Shutdown
The two main House and Senate GOP super PACs are joining forces on an ad campaign to pin blame for the government shutdown on Democratic leaders
Chevron Fire
Crews extinguished a massive fire that erupted at a Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo, which sent up large flames and plumes of smoke into the air. Now, the impact of that fiery blast is going far past the South Bay.
College Makeover
A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
Wild Kingdom
It’s their world, we just live in it.
The two main House and Senate GOP super PACs are joining forces on an ad campaign to pin blame for the government shutdown on Democratic leaders
Chevron Fire
Crews extinguished a massive fire that erupted at a Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo, which sent up large flames and plumes of smoke into the air. Now, the impact of that fiery blast is going far past the South Bay.
College Makeover
A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
Wild Kingdom
It’s their world, we just live in it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tony Sorrentino, our tech director tonight, Eileen Gonzalez in the
news room, Producer Kayla far and away b Team assemble.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yep, that was just.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The sound of one man clapping, So we're off to
a banger of a start.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Gang, well done.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Glad to be with you as always, and you catch
me on Sunday afternoons or you know whenever mode need
some time, and I always relish the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So hope your week went well. Hope you know your
Friday's doing fine.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
One of the things we like to do on the
weekend program is that we we love to hear your voices,
so we say listen. If you're on the iHeartRadio app,
you'll see the talkback button just click on that allows
you to record us message. If you haven't done it before,
please please give it a shot tonight. And we here's
asked the question. So the question tonight, and this is
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based on stories we've got coming up here in about
an hour. Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's the question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Looking for your feedback, Go ahead and hit that talk
back button on the iHeartRadio app and let us know
do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why or why not?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So there it is, and then I will reveal that
I am a cheat and sob that's coming up to
me start with. The shutdown looks like a shutdown is
going to continue, maybe even another week. I was just
seeing that the House is said that they're going to
do district work all next week and district work next
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week according to what Mike Johnson means that the House
is not going to be in session now. The budget
proposals that are in front of the Senate, I'll come
down to them right now. However, the Democratic proposal has
been passed through the House, So if the if there
are no votes for the Republican proposal and they do
some compromises, it would have to go back to the House,
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because all budget proposals have to start in the House
and then make their way through the Senate. Doesn't mean
they can't negotiate behind the doors and YadA, YadA, YadA.
But unless he calls everybody back midweek, it looks like
we're gonna be shut down next week. Well, and again
that is if the Democrats don't vote for the Republican proposal,
we would be shut down next week. The other, the
other little piece about the House being shut down next
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week is this, there was a vacant seat. The gentleman
from Arizona, Raoul Griholva, passed away this session and there
was a special election that was held and his daughter
won that election, at Alita Griholva. She won that on
September the twenty third. However, Mike Johnson has still not
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sworn her in, so it's been over a week. She
won the election, she's waiting to be sworn in, but he's.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Not doing it. Why.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, the reason is, by all accounts, at Alita Griholva
says that she would vote in favor of of bypassing
the speakers wishes and voting on behalf of releasing Epstein files.
They are one vote short of being able to trigger
that floor vote to release the Epstein files. So the
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way it works is that the Speaker can basically decide
what comes to the floor for a vote unless they
have a majority of people who say no, we want
to vote on this, and then the majority of the
House can override overrule. I guess the speaker so the proposal,
which was authored by Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky and
Rocana from here from California, is just waiting on one vote.
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She says she will absolutely vote to release the Epstein files.
Mike Johnson says, no, we don't want to release those files,
and so he's it would appear that that's the reason
he's not swearing her in right now, so that those
Epstein files don't get released.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
At least that's reading the tea leaves. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As far as the shutdown goes, yeah, like I said,
that's probably going to continue. We know it's going to
tiny through the weekend. Expect it's probably going to continue
next week. I don't think that the Democrats are going
to vote with the Republicans. There's going to have to
be a compromise. Is a dirty word for both parties. Now,
both parties say compromises weakness. The Democrats are trying to
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show a spine, which they haven't for a long time.
And so now they're like, hey, we're fighting, even if
that means shutting things down.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're fighting now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And so they're probably not going to vote in favor
of the Republican proposal. There's going to have to be
there's going to have to be some horse trading going on.
And that's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now. Who's going to be impacted?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Maybe you maybe a couple of ways you could be impacted.
One if we start to see travels slow down. Now
TSA is still going to work. The air traffic controllers
are still going to work. But if you are somebody
that's living paycheck to paycheck, especially if you're TSA, they
don't get paid a whole lot. So if you're living
paycheck to paycheck, are close to it, how many weeks
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can you go for? You have to find something else.
That's that's that's a big question of people's minds. I'm
very concerned about this. I've got to get a little
vacate plan for the end of the month. Let's get
this wrapped up, your people, Let's get it wrapped up.
I don't like sitting in line. I don't like it
at all. So let's figure something out as far as
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who's to blame. Normally, the and this is this is
the way I see it at this time too. Normally,
the party that is in the minority that is stopping
things gets the blame. In this case, that would be
the Democrats. However, the rest of the country doesn't see
it the same way I do. Thirty percent of the
country blame the Democrats, twenty three percent say they're not
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really sure. Forty seven percent of the country say it
is the fault of Trump and the Republicans in Congress.
So expect that twenty three percents kind of blaming everybody,
Democrats catching thirty percent, and nearly fifty percent of America
says it's Trump and the Republicans. That doesn't bode well
for them coming up on the election year. Although we
have short memories, we never hold it against the party
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when it comes to the election year.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So that's the latest time on that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
As for layoffs, mass layoffs, we haven't seen them yet.
Caroline Levitz says, she's the House spokesperson. She says, no,
we're probably gonna cut aid to Portland. Oh okay, so
National Guard in Portland, but aid to Portland that would
be cut. We are seeing the impacts because the Labor
report did not come out today. Labor Department evidently their
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computers are down to they're on furlough, I guess, or
maybe the people that are doing it. It's one of
those places that AI is probably going to replace people
releasing reports.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
In the meantime, if you're head of the air show,
not gonna be quite as many planes in the sky.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
As the result of the government shutdown, this weekend's Pacific
Air Show in Huntington Beach will be different. Because of
the shutdown, Organizers say the US military will not be
able to participate in this year's event. A welcome ceremony
that was supposed to take place today at Joint Forces
Training Base in Los Alamidos has been canceled because of
the shutdown. However, the show will continue as scheduled tomorrow
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through Sunday. There will still be world class domestic and
international performances. These are the Thunderbirds, they will not be there.
This year's show will feature the Canadian Forces, what Not
My America, the Snowbirds and the Royal Air Force Falcons
from the UK Snowbirds.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is that like eighty year old women who are on
spending their their winters down south in the meantime, you've
got to be on alert. I don't know, I don't
know what's wrong with society, but you got to be
an alert because now that we're shut down, somebody's gonna
try to take advantage of you.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Scammer's gonna scam.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Scammers are getting to work taking advantage of the government
shut down and praying on the anxiety it causes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's from NBCLA.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
By the way, conkers are opportunity. What they're going to
do is they're going to say, Okay, we see this
government shutdown. There's no legitimate government organization that might be
reaching out, so how about we do that. We're going
to capitalize on that.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Heere.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Among the top scams according to security companies are threats
to take away your government benefits unless you hand over data,
offers for money to those worried about government funds like
Social Security during the shutdown, and fake job offers to avoid.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
What fake job offers.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I mean, I might get a tax offering me a
great job that I can just work from home thirty
hours a week and make eight thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That would never happen.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Becoming a target.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Security executive Michelle Dentity says, if an offer seems personal
or unusual in any way, don't trust it.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Slow down.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Think about does the DMV come to your home?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
No, do they text me.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
No, Oh, they text me all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
They tell me that my license is going to be
suspended unless they send them target gift cards, and I
always do.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Keep in mind, government agencies will not request personal information
or demand payment over email, a phone call, or text.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, they do that every April. Even though they know
how much I owe, they still make me do math.
Stupid government.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I heard Eileen Gonzalez talking about the Chevron fire. Sounds
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fire is out. But how much is that going to
cost the next time you want to drive somewhere. I
don't get ready, get ready, no doubt gas prices are
going up because of it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
How much that's next? Chris merrill INFROMO Kelly Tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Chris merrill INFROMO Tonight, pleasure having you ilenk Gonzalez in
the newsroom. We'll get an update from her here in
about eight minutes. And Tony is keeping me on the
air tonight, which I always appreciate because without Tony, I
wont have a job. If we're being straight, do you
here's the question. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, just
hit that talkback button on the app. Question is do
(09:54):
you use AI to cheat at work? I have been
reading so much about A and how you have to
get to know how to use it. If you're not
using it, you're falling behind. You know, You've got to
do this. Gotta do it, Gotta do it. But we
also get a lot of notes from the company that
are like, you know, don't use AI to make parody songs,
(10:15):
don't make don't use AI to voice fake commercials, you know,
like you do for bits or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It's like, don't use it, don't use it, don't use it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You can use it for very specific things, so like
our sales staff might use it to try to, you know,
write to proposals faster, more creative, different versions, that kind
of thing. So I have been tinkering with it a
little bit this week to try to do some synopsies
of stories and stuff like that. So I've been cheating
a little bit, and honestly, I don't know that I'm
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saving any time, and I am noticing something about how
my brain is working differently. We'll talk more about that
coming up here at eight o'clock. So I'm curious if
you're using AI at work. My wife uses it quite
a bit. She does a lot of proposals and contracts
and things like that, so she's been using it. But
she also warned me, you have to double check everything
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because she is running to phantom sources many times, so
gotta be careful with it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We're still in the infancy. That's our question.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
If you're on the iHeartRadio app, do you use AI
to cheat at work? Eileen was talking about the fire,
the massive explosion and the refinery fire and El Segundo
and it sounds like that is out.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
According to ABC seven.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
The fire at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo Thursday night,
sending a glow across southern California scene four miles.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
This was the view from Griffith Observatory. I can't see it,
it's radio.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
This video taken at Dockweiler State Beach and in the
surrounding communities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach. Residents told
to stay indoors.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Had concussion to it, almost like an earthquake.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I was looking north and I still saw glows from
the light. Turned around, looks south and you could just
see the flames just going up.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's like being a gaza.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Probably two hundred three either one hundred feet in the sky.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It was crazy.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
This one different because it's closer home. So yeah, it
was definitely a little nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hey, we should probably get further away from this.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, you should probably get further Listen, here's what I
know about things that go boom. You're gonna want to
move away, you gonna want to I have lots of
friends growing up in a very rural area that got
too close to booms, and they're missing fingers. I mean,
Fourth of July is fun, but I learned some lessons
from their mistakes.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Because they didn't get bigger.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I was just, you know, hopeful for the bass and
you know, ride, ride whatever wave that comes.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That is the most California thing I've ever heard in
my life. Yeah, say that one more time, hopefully.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
For the bass and you know, ride ride whatever wave
that comes.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Bro, God bless you. You're amazing. You're really great.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Uh, here's what I know about anything that has to
do with the refinery. It costs you at the pump, Yeah,
it always does. I have a pet peeve. I have
many pet peeves. I'm a very cranky, old middle aged man.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The deal with the refineries is that you know, they
shut down every year to do maintenance, right, and then
they shut down again to switch blends. And every time
they shut down, our gas prices go up and they
go wire gas prices going out. These as well, they
had planned maintenance. And I always think to myself, if
this were any other business in the world, if you
had to plan a shutdown, you would plan accordingly. You
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would increase your supply, you would prepare for it. To
quote Game of Thrones, winter is coming and you get ready. Nope,
not refineries, although I think they do because it's not
like we have a run out of gas. When there's
a refinery that's undergoing maintenance, they just jack the prices.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
Up, right, and they're, well, that's a maintenance. What are
you gonna do here? You go, I had to jack
the prices up. Okay, Well, if I have to get
maintenance on my car, I make arrangements so I can
still get to work. Right, If you have new maintenance
on your refinery, you make arrangements so that your customers
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are still getting their fuel.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Nope, that's not how they do it. And again I
don't think I really might. I don't know if it's
conspiracy theory. I don't believe them when they say, well,
you know, it's a refinery maintenance.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We had to raise the prices fifteen cents. Why, well, maintenance.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But what does your maintenance have to do with the
with raising prices?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Maintenance? Stop it, you're just saying maintenance.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Derek Alvan fueled up two generators and a gas can
ahead of a packed weekend for his smash Burger food
truck business.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oo, go on, ABC seven, tell me more about these
smash burgers.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I'm burning through a ton of fuels.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
News of the Chevron refinery explosion and elsewhere Gundo and
its impact on gas prices has embracing for another hit
to his bottom line.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a big deal to me.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
So the little things add up, especially.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
When you go on through as many hundreds of gallons
as I go through every day.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
There.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, not only that, but he does smash burgers. Have
you seen the price of beef lately?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That poor guy. These margins are just about nothing. I bet.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Refinery produces about twenty percent of California's gasoline and forty
percent of its jet fuel. According to a statement released
by Chevron, the fire was contained to a southeast corner
of the refinery unit. Still, it raises questions about how
much drivers could be pain at the pump.
Speaker 11 (15:39):
Yeah, how much particular refinery anytime it shuts down. It
impacts prices all along the western coast of the United
States and even into places like Vancouver, British Columbia, other
aspects in Canada.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Matt McClain with gasbuddy dot com says early estimates had
the price per gallon jumping thirty to ninety cents per gallon.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Yeah what.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
No, But MacLean says the damage to the refinery look
limited and the spike won't be nearly as steep as long.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
As the initial reports of the extent of the damage remains.
It's actually a very positive thing for gasoline consumers. The
impact is expected to be reduced back to just a
nickel to fifteen cents a gallon rise at this point
at the local pump.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That sounds a whole lot better to me. That's understandable.
Of course, you know what they're going to do. Jeff
Run's gon say, well, you know, we had to rebuild
and then we had to do maintenance on it, So
let's do that ninety cent increase. Holy cow, we set
record profits. Weirdest thing. Yeah, the refinery burned down and
we had the record profits. Who could have seen that coming?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I could greed turns? All right, Ah, here's what's happening
your college. It may become a whole lot more. Maga.
You're gonna find out why.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You can listen anytime on demand of the iHeart radio app.
There's a new proposal from the Trump administration. It's gonna
give college colleges a certain funding advantages if they adopt
conservative priorities.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
They say they're not going to withhold.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Any funding, but that they will prioritize funding for schools
that adhere to President Trump's ideological what do they say?
Hang on, I got to get the exact phrasing here, Uh,
the wide arranging Trump's ideological priorities.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Colleges need to come into compliance with Trump's ideological priorities.
There's another one of those situations that's going to backfire
as soon as there's the Democrat in office. Remember, once
you open Pandora's box, you can't close it again. So
everything that Trump is doing is setting a precedent and
U and once you have president AOC, which would be
(18:03):
an absolute nightmare for MAGA, and honestly, I wouldn't be
a big fan of that either. Then wants to stop
her from saying she's gonna do the same stuff he did, right,
So gotta be a little careful with this stuff there.
It is gotta be a little cautious, but just the
same ideological priorities, including a prohibiting consideration of factors such
as gender, race, or political views from being considered for admission, scholarships,
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or programming. The pledge would also freeze tuition for five years,
give free tuition to students that are pursuing hard science
programs at schools with the doowments exceeding two million dollars
per undergraduate, and then refund tuition to undergraduates who drop
out during their first term, so no incentive to finish
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up that term. Maintain institutional neutrality at all levels, ensuring
university employees abstain from political speech.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I don't think that's constitutional.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't think that you can mandate that government employees
not participate in political speech.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Pretty sure that's a settled issue.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The other concern of course, is that if you're maintaining
institutional neutrality, what does that mean who.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Is the arbiter of what is neutral? Right?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And again, remember what happens when AOC steps in.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
There's been a lot of conversation since the atrocious murder
of Charlie Kirk. What happens when she says that hosting
Charlie Kirk is sponsoring non neutral speech or somebody you
know from not Charlie obviously past, but talking points the USA,
say his wife Erica, Right, You've got to be careful
(19:37):
with this stuff. Trump's pledge also says cap international enrollment
at fifteen percent of a college's undergraduate student body, no
more than five percent coming from a single country, which
means Korean, Chinese students, many of the Asian students who
are coming to the United States for their education and
then entering into the workforce in the United States. That
(19:57):
would be we would sort of turn off the tap
of the foreign workforce and then publicly post average earnings
for graduates in every discipline.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I actually support that one. I think that was a
good idea.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
If you get into this, how much can you expect
to make that seems very reasonable. Governor Newsom is responding though,
and he says no.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Specifically, Newsom is now threatening California.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Schools, another politicals from Kickout cool Land mind, putting both
private and public universities in the hot seat.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
This is why they pay college presidents the big bucks.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
This is a very difficult decision the Trump administrations.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's about time they earn their keep sending a letter.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
To nine prestigious colleges, including USC, telling them to change
course when it comes to things like deciding college admissions
based on gender and race, banning transgender women from competing
in sports, allowing for a free exchange of conservative ideas,
and limiting the number of international students on campus. The
president says if schools design his compact, they'll get favorable
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treatment when it comes to federal funding. Conditions also include
not raising tuition on students.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
It's like giving a bully your lunch money.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The bully is not going to stop on today's lunch money.
Speaker 11 (21:14):
The bully's going to keep coming back and asking for more.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Claremont College political professor John Pitney calls the compact concerning yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Trump is trying to tell private institutions how to run
what they do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And again This is where you have to be extraordinarily cautious,
because what happens when you've got a president Newsom who
decides he's going to use the same playbook. We already
know he's trying to fight fire with fire with his
online snark. Right, we've already seen Newsom do that. So
(21:49):
what happens when you have President Newsom, President, AOC president,
young kid fill in the blank, whomever it is, right,
what happens when you have the next Democrat that says
I'm going to require a loyalty pledge. I'm very concerned
that we've hit the point where we're so divided. And
of course, our primary system is set up in a
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way that nationwide, ours is a little bit better here
because the jungle primary, although we're a very blue state.
I'm very concerned that we are going to have a
more divided nation, and you're going to have each side
is going to start cheering on their tribal leader, Trump,
(22:31):
advance Trump, Trump baron Trump. In like twenty years, you're
going to have and then again of the Democrats and
their site, You're going to have this division and we're
not going to be able to get things back on
the rails, and there's no incentive by the politicians to
fix the primary system to move toward the center where.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Most of us live.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Governor Newsom hitting back, threatening to withhold state funding from
schools who comply, staying in part California will not bankroll
school that sell out their students, professors, researchers and surrender
academic freedom.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It's like, what side, who do I pick, the federal
government or my.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Like Naomi Cashon is a junior human biology major at USC,
she already lost one campus job because of the President's
previous federal funding cuts.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
It's just an abusive power and it really affects our
way of life negatively.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Despite USC being a private university, they receive state funding
in the form of cow grants. Experts say how much
is withheld by Newsome if they side with Trump will
depend on individual schools. All right, Hunter Soward's k Cal
news tay Cal.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
There you go, Thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Just be careful, I'm telling you, man, just be careful
because if there's one thing we've seen Congress do is
that as soon as one side does it, the other
side uses it to their advantage.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The next time they have power.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's like when the Democrats use the nuclear option to
get their Appellate Court judges approved during the Obama administration.
Then the Republicans said, okay, well, we're gonna do the
same thing when it comes to the Supreme Court judges,
right so, and then the Democrats went, way, you can't
do that, right, Well, why can't they do it?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You did it right. So I'm just telling you this
is just got to be cautious. It's the way it's
gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The question I asked for the talkback, do you use
AI to cheat at work? A little story is I
did cheat a little bit tonight using AI. I asked
AI to summarize some stories for me. Don't worry, I
double checked to make sure it was all legit, that
it wasn't adding phantom info in there. But I'll tell
(24:43):
you when it happens, all right, so that you're you're
clued in not I'm gonna try to pull the wool
over your.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Eyes, all right? Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
From the talkbacks for people that are listening on the
iHeartRadio app, I wish.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I could use AI to cheat?
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Tout driver, Oh, I wish I could use it to cheat?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That'd be great. Goodbye bye.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, Actually your job is safe. Yeah, your job is
pretty safe. All right, how about you let me see
is this gonna go?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh but I expect.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Not an accident.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I can't even hear him. All I heard was his
dog barking. Did you hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
All right, we'll get more of your thoughts here on
the talk back. Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Why? Or why not? And if you can't, I'd love
to hear that too. It's a wild kingdom. It's their world.
We just live in it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And sometimes they Sometimes the wild kingdom hits the drive through.
I'll tell you where net.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You're listening to KFI A M six forty on demand, Merril.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
KFI AM six forty in from o Kelly. I'll also
be back again on Sunday, right after the chargers again.
We got the chargers Sunday afternoon and then joined me
starting at five thirty on Sunday. And as of course,
unless there's overtime, and let's hope that the chargers get
things done without overtime, so take care of that. That's
Sunday here on KF. I remember you can listen anytime
on demand of the iHeartRadio app. And I appreciate you
(26:16):
being a part of the program. I had a conversation
with a colleague this week and she was upset with me,
and she said, can I vent for a minute, Oh,
this will be good.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I didn't realize she was gonna vent about me.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
She's thirty, I think thirty, and I'm gonna say she's
very ideological. Okay, So she said, when Ozzy Osbourne died,
every show did something about Ozzy. Everyone talked about Ozzie
and how Ozzie affected their lives. And she said, and
(26:53):
Ozzie was great, don't get me wrong, but Ozzie also
had a lot of demons.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I'm kind of parafra. This is this is the gist
of it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And I went, yeah, okay, and she said, but Jane
Goodall died and not a single person talked about it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Wow. I can't say that that's necessarily.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
True, but yeah, largely, when Ozzie died got a lot
more attention than Jane Goodall. Yeah, you're right, And then
she said it's because Jane Goodall is a woman.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
She could not be convinced otherwise, and of course there's
no way to prove or disprove it. But I made
this point. Ozzie was the king of pop culture. See,
so he was on top of the world of rock
and roll, and he touched all of us. From that standpoint,
Jane Goodall did amazing work as a zoologist.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's not rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Right there, there seems to be a leader in every
field who most of us have heard of. Right, every
field has their celebrity and astrophysics, you go, okay, Neil
deGrasse Tyson, but could you name five probably not? Can
you name five rock stars? Probably right? So I said, look,
it's pop culture. It's broad awareness versus somebody who was
(28:12):
in a in a in a less popular field. That's
not to say she didn't deserve attention. And she said, okay,
I get your point. But then she said this, and
this really hit me, and it's why I wanted to
make sure I talked about Jane Goodall, who passed away,
of course, and that is that. She said, Jane Goodall
inspired women from the nineteen sixties on to get into
(28:33):
science fields. She was a trailblazer and I could not
agree more And and I said, that's that's fascinating because
it's not a it's not something that I could that
I considered. I'm a middle aged white guy, right, so
my path was a whole lot different than the path
of a woman who wanted to get into sciences in
(28:53):
the nineteen sixties. So when she passed away, Flick employees,
I guess knew that they faced a few very long
workdays because they would have forty eight hours to put
the finishing touches on a new show already years in
the making. This from the New York Times, So without
much fanfare, today Netflix released the first episode of the
show Famous Last Words, a series of late life interviews
(29:16):
with famous people whose contents, including their subject's identities, are
kept closely guarded until after the subject dies. So they
talked with all of these people, and they said, when
you die, what do you want for people to remember
you by? It's like a living obituary. What a fascinating concept.
(29:37):
And also they obviously didn't do it for Robert Redford.
So yeah, anyway, you know, credit to Jane Goodall because
she was an inspiration. And then I also pointed out
to this thirty year old, because you know, I have
a brand that is a kind fatherly like voice in
(30:02):
the office with a slight streak of misogyny. And I said,
and let's remember she was also a babe. And actually
this thirty something ideological coworker of mine, she agreed.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
She said, yeah, you're right, she was a babe. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Cool, So Jane Goodall, zoologist, friend of chimpanzees. Her favorite animal,
by the way, not chimpanzees.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Dogs. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Meanwhile, if you were at an in and out Burger,
there's a chance when you ordered something animal style. Now
I feel like that joke is too easy. All right,
here's the deal. You've heard of snakes on a plane,
about snakes on a drive through.
Speaker 13 (30:42):
This strange tale began when an in and out employee
in Monrovia found this slithering surprise in the drive through line.
The employee then turned the three point six pound, four
foot long python over to the Pasadena Humane Society.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
It's a very curious set of circumstances, says Monday, late afternoon,
we had somebody who brought in a straight python, claimed
that they found it at an in and out drive
through in Monrobia.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
The folks at the Humane Society say the animal was
well taken care of, and so it was likely someone's pet.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If you I'm guessing it was eating French fries, owner
does not come forward.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
Well, sure enough, the owner spotted I report Wednesday morning
and contacted the Pasadena Humane Society.
Speaker 15 (31:26):
I was at work. I'm a barber and I cut
her at a barbershop in Redland.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She's not going to be replaced by AI.
Speaker 15 (31:32):
And in our shop we have two TVs. I was
cutting clan's hair and I heard, I have heard it's
a snake. Whatever was lost. So I look up and
immediately I'm like, that's my snake.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Could you recognize your snake if it showed up on TV? Yeah,
I mean, I don't know. I guess if it's your pet,
But look I've had I mean, if you've got a
Golden Retriever and a Golden Retriever shows up on TV,
would you know for sure if it was yours or not?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
They kind of look alike and I, ooh, that's August, I.
Speaker 15 (32:07):
Tell the client and he looks at me kind of crazy,
and I'm like, no, I swear that that's my.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Snake coming to it's snake.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So do you finish cutting the hair? What do you do?
Speaker 13 (32:19):
Find out? The owners who live in Sambornadino had posted
online about their beloved python Jenny, escaping from her cage
back on August eleventh.
Speaker 15 (32:29):
On August eleventh, were outside doing yard work and stuff
and my boyfriend actually tripped over something and he landed
on her cage and the screen pushed. But we thought
we fixed it when we went inside, and apparently he didn't.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
They've been looking for their family pet for weeks and
now they finally have Hanny back home, safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 15 (32:55):
We're happy.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
As for the big question not everyone's mind, how did
Henny get all the way from samrat Dino to Monrovia
and why did he go to.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
In and out?
Speaker 15 (33:05):
I have no idea. I wish you could talk so
we could find out.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
All right, Thank you, katy La. I appreciate the report,
appreciate the update. The drive through Python has been found.
All right, I've got more of your talkbacks the question tonight.
If you are on the iHeart app, feel free to
hit that talk back button to answer the question do
you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Why? Or why not?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Maybe you've got a job that doesn't use it, maybe
you've been told you can't. Maybe you use it because
you've been told you have to. For some people love
to hear if you're using it, how you're using it,
why or why not. That is next, and we'll talk
about whether or not this AI is a total bubble.
It's starting to feel a little overhyped. It's felt a
little overhyped for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Chris Maryland from o Kelly to Night KFI AM six forty.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tony Sorrentino, our tech director tonight, Eileen Gonzalez in the
news room, Producer Kayla far and away b Team assemble.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yep, that was just.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The sound of one man clapping, So we're off to
a banger of a start.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Gang, well done.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Glad to be with you as always, and you catch
me on Sunday afternoons or you know whenever mode need
some time, and I always relish the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So hope your week went well. Hope you know your
Friday's doing fine.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
One of the things we like to do on the
weekend program is that we we love to hear your voices,
so we say listen. If you're on the iHeartRadio app,
you'll see the talkback button just click on that allows
you to record us message. If you haven't done it before,
please please give it a shot tonight. And we here's
asked the question. So the question tonight, and this is
(01:01):
based on stories we've got coming up here in about
an hour. Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's the question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Looking for your feedback, Go ahead and hit that talk
back button on the iHeartRadio app and let us know
do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Why or why not?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
So there it is, and then I will reveal that
I am a cheat and sob that's coming up to
me start with. The shutdown looks like a shutdown is
going to continue, maybe even another week. I was just
seeing that the House is said that they're going to
do district work all next week and district work next
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week according to what Mike Johnson means that the House
is not going to be in session now. The budget
proposals that are in front of the Senate, I'll come
down to them right now. However, the Democratic proposal has
been passed through the House, So if the if there
are no votes for the Republican proposal and they do
some compromises, it would have to go back to the House,
(02:02):
because all budget proposals have to start in the House
and then make their way through the Senate. Doesn't mean
they can't negotiate behind the doors and YadA, YadA, YadA.
But unless he calls everybody back midweek, it looks like
we're gonna be shut down next week. Well, and again
that is if the Democrats don't vote for the Republican proposal,
we would be shut down next week. The other, the
other little piece about the House being shut down next
(02:24):
week is this, there was a vacant seat. The gentleman
from Arizona, Raoul Griholva, passed away this session and there
was a special election that was held and his daughter
won that election, at Alita Griholva. She won that on
September the twenty third. However, Mike Johnson has still not
(02:45):
sworn her in, so it's been over a week. She
won the election, she's waiting to be sworn in, but he's.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Not doing it. Why.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, the reason is, by all accounts, at Alita Griholva
says that she would vote in favor of of bypassing
the speakers wishes and voting on behalf of releasing Epstein files.
They are one vote short of being able to trigger
that floor vote to release the Epstein files. So the
(03:15):
way it works is that the Speaker can basically decide
what comes to the floor for a vote unless they
have a majority of people who say no, we want
to vote on this, and then the majority of the
House can override overrule. I guess the speaker so the proposal,
which was authored by Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky and
Rocana from here from California, is just waiting on one vote.
(03:38):
She says she will absolutely vote to release the Epstein files.
Mike Johnson says, no, we don't want to release those files,
and so he's it would appear that that's the reason
he's not swearing her in right now, so that those
Epstein files don't get released.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
At least that's reading the tea leaves. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
As far as the shutdown goes, yeah, like I said,
that's probably going to continue. We know it's going to
tiny through the weekend. Expect it's probably going to continue
next week. I don't think that the Democrats are going
to vote with the Republicans. There's going to have to
be a compromise. Is a dirty word for both parties. Now,
both parties say compromises weakness. The Democrats are trying to
(04:15):
show a spine, which they haven't for a long time.
And so now they're like, hey, we're fighting, even if
that means shutting things down.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We're fighting now.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And so they're probably not going to vote in favor
of the Republican proposal. There's going to have to be
there's going to have to be some horse trading going on.
And that's just the way it is.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now. Who's going to be impacted?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Maybe you maybe a couple of ways you could be impacted.
One if we start to see travels slow down. Now
TSA is still going to work. The air traffic controllers
are still going to work. But if you are somebody
that's living paycheck to paycheck, especially if you're TSA, they
don't get paid a whole lot. So if you're living
paycheck to paycheck, are close to it, how many weeks
(04:58):
can you go for? You have to find something else.
That's that's that's a big question of people's minds. I'm
very concerned about this. I've got to get a little
vacate plan for the end of the month. Let's get
this wrapped up, your people, Let's get it wrapped up.
I don't like sitting in line. I don't like it
at all. So let's figure something out as far as
(05:20):
who's to blame. Normally, the and this is this is
the way I see it at this time too. Normally,
the party that is in the minority that is stopping
things gets the blame. In this case, that would be
the Democrats. However, the rest of the country doesn't see
it the same way I do. Thirty percent of the
country blame the Democrats, twenty three percent say they're not
(05:42):
really sure. Forty seven percent of the country say it
is the fault of Trump and the Republicans in Congress.
So expect that twenty three percents kind of blaming everybody,
Democrats catching thirty percent, and nearly fifty percent of America
says it's Trump and the Republicans. That doesn't bode well
for them coming up on the election year. Although we
have short memories, we never hold it against the party
(06:03):
when it comes to the election year.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So that's the latest time on that.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
As for layoffs, mass layoffs, we haven't seen them yet.
Caroline Levitz says, she's the House spokesperson. She says, no,
we're probably gonna cut aid to Portland. Oh okay, so
National Guard in Portland, but aid to Portland that would
be cut. We are seeing the impacts because the Labor
report did not come out today. Labor Department evidently their
(06:29):
computers are down to they're on furlough, I guess, or
maybe the people that are doing it. It's one of
those places that AI is probably going to replace people
releasing reports.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
In the meantime, if you're head of the air show,
not gonna be quite as many planes in the sky.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
As the result of the government shutdown, this weekend's Pacific
Air Show in Huntington Beach will be different. Because of
the shutdown, Organizers say the US military will not be
able to participate in this year's event. A welcome ceremony
that was supposed to take place today at Joint Forces
Training Base in Los Alamidos has been canceled because of
the shutdown. However, the show will continue as scheduled tomorrow
(07:08):
through Sunday. There will still be world class domestic and
international performances. These are the Thunderbirds, they will not be there.
This year's show will feature the Canadian Forces, what Not
My America, the Snowbirds and the Royal Air Force Falcons
from the UK Snowbirds.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is that like eighty year old women who are on
spending their their winters down south in the meantime, you've
got to be on alert. I don't know, I don't
know what's wrong with society, but you got to be
an alert because now that we're shut down, somebody's gonna
try to take advantage of you.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Scammer's gonna scam.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Scammers are getting to work taking advantage of the government
shut down and praying on the anxiety it causes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's from NBCLA.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
By the way, conkers are opportunity. What they're going to
do is they're going to say, Okay, we see this
government shutdown. There's no legitimate government organization that might be
reaching out, so how about we do that. We're going
to capitalize on that.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Heere.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Among the top scams according to security companies are threats
to take away your government benefits unless you hand over data,
offers for money to those worried about government funds like
Social Security during the shutdown, and fake job offers to avoid.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
What fake job offers.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I mean, I might get a tax offering me a
great job that I can just work from home thirty
hours a week and make eight thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That would never happen.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Becoming a target.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Security executive Michelle Dentity says, if an offer seems personal
or unusual in any way, don't trust it.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Slow down.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Think about does the DMV come to your home?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
No, do they text me.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
No, Oh, they text me all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
They tell me that my license is going to be
suspended unless they send them target gift cards, and I
always do.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Keep in mind, government agencies will not request personal information
or demand payment over email, a phone call, or text.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, they do that every April. Even though they know
how much I owe, they still make me do math.
Stupid government.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I heard Eileen Gonzalez talking about the Chevron fire. Sounds
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Fire is out. But how much is that going to
cost the next time you want to drive somewhere. I
don't get ready, get ready, no doubt gas prices are
going up because of it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
How much that's next? Chris merrill INFROMO Kelly Tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Chris merrill INFROMO Tonight, pleasure having you ilenk Gonzalez in
the newsroom. We'll get an update from her here in
about eight minutes. And Tony is keeping me on the
air tonight, which I always appreciate because without Tony, I
wont have a job. If we're being straight, do you
here's the question. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, just
hit that talkback button on the app. Question is do
(09:54):
you use AI to cheat at work? I have been
reading so much about A and how you have to
get to know how to use it. If you're not
using it, you're falling behind. You know, You've got to
do this. Gotta do it, Gotta do it. But we
also get a lot of notes from the company that
are like, you know, don't use AI to make parody songs,
(10:15):
don't make don't use AI to voice fake commercials, you know,
like you do for bits or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It's like, don't use it, don't use it, don't use it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You can use it for very specific things, so like
our sales staff might use it to try to, you know,
write to proposals faster, more creative, different versions, that kind
of thing. So I have been tinkering with it a
little bit this week to try to do some synopsies
of stories and stuff like that. So I've been cheating
a little bit, and honestly, I don't know that I'm
(10:43):
saving any time, and I am noticing something about how
my brain is working differently. We'll talk more about that
coming up here at eight o'clock. So I'm curious if
you're using AI at work. My wife uses it quite
a bit. She does a lot of proposals and contracts
and things like that, so she's been using it. But
she also warned me, you have to double check everything
(11:05):
because she is running to phantom sources many times, so
gotta be careful with it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We're still in the infancy. That's our question.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
If you're on the iHeartRadio app, do you use AI
to cheat at work? Eileen was talking about the fire,
the massive explosion and the refinery fire and El Segundo
and it sounds like that is out.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
According to ABC seven.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
The fire at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo Thursday night,
sending a glow across southern California scene four miles.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
This was the view from Griffith Observatory. I can't see it,
it's radio.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
This video taken at Dockweiler State Beach and in the
surrounding communities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach. Residents told
to stay indoors.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Had concussion to it, almost like an earthquake.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I was looking north and I still saw glows from
the light. Turned around, looks south and you could just
see the flames just going up.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's like being a gaza.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Probably two hundred three either one hundred feet in the sky.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It was crazy.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
This one different because it's closer home. So yeah, it
was definitely a little nerve wracking.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hey, we should probably get further away from this.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, you should probably get further Listen, here's what I
know about things that go boom. You're gonna want to
move away, you gonna want to I have lots of
friends growing up in a very rural area that got
too close to booms, and they're missing fingers. I mean,
Fourth of July is fun, but I learned some lessons
from their mistakes.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Because they didn't get bigger.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I was just, you know, hopeful for the bass and
you know, ride, ride whatever wave that comes.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That is the most California thing I've ever heard in
my life. Yeah, say that one more time, hopefully.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
For the bass and you know, ride ride whatever wave
that comes.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Bro, God bless you. You're amazing. You're really great.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Uh, here's what I know about anything that has to
do with the refinery. It costs you at the pump, Yeah,
it always does. I have a pet peeve. I have
many pet peeves. I'm a very cranky, old middle aged man.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
The deal with the refineries is that you know, they
shut down every year to do maintenance, right, and then
they shut down again to switch blends. And every time
they shut down, our gas prices go up and they
go wire gas prices going out. These as well, they
had planned maintenance. And I always think to myself, if
this were any other business in the world, if you
had to plan a shutdown, you would plan accordingly. You
(13:34):
would increase your supply, you would prepare for it. To
quote Game of Thrones, winter is coming and you get ready. Nope,
not refineries, although I think they do because it's not
like we have a run out of gas. When there's
a refinery that's undergoing maintenance, they just jack the prices.
Speaker 12 (13:53):
Up, right, and they're, well, that's a maintenance. What are
you gonna do here? You go, I had to jack
the prices up. Okay, Well, if I have to get
maintenance on my car, I make arrangements so I can
still get to work. Right, If you have new maintenance
on your refinery, you make arrangements so that your customers
(14:15):
are still getting their fuel.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Nope, that's not how they do it. And again I
don't think I really might. I don't know if it's
conspiracy theory. I don't believe them when they say, well,
you know, it's a refinery maintenance.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We had to raise the prices fifteen cents. Why, well, maintenance.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But what does your maintenance have to do with the
with raising prices?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Maintenance? Stop it, you're just saying maintenance.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Derek Alvan fueled up two generators and a gas can
ahead of a packed weekend for his smash Burger food
truck business.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oo, go on, ABC seven, tell me more about these
smash burgers.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I'm burning through a ton of fuels.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
News of the Chevron refinery explosion and elsewhere Gundo and
its impact on gas prices has embracing for another hit
to his bottom line.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's a big deal to me.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
So the little things add up, especially.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
When you go on through as many hundreds of gallons
as I go through every day.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
There.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, not only that, but he does smash burgers. Have
you seen the price of beef lately?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That poor guy. These margins are just about nothing. I bet.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Refinery produces about twenty percent of California's gasoline and forty
percent of its jet fuel. According to a statement released
by Chevron, the fire was contained to a southeast corner
of the refinery unit. Still, it raises questions about how
much drivers could be pain at the pump.
Speaker 11 (15:39):
Yeah, how much particular refinery anytime it shuts down. It
impacts prices all along the western coast of the United
States and even into places like Vancouver, British Columbia, other
aspects in Canada.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Matt McClain with gasbuddy dot com says early estimates had
the price per gallon jumping thirty to ninety cents per gallon.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Yeah what.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
No, But MacLean says the damage to the refinery look
limited and the spike won't be nearly as steep as long.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
As the initial reports of the extent of the damage remains.
It's actually a very positive thing for gasoline consumers. The
impact is expected to be reduced back to just a
nickel to fifteen cents a gallon rise at this point
at the local pump.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That sounds a whole lot better to me. That's understandable.
Of course, you know what they're going to do. Jeff
Run's gon say, well, you know, we had to rebuild
and then we had to do maintenance on it, So
let's do that ninety cent increase. Holy cow, we set
record profits. Weirdest thing. Yeah, the refinery burned down and
we had the record profits. Who could have seen that coming?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I could greed turns? All right, Ah, here's what's happening
your college. It may become a whole lot more. Maga.
You're gonna find out why.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You can listen anytime on demand of the iHeart radio app.
There's a new proposal from the Trump administration. It's gonna
give college colleges a certain funding advantages if they adopt
conservative priorities.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
They say they're not going to withhold.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Any funding, but that they will prioritize funding for schools
that adhere to President Trump's ideological what do they say?
Hang on, I got to get the exact phrasing here, Uh,
the wide arranging Trump's ideological priorities.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Colleges need to come into compliance with Trump's ideological priorities.
There's another one of those situations that's going to backfire
as soon as there's the Democrat in office. Remember, once
you open Pandora's box, you can't close it again. So
everything that Trump is doing is setting a precedent and
U and once you have president AOC, which would be
(18:03):
an absolute nightmare for MAGA, and honestly, I wouldn't be
a big fan of that either. Then wants to stop
her from saying she's gonna do the same stuff he did, right,
So gotta be a little careful with this stuff there.
It is gotta be a little cautious, but just the
same ideological priorities, including a prohibiting consideration of factors such
as gender, race, or political views from being considered for admission, scholarships,
(18:25):
or programming. The pledge would also freeze tuition for five years,
give free tuition to students that are pursuing hard science
programs at schools with the doowments exceeding two million dollars
per undergraduate, and then refund tuition to undergraduates who drop
out during their first term, so no incentive to finish
(18:46):
up that term. Maintain institutional neutrality at all levels, ensuring
university employees abstain from political speech.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I don't think that's constitutional.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I don't think that you can mandate that government employees
not participate in political speech.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Pretty sure that's a settled issue.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The other concern of course, is that if you're maintaining
institutional neutrality, what does that mean who.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Is the arbiter of what is neutral? Right?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And again, remember what happens when AOC steps in.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
There's been a lot of conversation since the atrocious murder
of Charlie Kirk. What happens when she says that hosting
Charlie Kirk is sponsoring non neutral speech or somebody you
know from not Charlie obviously past, but talking points the USA,
say his wife Erica, Right, You've got to be careful
(19:37):
with this stuff. Trump's pledge also says cap international enrollment
at fifteen percent of a college's undergraduate student body, no
more than five percent coming from a single country, which
means Korean, Chinese students, many of the Asian students who
are coming to the United States for their education and
then entering into the workforce in the United States. That
(19:57):
would be we would sort of turn off the tap
of the foreign workforce and then publicly post average earnings
for graduates in every discipline.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I actually support that one. I think that was a
good idea.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
If you get into this, how much can you expect
to make that seems very reasonable. Governor Newsom is responding though,
and he says no.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Specifically, Newsom is now threatening California.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Schools, another politicals from Kickout cool Land mind, putting both
private and public universities in the hot seat.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
This is why they pay college presidents the big bucks.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
This is a very difficult decision the Trump administrations.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's about time they earn their keep sending a letter.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
To nine prestigious colleges, including USC, telling them to change
course when it comes to things like deciding college admissions
based on gender and race, banning transgender women from competing
in sports, allowing for a free exchange of conservative ideas,
and limiting the number of international students on campus. The
president says if schools design his compact, they'll get favorable
(21:02):
treatment when it comes to federal funding. Conditions also include
not raising tuition on students.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
It's like giving a bully your lunch money.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The bully is not going to stop on today's lunch money.
Speaker 11 (21:14):
The bully's going to keep coming back and asking for more.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Claremont College political professor John Pitney calls the compact concerning yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Trump is trying to tell private institutions how to run
what they do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And again This is where you have to be extraordinarily cautious,
because what happens when you've got a president Newsom who
decides he's going to use the same playbook. We already
know he's trying to fight fire with fire with his
online snark. Right, we've already seen Newsom do that. So
(21:49):
what happens when you have President Newsom, President, AOC president,
young kid fill in the blank, whomever it is, right,
what happens when you have the next Democrat that says
I'm going to require a loyalty pledge. I'm very concerned
that we've hit the point where we're so divided. And
of course, our primary system is set up in a
(22:11):
way that nationwide, ours is a little bit better here
because the jungle primary, although we're a very blue state.
I'm very concerned that we are going to have a
more divided nation, and you're going to have each side
is going to start cheering on their tribal leader, Trump,
(22:31):
advance Trump, Trump baron Trump. In like twenty years, you're
going to have and then again of the Democrats and
their site, You're going to have this division and we're
not going to be able to get things back on
the rails, and there's no incentive by the politicians to
fix the primary system to move toward the center where.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Most of us live.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Governor Newsom hitting back, threatening to withhold state funding from
schools who comply, staying in part California will not bankroll
school that sell out their students, professors, researchers and surrender
academic freedom.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It's like, what side, who do I pick, the federal
government or my.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Like Naomi Cashon is a junior human biology major at USC,
she already lost one campus job because of the President's
previous federal funding cuts.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
It's just an abusive power and it really affects our
way of life negatively.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Despite USC being a private university, they receive state funding
in the form of cow grants. Experts say how much
is withheld by Newsome if they side with Trump will
depend on individual schools. All right, Hunter Soward's k Cal
news tay Cal.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
There you go, Thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Just be careful, I'm telling you, man, just be careful
because if there's one thing we've seen Congress do is
that as soon as one side does it, the other
side uses it to their advantage.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
The next time they have power.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's like when the Democrats use the nuclear option to
get their Appellate Court judges approved during the Obama administration.
Then the Republicans said, okay, well, we're gonna do the
same thing when it comes to the Supreme Court judges,
right so, and then the Democrats went, way, you can't
do that, right, Well, why can't they do it?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You did it right. So I'm just telling you this
is just got to be cautious. It's the way it's
gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The question I asked for the talkback, do you use
AI to cheat at work? A little story is I
did cheat a little bit tonight using AI. I asked
AI to summarize some stories for me. Don't worry, I
double checked to make sure it was all legit, that
it wasn't adding phantom info in there. But I'll tell
(24:43):
you when it happens, all right, so that you're you're
clued in not I'm gonna try to pull the wool
over your.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Eyes, all right? Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
From the talkbacks for people that are listening on the
iHeartRadio app, I wish.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I could use AI to cheat?
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Tout driver, Oh, I wish I could use it to cheat?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That'd be great. Goodbye bye.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, Actually your job is safe. Yeah, your job is
pretty safe. All right, how about you let me see
is this gonna go?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh but I expect.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Not an accident.
Speaker 12 (25:26):
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I can't even hear him. All I heard was his
dog barking. Did you hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
All right, we'll get more of your thoughts here on
the talk back. Do you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Why? Or why not? And if you can't, I'd love
to hear that too. It's a wild kingdom. It's their world.
We just live in it.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And sometimes they Sometimes the wild kingdom hits the drive through.
I'll tell you where net.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You're listening to KFI A M six forty on demand, Merril.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
KFI AM six forty in from o Kelly. I'll also
be back again on Sunday, right after the chargers again.
We got the chargers Sunday afternoon and then joined me
starting at five thirty on Sunday. And as of course,
unless there's overtime, and let's hope that the chargers get
things done without overtime, so take care of that. That's
Sunday here on KF. I remember you can listen anytime
on demand of the iHeartRadio app. And I appreciate you
(26:16):
being a part of the program. I had a conversation
with a colleague this week and she was upset with me,
and she said, can I vent for a minute, Oh,
this will be good.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I didn't realize she was gonna vent about me.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
She's thirty, I think thirty, and I'm gonna say she's
very ideological. Okay, So she said, when Ozzy Osbourne died,
every show did something about Ozzy. Everyone talked about Ozzie
and how Ozzie affected their lives. And she said, and
(26:53):
Ozzie was great, don't get me wrong, but Ozzie also
had a lot of demons.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I'm kind of parafra. This is this is the gist
of it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And I went, yeah, okay, and she said, but Jane
Goodall died and not a single person talked about it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Wow. I can't say that that's necessarily.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
True, but yeah, largely, when Ozzie died got a lot
more attention than Jane Goodall. Yeah, you're right, And then
she said it's because Jane Goodall is a woman.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't
know about that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
She could not be convinced otherwise, and of course there's
no way to prove or disprove it. But I made
this point. Ozzie was the king of pop culture. See,
so he was on top of the world of rock
and roll, and he touched all of us. From that standpoint,
Jane Goodall did amazing work as a zoologist.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's not rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Right there, there seems to be a leader in every
field who most of us have heard of. Right, every
field has their celebrity and astrophysics, you go, okay, Neil
deGrasse Tyson, but could you name five probably not? Can
you name five rock stars? Probably right? So I said, look,
it's pop culture. It's broad awareness versus somebody who was
(28:12):
in a in a in a less popular field. That's
not to say she didn't deserve attention. And she said, okay,
I get your point. But then she said this, and
this really hit me, and it's why I wanted to
make sure I talked about Jane Goodall, who passed away,
of course, and that is that. She said, Jane Goodall
inspired women from the nineteen sixties on to get into
(28:33):
science fields. She was a trailblazer and I could not
agree more And and I said, that's that's fascinating because
it's not a it's not something that I could that
I considered. I'm a middle aged white guy, right, so
my path was a whole lot different than the path
of a woman who wanted to get into sciences in
(28:53):
the nineteen sixties. So when she passed away, Flick employees,
I guess knew that they faced a few very long
workdays because they would have forty eight hours to put
the finishing touches on a new show already years in
the making. This from the New York Times, So without
much fanfare, today Netflix released the first episode of the
show Famous Last Words, a series of late life interviews
(29:16):
with famous people whose contents, including their subject's identities, are
kept closely guarded until after the subject dies. So they
talked with all of these people, and they said, when
you die, what do you want for people to remember
you by? It's like a living obituary. What a fascinating concept.
(29:37):
And also they obviously didn't do it for Robert Redford.
So yeah, anyway, you know, credit to Jane Goodall because
she was an inspiration. And then I also pointed out
to this thirty year old, because you know, I have
a brand that is a kind fatherly like voice in
(30:02):
the office with a slight streak of misogyny. And I said,
and let's remember she was also a babe. And actually
this thirty something ideological coworker of mine, she agreed.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
She said, yeah, you're right, she was a babe. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Cool, So Jane Goodall, zoologist, friend of chimpanzees. Her favorite animal,
by the way, not chimpanzees.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Dogs. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Meanwhile, if you were at an in and out Burger,
there's a chance when you ordered something animal style. Now
I feel like that joke is too easy. All right,
here's the deal. You've heard of snakes on a plane,
about snakes on a drive through.
Speaker 13 (30:42):
This strange tale began when an in and out employee
in Monrovia found this slithering surprise in the drive through line.
The employee then turned the three point six pound, four
foot long python over to the Pasadena Humane Society.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
It's a very curious set of circumstances, says Monday, late afternoon,
we had somebody who brought in a straight python, claimed
that they found it at an in and out drive
through in Monrobia.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
The folks at the Humane Society say the animal was
well taken care of, and so it was likely someone's pet.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
If you I'm guessing it was eating French fries, owner
does not come forward.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
Well, sure enough, the owner spotted I report Wednesday morning
and contacted the Pasadena Humane Society.
Speaker 15 (31:26):
I was at work. I'm a barber and I cut
her at a barbershop in Redland.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She's not going to be replaced by AI.
Speaker 15 (31:32):
And in our shop we have two TVs. I was
cutting clan's hair and I heard, I have heard it's
a snake. Whatever was lost. So I look up and
immediately I'm like, that's my snake.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Could you recognize your snake if it showed up on TV? Yeah,
I mean, I don't know. I guess if it's your pet,
But look I've had I mean, if you've got a
Golden Retriever and a Golden Retriever shows up on TV,
would you know for sure if it was yours or not?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
They kind of look alike and I, ooh, that's August, I.
Speaker 15 (32:07):
Tell the client and he looks at me kind of crazy,
and I'm like, no, I swear that that's my.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Snake coming to it's snake.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So do you finish cutting the hair? What do you do?
Speaker 13 (32:19):
Find out? The owners who live in Sambornadino had posted
online about their beloved python Jenny, escaping from her cage
back on August eleventh.
Speaker 15 (32:29):
On August eleventh, were outside doing yard work and stuff
and my boyfriend actually tripped over something and he landed
on her cage and the screen pushed. But we thought
we fixed it when we went inside, and apparently he didn't.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
They've been looking for their family pet for weeks and
now they finally have Hanny back home, safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 15 (32:55):
We're happy.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
As for the big question not everyone's mind, how did
Henny get all the way from samrat Dino to Monrovia
and why did he go to.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
In and out?
Speaker 15 (33:05):
I have no idea. I wish you could talk so
we could find out.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
All right, Thank you, katy La. I appreciate the report,
appreciate the update. The drive through Python has been found.
All right, I've got more of your talkbacks the question tonight.
If you are on the iHeart app, feel free to
hit that talk back button to answer the question do
you use AI to cheat at work?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Why? Or why not?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Maybe you've got a job that doesn't use it, maybe
you've been told you can't. Maybe you use it because
you've been told you have to. For some people love
to hear if you're using it, how you're using it,
why or why not. That is next, and we'll talk
about whether or not this AI is a total bubble.
It's starting to feel a little overhyped. It's felt a
little overhyped for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's next.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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