'll hold you know, if if you were a tarantula, Raoul,
and I was a tarantula.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh no, okay, too much, too much, too much.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Really quick, before we go to Michael Monks, if you're
interested in becoming an ICE agent, well, the Trump administration
has a very attractive package that they are up that
they are providing to you.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
This is not me doing an ad for that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I'm just telling you what the Department of Homeland Security
is offering should you be interested in becoming a recruit
to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Organization. That package includes
student loan forgiveness, which just irks me and makes my
blood boil because I need that. I need that, and
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I want them to offer it in other ways too,
like one also other repayment options for student loans, as
well as a maximum of fifty thousand dollars in a
signing bonus. And this is all in an effort to
recruit more ICE agents. They the existing ICE agents are like,
this ain't easy, and they you know, they've talked about
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it and some have left, and so things are you know,
to keep their program robust or keep that department robust.
They are trying to get people to come into it,
and that is what they are offering. Interesting. I wonder
what Elon has to say about this. He's not a
part of DOGE anymore. I wonder this the ballroom, the
(30:32):
gold plated ballroom. There's a lot of money floating around
in that administration.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hi, Michael Monks, you can get those student loans forgiven
if you become an ice agent agent Hobbs.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, thank you, I'll pass. Were you down at today's
today's protest?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I drove past it. It looked a little bit raucous,
but it wasn't. It wasn't as big as some of
the other protests I heard.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It was weak, colorful, and then it looked like it
was straight out of Central Casting.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Let's say, yeah, that might be the case. Certainly, are
you there? But these the organization that was behind it.
As I drove through it, it did cause some some traffic
issues through the downtown streets. This group's going to continue
these little protests or big protests, the same one as before. Yeah,
these are the ones behind the fifty big one that
happened a couple of months ago. No, King's rally. That
(31:21):
was their biggest one. They haven't quite reached that level
since out, but they are planning to do these on
the regular.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Fun, fun for traffic, fun for you. Indeed right there
in your area.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I know, pick another neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh my gosh, Well, really quick, before you get into
what's on your big show? You look so summer ready.
He has his legs out everyone, all.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Eight of them, because I am a tarantula.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And each one of them looks divine. Let me tell
you that what's going on on your big show?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Big show? Indeed, Hey, weird thing this week, right the
tsunami situation that was going on no rebuilt. I know,
I know, we're all rolling our eyes. It turned out
to be nothing, but there was some silver and it's
that our systems worked. And we're going to get into
how that happened and who should be applauded because although
it did not materialize into anything serious, had it been,
(32:10):
we were all pretty well worn good. So we'll talk
about that. We're obviously going to dive into the big
decision out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This
is the same court that told Gavin Newsom that President
Trump could take control of the National Guard, but they've
gone against the trum Well, they interpret the law the
way they interpret the law, and this is big news
for folks who want to see these immigration enforcement activities
(32:31):
across southern California either slow or stop completely. So we'll
hear from the mayor on that. I got a lot
of guests coming up. Senator Adam Schiff is with us.
He's got a piece of legislation that says will help
some financial assistance for those in the wildfire areas and
people with mortgages. But I'll also be joined by a
woman from Undercover. Billionaire lives in the Palisades. Not happy
(32:52):
with the way things are going, and she says maybe
it's time for Pacific Palisades to no longer be part
of the city of Los Ange. Oh, they want to seceed,
she says. Don't use the words to see she told
me specifically. Sorry, we'll talk about why wow.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, you'll find another vocabulary word for it. Listen, and
you'll learn more vocabulary to explain things like this. Michael Monks,
have a great show. Thank you, You're welcome again. Come
out Saturday night Disconzo Restaurant two to seven, Neil and
the Fork Report first from two to five Saturdays with
Tiffany from five to seven. RSVP at Disconzo Restaurant dot com.
(33:27):
R SVP at Disconzo Restaurant dot com for reservations. Want
to see you there, can't wait to see you. Great show.
Thanks for all your collings, your Instagrams, your things, all
the socials love you. Hope to see you next week.
Everybody be safe, have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Raoul. Well, we love you.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Thank you so much for everything. All right, everyone, have
a good one. Saturdays with Tiffany is out. K if
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven, and I saw
Michael Monks flitting about, so he'll absolutely be here toward
the end of the show and we'll find out what's
going on with him.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He looks so summer ready.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Can't wait to describe the outfit he's wearing for you
when he comes on around six fifty two, six fifty three,
So stay tuned for that. Before we get into our
Deeper Dives segment, of which we're going to talk about
what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down actually means.
Let's hear a talk back from a listeners who's send
(00:48):
us a talkback before I think what is the acking?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hobbs, I was about, yeah, turning your program off, and
then you came up with the sixty Tarantula voice. You
got me.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Now, wait, first of all, why are you turning it off?
And then why are you being turned back? Why are
you being turned back on? Why are you tuning back
in for Sexy Tarantula's I don't want to know?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
As always, Raoul, I think it has to ask you, Raoul,
have you ever been around a tarantula?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I like them, I don't mind them as much.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Out in the wild not so much, but like controlled
environments not your thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You ever held one?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
No animals, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No animals.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I mean if I had a dog, I will, but
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh you're like full on animal adverse.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No, I do love I love animals. They used to
dogs it. But but tarantula's lizards, snakes.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, thank you, no, thank you, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What do you imagine, Raoul, that tarantula mating might look like?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I mean, who knows a pretzel?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm pretty sure it's like some on top action. That's
that's the best I can come up with.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Thank you. That's pretty weird, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Any of you who are really good at animation, please
send us that email email Kyla and let us know
what you think the tarantula mating might look like. Perhaps
we can make it into some sort of sticker that'd
be great to give away on Saturday, right give away
tarantula mating stickers.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'd be yeah, I'm gonna work on that. That's AI
can help with that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'll have AI design that and we'll have tarantula mating stickers.
Let me write that down, tarantula mating stickers to give
a way. Absolutely stories we're watching before we get into
our deeper dive segment. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is
maintaining the pause on ice raids in California. Ice raids
(02:45):
have been paused, and the lower court says that that
pause will continue indefinitely, and that is until the Trump
administration finds a way to overturn it. They go back
and forth with this, but as of right now, the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is pausing the ice raids
in California. Trump's late of tariff proposals could take effect
(03:05):
next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You could be.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Paying more for clothes, shoes, in computers, electronics, toys, just
in time for the holiday season. But the majority of
the impact of these price increases will not be felt
for another, say, eight months. And that's according to analysts
from Goldman Sachs, who say we can look for the
you know, the real kind of tangible consequence of tariffs
(03:30):
in the spring.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
In the spring.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jeffrey Epstein's BFF Forever Galain Maxwell has been transferred to
a minimum security prison in Texas. She is being deemed
a very low risk threat and because of that, she
is enjoying the comforts, the creature comforts of this minimum
security prison in which she can learn things and basket
(03:55):
weave and walk around unfettered, uncontrolled, patrolled, even they may
not even have fences there. And then, lastly, a very
sad story coming out of the Koreatown area. A nine
year old boy was killed by an RV in a
collision on Thursday. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of
(04:17):
dui in addition to hitting the boy. So, whatever that
charge may be, that suspect is looking at a world
of hurt, and rightfully so. Residents are urging for city
leaders to increase policing in the area, increase lighting, very
dark area. A lot of copper theft. One of the
(04:40):
first things we ever talked about here on Saturdays with
Tiffany is the proliferation of copper theft around southern California.
It's been talked about a lot more since then over
the last year.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It's been about a year, guys almost coming up, and
it is affecting the Koreatown neighborhood and has caused, or
at least contrue it to according to neighbors, a lot
of accidents in that area. This accident being caused by intoxication.
According to police, that suspect arrested on suspicions of being
(05:14):
under the influence. Now for our deeper dive segment, the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They're shutting down.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They announced on Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that
they would begin winding down their operations after President Donald
Trump rescinded one point one billion dollars in funding for
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonprofit, which has existed for decades.
(05:47):
It's helped sustain n PR, PBS and hundreds of local
public media stations across the country. And when you think
about this, especially when you start to open up what
NPR and PBS and these other local public media stations
(06:09):
have contributed, I'm urged to consider PBS first. I am
a child of the eighties. Some of you might be
prior to that or even after that, or same with me,
and I remember Frontline being on PBS. Arthur, Remember Arthur.
(06:29):
Arthur was a fantastic show still is a fantastic show,
and let me not breeze over Frontline. Frontline had a
lot of investigative reports, wonderful reports. I remember things like
mister Rogers Neighborhood on PBS reruns. I believe that still
live on PBS. Who can forget Sesame Street. Sesame Street
(06:54):
something that we all have watched or perhaps you have
exposed young people in your life too. I don't think
anyone escapes this life without seeing Sesame Street if you
live in the United States of America specifically, and then
there are all sorts of other programs, different TV shows,
(07:15):
PBS News, our Nature programs, and the like. PBS has
been a huge part of a lot of our lives.
Masterpiece theater, Masterpiece theater a big one if you have
involved yourself with PBS. So just a lot of influence
coming out of that particular network. And they're saying the
(07:38):
Corporation for Public Broadcasting that despite extraordinary efforts of millions
of Americans who call, wrote, petitioned Congress to preserve that
federal funding, that they now face the difficult reality of
having to close down their operations. That comes from CPB
(07:58):
President and c Patricia Harrison. She released that in a statement.
She went on to say that CPB would work to
support its partners during the transition with transparency and care. Now,
the loss of federal support is a broader part of
(08:20):
the recisions package that was signed by President Trump just
last month in July, and that nine billion dollar recisions
package will not bring an immediate ind to national programming
like PBS's News Hour or NPR's Morning Edition, but the
decision is expected to pose serious challenges to the network
(08:41):
of smaller and often more rural public broadcasters that have
depended on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and their funding
for their survival. When we come back, we're going to
continue the conversation about what this shutdown of the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting means for NPR, for PBS, what will
(09:04):
it look like in the coming future, and is there
any possible way.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
To save it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know, but it is a really hard thing
to reckon with, especially since we've all existed with the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting PBS and NPR for the better
part of at least fifty years. Will continue the conversation
on the other side for our deeper Dive segment on
Saturdays with Tiffany right here. I am six forty live
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Tiffany Hobbs here.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I also appreciate, in addition to your talkbacks, those of
you who reach out on social media. I get quite
a few messages via Instagram. My Instagram is at tiff
hobbs on here. All one word at tif hobbs on here,
easy to find, and people will message me and share
(10:06):
how they feel about things and whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And I love that. I do really love that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You're listening and that you are wanting to talk about things,
and it's just it's awesome. This is an awesome job.
I look at it as a blessing, even when you're
arguing with me. I just I love it. I love
to be here, and I thank you for that. We're
in the middle of our deep Dive segment and as
we conclude this what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut
down means for NPR and PBS. Just want to give
(10:37):
you some more things that you should know about these
funding cuts again. Last week, President Trump rescinded one point
one billion dollars in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
And so what does that mean in terms of budget
cuts funding cuts? Well, first you need to know a
little bit more about the CPB, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
(11:01):
It was founded in eighteen sixty seven under the Public
Broadcasting Act. CPB was created as a nonpartisan, nonprofit Okay,
not supposed to be on any side of the aisle.
It is nonpartisan, right down the middle, and it was
created to channel federal appropriations to public television and radio
(11:21):
stations across the country. That includes affiliates of PBS and NPR. Now,
Republicans did push to eliminate CPB funding back in April.
President Trump and his cabinet have long accused here here
it is Here's why. Have long accused NPR and PBS
(11:43):
of leaning left. They say NPR and PBS are leftist,
and they've argued that taxpayer dollars should not support news
organizations that they the Trump administration see as ideologically biased. Sure,
news is not supposed to be biased. If you are
(12:04):
holding the integrity, holding the line of true news, you
are not supposed to be biased and the CPB was
created to be nonpartisan. But President Trump and his cabinets
say that's not the case, so they resend it that
one point one billion dollar package. President Trump wrote on
Truth Social back in April, quote no more funding for
(12:29):
NPR A total scam, a liberal disinformation machine. Now, after
gaining unified control of Congress this year, Republicans pushed to
eliminate the CPB's funding. In that process, which is known
as a recision, eliminating that one point one billion dollars
(12:50):
meant that money that had already been appropriated through the
fiscal year of twenty twenty seven for the CPB would
go away. Now, not all of the Republicans agreed with this.
There were four Republicans in both chambers of Congress who
broke with their party and voted with the Democrats to
(13:12):
keep the one point one billion dollars. Those Republicans include
Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Representatives
Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mike Turner of Ohio. The
four of them went against their party, wanting for a
stay to the one point one billion dollar appropriations for CPB.
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So what does this mean overall four NPRPBS and local stations. Well,
programs like PBS News Hour, which you might enjoy, or
All Things Considered, or children shows like Sesame Street or
Arthur they won't disappear overnight, luckily we do love them,
but the loss of CPB funding threatens the financial stability
(14:00):
of the local stations that carry these shows, particularly in
regions that are rural or underserved and have long depended
on federal support to stay on the air. This can
have also a significant a significant impact on local journalism.
(14:21):
Those stations that are affected may seek and can seek
new funding from state governments or even private donors, but
that as a solution is thought to pale in comparison
to the funding provided by the government. One point one
billion dollars is a hell of a lot, and it's
a hell of a lot to lose and not know
(14:41):
where you're necessarily going to make that up from. So
we just learned the changes won't happen overnight. Programming won't
magically poof and disappear, but it is a gradual phasing out,
especially in areas that are dependent upon the local broadcasting networks.
(15:02):
So unfortunately, it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away.
Nothing lasts forever. I thought that would I thought we
would see PBS and NPR forever, but apparently not. When
we come back, we're gonna get into our scammers Gonna
scam segment as well as some talkbacks, a lot of
talkbacks about Tarantula's You guys seem to know a lot
more than I.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I can't wait to share them.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So Scammer's gonna scam and continue conversation about Tarantula's mating.
Apparently on the other side of the break, it's KFI
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand k
if I Am.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs Here.
It's Saturdays with Tiffany. So you guys likes our Tarantula
love making mating season conversation. It's it's something that you
probably don't get to necessarily have conversation about in your
normal day to day. I know, you know for me
(16:03):
that wouldn't be too out of the norm. I I
regularly have like random animal facts, so talking about tarantula's
mating or animal activity of any kind is right up
my alley. But for you, apparently you and you enjoyed it.
Let's let's hear what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Hey, Tiffany, good to hear you on the radio.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
All ready to spatch cocker chicken and put it on
the smoker. Anyway, I grew up a Tarantela's We used
to catch them. Yeah, they're all over California. People don't
know that, but yeah, catch them, hold them. They're pretty docile.
They eat everything from pinkies, which are a little tiny
baby mice, to big giant grasshoppers everything else. They're great creatures.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He's going to spatch cock a chicken. Sounds sounds delightful.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Sounds Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
He went from dispatchcocking into tarantula mating effortlessly.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah that was a segue, if ever, did hear one?
That was perfect? That was really well done.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And then gave us some more facts about what tarantulists eat.
I did not know that they well it's not probably
makes sense, but yeah, baby mice, aw well, everything has
to eat. He said, pinkies, and I thought he meant
like fingers, of which then I started to recall all
the times I've now held tarantelism and how much danger
(17:29):
I put myself in, but apparently not so. Yes, we
are working. We can't play the other one. It's a
little too inappropriate. You guys really let your imaginations run
with this tarantula mating stuff, especially the sounds of what
they might sound like when they're doing the do so
we couldn't play that. Not going to play that, we'd
(17:50):
get pulled off the air. But thank you for your
ingenuity and your creativity. Really enjoyed it. Might listen to
that later on the way home. Too bad as well,
I said to that. Coming up with some sort of
sticker or some sort of something as a giveaway for
our remote at Disconso Restaurant next Saturday on the heels
(18:15):
of the Fork Report, where we'll be out there from
two to seven, Neil and I broadcasting, Kayla, the whole crew.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We're gonna make stickers and.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We've already had submitted to us a design for Tarantula's mating.
I showed Kayla and she said, it's adorable, really cute,
because they're not really, they're not mating. They're like pre mating.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's like the like they're they're loving on each other.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
They're they're they're looking lovingly into each other's eight or
twelve eyes or twenty four eyes, however many eyes they have,
and it's it's really sweet. And so we're gonna make
that into a sticker. We also have new logos for
Saturdays with Tiffany, and I can't wait for you to
see them. They're so cool and they're so unique, and
(19:03):
you can slap them on a sticker or excuse me,
a computer, or slap them on your bumper of your car,
or slap them on somebody. I don't care, but come
out to Disconso Restaurant next Saturday, the ninth of August,
from two to seven. Stay until seven, have a meal,
have a drink, have a conversation, have an experience, and
enjoy the Fork Report and Saturdays with Tiffany and you
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will walk away with a.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Sticker or two or more.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We'll see Scammer's gonna scam. It's time another story, another week,
a series of stories in which scammers are trying to
do what separate you from your money, And in this case,
we have a Redux we have a return to scams
(19:50):
that have already kind of been talked about. They went
away for a while because they don't want you to
get used to their scams. They want you to become numb,
become neutral, and then they'll bring them back as if
they're brand new. And this particular scam has to do
with those of you who have iPhones. I'm an Android person.
(20:11):
It's not to say that this won't make it to us,
but right now, iPhone users are the targeted group. And
what is this. This was brought to us by kfi's
own rich DeMuro rich on Tech on Instagram. He has
that really great Saturday show and he talked about or
excuse me this morning. Earlier this morning, he talked about
(20:32):
fake iPhone viruses. Fake iPhone viruses. So what it is
is a pop up that appears on your iPhone and
it will say something like you have fourteen viruses.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It's a pop up.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So you're on your phone, you're scrolling your Facebook or
whatever it is, and you get to pop up and
says fourteen viruses, or it might say privacy breach one
or both of those pop ups. Those are not real
short what you're seeing on your screen is a pop
up that's it's real. It's a digital image appearing or word,
(21:10):
but the alert, the notification, the worry is not real.
These are fake warnings trying to scare you into installing
something that you actually don't need. So what it will
do is this pop up will happen. Then it will
send you a link to install some sort of scamware,
(21:32):
some sort of protective app or whatever it may be,
so that you can get the scam or the viruses
off of your phone so that your privacy can be resecured.
And you'll click the link thinking that you're just doing
what you need to do to protect your privacy or
clear your phone or whatever it may be.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
But it then starts to ask you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
For more information like payment, like passwords, create a password,
whatever it is, and now you will fall victim to
these scammers. They will then gain access to you know,
your most sensitive information.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It always is like that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They always want information that you can use, that they
can use against you, and for some reason we keep
giving it to them. It's probably because they keep getting smarter.
So this is what you do first. If these pop
ups happen, all you have to do is swipe up
from the bottom of your screen and fully close out
your Internet browser. Most iPhone users I believe are using Safari,
(22:33):
So this pop up happens and you just swipe up
with your finger, just boop boop, and it clears the
screen and fully closes out Safari. That way, it just
literally goes away, and that's all you have to do.
If it pops up again, you close your screen again.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's no entering of information, there's no uh, you know,
alerting the authorities. Just close Safari. It's just a pop up.
You don't need it. Don't click any link. Share this
with people who you know are susceptible. Maybe you're outers,
maybe young kids.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Whatever. It may be.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
People acting earnestly, but it can be very harmful. Another
scam that's back that can affect any sort of mobile user,
not just iPhones, are these DMV scam texts. They are back,
and this time they're using an official DMV logo that's
(23:33):
fake but looks surprisingly and alarmingly real, but it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Is still absolutely fake. It is fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
The DMV will not send you text messages soliciting any
information from you, but in this case, the text will
say that you you've received a ticket, You've received some
sort of traffic violation.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Here's the interesting tidbit.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I received this text a few days ago, and I'm
scrolling down now to find it. But I received a
text from what was said to be the DMV, and
it says right here final notice enforcement penalties begin on
August first, according to our records, your traffic citation is
(24:23):
yet unpaid per California law, and to give a code.
If unresolved by July thirty first, which has already passed,
the penalties outlined will be enacted. I will have my
registration suspended yesterday. I'll have a violation entered into the
DMV records. I'll have a thirty day suspension of my
(24:44):
driver's license. I'll have debt transferred to collections at a
plus thirty five percent charge. I'll have possible court action
and credit damage. And to subvert all of that. To
get around it, I can pay immediately right here at
this little link that if I click it and enter
any information, will then clearly drain me of my finances.
(25:06):
I got this text on Wednesday of last week at
five eighteen in the morning from the DMV. Don't click
any link it's going around. Tell the people you know
could be sensitive to this sort of thing, because that's
who they're looking for. And it got me at first.
It kind of shook me, Oh shoot, what if I
do do anything? And they definitely wouldn't contact you via text,
(25:28):
So that scammer's gonna scam. When we come back, we're
going to talk about the incentives being offered to people
who are being recruited to become ICE agents. It's a
very attractive package that's being proposed, and I'll share with
you what that package includes, and we'll talk to Michael
Monks and find out what's going on on his big
show Saturdays with Tiffany Right here till seven I Am
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Speaker 1 (25:52):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Saturdays.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
With Tiffany coming to a close KFA I Am six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let me remind
you next Saturday, we are not in the studio because
we are taking this little show that can.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We're going to Disconso restaurant will share boulevard across the
street from the LaBrea tar Pits for an all day
broadcast starting with the Fork Report Neil Savadra from two
to five, and then we Saturdays with Tiffany will be
hanging out from five to seven for hours show Come out,
Come one, Come all.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
We have giveaways.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Neil has giveaways or complementary appetizers, and if you want
to come, which I hope you.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Do, you should r SVP.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Here's how you're gonna email r SVP at Desconso Restaurant
dot com. This is the Los Angeles location, not the
coast to Mesa location. Desconzo is spelled d e s
c A n so, So you're gonna email OURSVP at
(27:01):
Disconso Restaurant dot com. Leave your name, your email, and
you can bring up to three people with you to
meet us and hang out and just listen and just
have a great day. It's gonna be a beautiful broadcast.
We are still celebrating Neil's birthday. We're gonna have some
cool guests. We're gonna have giveaways, have stickers that are
being made, tarantula mating stickers, new logo stickers, other things,
(27:25):
and whatever Neil has in store. It's gonna be so
fun and you don't want fomo you do not want
to miss out. Fear of missing out is real. Be
there so we can enjoy it together before we get
into the last story and before we have Michael Monks
come aboard. Today is officially our last day live in
(27:47):
studio with Raoul, because.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Raoul is going on to other things.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
He's going on to other things and we have to
let him go, and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We don't want to. I don't want to.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Okay, wow, I mean I will still be on the earth.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Please.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Today's our last official day together. You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You've been you've been supportive, you have taught me so much.
You've been in my corner, in Kayla's corner, and everyone's
corner on the weekend, and this show is what it
has become because of you. And I thank you so much,
so much the bottom of my heart for everything you've
done sight seeing and unseen, because I know you work
your magic without us even knowing too, and like make
(28:46):
sure you clean up a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
You're the best.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
You're welcome. No, you're the best, Kayla, everybody.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
You guys are awesome. You guys are gonna do great.
Trust me, Raoul.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh you guys, stop it. Okay, okay, we'll stop, We'll stop.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
We'll hold you know, if if you were a tarantula, Raoul,
and I was a tarantula.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh no, okay, too much, too much, too much.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Really quick, before we go to Michael Monks, if you're
interested in becoming an ICE agent, well, the Trump administration
has a very attractive package that they are up that
they are providing to you.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
This is not me doing an ad for that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I'm just telling you what the Department of Homeland Security
is offering should you be interested in becoming a recruit
to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Organization. That package includes
student loan forgiveness, which just irks me and makes my
blood boil because I need that. I need that, and
(29:46):
I want them to offer it in other ways too,
like one also other repayment options for student loans, as
well as a maximum of fifty thousand dollars in a
signing bonus. And this is all in an effort to
recruit more ICE agents. They the existing ICE agents are like,
this ain't easy, and they you know, they've talked about
(30:08):
it and some have left, and so things are you know,
to keep their program robust or keep that department robust.
They are trying to get people to come into it,
and that is what they are offering. Interesting. I wonder
what Elon has to say about this. He's not a
part of DOGE anymore. I wonder this the ballroom, the
(30:32):
gold plated ballroom. There's a lot of money floating around
in that administration.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hi, Michael Monks, you can get those student loans forgiven
if you become an ice agent agent Hobbs.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, thank you, I'll pass. Were you down at today's
today's protest?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I drove past it. It looked a little bit raucous,
but it wasn't. It wasn't as big as some of
the other protests I heard.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It was weak, colorful, and then it looked like it
was straight out of Central Casting.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Let's say, yeah, that might be the case. Certainly, are
you there? But these the organization that was behind it.
As I drove through it, it did cause some some traffic
issues through the downtown streets. This group's going to continue
these little protests or big protests, the same one as before. Yeah,
these are the ones behind the fifty big one that
happened a couple of months ago. No, King's rally. That
(31:21):
was their biggest one. They haven't quite reached that level
since out, but they are planning to do these on
the regular.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Fun, fun for traffic, fun for you. Indeed right there
in your area.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I know, pick another neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh my gosh, Well, really quick, before you get into
what's on your big show? You look so summer ready.
He has his legs out everyone, all.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Eight of them, because I am a tarantula.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And each one of them looks divine. Let me tell
you that what's going on on your big show?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Big show? Indeed, Hey, weird thing this week, right the
tsunami situation that was going on no rebuilt. I know,
I know, we're all rolling our eyes. It turned out
to be nothing, but there was some silver and it's
that our systems worked. And we're going to get into
how that happened and who should be applauded because although
it did not materialize into anything serious, had it been,
(32:10):
we were all pretty well worn good. So we'll talk
about that. We're obviously going to dive into the big
decision out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This
is the same court that told Gavin Newsom that President
Trump could take control of the National Guard, but they've
gone against the trum Well, they interpret the law the
way they interpret the law, and this is big news
for folks who want to see these immigration enforcement activities
(32:31):
across southern California either slow or stop completely. So we'll
hear from the mayor on that. I got a lot
of guests coming up. Senator Adam Schiff is with us.
He's got a piece of legislation that says will help
some financial assistance for those in the wildfire areas and
people with mortgages. But I'll also be joined by a
woman from Undercover. Billionaire lives in the Palisades. Not happy
(32:52):
with the way things are going, and she says maybe
it's time for Pacific Palisades to no longer be part
of the city of Los Ange. Oh, they want to seceed,
she says. Don't use the words to see she told
me specifically. Sorry, we'll talk about why wow.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, you'll find another vocabulary word for it. Listen, and
you'll learn more vocabulary to explain things like this. Michael Monks,
have a great show. Thank you, You're welcome again. Come
out Saturday night Disconzo Restaurant two to seven, Neil and
the Fork Report first from two to five Saturdays with
Tiffany from five to seven. RSVP at Disconzo Restaurant dot com.
(33:27):
R SVP at Disconzo Restaurant dot com for reservations. Want
to see you there, can't wait to see you. Great show.
Thanks for all your collings, your Instagrams, your things, all
the socials love you. Hope to see you next week.
Everybody be safe, have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Raoul. Well, we love you.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Thank you so much for everything. All right, everyone, have
a good one. Saturdays with Tiffany is out. K if
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (33:53):
App, KFI AM six forty on demand
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