Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Make it afternoon, Chris Merril, can't I AM six forty
Speaker 2: more stimulating? Talk Happy Easter if you're if you're an
Speaker 2: Easter person, if you're not an Easter person, then Sunday Day,
Speaker 2: the Pope came out and the Pope had some things
Speaker 2: to say. Oh yes, my gosh, forgot that, but I
Speaker 2: just thought it was. Yeah, it's another good one, because wow,
Speaker 2: here's a great thing too. Yeah. Well, hang on, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get to the Pope here in a second. But
Speaker 2: I'm glad you I'm I'm glad that we heard that
Speaker 2: because this is a unique Easter being on four to twenty,
Speaker 2: so that when you fill your Easter basket. Now, my
Speaker 2: wife and my and my mother used to do the
Speaker 2: same thing that they would always put, you know, that
Speaker 2: fake plasticky grass in the Easter basket. This year was
Speaker 2: filled with a different kind of gross. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: best Easter ever, you know.
Speaker 3: For those that are pot smokers. It is also National
Speaker 3: cold Brew Day.
Speaker 2: Oh great, that's fun. Thanks Andrew, You're welcome who made
Speaker 2: four to twenty national cold Brew Day. That's a joke, right,
Speaker 2: recovering hot Easter. Something yeah, something of the sort. So
Speaker 2: the Pope was out and in the Pope of course
Speaker 2: fighting for his life like a month ago. And the
Speaker 2: Pope came out and he said Happy Easter, and then
Speaker 2: he handed his speech off. This was the Pope of
Speaker 2: the Vatican News Nation reporting on that all of.
Speaker 4: These pilgrims and tourists inside Saint Peter's Square this morning
Speaker 4: were there primarily for the Mass and to mark and
Speaker 4: celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, of course first and foremost,
Speaker 4: but also to get a glimpse of the Holy Father.
Speaker 4: That wish was granted when after the Mass, the main
Speaker 4: balcony in front of Saint Peter Square, the curtains opened
Speaker 4: up an outcome Pope Francis. He spoke just two sentences.
Speaker 4: He said, good morning, Happy Easter, before handing his pre
Speaker 4: prepared speech. Is what is called an orbi ed orbi,
Speaker 4: which is Latin for his message to the people of Roman,
Speaker 4: to the people of the world. That was handed over
Speaker 4: to the Master of Ceremonies, who then read it out
Speaker 4: to the crowd.
Speaker 2: And what did it say?
Speaker 4: And in this very important message for Catholics and for
Speaker 4: people all over the world, Hannah. The Pope said that
Speaker 4: Christ has risen. He's not in the tomb. He's alive.
Speaker 4: He's real. We have to look for him. He called
Speaker 4: for cease fires around the world and for an end
Speaker 4: to violence, war and conflict.
Speaker 2: Ah, well, that's just silly, of course.
Speaker 4: He mentioned his closeness to the suffering people of both
Speaker 4: Palestine and Israel. He mentioned the war in Ukraine. He
Speaker 4: mentioned the suffering people in South Sudan, in Syria, in Lebanon,
Speaker 4: and in many different parts of the world. That was
Speaker 4: the main thrust of his message this morning.
Speaker 2: The Pope really is the most Catholic beauty pageant contestant ever.
Speaker 2: Whenever there's a speech, and always says we should love
Speaker 2: one another and bring about world peace. That's it. And
Speaker 2: how's that working out? About as well as it ever
Speaker 2: did for any beauty pageant contestant. It doesn't like, Oh,
Speaker 2: the Pope says we should be kind, we should love
Speaker 2: one another, and everybody's like, Pope, what's he smoking. Yeah. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the Pope did get a very special visit. JD. Vance
Speaker 2: showed up. Good news. JD. Advance didn't touch any of
Speaker 2: the artifacts at the Vatican, didn't have a chance to
Speaker 2: drop any of them, so that was good. U Vice
Speaker 2: President's meeting with the Pope not announced in advance because
Speaker 2: I guess they didn't want the pap aside or something
Speaker 2: of the sort. A private meeting occurring at eleven thirty
Speaker 2: this morning at the Papal Residents, just before Mass Da
Speaker 2: Da da da. The meeting, which lasted a few minutes,
Speaker 2: gave them opportunity to exchange Easter greetings, and JD. Vance,
Speaker 2: who's of course a smooth social talker, said I know
Speaker 2: you not been feeling great, but it's good to see
Speaker 2: you in better health, and the Pope was like, cool,
Speaker 2: you can go now, and that's about it. The Pope did, however,
Speaker 2: give a gift which I thought was nice. Vance received
Speaker 2: a Vatican necktie and a rosary and then rosaries for
Speaker 2: the family and chocolate Easter eggs for the kids. And
Speaker 2: do you think you think this was one of those
Speaker 2: visits where JD. Vance, again it wasn't announced, but there
Speaker 2: were cameras there, so somebody knew it was happening. Do
Speaker 2: you think this was one of those situations where they
Speaker 2: told the Pope, who of course is semi lucid right now,
Speaker 2: they said, well, Francis, the Vice President of the United
Speaker 2: States is going to come visit you. And the Pope
Speaker 2: said we should give him something, and they went, h
Speaker 2: we really weren't planning on this, and he said, run
Speaker 2: down to the gift shop and find something. And that's
Speaker 2: how he got the necktie and some rosaries, just grab
Speaker 2: them right out of the Vatican gift shop, which was
Speaker 2: I thought, nice. Have you seen the price of rosaries lately?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I woke up early this morning and
Speaker 2: I went to the grocery store and they had eggs
Speaker 2: on sale, and I was pretty excited that they were
Speaker 2: on sale, and and the eggs rang up at the
Speaker 2: self checkout. I rang up a dozen eggs. And I
Speaker 2: hate the self checkout where I go. It says it
Speaker 2: because it reads the price to you on everything. So
Speaker 2: you run a pack of gum and it's like tri
Speaker 2: dent three ninety nine savings twenty five cents. I hate that.
Speaker 2: And everything you run through there, milk, you know, three
Speaker 2: forty nine savings ten cents whatever. Hate it. But I
Speaker 2: ran the eggs through and it says eggs seven ninety nine,
Speaker 2: No excuse, it was seven. Got it down to yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was seven ninety nine or eight ninety
Speaker 2: nine or something, whatever it was. Anyway, it was like
Speaker 2: three dollars off. So I got the eggs for they
Speaker 2: must have been nine ninety nine or something. I got
Speaker 2: them for like six bucks, seven bucks, whatever it was.
Speaker 2: And I thought, I'm oddly celebrating that eggs are only
Speaker 2: seven dollars right now, Like, oh, look at all the savings.
Speaker 2: I got. My dozen eggs was not eight dollars or
Speaker 2: nine or ten whatever it was. And I thought, how
Speaker 2: many people are cutting back on eggs? And how much
Speaker 2: are we cutting back on Easter in general traditional Easter things,
Speaker 2: because even the Easter candy, all of it has some
Speaker 2: sort of an egg product in there, right, And if
Speaker 2: you've seen inflation lately, it ain't pretty. NBCLA was talking
Speaker 2: about the Easter prices.
Speaker 5: Easter may have come at a higher price tag this year,
Speaker 5: but that's not stopping families from celebrating.
Speaker 2: I had to get the classic chocolate bunny.
Speaker 3: See you got some egg hunting bags.
Speaker 2: And you jump rope. Oh yeah, the Easter jump rope
Speaker 2: a long family tradition. Hey, real quick side note, when
Speaker 2: you guys get one of those chocolate bunnies. Do you
Speaker 2: start at the ears or at the feet?
Speaker 6: The ears like a normal person, always the.
Speaker 3: Ears, Always, Raoul, I bust it in half and like
Speaker 3: eat the middle.
Speaker 6: We should talk the cops.
Speaker 2: So the majority of people, myself included along with you guys,
Speaker 2: start at the ears. We always eat the bunny's head first.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but we do. Uh. And then
Speaker 2: a small fraction of people, like fifteen percent, start at
Speaker 2: the feet. And then if you're a psychopath, you break
Speaker 2: it in half and you start eating the midsection out
Speaker 2: like you're some sort of a weird cannibal. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine the zombie apocalypse? Because Raoul is going to be
Speaker 2: the most fun to watch, no doubt. The rest of
Speaker 2: us are going to be nibbling on people's ears, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just thought i'd little ear appetizer. Raoul's like I
Speaker 2: want the guts.
Speaker 5: Treats to traditions, many families are still making memories, even
Speaker 5: if they're skipping a few steps.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we're not going to boil eggs.
Speaker 5: The Ryan Cards say they're taking a break from their
Speaker 5: annual egg dying tradition due to high egg prices.
Speaker 2: The kids do like decorating them.
Speaker 6: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess we're not going to do that this year.
Speaker 2: No, you're not. Do you know what people are doing instead?
Speaker 2: This is sad. We have turned into a third world
Speaker 2: country because now instead of painting eggs or dying eggs, whatever,
Speaker 2: people are now decorating potatoes. That's the new thing. Yep,
Speaker 2: they're dialing up the potatoes. So record high egg prices
Speaker 2: sprout in the idea of budget friendly Easter alternative painting
Speaker 2: potatoes instead of eggs, reports Axios. Potatoes USA is the
Speaker 2: national marketing and promotion board representing US growers and reporters,
Speaker 2: have been looking to scramble the holiday traditions and now
Speaker 2: has a how to guide on painting spuds. Kids of
Speaker 2: all ages love that potatoes offer an easy, fun and
Speaker 2: affordable way to get creative. According to the senior Global
Speaker 2: marketing manager Potatoes USA, does anyone believe that all kids
Speaker 2: love painting potatoes? Anybody? Anybody? I didn't think so, Oh,
Speaker 2: look at the joy in their faces. Potatos. It's like
Speaker 2: in the eighteenth century when there was famine and they
Speaker 2: get to the middle of you know, March, and they
Speaker 2: were hoping to be able to get through the rest
Speaker 2: of spring until finally they could plant a crop, and
Speaker 2: so they're like, well, all we have left is cabbage.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's if they had a good year. Otherwise
Speaker 2: they turn into the tramp and they start trying to
Speaker 2: eat their shoes. That's what happens. One final feel good
Speaker 2: story about Easter. I remember hearing about this guy when
Speaker 2: I was younger, and it tripped me out because he's
Speaker 2: not the only one. But I've heard about other people
Speaker 2: doing this, and that this guy's done it thirty six
Speaker 2: times now. On Good Friday, there's a dude who has
Speaker 2: crucified and been crucified I guess thirty six times now,
Speaker 2: and he did it again. And this is full on crucifixion.
Speaker 2: They drive the nails through the hands, into the wood,
Speaker 2: into the feet, and I guess they do this every year,
Speaker 2: and they lift them up put him on the cross,
Speaker 2: and they're up there for ten minutes and they say, oh,
Speaker 2: he cries out in agony. Yeah, I would too. The
Speaker 2: reason is the guy he had like a near death
Speaker 2: experience and he survived, and so he credited being saved
Speaker 2: and he thanks God for a second life, and so
Speaker 2: it's important to him to make a sacrifice to thank
Speaker 2: God for that he was. He fell from a three
Speaker 2: story building and survived it. He considered that a miracle,
Speaker 2: and so now he does this crucifixion thing. But he's
Speaker 2: also taken to giving every year a crucifixion is sort
Speaker 2: of in the name of something. So last year he
Speaker 2: highlighted the war against Ukraine, and he said at the time,
Speaker 2: if these wars worsen and spread, more people, especially the
Speaker 2: young and the old, would be affected. These are innocent
Speaker 2: people who have totally nothing to do with these wars.
Speaker 2: This is why I always pray for peace in the world, always,
Speaker 2: like the Pope. And as we know, thirty six years
Speaker 2: of crucifying later, still no world peace. So not going great.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you're looking for world peace, you can
Speaker 2: look no further than our commander in chief, who wished
Speaker 2: everyone a very happy Easter on truth Social whether you're
Speaker 2: heading out to church or watching service from home, May
Speaker 2: this day be full of peace and joy for all
Speaker 2: who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ he has risen.
Speaker 2: And then he said happy Easter to all, including the
Speaker 2: radical left lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard
Speaker 2: to bring murderers, drug lords, dangerous prisoners, the mentally insane
Speaker 2: and well known MS thirteen gang members, and wife beaters
Speaker 2: back into our country. So he also said happy Easter
Speaker 2: to the weak and ineffective judges and law enforcement officials
Speaker 2: who are allowing the sinister attack on our nation to continue,
Speaker 2: an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten. Yep, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Then he was after Joe Biden. He said he was
Speaker 2: the worst, most incompetent president, also perpetuating the big lie
Speaker 2: that people cheated in the twenty twenty presidential election in
Speaker 2: order to get hit this highly destructive moron elected. He said, So,
Speaker 2: I mean, you got to give it to him. He
Speaker 2: wished happy Easter to all of them. So that's kindness,
Speaker 2: that's an Eastern miracle. Fire fallout continues, and people are
Speaker 2: not happy with Jake from State Farm. I mean, how
Speaker 2: did you not see that coming? I think we all did,
Speaker 2: except accept the Public Utilities commission who they're like, wow,
Speaker 2: that that's fine, and then the the insurance commissioner who goes,
Speaker 2: oh boy, this is going to cost you guys a lot.
Speaker 2: How much do you want to raise your rates? It's
Speaker 2: blank check Easter? Next Chris Merril KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: were live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Hey, Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk. Hey,
Speaker 2: we got to do a talkback question here. Guys. If
Speaker 2: you're on the iHeartRadio app, you open that app, you
Speaker 2: see a little microphone icon. You click on that, and
Speaker 2: that is our talkback and it allow us you to
Speaker 2: record a message thirty seconds, which we found out last
Speaker 2: week when someone was calling to tell me how terrible
Speaker 2: I was. He was more than thirty seconds angry, and
Speaker 2: he got cut off right in the middle of it, which,
Speaker 2: honestly kind of funny. What do you want to do
Speaker 2: for a talkback question, Kayla? You want to do an
Speaker 2: Easter thing? Or Raoul wants to do a four twenty thing.
Speaker 7: I think that that's excluding people think some people don't
Speaker 7: celebrate Easter a live, but for twenty No, I.
Speaker 2: Agree with you on that. Yeah, about just holidays in general,
Speaker 2: do we care about it's April, like holiday spending or anything.
Speaker 6: Are you thinking about holiday spending in April? I'm not.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking about summer being around the corner and being
Speaker 7: at the beach. So I did like the attacks.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because if you're going to the beach, the
Speaker 2: seals are going crazy right now. Yeah, I got an
Speaker 2: angry sea lion attack. All right, let's do that talk
Speaker 2: that question today. Then tell me about the time that
Speaker 2: you got attacked by an animal, and if you didn't
Speaker 2: see it coming, that's even better. I don't want to
Speaker 2: hear about my dog bit me. Come on, be creative.
Speaker 2: Tell me about the time you got attacked. You're walking
Speaker 2: down the you're hiking and a mountain lion comes out.
Speaker 2: Maybe a bird started pecking at you or something. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Tell me about that. That's what I want
Speaker 2: to hear. Those would be good stories.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I got I got a couple of good ones.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I like this.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you get attacked?
Speaker 6: One time I've gotten attacked? Yeah, I was.
Speaker 7: I was feeding geese and I ran out of food
Speaker 7: and they didn't respect that. They chase me, impacted me,
Speaker 7: and it was awful. I was like six or seven.
Speaker 2: I'm still scared of them to the little sons of guns,
Speaker 2: aren't they.
Speaker 6: They got little teeth and they were just getting me.
Speaker 6: It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Time did anybody rescue you or were they too busy laughing?
Speaker 6: No, my grandpa came and save me. Thank God for him.
Speaker 2: All right, that's good. I like that. Is that the
Speaker 2: only one?
Speaker 6: Dogs? Would you tell me?
Speaker 3: That's boring?
Speaker 6: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's kind of boring. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: got I got attacked by a dog. But I mean
Speaker 2: that's too common.
Speaker 6: It does happen.
Speaker 2: It is, it does happen. The big dog that attacked you, Well,
Speaker 2: I was little and it was I think it was big.
Speaker 6: I don't seemed big at the time.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I was like, you're I was like
Speaker 2: six Yeah, same thing, right, I mean I was, I
Speaker 2: was very young. So all right, I like that. Tell
Speaker 2: me about the time you got attacked by by an animal,
Speaker 2: a wild animal, we'll say, a wild animal. Tell me
Speaker 2: about the time you were attacked by a wild animal.
Speaker 2: We do have a sea lions that we're attacking people.
Speaker 2: If you were someone who was a victim of the
Speaker 2: Eton fire, there may be new evidence out there to
Speaker 2: help you out. And this may come as a shock.
Speaker 2: They think they know what started it.
Speaker 8: Attorneys for what's called La Fire Justice, a conglomerate of
Speaker 8: lawyers and wildfire experts presents to eat and fire victims.
Speaker 8: What they claim is enhance video of the fire's ignition
Speaker 8: and spread.
Speaker 2: Guess what. Guess where the ignition was? Guess just what
Speaker 2: do you think? Anybody? Anybody? Yeah? It was power lines.
Speaker 9: We've investigated this with some of the best fire cause
Speaker 9: and origin experts in the world, and we've determined that
Speaker 9: this fire started on an abandoned line that's owned by Edison,
Speaker 9: and therefore they'd be responsible for all the damages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not surprised at all, not surprised. Well, you
Speaker 2: know what that means. Rates are going to go up.
Speaker 2: But the good news is while they need you to
Speaker 2: give them more money to take down those abandoned lines
Speaker 2: so that you don't they don't burn your house down
Speaker 2: too like they did people in in Altadena, you will
Speaker 2: also get to pay more for your insurance. And people
Speaker 2: are not happy. I guess they were doing. What is it?
Speaker 2: State Farm's catastrophe claim tent Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, a group
Speaker 2: of people urging California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to launch
Speaker 2: a formal investigation into State Farm, saying that a series
Speaker 2: of delayed and denied claims has left wildfire victims and
Speaker 2: dire financial positions and unable to return to contaminated homes.
Speaker 2: Are you telling me that we have an insurance company
Speaker 2: who is engaging in the practice of delay and deny
Speaker 2: while at the same time making the case for a
Speaker 2: seventeen percent emergency rate hike, which they say is out
Speaker 2: of the kindness of their heart, because what they really
Speaker 2: wanted was twenty two percent, and you should be thankful.
Speaker 2: State Farm says it's necessary to help stabilize the State
Speaker 2: Farm General's financial position, and Laura of course approve that
Speaker 2: on a provisional basis. He's just waiting on an administrative
Speaker 2: judge to sign off, so you'll get to pay more.
Speaker 2: I think part of the deal is that they will
Speaker 2: ensure you. They can't just drop you. But don't worry.
Speaker 2: Even though you have insurance, if you have to file acclaim,
Speaker 2: you will get to experience the same thing everyone else does.
Speaker 2: You won't feel left out. They will delay and deny,
Speaker 2: making you hole again, So you've got that going for you.
Speaker 2: We'll talk lawmakers, law breakers, the times there ought to
Speaker 2: be a law, and we'll get your feedback. When were
Speaker 2: you attacked by a wild animal, and we'll give you
Speaker 2: the story on the sea lion attacking. Still to come
Speaker 2: this hour. It's Chris Marril I AM six forty Live
Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Chris Merril, I AM six forty, more stimulating talk.
Speaker 2: Happy Easter for those that celebrate, Happy for twenty for
Speaker 2: those that celebrate, and Happy Cold Brew Day for Andrew
Speaker 2: Caravell uh let me see oh talk back. If you
Speaker 2: were open up the iHeartRadio app, you'll see the and
Speaker 2: you're listening to us on there, can't find you. Hit
Speaker 2: the talkback button and you can leave us a message.
Speaker 2: This guy concerned about insurance rates with State Farm.
Speaker 10: Wooho State Farm increase.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Mine came due the fifteenth of April, just a couple
Speaker 10: of days ago. Actually the bill came in the mail
Speaker 10: two months ago. I paid it, so I beat it
Speaker 10: under the wire man. Everybody else is going to get
Speaker 10: screwed because they're gonna get raised twenty percent or more.
Speaker 10: But they couldn't raise it before my bill was already
Speaker 10: sent out. Beat it under the wire man.
Speaker 2: You made it. You got yourself another year, Well done,
Speaker 2: nice job. What are you not wait until the next
Speaker 2: commercial break?
Speaker 1: Raoul?
Speaker 2: That was the caller, for sure, that was the caller. No.
Speaker 2: We asked the question, have you ever been attacked by
Speaker 2: a wild animal? Get a story coming up about an
Speaker 2: angry sea lion that is attack people.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I feel like I'm attacked by wild animals here
Speaker 3: on the on the air live.
Speaker 2: That's not nice. Roll's nice guy. He's had his shots.
Speaker 3: Have you ever have you ever worked with Bill Handle
Speaker 3: in the morning.
Speaker 2: No, the closest I've ever come. I'm honest, if I'm
Speaker 2: being Scout's honor here, I've only actually had the occasion
Speaker 2: to talk to Bill like two or three times in
Speaker 2: my life. And one of those was that, Actually I've
Speaker 2: got the I still have the lanyard. It's on my
Speaker 2: desk right here. It was, Uh, it was forever ago.
Speaker 2: They did the Hack to the Future. That was the
Speaker 2: live event with Bill and uh. It was like a
Speaker 2: live performance thing. They wrote a script out. It was hilarious.
Speaker 2: It was great. And then I was in for I
Speaker 2: think it was in for Gary and Shannon one day
Speaker 2: and and uh, Bill came back during commercial breaks and
Speaker 2: we just shot the breeze for a little bit, but
Speaker 2: that's it. So no, I've not actually worked with him.
Speaker 2: Now I work with you know what I feel in
Speaker 2: for him. I work with the other people. But obviously
Speaker 2: he's not there, so he just ignores me. Blame him.
Speaker 2: That was a long answer to your question. No I
Speaker 2: have not. Okay, good talk yep, okay, very good. Andrew
Speaker 2: is such a classic reporter. He asks a question and
Speaker 2: then he just waits and he'll allow silence to fill
Speaker 2: the room until the person feels the need to fill
Speaker 2: that silence by giving him more.
Speaker 3: Quotes, and then they walk away feeling awkward like they do.
Speaker 3: Did I answer that the well?
Speaker 2: Did it not? I don't have any idea. Nice job,
Speaker 2: it's a gift. It's I like it. I like it
Speaker 2: all right. So we asked the question, you ever been
Speaker 2: attacked by a while the animals squirrels who lived in
Speaker 2: the tree in our yard.
Speaker 11: And she was feeding nuts to them, and she didn't
Speaker 11: quite understand, so she was kind of taunting it, like
Speaker 11: pulling one of the nuts back, and the squirrel reached
Speaker 11: out and bit her, and so we were extremely worried
Speaker 11: about the plague. We called the animal control. We called
Speaker 11: all these wildlife waystations, and turns out after I caught
Speaker 11: the squirrel, because of what they have to do to
Speaker 11: test for that kill it out squirrel population. There's never
Speaker 11: been a known case of the bubonic plague.
Speaker 2: I thought it was rabies. Squirrels don't have rabies. No,
Speaker 2: or squirrels have no because I actually googled this. Nope,
Speaker 2: that's a lie. I binged this. I just typed in
Speaker 2: squirrel plague and the California Department of Public Health says
Speaker 2: the plague is rare among humans, but has found each
Speaker 2: year among squirrels, chipmunks, and other rodents in California and
Speaker 2: southwestern United States. So they are in the ground squirrels.
Speaker 2: I don't know he got although he was dealing with
Speaker 2: a tree squirrel. I don't know if that's different. I
Speaker 2: don't have any idea the lawmakers, law breakers at the
Speaker 2: times that there ought to be a law. Let's talk.
Speaker 2: Let's fast forward here on our angry animal situation, including
Speaker 2: an angry sea lion. By the way, if you're listening
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, hit that talk back and let
Speaker 2: us know when you were attacked by a wild animal
Speaker 2: like these poor beach goers were.
Speaker 12: This is at the world famous wedge here in Newport Beach.
Speaker 12: A sea lion chasing a bunch of surfers out of
Speaker 12: the water.
Speaker 2: This happened earlier this week.
Speaker 12: This video was taken by a gentleman who goes by
Speaker 12: the nickname of Dingo and runs a YouTube channel called
Speaker 12: Dingo said. So, he didn't want his real name used
Speaker 12: or his face shown, but we did talk to him.
Speaker 2: You hear from him, Thank goodness, don't. We don't out
Speaker 2: the Dingo in a moment.
Speaker 12: But he said it was a just bizarre situation. At
Speaker 12: one point, everybody thought this was a cute sea lion.
Speaker 12: It was out there surfing with some of the surfers
Speaker 12: at some points that looked like but then it just
Speaker 12: started getting aggressive and chasing some of the surfers out
Speaker 12: of the water. Eventually, he says, lifeguards were called and
Speaker 12: they eventually got ahold of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Speaker 12: who came and took that sea lion in.
Speaker 2: But here's what we told me a littit.
Speaker 12: More about that in a moment, but first here's more
Speaker 12: from the gentleman who took all that video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Dingo.
Speaker 13: And so every time somebody would go out into the water,
Speaker 13: this sea lion would charge at them until they got
Speaker 13: up out of the water up onto the sand, and
Speaker 13: the sea lion would actually chase them up onto the
Speaker 13: sand and then stop. And so everybody was lined up
Speaker 13: across the water's edge up there because the sea lion
Speaker 13: was kind of taking charge of the water.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't let him come in. Now you saw in the
Speaker 2: video there.
Speaker 12: You may have seen the video that it looks like
Speaker 12: some of the folks from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Speaker 12: did come out and take that sea lion in. If
Speaker 12: you've been following some of the coverage, they've been doing
Speaker 12: that a lot. There have been a lot of issues
Speaker 12: with sea lions getting sick, displaying aggressive behavior, and they're
Speaker 12: all attributing it to this algae bloom and the demoic acid.
Speaker 2: Nah. Those sea lions are angry, they're unifying, they're rallying.
Speaker 12: That these sea lions have been ingesting. So a lot
Speaker 12: of sea lions being affected by this. It's suspected that
Speaker 12: might be the issue going on here. We've reached out
Speaker 12: to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center for more information on that.
Speaker 12: When we get it, we'll bring it to you, but
Speaker 12: for now reporting here in Newport Beach, I'm chipyos.
Speaker 2: To KTLA five news. All right, thank you, Chip, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So the demoic acid like spelled like demoic domoic do
Speaker 2: m o ic demoic acid. They say it is caused
Speaker 2: by the unprecedented toxic algae bloom and it's making the
Speaker 2: animals crazy. Isn't there a TV show about this right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's the fungal infection, isn't it. That's the last of us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the fungus turns people into zombies and they get angry
Speaker 2: and they just want to eat your guts or whatever.
Speaker 2: So thousands of the sea lions and other sea life
Speaker 2: have been dealing with this demoic acid and it makes
Speaker 2: them very sick and it gets them aggressive. As you know,
Speaker 2: don't don't mess with the an injured or a wounded animal, right,
Speaker 2: And they said they're super sick. And not only that,
Speaker 2: but they also have saxetoxin, which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Speaker 2: Saxotz These are this is new to me. Saxotoxin disorients
Speaker 2: the animals, can cause permit brain damage and gives rise
Speaker 2: to aggressiveness. Just like the last of us on HBO.
Speaker 2: The sea lion euthanized after it was deemed to be
Speaker 2: too sick to recover. Oh, they say some animals can
Speaker 2: get better if the toxin is caught early. So they're
Speaker 2: getting this. They got the acid, uh, the demonic acid
Speaker 2: from the algae bloom, and the toxic algae bloom also
Speaker 2: does this sacks of toxin. So anyway, that's why these
Speaker 2: sea lions are getting sick and they don't even know
Speaker 2: what's going on. All they know is that they're just
Speaker 2: angry and they don't like the surfers anymore. Is that
Speaker 2: it doesn't even have to do with infringement on their
Speaker 2: on their beaches. They're just generally angry little imps. That's it.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just want to do LA law with with
Speaker 2: angry sea line of attacks. That's it. They're break they're
Speaker 2: not breaking the law. But let's be honest, if they
Speaker 2: were people, we would throw them hind bars for aggravated assault.
Speaker 2: California getting ready to get rid of their visas, not
Speaker 2: their MasterCards. That's next. KFI AM six forty We're live
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Chris Merril.
Speaker 2: CAFI AM six forty more stimulating talk up after five o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's politics as usual, including a late night decision by
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. You'll hear about that and an update
Speaker 2: about the the fella who was in an l salvatory
Speaker 2: in prison. That is until the camera showed up and
Speaker 2: then things didn't look so bad. You think that was unintentional? No,
Speaker 2: happy Easter to those who celebrate. Happy four to twenty
Speaker 2: to those who celebrate. We started the program talking about
Speaker 2: a survey that I saw that said that something like
Speaker 2: eighty five percent of people when given a chocolate bunny,
Speaker 2: they start at the ears. Brief survey around here, Kayla ears,
Speaker 2: Andrew ears, me ears. Raoul breaks the bunny in half
Speaker 2: and starts eating the midsection, which is just weird. Now
Speaker 2: I'm not the only one that thinks it. From the talkbacks,
Speaker 2: Hey Chris.
Speaker 8: Can you please have a chocolate tell o mom about
Speaker 8: him eating chocolate bunnies.
Speaker 5: You have to nibble on the ears before you go
Speaker 5: to the groin.
Speaker 1: Talk about making it awkward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's my uncle. Honestly, it's uh. I
Speaker 2: like the way he says your name. Have I just
Speaker 2: been anglicizing your name? So do I roll the r? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Ra Yeah, I'm so calling you Raoul.
Speaker 2: My stepdad called me Ral. Oh that's good yo. Ral
Speaker 2: never changed. There was always Ral. Was he doing that
Speaker 2: because he was an evil stepfather or did he just
Speaker 2: not know how to say oh? I like that it
Speaker 2: sounds sexier. I mean, if you were to introduce yourself
Speaker 2: and say hi, I'm Raoul, I'd be like, Okay, nice
Speaker 2: to meet you. But if you were to say hi,
Speaker 2: I'm Raoul, then I'd be like, I want you to
Speaker 2: tear my belly apart and start at the groin.
Speaker 8: Tell mom a on eating chocolate Bunny.
Speaker 5: Yep, you have to mibble on the ears before you
Speaker 5: get to the groin.
Speaker 2: But Raoul might give you a pass, might give you
Speaker 2: a pass. Uh. If you go to UCLA, you may
Speaker 2: not want to take that little trip down to TJ.
Speaker 2: I don't care how cheap the shows are on.
Speaker 15: The campus of UCLA today. New fears for international students.
Speaker 16: I'm definitely worried about like international students on campus a lot.
Speaker 16: I have a lot of friends that are international, and
Speaker 16: I would hate for them to have any of their
Speaker 16: visas revoked.
Speaker 15: That after an international student was swept up by US
Speaker 15: immigration agents and she tried to re enter the US
Speaker 15: from Mexico on Wednesday, The La Times reporting the student
Speaker 15: was able to contact UCLA officials as she was taken
Speaker 15: into custody at the San Ya Sidro crossing.
Speaker 14: This is a very concerning situation on border patrol has
Speaker 14: the student in detention, but they're not allowing her to
Speaker 14: talk to their attorney. So that's a very important constitutional right,
Speaker 14: and it's been to on to the student and she
Speaker 14: has a student visa.
Speaker 15: They have let ice on campus yesterday, a large loud
Speaker 15: protest on campus. Students and faculty now demanding the university
Speaker 15: increase support for international students.
Speaker 2: All right, somebody else fix that problem. University needs to
Speaker 2: do this. But it's not just UCLA. Yes, students losing
Speaker 2: their visas all over the place. Now.
Speaker 17: Several international students attending college in Orange County have had
Speaker 17: their visas revoked, according to officials that you see Irvine,
Speaker 17: cal State, Fullerton, and Chapman University. The Panther, student run
Speaker 17: newspaper at Chapman University is reporting that two graduate students
Speaker 17: and one postdoctorate student have one week to leave the country.
Speaker 2: These are aren't these the best in the brightest? I mean,
Speaker 2: when we haven't we heard? How do I phrase this?
Speaker 2: I don't want to just pin this on the administration,
Speaker 2: because I think all of us agree that when it
Speaker 2: comes to immigration, there's no question we want the best
Speaker 2: and the brightest to be here in the United States. Right.
Speaker 2: Even Elon Musk went to the border in Texas when
Speaker 2: they were doing all those photo shoots twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: they were doing all those photoshoots at the border. They
Speaker 2: kept going down to the one border crossing where they
Speaker 2: were putting up the floating barriers or whatever, and Elon
Speaker 2: Musk said, you know, to fix immigration, we should let
Speaker 2: the good people in and keep the bad people out.
Speaker 2: And it was like, WHOA, why did anybody think of that?
Speaker 2: We are literally saying we're gonna throw out the baby
Speaker 2: with the bathwater now. Okay, not literally, we are figuratively
Speaker 2: saying we're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Now.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take the graduate the post graduate students. We
Speaker 2: are gonna take the brightest from around the world, and
Speaker 2: you gotta week get out.
Speaker 16: I think it's a little crazy that stuff like this
Speaker 16: is happening. I saw a post on it from our
Speaker 16: newspaper last night, and I remember just thinking like, oh
Speaker 16: my god, Like that's just it's weird to think it's
Speaker 16: actually happened here, because it's just it's not right.
Speaker 17: The Chapman article said the reason for the revocations were
Speaker 17: not given at a faculty senate meeting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course not, and they go, but trust us.
Speaker 17: A campus spokesperson didn't have specific details about the students,
Speaker 17: but told me the Chapman Office of International Student Services
Speaker 17: is working directly with the affected students to try and
Speaker 17: understand their specific situations. At a Cabinet meeting last week,
Speaker 17: Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the administration's crackdown on
Speaker 17: international students.
Speaker 2: Just trust us. They're bad people, these doctorates and postdoctorate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 18: Come to this country as a student, we expect you
Speaker 18: to go to class and study and.
Speaker 2: Get a degree.
Speaker 17: If you come here to like vandalize a library, take
Speaker 17: over a campus and do all kinds of crazy things,
Speaker 17: you know, we're going to get rid of these people.
Speaker 2: Oh, were these leaders in some sort of a protest. No,
Speaker 2: we don't even know. We're not going to tell you,
Speaker 2: we're not going to provide any evidence. What we're gonna
Speaker 2: do is we're gonna deport and we're gonna say trust us,
Speaker 2: they're really bad. They were protesting, so there it is.
Speaker 2: And they took over a library, which is the first
Speaker 2: time all semester there were students in the library. Because
Speaker 2: everything's available online now and.
Speaker 6: We're going to continue to do it.
Speaker 17: Cal State Fullerton confirmed that four student visas were revoked.
Speaker 17: Junior Gomez is a senior on campus.
Speaker 19: I believe they're being told to leave because they have
Speaker 19: a certain amount of influence over others in order to
Speaker 19: congregate in a space altogether, and it scares them because
Speaker 19: the louder the voice, you know, the louder that we're
Speaker 19: going to start opposing certain ideas.
Speaker 17: Luna Rosa has two international students. In a classic Chapman
Speaker 17: she says they didn't travel for spring break.
Speaker 18: They were afraid of the process of getting back, and
Speaker 18: they're afraid to leave right now because it's just so
Speaker 18: everything's so uncertain, and obviously they want to stay.
Speaker 2: Hold on. I'm sorry, I'm sidetracked because I'm noticing this.
Speaker 2: Younger generations don't pronounce their teas have you noticed this.
Speaker 18: Everything's so uncertain.
Speaker 2: M certain, it's uncertain. It's uncertain. You can have a
Speaker 2: rolling tea, doesn't have to be a heart. You don't
Speaker 2: have to say certain, but you have to still, there
Speaker 2: has to be there has to be a consonant in there.
Speaker 18: Everything's so uncertain, and obviously they want to stay here.
Speaker 17: Attorney General Rob Bonta joined other attorneys general by filing
Speaker 17: a brief challenging what he calls the Trump administrations unjustified
Speaker 17: and unconstitutional revocation of visas of students and faculty who
Speaker 17: exercise their free speech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really upset about the protests. We're not going
Speaker 2: to tell you whether or not they were protesters. We
Speaker 2: certainly aren't going to prove any evidence that they did
Speaker 2: anything wrong when they were protesting. But just the mere
Speaker 2: fact that they threatened to protest and speak out against
Speaker 2: something that they see as injustice is enough to get
Speaker 2: them deported, deported, It's enough to get them booted. That
Speaker 2: is a slippery slope. Slippery slope. Even Ted Cruz when
Speaker 2: he was fighting about censorship on tech, he kind of
Speaker 2: came up with the old you've heard it before, and
Speaker 2: that the best way to combat speech you don't like
Speaker 2: is with more free speech. Right is to flood the
Speaker 2: airwaves with your opinion. That's it, except we're finding out
Speaker 2: that you can flood the airwaves, you can flood the
Speaker 2: internet with our opinion, but you can't flood the internet
Speaker 2: or the airwaves or the megaphones with not our opinion.
Speaker 2: That's enough to get you booted. Meanwhile, what's going on
Speaker 2: with the deportation stuff? Because the Supreme Court did something
Speaker 2: very very unusual. I'll tell you what that is next.
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