Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Kf I Am six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: Saturdays with Tiffany Hobbs here with You until seven, And
Speaker 2: we just had a great conversation with Frank William Miller Junior.
Speaker 2: Make sure you go to the iHeartRadio app and go
Speaker 2: to select special features. Is it special features, Kayla feature,
Speaker 2: it's a segment feature, it's special and it's a feature.
Speaker 2: It's a featured segment. There you go and you can
Speaker 2: hear this entire show and that specific conversation, which was
Speaker 2: really informative, very eye opening about what can happen years
Speaker 2: later if you create a piece of art, a piece
Speaker 2: of merchandise that someone doesn't like, and if that someone's
Speaker 2: in control of a venue that you want to patronize,
Speaker 2: you might find yourself, like Frank did as banned for
Speaker 2: life years later after you create and maybe sell that merchandise.
Speaker 2: So listen to that interview. It was really really good. Now,
Speaker 2: something that is not really good is the fact that
Speaker 2: we were all added to a group chat that we
Speaker 2: never intended on being a part of. Not talking about
Speaker 2: your aunt's group chat about what they're making for dinner
Speaker 2: or your friends group chat about something going on with
Speaker 2: her kids. No, no, no, this is a lot less
Speaker 2: innocuous and has a lot larger ramifications. This group chat
Speaker 2: happens to deal with Donald Trump's executive cabinet and those
Speaker 2: members who all participate in the military dealings, the plannings
Speaker 2: of air strikes, and specifically, this air strike was to
Speaker 2: hit Yemen, and it did. We saw it in the
Speaker 2: news about two weeks ago. There was an air strike
Speaker 2: that hit Yemen in search of the hoothy rebels. This
Speaker 2: group chat was the planning of that air strike and
Speaker 2: it features Trump's national security team. Vice President JD. Vance
Speaker 2: was in that group chat. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsith was
Speaker 2: in that group chat. Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor,
Speaker 2: was in that group chat. CIA Director John Radcliffe found
Speaker 2: himself in the group chat. The Director of National Intelligence
Speaker 2: Tolci Gabbert, was also in this text thread, and Special
Speaker 2: Envoy Steve Whitcoff was included as well. The Treasury Secretary
Speaker 2: Scott b Likely was there as well. In addition to
Speaker 2: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Secretary of
Speaker 2: State Marco Rubio, there were others as well featured on
Speaker 2: this or in this group thread, this text thread that
Speaker 2: discussed plans to hit Yemen in an airstrike earlier this month. Now,
Speaker 2: while that may not necessarily be unusual, because the National
Speaker 2: security team does communicate, and they communicate outside the provance
Speaker 2: of all of US commoners and civilians who have no
Speaker 2: dealings with what they're doing, what is uncommon. What was
Speaker 2: unusual and very atypical, is that we found out about
Speaker 2: this text thread, and we wouldn't have found out about it,
Speaker 2: likely without the help of one person who was in
Speaker 2: fact added to the group thread. Now, that group thread
Speaker 2: involved all those people and the quote accidental edition of
Speaker 2: The Atlantic Magazine's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Jeffrey Goldberg,
Speaker 2: again from The Atlantic Magazine, their editor in chief, was
Speaker 2: put in the group chat. He wasn't supposed to be there.
Speaker 2: Those eighteen senior administration officials from Trump's cabinet, they were.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Goldberg was not supposed to be in the text,
Speaker 2: but he was. And the blowback for that has been immense.
Speaker 2: For the last week, it's been the biggest story all
Speaker 2: around the world. Arguably everyone is discussing it, and the
Speaker 2: security cautions and concerns about classified and sensitive information, and
Speaker 2: whether or not these sorts of things happen more often
Speaker 2: than we know now. President Donald Trump last Tuesday downplayed
Speaker 2: that texting. He said, there's it was only a glitch.
Speaker 2: It was the only glitch in two months. He said,
Speaker 2: it's not a serious glitch, and he continued to express
Speaker 2: his support for National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz
Speaker 2: seems to be the one who created the group text
Speaker 2: to discuss this air strike on Yemen, and someone in
Speaker 2: that thread, or maybe a lowly intern who knows, added
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Goldberg to the list of people included in the conversation.
Speaker 2: They didn't just use the text app that's on your phone.
Speaker 2: They used a special app called Signal. And the Signal
Speaker 2: app is discussing this sensitive information and has opened up
Speaker 2: conversation about whether or not it is secure and should
Speaker 2: be used to discuss such a thing. So I am
Speaker 2: going to let you hear a security professional, a cybersecurity professional,
Speaker 2: describe the Signal app and whether or not we have
Speaker 2: anything to be concerned about when it comes to national
Speaker 2: security information, privacy and sensitive and classified information that is
Speaker 2: shared and whether or not this sort of thing will
Speaker 2: make it to the pub a public and cause big
Speaker 2: issues for our government.
Speaker 3: Joining us now is security expert Chris Pearson, founder and
Speaker 3: CEO of Black Cloak.
Speaker 2: Chris, thanks for being here.
Speaker 3: Signal is an encrypted app. It's like WhatsApp, but probably stronger.
Speaker 3: It means it's scrambling the information from end to end.
Speaker 3: The government did tell Americans to use this when China
Speaker 3: was able to get into our phone systems. So why
Speaker 3: is it not secure enough for our government officials to
Speaker 3: be having sensitive, top secret, classified conversations.
Speaker 4: Well, there are a few issues here, Katie. First of all,
Speaker 4: is going to be in terms of just normal text messages.
Speaker 4: A text message that you send between yourself and your parents,
Speaker 4: your brothers, your friends, that is pretty much a kin
Speaker 4: to sending a postcard. Writing the information on a postcard
Speaker 4: that everyone can see in the mail not going to
Speaker 4: be secure if you have to transmit that information to
Speaker 4: family member, social security number, other information there and you
Speaker 4: want to use in cryptocommunication. Signal is going to be
Speaker 4: an application of a choice, but it is a consumer
Speaker 4: based application. The real issue here is that for sensitive
Speaker 4: or classified information that is being used by and transmitted
Speaker 4: by the government. That number one, the devices must be protected,
Speaker 4: and number two, the application and the transmission.
Speaker 1: Of the data must be protected.
Speaker 5: Just simply using an encrypted app that is only consumer
Speaker 5: grade on a personal device is actually going to open
Speaker 5: up the United States and others right to foreigns fine hacking,
Speaker 5: and other risks. It is not insufficient to go ahead
Speaker 5: and protect classified or even sensitive communication.
Speaker 2: Uh Oh, that don't sound good at all, does it.
Speaker 2: That does not sound good. You heard it right there
Speaker 2: from that cybersecurity professional. It will, if continue to be used,
Speaker 2: open up the United States military to possible infiltration, and
Speaker 2: not even possible infiltration, likely infiltration hacking. That information will
Speaker 2: be accessed and who knows what it could be used
Speaker 2: to do. We'll talk more about the signal app Raul
Speaker 2: is a user of signal and he'll tell us what
Speaker 2: he has used signal for, and then we'll take a
Speaker 2: look at some history in our deeper dive segment about
Speaker 2: other examples of intelligence leaks in US history, as well
Speaker 2: as another story that hasn't been getting nearly as much
Speaker 2: publicity but is very similar to what Mike Waltz and
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth are dealing with. And the consequence that this
Speaker 2: staffer faced when a leak of sensitive and classified information happened.
Speaker 2: We'll do all of that on the other side of
Speaker 2: the break. It's k i AM six forty Live Everywhere
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio App Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 1: You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: K i AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: App Saturdays with Tiffany. Tiffny Hobbs here with you, and
Speaker 2: we're talking about this national security concern about the Bros
Speaker 2: Group chat featuring Vice President Jade Vance and seventeen others
Speaker 2: of President Trump's national security team. And President Trump is saying,
Speaker 2: not a big deal, much ado about nothing, look elsewhere.
Speaker 2: But the truth is that these administration officials used the
Speaker 2: messaging app Signal to share their war plans about at
Speaker 2: the time, the upcoming strike on Yemen to access those
Speaker 2: hoothy rebels, and they mistakenly included the journalist from The Atlantic,
Speaker 2: the editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, in the chat, which
Speaker 2: was supposed to be encrypted. However, we have learned through
Speaker 2: a cybersecurity professional in the last segment that Signal the
Speaker 2: app is actually an open source and fully encrypted messaging
Speaker 2: service that runs on centralized servers maintained by Signal Messenger,
Speaker 2: and that it is is in fact the wrong way
Speaker 2: to share sensitive and classified information. Now, with the Trump
Speaker 2: administration downplaying a need for caution, there are two things
Speaker 2: I want to note before we get back into the
Speaker 2: Signal App and a little bit of history. First, the
Speaker 2: app and the information shared in this chat were deleted
Speaker 2: by someone in the administration, and that deletion of records
Speaker 2: violates the Federal Records Act. Okay, we don't want people
Speaker 2: deleting their messages, whether it's Mayor Karen Bass or people
Speaker 2: from the Trump administration within the Signal App. And this
Speaker 2: deletion could in fact be something looked at within the
Speaker 2: Espionage Act. And this is in fact the biggest national
Speaker 2: security breach in history. And that's according to not me,
Speaker 2: not you, but every security expert who assessing this situation.
Speaker 2: All of the professionals are weighing in, like the security
Speaker 2: professional that we just heard from, that cybersecurity expert, and
Speaker 2: they are saying this is a huge problem. There have
Speaker 2: been other leaks in history, many leaks. The Pentagon papers
Speaker 2: in the nineteen seventies was a huge leak, the NSA
Speaker 2: leaks in or twenty nineteen. That's the Edward Snowden situation.
Speaker 2: The Chelsea Manning and Wiki leak situation in twenty ten
Speaker 2: resulted in Chelsea Manning being ultimately sentenced to thirty five
Speaker 2: years in prison. It was commuted by President Obama after
Speaker 2: she served seven of those years. And then also we
Speaker 2: have a current case with the DHS staffer who also
Speaker 2: was added to a also added a reporter to a
Speaker 2: group email. Sounds very much like what happened with Michael
Speaker 2: Walt and the Atlantics editor in chief, but this one
Speaker 2: is slightly different and it did not happen last week. No,
Speaker 2: this happened just a couple of months ago. And the
Speaker 2: thing about this situation is that the employee was fired.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to those within this current group
Speaker 2: chat the issue of firing, the issue of resignations, those
Speaker 2: conversations are being had, but as of right now, President
Speaker 2: Trump is saying, Nope, we're not moving on them. We
Speaker 2: are moving along. There's no issue. But every professional is
Speaker 2: telling you that that is in fact not true. We
Speaker 2: have another professional to weigh in on the signal app
Speaker 2: And why if you know someone who has the signal app.
Speaker 2: You might want to take a closer look at their reasoning. Raoul,
Speaker 2: you are the professional du Joor, tell us a little
Speaker 2: bit about what you know. Well.
Speaker 6: Signal app a lot. It's like Snapchat. And one of
Speaker 6: the great features about signal is that the pictures can
Speaker 6: disappear if they're sent. You can set it up to
Speaker 6: like disappear in five seconds, then fifteen seconds, thirty seconds.
Speaker 6: I used it in my personal and private life. I
Speaker 6: work with models, some of them are adult models, so
Speaker 6: we would yes, so we would exchange pictures that I
Speaker 6: needed to edit or things of lung some of that
Speaker 6: stuff I didn't want on my phone, but I had
Speaker 6: to edit it at watermarks, had.
Speaker 7: To edit those pictures. Yeah, let's sprinkle allegedly over this
Speaker 7: whole conversation. Okay, but yeah, I know that a lot
Speaker 7: of the ladies that I worked with preferred this because
Speaker 7: that way I wasn't keeping their pictures. Some of the
Speaker 7: ones that I wasn't going to edit or fix, they
Speaker 7: were gone. Once I saw them, I'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't like that angle, doesn't look good.
Speaker 8: Next picture. And so that's how I used it.
Speaker 6: And I do think that if your husband or wife
Speaker 6: has the Signal app. You should raise an eyebrow unless
Speaker 6: they're working for the Pentagon or something like, hmmm, why
Speaker 6: do they have the Signal app? Because a lot of
Speaker 6: let's say, allegedly a lot of working girls prefer this app.
Speaker 6: Ah ah, and that hasn't been mentioned at all anywhere.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're mentioning it.
Speaker 6: Guys in this group chat had this Signal app.
Speaker 2: So you're saying that they might be using it for
Speaker 2: more than just security information.
Speaker 6: I am saying, allegedly, I would wonder why certain people
Speaker 6: have the Signal app because it's, like I said, it's
Speaker 6: like Snapchat. A lot of that information once you see it,
Speaker 6: it's gone. So these guys had they didn't have that
Speaker 6: feature on they should have.
Speaker 2: You know, you need to be a part of the
Speaker 2: National Security Advisement team.
Speaker 6: But I got to see how much they pay. If
Speaker 6: they pay, correct, I could work with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is radio, so it's probably going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit better, right, you know, Thank you
Speaker 2: for that. Security expert. Raoul allegedly allegedly when we come back,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about we're gonna leave the Signal app
Speaker 2: for a bit and we're gonna leave the group chat thankfully,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk about this American couple. Have you
Speaker 2: heard about them? They're being held in a Mexican prison
Speaker 2: and can kuon over a times share dispute. Don't go
Speaker 2: to the time share meetings people. Let this be another
Speaker 2: reason to skip the free extra days and the free
Speaker 2: booze in favor of not taking the time share meeting
Speaker 2: because it could land you in jail for three weeks
Speaker 2: or more as this couple is dealing with. We'll get
Speaker 2: into that when we come back. It's KFI AM six
Speaker 2: forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App Saturdays with Tiffany
Speaker 2: Hobbs here till seven pm.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I love this version Raoul Sneaky Guy. Oh kf I
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Speaker 2: up today because I think it's special. It is featured segments.
Speaker 2: Featured segments. Look for that tab on the far left
Speaker 2: on the app or the website. But there you can
Speaker 2: find this show under featured segments. It's been a fun
Speaker 2: and informative show thus far. We definitely learned. If your
Speaker 2: man has the signal app or your woman for that matter,
Speaker 2: I want to raise an eyebrow to that, because they're
Speaker 2: probably not in the war Bros Group chat. They might
Speaker 2: be doing something else that will raise your eyebrows. So uh,
Speaker 2: don't go checking phones tonight. But just know that if
Speaker 2: you see that pop across the screen, it's a problem.
Speaker 7: Well there's no evidence, though, there's no ed if you
Speaker 7: use it correctly. Oh these caveats.
Speaker 2: Hra Will Raoul is our residence signal expert, our national
Speaker 2: security expert here at KFI. So what he says is true.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move along now. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've experienced this, but I have. When you visit an
Speaker 2: international resort, whether it is a small one or a
Speaker 2: large one, you are likely going to face inundation by
Speaker 2: someone trying to sell you a time share. They want
Speaker 2: you to come to the meeting. It's only two hours,
Speaker 2: they say, or three or four It always seems to
Speaker 2: go on and on and on. But in that meeting,
Speaker 2: if you just sit through the time share presentation, we
Speaker 2: will give you one week or three days or eight
Speaker 2: days and a bottle of tequila to sit at the
Speaker 2: time share presentation in hopes that you might fork out
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars to buy a week's worth of time
Speaker 2: or a few days of time at their property. That,
Speaker 2: of course, when you try and book will not be
Speaker 2: available to you because everyone else is booking the same
Speaker 2: thing at the same time. But that's neither here nor there. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a couple, a Michigan couple named Christy and paul
Speaker 2: A Keo, and unfortunately they took the time share presentation scam.
Speaker 2: I'll call it that they sat through the meeting, they
Speaker 2: forked over some money and instead of being able to
Speaker 2: get a week or a few days in Cancun, Mexico,
Speaker 2: they got this developing news for you tonight.
Speaker 9: The couple from mid Michigan is being held in a
Speaker 9: Mexico jail.
Speaker 6: Paul and Christy Ako are from Spring Arbor in Jackson County.
Speaker 9: Christy's daughter, Lindsay says they were arrested on March fourth
Speaker 9: and are being held without bond. She says the couple
Speaker 9: challenged charges made on their credit card and that's what
Speaker 9: led to their arrests. The Akao family says it has
Speaker 9: reached out to the US Embassy in Mexico, along with
Speaker 9: other federal and state agencies, asking for help, but they
Speaker 9: are still being held. Tonight, Congressman Tom Barrett's office says
Speaker 9: he has spoken to the family and that it has
Speaker 9: also reached out to the State Department and White House
Speaker 9: to get the a KOs released. Coming up tonight on
Speaker 9: six News at eleven, we will hear from the family
Speaker 9: who is desperate to get them back home.
Speaker 2: Do you ever watched those Locked Up Abroad shows? I
Speaker 2: love Locked Up Abroad? Roul was saying no, you're saying, yes, Kaylee,
Speaker 2: you've seen them. Oh yeah, that's really good TV.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: What do you remember an episode of any kind that
Speaker 2: you saw about any sort of international jail, like details
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily details of Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 2: I just know I will always follow the rules when
Speaker 2: I am overseas because I do not want to go
Speaker 2: to prison over there. They seem very We're strict here,
Speaker 2: but they seem like next level strict in other countries. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and lawless. In some of the episodes I've seen, you
Speaker 2: have prisoners there just kind of walking around policing the
Speaker 2: you have a hierarchy, you have all sorts of lawlessness
Speaker 2: and criminal activity inside. And one of the episodes that
Speaker 2: I've seen, and there have been many filmed in the
Speaker 2: country of Mexico, had to do with this general area
Speaker 2: in which Christy and Paul Akao are being held, and
Speaker 2: it was said, you don't want to go to jail
Speaker 2: in Mexico. Not only are you going to potentially have
Speaker 2: to pay your way out allegedly callback right there for you, Raoul,
Speaker 2: but it is going to be hard to plead your
Speaker 2: case because the laws are in fact a bit different. So,
Speaker 2: as you just heard, this couple, both sixty years old,
Speaker 2: were in can Kun. They were trying to use their
Speaker 2: time share that they paid about one hundred thousand dollars for.
Speaker 2: They must have gotten really good accommodations. And once they
Speaker 2: landed at the airport in Cancun for a normal run
Speaker 2: of the mill family vacation, they were promptly arrested. Their
Speaker 2: charges are fraught to a hotel chain. They're still in
Speaker 2: jail as of today, which means that today is March
Speaker 2: twenty ninth. This story was three days ago. That makes
Speaker 2: twenty five days that they have been in jail in Cankun.
Speaker 2: Their attorney says that Paul and Christy signed up for
Speaker 2: a time share with Palace Resorts. I've never heard of
Speaker 2: Palace Resorts. Apparently they have many resorts in Mexico and
Speaker 2: their office is located in Florida. But I know that
Speaker 2: when you go to an international location, be it Italy
Speaker 2: like Nil Savadra, or be it Mexico like this couple
Speaker 2: specifically in can Kuhn, the time share buzzards come out.
Speaker 2: They want you to buy, and they did in fact buy.
Speaker 2: But they are saying Christy and paul A Keo that
Speaker 2: when they bought and tried to book time to use
Speaker 2: their days or their weeks and their haughty toddy accommodations,
Speaker 2: the resort didn't allow them to use their time as promised.
Speaker 2: So what did they do? They probably went to that
Speaker 2: big thick book that has all the different places and
Speaker 2: they tried to find a different place, and they couldn't.
Speaker 2: So they went back to the original place and they said,
Speaker 2: you know what, we're mad. We are mad, and we
Speaker 2: are not gonna take it anymore. So they disputed their
Speaker 2: contract with Palace Resorts and reached out to their credit
Speaker 2: card company MasterCard and said, dispute these charges. This is fraud.
Speaker 2: We booked, we expect things and we're not getting them. Therefore,
Speaker 2: there is a liat play here, and I'm wagging my finger.
Speaker 2: You can't see it. Take those charges off of our
Speaker 2: credit card. An American Express said okay, and they did it.
Speaker 2: And they did it, But the story obviously doesn't end
Speaker 2: there because now they're in jail. If it ended there,
Speaker 2: they'd be back stateside in Michigan enjoying their one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars refund.
Speaker 1: But no.
Speaker 2: Mexican authorities said the refund was the scam that the
Speaker 2: couple scammed them out of thirteen transactions amounting to over
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars. Now, Palace Resorts did some digging.
Speaker 2: When we talked to Frank William Miller Junior. He talked
Speaker 2: about our social media feeds being able to be access
Speaker 2: and Palace Resorts looked at the ako's Facebook activity, and
Speaker 2: they found a post on Facebook where Christy the wife
Speaker 2: walks her followers, her people who are a part of
Speaker 2: her Facebook through the process of disputing charges, just like
Speaker 2: she did, just like they did if in the event
Speaker 2: that you cannot book when you want to. Palace Resorts
Speaker 2: are saying that was basically a tutorial about how to
Speaker 2: scam out of you know, out of the money, out
Speaker 2: to get out of the charges. Therefore, this was pre meditated.
Speaker 2: They knew what they were doing, Palace Resort says, and
Speaker 2: the KOs say, no, no, no, we didn't. They said
Speaker 2: it in Mexico, so it sounds even further away. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you can barely hear them because they're in jail. But regardless,
Speaker 2: now they are trying to fight these Mexican authorities, the
Speaker 2: Mexican legislative system to be able to get out. And
Speaker 2: here's the thing. The judge in the case allowed the
Speaker 2: timeshare company six more months to gather evidence to make
Speaker 2: their case against the a kao's, so they will likely
Speaker 2: stay in jail up to six more months while this trial,
Speaker 2: this case building commences. Sure we'll have updates about that.
Speaker 2: They very well may be on the next episode of
Speaker 2: Locked up abroad. There's definitely a show in store for
Speaker 2: them when they get out, but all in all, skip
Speaker 2: the timeshare presentation. When we come back, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about what's going on. Another update with those eaten
Speaker 2: fire areas, and unfortunately this one has to do with
Speaker 2: adding more insult to injury mosquitoes. We hate them. They're
Speaker 2: back and they're back in the Altadena area in droves,
Speaker 2: at least according to officials. Allegedly right Raoul Allegedly k
Speaker 2: if I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk to Michael Monks on the other side
Speaker 2: of the break.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Kay if I Am six forty Live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturdays with
Speaker 2: Tiffany for one final segment. You know, when I heard
Speaker 2: Tim Conway do that look ahead, I heard him say bonging,
Speaker 2: and I my brain twisted and I I thought he
Speaker 2: was saying that people would be allowed to, you know,
Speaker 2: do the do kind of do the boinking, blinking, bonging
Speaker 2: away a lot of things in store, I guess at
Speaker 2: movie theaters. We were just talking about our latest watches,
Speaker 2: Kayla and I paradise for both of us adolescents. For me,
Speaker 2: she's gonna get on pair adolescents. And we were talking
Speaker 2: about wanting to go to the movies some escapism, enjoy ourselves.
Speaker 2: Some people desperately in need of escapism would be those
Speaker 2: who are still two and a half almost three months
Speaker 2: now out from managing what happened in the fire areas,
Speaker 2: the burn areas, both the Palisades fire and the Eton
Speaker 2: fire burn areas. But this last story in Michael Monks,
Speaker 2: I'll bring you in for this because you are our
Speaker 2: resident expert on the area, given that you did so
Speaker 2: much reporting on the ground in Altadena and Palisades. The
Speaker 2: newest development out of the Altadena burn area is that
Speaker 2: of the couple of thousand, almost three thousand empty houses
Speaker 2: with swimming pools. Those swimming pools are now breeding grounds
Speaker 2: for mosquitoes as the weather starts to warm up, and
Speaker 2: at one single swimming pool can be a breeding ground
Speaker 2: for as many as three million mosquitoes in one month.
Speaker 2: This is very scary math. Twenty seven hundred swimming pools,
Speaker 2: at least three million mosquitos in one month, and that
Speaker 2: is one single pool. So the math I'm just doing
Speaker 2: three million times twenty seven hundred. I can't do it fast.
Speaker 2: But that's a buttload of mosquitos, Michael Monks.
Speaker 8: And you don't want a mosquito in your butt load.
Speaker 2: You don't want a mosquito.
Speaker 8: You don't want one, no.
Speaker 2: Let alone multiple millions of mosquitos in your buck The.
Speaker 10: Last thing LA needs right now is a healthy dose
Speaker 10: of malaria.
Speaker 7: So yeah, this is nothing for the image revitalization exactly.
Speaker 8: You really just can't catch your break.
Speaker 10: And I'll tell you, you know, being from the Ohio Valley,
Speaker 10: you don't want to mess with skeeters. You know, you've
Speaker 10: got empty buckets. You got to empty you know, pails,
Speaker 10: any thing that might collect water. When you think about
Speaker 10: the amount of water that might be left in some
Speaker 10: of these swimming pools, the.
Speaker 2: Teaspoon is a breeding round, if that's and that's like
Speaker 2: being generous. It can be less than that. And mosquito is,
Speaker 2: like you said, a lot larger, or excuse me, a
Speaker 2: swimming pool a lot larger. And in this revitalization campaign,
Speaker 2: this we love LA campaign, this want to present LA
Speaker 2: as having it all together, as being better as being
Speaker 2: You know, we're modifying our strategies to respond to crime.
Speaker 2: We have the My three to eleven app and it's
Speaker 2: faster now and crimes down, all these things that are
Speaker 2: supposed to be positive trending toward the positive. Then you
Speaker 2: throw this in.
Speaker 10: It's a snowball effect, right. It just keeps rolling down
Speaker 10: that hill and getting bigger and bigger, like one step forward,
Speaker 10: five back.
Speaker 8: That's life in La Baby.
Speaker 2: What's going on with your show?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you. You know.
Speaker 10: We got the Olympics coming up in twenty twenty eight, right,
Speaker 10: and I'm wondering whether we're ready to be ready. They
Speaker 10: made some votes this week at City Hall to approve
Speaker 10: the venues, but there seems to be some concern from
Speaker 10: one council member about where sailing is going to take place.
Speaker 10: Whether the wind is better in San Pedro than it
Speaker 10: is in Long Beach. Yes, so we don't even have
Speaker 10: that settled. To give you an idea of the government here.
Speaker 2: Let me jop in. Really, so, you said something really
Speaker 2: funny yesterday on Tim Conway's show. I was listening and
Speaker 2: you made me laugh out loud in the car. You said,
Speaker 2: and I'm a butcher it and I'll let you do it.
Speaker 2: That the Olympics is similar or like uh, preparing for
Speaker 2: your own party, right, but having no kitchen, no kitchen,
Speaker 2: Your kitchen's messed up. It's not redone.
Speaker 8: Kitchen is a mess.
Speaker 10: You have no food, You not showered, and that's the
Speaker 10: only And it's time for the party to start.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 10: People are at the door. Dictators aren't here, and that's
Speaker 10: kind of what we're dealing with you. Yeah, so we'll
Speaker 10: talk a bit about that. But I got a big show.
Speaker 10: You had a big show today. I got a big
Speaker 10: show too. I mean, Saturday is on KFI, a total vid,
Speaker 10: a total VOD.
Speaker 8: You'll learn, you.
Speaker 10: Laugh, you engage, you enrage. It's a lot of good stuff.
Speaker 10: I got two council members coming on, one to talk
Speaker 10: about the budget crisis and the homeless spending situation. Another's
Speaker 10: coming on to talk about why they felt they needed
Speaker 10: to vote to extend more protections to illegal immigrants in
Speaker 10: the city of Los Angeles. I got LA County District
Speaker 10: Attorney Nathan Hoffman on. He's brought back the death penalty
Speaker 10: to Los Angeles, so we'll talk about his mindset there.
Speaker 10: Like I said, we've got the Olympics coming on. I'm
Speaker 10: gonna go over why council is considering banning a couple
Speaker 10: of slurs at city How many?
Speaker 8: Give people some examples.
Speaker 2: City Hall is wild and crazy.
Speaker 10: I want to hear what happened. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10: Now I bleeped the bad words.
Speaker 2: Oh so you have basically no audio, but it's a
Speaker 2: lot of bleeps.
Speaker 8: We have a lot of bleeps.
Speaker 10: I also talked to a couple who love the Dodgers
Speaker 10: so much that they got married on Wednesday and collected
Speaker 10: money from friends and family to spend their honeymoon. They
Speaker 10: call it their mini moon at Dodger Stadium on opening day.
Speaker 10: Oh so they're going to be with us also, Oh
Speaker 10: how heartwarming.
Speaker 2: We go from mosquitoes to honeymoons, to city council to
Speaker 2: Nathan Hakman. It's everywhere.
Speaker 10: There is always a little bit of sunshine speaking through
Speaker 10: this mosquito infested hell hole we call la.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael. That was fantastic and it's been fantastic
Speaker 2: being with you again. If you missed any part of
Speaker 2: this show, you missed any part of Michael Monk's show,
Speaker 2: you can always listen on KFIAM six forty dot com
Speaker 2: go to featured segments and you'll hear everything there, including
Speaker 2: our big interview with Frank William Miller Junior today, wonderful
Speaker 2: interview about being banned from Madison Square Garden over a
Speaker 2: T shirt. What you want to hear it? It is really, really,
Speaker 2: really good and it probably it may scare you a
Speaker 2: little bit. Honestly, might scare you a little bit. Great show.
Speaker 2: I'll be with you next Saturday. You can always follow
Speaker 2: me on Instagram at tiff Hobbs on here. Thank you, Kayla,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Resident expert on signal security advisor Raoul Allegedly,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna say? You're just laughing, That's okay.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brigitta, thank you, not allegedly. It's been a blast.
Speaker 2: I'll see you guys next Saturday right here on KFI
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