February 11, 2026 • 23 mins
(February 11, 2026)
Nancy Guthrie: Video released, person detained and released. Los Angeles and Long Beach among the least affordable cities in the world. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany joins the show from Milan, Italy and the Winter Olympics where his AirBnB had… BED BUGS!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is a Wednesday morning, February eleventh.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Coming up at seven point thirty the bottom of the hour,
a medical news with doctor Jim Keeney, and he is
in Milan at the Winter Olympics. So we're going to
talk to him and some of the stories we're covering. Oh,
the Olympic medals appear to be breaking. They're not doing
(00:31):
so well, and so there's a ruckus about that. And
if you notice now, the presenters of the of those
medals will all be asked to have a tube of
super glue in their pocket as they present the medals. Okay,
now we talk about what's happening with Nancy Guthrie. It's
a very strange case of a kidnapping, even to the
(00:53):
point where the authorities are not calling it a kidnapping,
they're calling it a taking of Nancy Guthrie. I don't
think the guth Thrie family has called it a kidnapping publicly.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So here's the latest.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Authorities took a person in for questioning, not a person
of interest, just a person that was quote detained, and
it happened during a traffic stop south of Tucson, and
they did say is being questioned in connection to the
Nancy Guthrie investigation. And this was a statement that was
(01:32):
issued by the authorities. And this development came hours after
the FBI released photos and videos of a possible suspect,
although it's almost certain that was the person, and it
was captured on film by Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera, and
that in and of itself is a story because the
(01:52):
camera was taken, and it took the FBI and authorities
and I think Google to go through their video archives
to find that, and it took several days. The person
who was videoed at her door wore a ski mask
and gloves and appeared to be armed. Per FBI Director
(02:14):
Cash Patel. Has not been identified by law enforcement. I
think they know and so the man who was detained
has been released. He's not connected in any way, and
I don't know why there was a connection they thought
there was a connection. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for
eleven days. She's aded for she was taken kidnapped outside
(02:38):
of her home in Tucson early hours of February one.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings I think have released three
or four videos, of course showing emotional please for mom's return,
offering to pay. There was a demand for six million
dollars in bitcoin, and the grie family said we will pay. However,
(03:03):
there has been no communication from the kidnappers after they
said we will pay, or after the family said. And
that is strange because one kidnaps under these circumstances for
a ransom, and the ransom has is the famili has
(03:25):
agreed to pay the ransom and nothing yet, no press briefings.
The sheriff's office is called the public and usually these
turnout to have the public's health to make this happen.
So please contact five two zero three five one forty
nine hundred, and that's the call. That's the phone number,
(03:46):
five two zero three five one forty nine hundred, or
you can call the FBI directly at eight hundred. Call FBI.
That's an easy one to remember, eight hundred call FBI.
So there's two videos of this person wearing a mask
and gloves, looks like they're holding a flashlight in their mouth,
attempting to cover up the camera with foliage bushes that
(04:10):
are in front of the house. In another clip. He
walks up to the home with his head down, wearing
a dark zip up jacket, light pants, a backpack, looks
like a weapon.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
In his holster.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He has a ski mass on that all you can
see are the eyes and the mouth. I mean, he
truly went out of his way to disguise himself. Also,
the gloves appear to be very heavy workers gloves, and
so at this point there really is a whole lot
of information except I was watching CNN and Fox yesterday
(04:46):
and they brought in some security experts and say that
video alone gives us clues. For example, the backpack, they're
trying to figure out what backpack it is, who makes it,
what it looks, and then trace down who has bought
a backpack or who has sold a backpack like this
over the last few months, to try to trace people
(05:09):
down and looking at the gate of the person as
he's walking down the sidewalk or leaving the porch. And
there is no video of her actually being taken. The
only video is this man at the porch to I
think there's three videos, and it doesn't show Nancy Guthrie
(05:29):
being taken and being dragged off. There is blood on
the porch which has been ascertained to be hers, so
there had to be some kind of a fight, and
it's the Gutsbery family is just spinning. And as I
said earlier, this one is strange because there's been no
(05:51):
communication from the abductors after the family agreed to pay.
There were the there were the demands sent to three outlets,
including TMZ and two television stations.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There were two deadlines that were past, that were gone beyond.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And I don't think we've heard the what if yet
if the deadlines are not met?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
What if?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
This is a very very strange case, and the family
believes she is still alive and they want, obviously the
return of their mom, and the Guthrie family is extremely
close to their mom, and which of course makes it horrific.
You know, Okay, La and Long Beach are ranked. This
(06:48):
is a report that was just issued by the Legislative
Office the State California Legislative Office. Long Beach and La
among the world's least affordable cities for home buyers. And
now it's not just a question of dollars. Limited housing
construction was looked at, strong job markets, regional amenities that's
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driven California home prices to historical extremes. I mean, we
have the mountains, we have the oceans, we have the forests,
all within a few hours drive, and we have the technology,
we have skilled, skilled workers, and it's just a better
place to live.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You can go to Riod, for example, Saudi Arabia, and
there it's easy to purchase a home, but then you
have to really enjoy deep fried sand for dinner. It's
just not the place. Not You can't do skiing very
much except in one place incidentally, in Dubai, an indoor
(07:52):
mall has a whole ski center where you can ski
down a mountain they built in an indoor mall. I
mean it's I've been there and it's pretty impressive. So
here's what the report said is that of course people
single people try have to stretch themselves financially like crazy.
They have to find larger down payments, They have to
(08:14):
ask parents for help to make their dream home or reality.
So the actual stat is a single buyer in LA
earning the average salary in LA can only afford twenty
eight percent of a typical homes purchase price. In other words,
a home costs a million dollars, they can only afford
(08:37):
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which means they're not
buying a house, and they took into effect mainly I
think salary. As of December, the average home price in
California with seven hundred and fifty five thousand dollars. Go
into Orange County or LA and the home price is
even higher than that. And now the least expensive place
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to live in the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And by the way, the way this is in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, we're talking sing It's more expensive than Singapore, London,
Paris relative to those. If you look at the formula,
what is the least expensive place to live in New York?
The least expensive city? What would you guess, Neil, the
least the least expensive, the most affordable place you can
(09:25):
buy a home in the United States, where you can
live the easiest.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I don't know, Okay, excellent, Montana.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay, Montana, the entire state of Montana is the least
expensive city. You're a genius, Amy, any idea.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Somewhere in Arkansas? But I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, but we're talking of major city, Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Good, yes, And let's go to will Coleschreiber, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Oh, San Jua, Okay, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Well you I didn't know we could use territories.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I want to go to Guam, Okay, Guam again, that's
an entire almost state, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And Cono. Last one up, Spokane, Spokane, Washington. It is Detroit.
Oh yeah, Detroit.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And the formula is as I said, that was used
by the California Legislative Office. Remember salary amenities, the skill set,
the job opportunities, all of that together made up the formula.
When the Legislative Analyst Office was asked and in their
(10:42):
report when they were trying to figure out why Detroit
is that the is the least expensive major city in
the United States, the answer is, well, it's Detroit. That
was the analysis. Thank you very much. Detroit overbuilt the
(11:03):
population leaving like crazy white flight. And it is easy
and cheap to live in Detroit if you want to
live in Detroit, because it's as the analyst said, it's well,
it's Detroit. And so Michael Lenzer was the professor of
(11:25):
Urban Planning and at UCLA, said the writing has been
on the wall for California for a very long period
of time. Well on its way to be considered the
most expensive city in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That these cities.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Long Beach, too, by the way, is at the top
of the heap. San Jose is at the top of
the heap, so that's no surprise that this is the
most expensive place. I'll go further, and that is for
anybody that doesn't already own a home can sell and
then move up. The chances if you buying a house
(12:00):
unless you make an extraordinary salary. I think a million
dollar house today, and that's not an unusual house. I've
pointed out many times. We look out the window of
the studio and there are these little cracker Jack bucks
houses that are eleven hundred, twelve hundred square feet two bedroom,
three bedroom, one bath, a million dollars. So you have
(12:22):
to come up with two hundred thousand dollars down that's
in the bank, two hundred thousand dollars. You can write
a check for a wire the money in, and then
an eight hundred thousand dollars moregage. And I think the
formula is you have to be making one hundred and
seventy two thousand dollars a year to be able to
afford that house. After paying two hundred thousand dollars cash
into a down payment.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's why it is so difficult.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My daughter tells me that all the time, Dad will
never be able to afford a house. Well, you're right,
You'll never be able to afford a house. I have one,
so too bad, you know, that's the way it goes. Well, Gee, Dad,
can I inherit the house? No, no, you can't. That's
not going to happen. Have a good life. There's time
for medical news. Doctor Jim Keeney, chief medical officer for
(13:09):
Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, and he
is not in Long Beach. He is in Milan, Italy
for the Olympics. Good well for you, Good afternoon, Jim.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, good morning, Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh sounds really good. No, it's a great, great connection. Okay,
First of all, what venues are you at? What events
are you staring at?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So yesterday went to the Italy Germany women's hockey game
Dallas Fox, all right, And tonight tonight we're going to
figure skating dance format. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, good for you?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Good for you?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And how was the women's the hockey?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It was fun, I mean, everybody obviously was super into
it and excited and you know, when you have a
crowd full of it talents rooting for the home team,
it was great. But of course, with a minute and
a half left, the Germans scored the winning, the winning
goal and just slid the puck. We were right at
that side to watch her slide the puck past the
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Italian goal east foot, and it was a bummer at
that point because we were all rooting for Italy, but
we were actually in a German section, so it was
all good. It was all fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, but they were allies, you know, during World War Two,
Germany Italy were like best weddies. So I'm glad you
went by the way. Number one, was it expensive to
get the tickets? Number two? Was it difficult to get there?
Probably not, because that was in the city, right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so I mean, of course, you know, mass transit
in Europe is so much better. We have had zero
problems getting to any of the venues, super easy, not
even it doesn't even feel crowded. Actually feels much less
crowded than when we came here for your wedding. So
really it's really nice. And the prices have not been
act up, you know, they're really seem to be in
(15:02):
line with what they were before. So it's pleasant, and
the weather's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Been curious curious. How expensive is it to go to
one of these events?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So yeah, it really depends very variable. I mean, the
cheapest tickets I've seen are about thirty bucks and the
most expensive tickets I've seen are about eight hundred and so
like women's ice skating, our tickets, I think we're about
four fifty each to get. Almost expensive ticket I bought
was for the ice skating, but oh yeah, you know,
they were sixty dollars for hockey last night. Sound and the.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Women are very big and they're very well built, if
you know what I mean, wearing flannel shirts and stout shoes.
Women's icea something like that. Yeah, women hockey players. Okay,
And now it is medical news doctor Jim Keiney who
is in Milan watching various events at the Olympics, and Jim,
(16:01):
Airbnb and bedbugs.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Hey, welcome to the Olympics. Tell me what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah? So I mean, number one, you know, bed bugs
can happen anywhere. They tend to travel in people's luggage
and everywhere else, and so any you know, you could
stay at a five star resort and still get bedbugs.
So don't want to imply anything with that. But I've
never seen one before until this trip. All of a sudden,
look down, there's a bedbug crawling on our sweater. And
(16:32):
I didn't want to believe it. I've never seen one before,
so I took a picture of it. I Google lensed
it and it definitely said that's a bed bug. So,
you know, I called Airbnb and said, hey, you know,
we're going to move. We don't want to stay here tonight,
and they said, well, send us pictures. I send her
a picture of the bedbug, and they say, no, we
need more. We need pictures of bite, we need pictures
(16:52):
of blood spattering on the on the sheets. You know,
we won't refund you just for a picture of a
bed bug. Like, look, I'm going online to another Airbnb.
It's not like I'm bailing on you know, Milan here.
I'm gonna move to another one. But I'm just not
staying here tonight. I don't care what you say. So yeah,
so right now we're We've got a little beef with
(17:13):
the Airbnb sponsor of the Milan Olympics. By the way,
that they are. You know, they don't want to refund me.
I think I'll probably go through my credit card company next.
And you know, I called the owners of course too.
They were willing to move me to another place that
was like, you know, three miles away, but you know,
we're on vacation. We're here to see this area. So
(17:33):
that was that wasn't gonna work for me. But anyway,
that's our saga. You know, bed bugs they don't really
carry any any severe illness or anything like that, but
they can cause some pretty spere bites that swell up
depending on how allergic you are to it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, let me ask you, you've been how many days
have you been there before you discovered the bear?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
The bed bugs?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We slept there one night and then the next evening
is when we found them.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Okay, but have they bitten you? Which is no fun.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I've been bitten by bed bugs before. Have you been
personally affected or you just saw them?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No? I just saw them, so I just I didn't
want to wait around to be personally affected. All right,
how much are you paying book a law event?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Okay, so we're everything boils down the money for me,
as you know, and also a STDs.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So let me, uh, let me ask you this. How
much are you paying per night for your airbnb in Milan.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
For the first one or the second one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, the one, yeah, first, first the second The first.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
One, first one was four hundred a.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Night okay, and the second one.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Like closer to fifty at night.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Uh, so now you're you're hassling them for four hundred dollars,
but also moving is a pain. And uh and why
didn't you get the two fifty a night to begin with.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Because it wasn't available. So it was whether prices went
down as you got as you got closer to the Olympics.
The prices actually went down.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh interesting, So tell me about the sort of flavor
you're talking to Americans. There is everybody happy, campers are
all excited.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Uh, what's happening as uh? As an observer?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, now there's a lot of a lot of Americans.
There's a lot of Netherlands because I mean they wear orange,
so they're easy to spot. So I feel like I
see them everywhere. You know, a lot of it's it's
very international, I mean as Milan is on a regular day,
but lots of people from different countries. One night at
dinner though, I mean literally the table next to me,
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the woman went to u c l A undergrad, and
then the table next to that also the gentleman was there.
He said, Oh, I went to UCLA undergrad as well,
So like it's like an old alumni connection here.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Hey, are you running into any athletes at all?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Uh? No, I'm running into a lot of people that
work for the Olympics. They're wearing Olympic garb, and so
we'll ask them, are you are participating in the Olympics,
and they say, yeah, we're either a vendor or somebody
like doing broadcasting. A lot of people here doing broadcasting.
We'll probably run into more people broadcasting than any other
than any other activity.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And all in all, the trip is worthwhile for you.
Excitement excitement level one to ten.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, No, it's super exciting. I love Milan and it
was a good excuse to come, and it's it's not
inconvenient at all. I was a little worried about crowds
and all that and costs being ballooned up, but really
it's just like another winter day in Milan here and
super nice.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All right, So you're not going to any event outside
all of them.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, tomorrow we leave for kind of the Italian Alps
and we'll go to the snowboarding events in Levigno, and
so that'll be outdoors, and it'll be at outdo it
in the colder weather. Looks like it's going to be
twenty to thirty degrees up there, and.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I understand that because of climate change everything is warmer,
they're actually manufacturing snow in those events.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I don't know. I didn't hear that, but I know
it's supposed to snow there today and tomorrow, so we're
probably going to be traveling through snow tomorrow to get there.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Okay, and you take a train half far a distance
you have to go to get to that event.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
We could go as short as like four hours, but again,
no place to stay in Levigno. That's reasonable, So next
count over is an extra forty five minutes and the
place is there super nice, you know, a lot less expensive,
and we get to go through the Bernini Pass, which
is that red train that people see in movies going
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through the Italian and the Swiss Alps. So yeah, that'll
be a fun little excursion.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I've been there and you're going to love it
because it's all out there, so you're going to have
this tremendous view of gray as you go through the past.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I just wanted to make you feel good about.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Whatever you spent going there five hours on a train
to see snowboarding.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, nice? Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And of course, since you know Italy, the food is spectacular, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No issue everywhere everywhere. Yeah, it's amazing every You can't
get a bad plate of food here.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yep, well it's kind of neat. I would say, I
envy you, but I don't know. I was talking about
with Lindsay going to opening ceremonies, and I can't even
imagine what the tickets were like. Did you even think
of opening ceremony in Milan?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, I mean I didn't even when you ask me
the prices, I didn't even tell you that. I mean
I think those were like twelve hundred was the low end,
you know, super expensive to get to opening ceremonies. So
we didn't even consider it, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And I can't imagine what it's going to be like
in La all right, So what time is it over there?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Four five o'clock in the afternoon, Yes, five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, off to dinner. I enjoyed it here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, who lives in Milan. We're going to have a
little you know, appertvo excellent.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
All right, we'll talk to you what you're back next
week or you're still out there?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yep, back next week.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Okay, so we'll talk to you in town. Jim, enjoy
the Olympics. Take care of yourself. Thanks Bill, and don't
let the bed bugs bite. Had to do that, didn't
I Okay? Jim Keeney in Milano. Good for him. KFI
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is a Wednesday morning, February eleventh.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Coming up at seven point thirty the bottom of the hour,
a medical news with doctor Jim Keeney, and he is
in Milan at the Winter Olympics. So we're going to
talk to him and some of the stories we're covering. Oh,
the Olympic medals appear to be breaking. They're not doing
(00:31):
so well, and so there's a ruckus about that. And
if you notice now, the presenters of the of those
medals will all be asked to have a tube of
super glue in their pocket as they present the medals. Okay,
now we talk about what's happening with Nancy Guthrie. It's
a very strange case of a kidnapping, even to the
(00:53):
point where the authorities are not calling it a kidnapping,
they're calling it a taking of Nancy Guthrie. I don't
think the guth Thrie family has called it a kidnapping publicly.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So here's the latest.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Authorities took a person in for questioning, not a person
of interest, just a person that was quote detained, and
it happened during a traffic stop south of Tucson, and
they did say is being questioned in connection to the
Nancy Guthrie investigation. And this was a statement that was
(01:32):
issued by the authorities. And this development came hours after
the FBI released photos and videos of a possible suspect,
although it's almost certain that was the person, and it
was captured on film by Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera, and
that in and of itself is a story because the
(01:52):
camera was taken, and it took the FBI and authorities
and I think Google to go through their video archives
to find that, and it took several days. The person
who was videoed at her door wore a ski mask
and gloves and appeared to be armed. Per FBI Director
(02:14):
Cash Patel. Has not been identified by law enforcement. I
think they know and so the man who was detained
has been released. He's not connected in any way, and
I don't know why there was a connection they thought
there was a connection. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for
eleven days. She's aded for she was taken kidnapped outside
(02:38):
of her home in Tucson early hours of February one.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings I think have released three
or four videos, of course showing emotional please for mom's return,
offering to pay. There was a demand for six million
dollars in bitcoin, and the grie family said we will pay. However,
(03:03):
there has been no communication from the kidnappers after they
said we will pay, or after the family said. And
that is strange because one kidnaps under these circumstances for
a ransom, and the ransom has is the famili has
(03:25):
agreed to pay the ransom and nothing yet, no press briefings.
The sheriff's office is called the public and usually these
turnout to have the public's health to make this happen.
So please contact five two zero three five one forty
nine hundred, and that's the call. That's the phone number,
(03:46):
five two zero three five one forty nine hundred, or
you can call the FBI directly at eight hundred. Call FBI.
That's an easy one to remember, eight hundred call FBI.
So there's two videos of this person wearing a mask
and gloves, looks like they're holding a flashlight in their mouth,
attempting to cover up the camera with foliage bushes that
(04:10):
are in front of the house. In another clip. He
walks up to the home with his head down, wearing
a dark zip up jacket, light pants, a backpack, looks
like a weapon.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
In his holster.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
He has a ski mass on that all you can
see are the eyes and the mouth. I mean, he
truly went out of his way to disguise himself. Also,
the gloves appear to be very heavy workers gloves, and
so at this point there really is a whole lot
of information except I was watching CNN and Fox yesterday
(04:46):
and they brought in some security experts and say that
video alone gives us clues. For example, the backpack, they're
trying to figure out what backpack it is, who makes it,
what it looks, and then trace down who has bought
a backpack or who has sold a backpack like this
over the last few months, to try to trace people
(05:09):
down and looking at the gate of the person as
he's walking down the sidewalk or leaving the porch. And
there is no video of her actually being taken. The
only video is this man at the porch to I
think there's three videos, and it doesn't show Nancy Guthrie
(05:29):
being taken and being dragged off. There is blood on
the porch which has been ascertained to be hers, so
there had to be some kind of a fight, and
it's the Gutsbery family is just spinning. And as I
said earlier, this one is strange because there's been no
(05:51):
communication from the abductors after the family agreed to pay.
There were the there were the demands sent to three outlets,
including TMZ and two television stations.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
There were two deadlines that were past, that were gone beyond.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And I don't think we've heard the what if yet
if the deadlines are not met?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
What if?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
This is a very very strange case, and the family
believes she is still alive and they want, obviously the
return of their mom, and the Guthrie family is extremely
close to their mom, and which of course makes it horrific.
You know, Okay, La and Long Beach are ranked. This
(06:48):
is a report that was just issued by the Legislative
Office the State California Legislative Office. Long Beach and La
among the world's least affordable cities for home buyers. And
now it's not just a question of dollars. Limited housing
construction was looked at, strong job markets, regional amenities that's
(07:12):
driven California home prices to historical extremes. I mean, we
have the mountains, we have the oceans, we have the forests,
all within a few hours drive, and we have the technology,
we have skilled, skilled workers, and it's just a better
place to live.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You can go to Riod, for example, Saudi Arabia, and
there it's easy to purchase a home, but then you
have to really enjoy deep fried sand for dinner. It's
just not the place. Not You can't do skiing very
much except in one place incidentally, in Dubai, an indoor
(07:52):
mall has a whole ski center where you can ski
down a mountain they built in an indoor mall. I
mean it's I've been there and it's pretty impressive. So
here's what the report said is that of course people
single people try have to stretch themselves financially like crazy.
They have to find larger down payments, They have to
(08:14):
ask parents for help to make their dream home or reality.
So the actual stat is a single buyer in LA
earning the average salary in LA can only afford twenty
eight percent of a typical homes purchase price. In other words,
a home costs a million dollars, they can only afford
(08:37):
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which means they're not
buying a house, and they took into effect mainly I
think salary. As of December, the average home price in
California with seven hundred and fifty five thousand dollars. Go
into Orange County or LA and the home price is
even higher than that. And now the least expensive place
(09:01):
to live in the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And by the way, the way this is in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, we're talking sing It's more expensive than Singapore, London,
Paris relative to those. If you look at the formula,
what is the least expensive place to live in New York?
The least expensive city? What would you guess, Neil, the
least the least expensive, the most affordable place you can
(09:25):
buy a home in the United States, where you can
live the easiest.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I don't know, Okay, excellent, Montana.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay, Montana, the entire state of Montana is the least
expensive city. You're a genius, Amy, any idea.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Somewhere in Arkansas? But I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay, but we're talking of major city, Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Good, yes, And let's go to will Coleschreiber, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Oh, San Jua, Okay, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Well you I didn't know we could use territories.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I want to go to Guam, Okay, Guam again, that's
an entire almost state, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And Cono. Last one up, Spokane, Spokane, Washington. It is Detroit.
Oh yeah, Detroit.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And the formula is as I said, that was used
by the California Legislative Office. Remember salary amenities, the skill set,
the job opportunities, all of that together made up the formula.
When the Legislative Analyst Office was asked and in their
(10:42):
report when they were trying to figure out why Detroit
is that the is the least expensive major city in
the United States, the answer is, well, it's Detroit. That
was the analysis. Thank you very much. Detroit overbuilt the
(11:03):
population leaving like crazy white flight. And it is easy
and cheap to live in Detroit if you want to
live in Detroit, because it's as the analyst said, it's well,
it's Detroit. And so Michael Lenzer was the professor of
(11:25):
Urban Planning and at UCLA, said the writing has been
on the wall for California for a very long period
of time. Well on its way to be considered the
most expensive city in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That these cities.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Long Beach, too, by the way, is at the top
of the heap. San Jose is at the top of
the heap, so that's no surprise that this is the
most expensive place. I'll go further, and that is for
anybody that doesn't already own a home can sell and
then move up. The chances if you buying a house
(12:00):
unless you make an extraordinary salary. I think a million
dollar house today, and that's not an unusual house. I've
pointed out many times. We look out the window of
the studio and there are these little cracker Jack bucks
houses that are eleven hundred, twelve hundred square feet two bedroom,
three bedroom, one bath, a million dollars. So you have
(12:22):
to come up with two hundred thousand dollars down that's
in the bank, two hundred thousand dollars. You can write
a check for a wire the money in, and then
an eight hundred thousand dollars moregage. And I think the
formula is you have to be making one hundred and
seventy two thousand dollars a year to be able to
afford that house. After paying two hundred thousand dollars cash
into a down payment.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's why it is so difficult.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My daughter tells me that all the time, Dad will
never be able to afford a house. Well, you're right,
You'll never be able to afford a house. I have one,
so too bad, you know, that's the way it goes. Well, Gee, Dad,
can I inherit the house? No, no, you can't. That's
not going to happen. Have a good life. There's time
for medical news. Doctor Jim Keeney, chief medical officer for
(13:09):
Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, and he
is not in Long Beach. He is in Milan, Italy
for the Olympics. Good well for you, Good afternoon, Jim.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, good morning, Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh sounds really good. No, it's a great, great connection. Okay,
First of all, what venues are you at? What events
are you staring at?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So yesterday went to the Italy Germany women's hockey game
Dallas Fox, all right, And tonight tonight we're going to
figure skating dance format. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh, good for you?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What it is?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Good for you?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And how was the women's the hockey?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It was fun, I mean, everybody obviously was super into
it and excited and you know, when you have a
crowd full of it talents rooting for the home team,
it was great. But of course, with a minute and
a half left, the Germans scored the winning, the winning
goal and just slid the puck. We were right at
that side to watch her slide the puck past the
(14:14):
Italian goal east foot, and it was a bummer at
that point because we were all rooting for Italy, but
we were actually in a German section, so it was
all good. It was all fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, but they were allies, you know, during World War Two,
Germany Italy were like best weddies. So I'm glad you
went by the way. Number one, was it expensive to
get the tickets? Number two? Was it difficult to get there?
Probably not, because that was in the city, right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, so I mean, of course, you know, mass transit
in Europe is so much better. We have had zero
problems getting to any of the venues, super easy, not
even it doesn't even feel crowded. Actually feels much less
crowded than when we came here for your wedding. So
really it's really nice. And the prices have not been
act up, you know, they're really seem to be in
(15:02):
line with what they were before. So it's pleasant, and
the weather's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Been curious curious. How expensive is it to go to
one of these events?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So yeah, it really depends very variable. I mean, the
cheapest tickets I've seen are about thirty bucks and the
most expensive tickets I've seen are about eight hundred and so
like women's ice skating, our tickets, I think we're about
four fifty each to get. Almost expensive ticket I bought
was for the ice skating, but oh yeah, you know,
they were sixty dollars for hockey last night. Sound and the.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Women are very big and they're very well built, if
you know what I mean, wearing flannel shirts and stout shoes.
Women's icea something like that. Yeah, women hockey players. Okay,
And now it is medical news doctor Jim Keiney who
is in Milan watching various events at the Olympics, and Jim,
(16:01):
Airbnb and bedbugs.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Hey, welcome to the Olympics. Tell me what's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah? So I mean, number one, you know, bed bugs
can happen anywhere. They tend to travel in people's luggage
and everywhere else, and so any you know, you could
stay at a five star resort and still get bedbugs.
So don't want to imply anything with that. But I've
never seen one before until this trip. All of a sudden,
look down, there's a bedbug crawling on our sweater. And
(16:32):
I didn't want to believe it. I've never seen one before,
so I took a picture of it. I Google lensed
it and it definitely said that's a bed bug. So,
you know, I called Airbnb and said, hey, you know,
we're going to move. We don't want to stay here tonight,
and they said, well, send us pictures. I send her
a picture of the bedbug, and they say, no, we
need more. We need pictures of bite, we need pictures
(16:52):
of blood spattering on the on the sheets. You know,
we won't refund you just for a picture of a
bed bug. Like, look, I'm going online to another Airbnb.
It's not like I'm bailing on you know, Milan here.
I'm gonna move to another one. But I'm just not
staying here tonight. I don't care what you say. So yeah,
so right now we're We've got a little beef with
(17:13):
the Airbnb sponsor of the Milan Olympics. By the way,
that they are. You know, they don't want to refund me.
I think I'll probably go through my credit card company next.
And you know, I called the owners of course too.
They were willing to move me to another place that
was like, you know, three miles away, but you know,
we're on vacation. We're here to see this area. So
(17:33):
that was that wasn't gonna work for me. But anyway,
that's our saga. You know, bed bugs they don't really
carry any any severe illness or anything like that, but
they can cause some pretty spere bites that swell up
depending on how allergic you are to it.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, let me ask you, you've been how many days
have you been there before you discovered the bear?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
The bed bugs?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We slept there one night and then the next evening
is when we found them.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Okay, but have they bitten you? Which is no fun.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I've been bitten by bed bugs before. Have you been
personally affected or you just saw them?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No? I just saw them, so I just I didn't
want to wait around to be personally affected. All right,
how much are you paying book a law event?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Okay, so we're everything boils down the money for me,
as you know, and also a STDs.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So let me, uh, let me ask you this. How
much are you paying per night for your airbnb in Milan.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
For the first one or the second one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, the one, yeah, first, first the second The first.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
One, first one was four hundred a.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Night okay, and the second one.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Like closer to fifty at night.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Uh, so now you're you're hassling them for four hundred dollars,
but also moving is a pain. And uh and why
didn't you get the two fifty a night to begin with.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Because it wasn't available. So it was whether prices went
down as you got as you got closer to the Olympics.
The prices actually went down.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh interesting, So tell me about the sort of flavor
you're talking to Americans. There is everybody happy, campers are
all excited.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Uh, what's happening as uh? As an observer?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, now there's a lot of a lot of Americans.
There's a lot of Netherlands because I mean they wear orange,
so they're easy to spot. So I feel like I
see them everywhere. You know, a lot of it's it's
very international, I mean as Milan is on a regular day,
but lots of people from different countries. One night at
dinner though, I mean literally the table next to me,
(19:39):
the woman went to u c l A undergrad, and
then the table next to that also the gentleman was there.
He said, Oh, I went to UCLA undergrad as well,
So like it's like an old alumni connection here.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Hey, are you running into any athletes at all?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Uh? No, I'm running into a lot of people that
work for the Olympics. They're wearing Olympic garb, and so
we'll ask them, are you are participating in the Olympics,
and they say, yeah, we're either a vendor or somebody
like doing broadcasting. A lot of people here doing broadcasting.
We'll probably run into more people broadcasting than any other
than any other activity.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And all in all, the trip is worthwhile for you.
Excitement excitement level one to ten.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, No, it's super exciting. I love Milan and it
was a good excuse to come, and it's it's not
inconvenient at all. I was a little worried about crowds
and all that and costs being ballooned up, but really
it's just like another winter day in Milan here and
super nice.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All right, So you're not going to any event outside
all of them.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, tomorrow we leave for kind of the Italian Alps
and we'll go to the snowboarding events in Levigno, and
so that'll be outdoors, and it'll be at outdo it
in the colder weather. Looks like it's going to be
twenty to thirty degrees up there, and.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I understand that because of climate change everything is warmer,
they're actually manufacturing snow in those events.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Do I have that right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I don't know. I didn't hear that, but I know
it's supposed to snow there today and tomorrow, so we're
probably going to be traveling through snow tomorrow to get there.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Okay, and you take a train half far a distance
you have to go to get to that event.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
We could go as short as like four hours, but again,
no place to stay in Levigno. That's reasonable, So next
count over is an extra forty five minutes and the
place is there super nice, you know, a lot less expensive,
and we get to go through the Bernini Pass, which
is that red train that people see in movies going
(21:49):
through the Italian and the Swiss Alps. So yeah, that'll
be a fun little excursion.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I've been there and you're going to love it
because it's all out there, so you're going to have
this tremendous view of gray as you go through the past.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I just wanted to make you feel good about.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Whatever you spent going there five hours on a train
to see snowboarding.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, nice? Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And of course, since you know Italy, the food is spectacular, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No issue everywhere everywhere. Yeah, it's amazing every You can't
get a bad plate of food here.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yep, well it's kind of neat. I would say, I
envy you, but I don't know. I was talking about
with Lindsay going to opening ceremonies, and I can't even
imagine what the tickets were like. Did you even think
of opening ceremony in Milan?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, I mean I didn't even when you ask me
the prices, I didn't even tell you that. I mean
I think those were like twelve hundred was the low end,
you know, super expensive to get to opening ceremonies. So
we didn't even consider it, okay.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
And I can't imagine what it's going to be like
in La all right, So what time is it over there?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Four five o'clock in the afternoon, Yes, five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, off to dinner. I enjoyed it here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, who lives in Milan. We're going to have a
little you know, appertvo excellent.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
All right, we'll talk to you what you're back next
week or you're still out there?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yep, back next week.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Okay, so we'll talk to you in town. Jim, enjoy
the Olympics. Take care of yourself. Thanks Bill, and don't
let the bed bugs bite. Had to do that, didn't
I Okay? Jim Keeney in Milano. Good for him. KFI
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