WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:03.960 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.480 I'm Phil Schumann with you for another hour. 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.880 I'm going to start things off with a subject that 4 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.240 has long been fascinating to me. 5 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.160 Outrageous. Call it what you will. 6 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.079 We live in a country where free speech is protected. 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.719 In seventeen ninety one, the First Amendment was adopted. Is 8 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.320 part of the Bill of Rights, protecting freedom of speech 9 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.440 as well as religion, the press, thank you very much, Assembly, 10 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:32.560 and the right to petition the government. So if you 11 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.799 go to LA City Hall, and by the way, if 12 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:39.039 you've never been to LA's City Hall in downtown Los Angeles, 13 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:41.840 I really would encourage you to go and just take 14 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:46.119 a tour of the building. It's spectacular, built in nineteen 15 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:47.759 twenty seven, been restored. 16 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:50.399 It's really a beautiful building. 17 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.960 And three days a week the city council meets Tuesday, 18 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.320 Wednesday and Friday. And you may not think about this, 19 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:58.320 but the meetings are open to the public. You go 20 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.880 to this beautifully ornate on Ferraro City Council Chamber and 21 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:04.920 if there's an issue on the agenda that you'd like 22 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:06.719 to speak about, you. 23 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.239 Can essentially open mics. 24 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.480 And what's happened is that there's these gadflies, a handful 25 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.560 of them that are abusing the process. They use the 26 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:21.840 most foul, shocking, offensive language. I mean it's I'm no prude, 27 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:24.200 believe me. I've been known to use, like, you know, 28 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.840 a bad word here or there, but I mean, even 29 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.120 this to me makes me cringe. Michael Monks is a 30 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.239 CAFI reporter who's covered plenty of these meetings at City 31 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.079 Hall and I'm sure shares my outrage at this. 32 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.280 Michael, I'm not exaggerating this, am. 33 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.079 I You nailed it, especially when you said gadflies, because 34 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.159 these are folks who are at every single meeting, and 35 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:49.040 not just the main meetings you mentioned on Tuesdays, Wednesdays 36 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:51.959 and Fridays. They go to the committee meetings. That's usually 37 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.879 just for nerds like me who go to the committee meetings, 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.920 and these guys specifically go to those meetings to speak 39 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:02.920 and they offer zero substance instead, it's just the litany 40 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:04.159 of epithets. 41 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.879 So it's like the N word, the C word, I mean, 42 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.879 anti Semitic, anti racist comments, I mean, the most vile 43 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:12.560 language in public. 44 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.960 So let's say Michael Monks is winning. 45 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.759 An award for a Reporter of the Year and you're 46 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:18.599 so proud of it, and your mother and father are 47 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:22.000 coming and your family members, and they're all happy to 48 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.919 be there, and they're in the city Council chambers and 49 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.800 the city and then they're listening to some of these 50 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.840 comments in these public public sessions and. 51 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.080 They're like, oh my god, how is this allowed. 52 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:36.159 So the reason we're talking about this is that finally, finally, 53 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.759 the La City Council President, Marquise Harris Dawson, has proposed 54 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.360 a rule that essentially says he's limited it to two 55 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.639 words which we certainly can't repeat here, and it is 56 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.000 a way to prevent people from using those words, and 57 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.800 they get a warning and then if they do it 58 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.560 a second time, then they're essentially ejected from the meeting 59 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:56.639 and maybe barred from future meeting. 60 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:58.360 Everybody seems to think is a. 61 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.719 Great idea, but it may not hold up because of 62 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:02.599 the first Amendment. 63 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:04.520 Is that a summary, and that's a. 64 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.759 Pretty excellent summary. When Marquis Heristos and the councilman, was 65 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.199 voted in as president of the City Council, I asked 66 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.280 him last to fall, what are you gonna do about this? 67 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.759 I mean, do you have any plan to address the 68 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:21.479 chaos that emerges during the public comments session section of 69 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.879 these meetings, and he did say at that time that 70 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.520 he intended to address this some way, he couldn't offer 71 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.039 any specifics. What they have dealt with are the courts 72 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.879 who say, as vile as these comments are, they are 73 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.199 protected free speech. The city has paid out before a 74 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.199 six figure sum when they were sued over this exact 75 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.439 type of thing. This is the only municipal building where 76 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:48.960 I see this type of behavior routinely, though. That's what's 77 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.639 so strange about it. It's almost like a microcosm of 78 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.159 la at large. You know that there is chaos, there's there's. 79 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:56.759 Beauty all around. 80 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:58.840 You describe the building, well, it's a gorgeous building, and 81 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.479 then inside it his chaos, just like the city all over. 82 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.080 I have seen it at the Police Commission hearings, which 83 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.879 are also ultimately like on Tuesday mornings. 84 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.120 And it's a lot of the same, false same, and 85 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.639 some of them even slither over to the Board of 86 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:16.040 Supervisors meetings on Tuesday mornings. It's not as tolerable there. 87 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:19.160 They tend to shut that stuff down, but there are 88 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.399 occasions where you're very uncomfortable and as you noted, somebody 89 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.360 getting award for something. I mean, this is still the 90 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.839 city government. There are some basic, raw, raw things that 91 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.360 happen even in a big city, like la high school 92 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.600 basketball team being honored, a civic activist being honored, and 93 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.120 they and their supporters and friends and family are there 94 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:40.319 and they have to witness these racially charged words, these 95 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:44.720 sexist remarks, these fat shaming remarks. It takes a lot 96 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.079 to get people to feel sympathy for elected leaders in 97 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:49.120 these country these days. 98 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.079 But they can't help it. It's X rated, it's vulgar, 99 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.879 it serves no purpose. These aren't legitimate people. They're commenting 100 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:01.079 on an issue. They're just they're not I mean, that's 101 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.240 I think would be a non clinical term. 102 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:05.079 I mean, we're all for the First Amendment. 103 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.040 Hey, we work in the news business, that's right, right, Yeah, 104 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.480 nothing is more sacred than the First Amendment. But this, 105 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.040 this is an abuse of the process, and it's a problem. 106 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:16.680 The abuse of the process is exactly what I have 107 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:21.079 personally felt weirdest about. Disregard the offensive nature of it all, 108 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.000 but there are other folks who go to the city 109 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:29.360 with legitimate concerns or suggestions, and what happens is because 110 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:32.879 there is a parade of ridiculousness that takes place. The 111 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.879 council members tend to disengage right out here. They're not listening, 112 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.879 some leave, and so they don't even hear you when 113 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.040 you get up to say, hey there's overgrown trees, or 114 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:42.319 hey this road is messed. 115 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:43.480 Up where they are broken. 116 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.399 And so as a result, there the people that have 117 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.800 a legitimate to comment, to make up a legitimate issue 118 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.920 never really get heard because as you said, the council 119 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.680 people aren't really paying attention because the majority of it 120 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.600 is dominated by these these the vulgarity, That's exactly. And 121 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.279 it's like personal too. I mean in this in the 122 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:07.160 police commission hearings, the podium is like ten feet away 123 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:10.199 from the police chief and he has to sit there 124 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.920 whoever it may be, and be subjected to like vile, racist, 125 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.160 homophobic attacks and like the worst language you could ever imagine, 126 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.720 and you're just supposed to sit there because we have 127 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.439 the First Amendment and take it. This has to change, 128 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.560 and I know Dawson has proposed this, and I'm sure 129 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:28.959 the City Council will pass it. 130 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.560 It'll be challenging court. It's going to be an ongoing issue. 131 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.000 Well, the city has grown a custom, especially this fiscal year, 132 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.800 to writing checks when they lose a court case, and 133 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.000 so if they are still in that habit when this 134 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.319 thing is legally challenged, then I'm sure they'll just get 135 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.000 the check book out and we'll go back to the 136 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.279 side show that city Council meetings have become. 137 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:47.800 Are you with me? Though? 138 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.199 People should visit City Hall. It's really, Oh my god, 139 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.439 if I say it all the time, it's just gorgeous. 140 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.600 I live downtown and you know, it just sticks out above. 141 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.360 It's like our original skyscraper here. It's just a stunningly 142 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.480 gorgeous mix of like Art Deco and other period architectural 143 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.199 styles from the nineteen thirties. It's a stunning building. The 144 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.759 council chamber is beautiful, The press room is very old 145 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:10.439 school and it makes you feel like you're in a 146 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.879 mid century office. It's great all around. There's just a 147 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.519 lot of unpleasantness that takes out. 148 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:16.879 People don't realize that it's open. 149 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:18.759 The meetings are open to the public and you can 150 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.800 come in and you know, there's a great little restaurant 151 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.040 slash stack snack. 152 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:25.600 Bar up on dinner and a show. 153 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:27.839 Yeah, up on top the Hall of Mayor's I think 154 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.279 it's called there's an amazing you can go from the 155 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.680 top floor and city and the Hall of Administration is 156 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.600 not bad either. The building isn't as gorgeous from an 157 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.480 architectural point of view, but it's a very cool building also, 158 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.279 and there's a cafeteria open to the public I think 159 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:47.199 on the twelfth floor. The amazing views of downtown Los Angeles. Yeah, 160 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:49.560 so that's an old school office, a lot, a lot 161 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.920 to offer, you know, if you can deal with the 162 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:54.079 homeless issue, which. 163 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.079 Is that's what I mean. 164 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.439 That was my comparison earlier, is that these meetings are 165 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.240 a microcosm of greater Los Angeles. Is that there is 166 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.600 so much beauty surrounding you, and then you're also surrounded 167 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.160 by chaos at the same time, and we're just trying 168 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.279 to get by, just trying to live day to day. 169 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.240 Man, all right, man, enjoy the rest of your Sunday. 170 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.360 Michael monschrom KFI, thanks for coming on with us. 171 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.279 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 172 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.839 President Trump's concern about the US declining birth rate and 173 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.879 how we want more babies. Perhaps that's why he's so 174 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.480 close with Elon, who has fourteen children, some of which 175 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.600 even like him. Maybe the majority apparently don't now don't 176 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:34.879 see him as the father of the year at any rate. 177 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:40.679 George Foreman had twelve kids, And there was a great 178 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.039 post on social media, if you're so inclined to go 179 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.639 look for it of a great family shot with I 180 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.279 think I'm assuming it was all of his kids all 181 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.080 around him. But what's fascinating, and if you've been following 182 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:54.159 the story then you probably already know this, is that 183 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:55.960 he had five sons. 184 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:57.080 Did you know this? 185 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.879 And he had and every one of them was named George, 186 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:04.840 which always I always find obviously unusual, and I'm using 187 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.159 and he said he just wanted to all know that 188 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:12.000 they're all in this together. They each had obviously different nicknames. 189 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.799 So before the break, we were talking about recalls. A 190 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:17.159 product recall. You hear about them from time to time. 191 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.240 It's pretty basic. It's a request from a manufacturer to 192 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:26.240 basically return a product because there's some type of defect 193 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.879 that's been discovered. But it's not just any old defect. 194 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.799 It's something that might endanger a customer, or of course, 195 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:39.519 as equally motivating, it's something that might put the make 196 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.240 or the seller of the product at risk of legal action. 197 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.960 So recalls. There's basically a corrective action. Why am I 198 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:51.799 saying basically so much, Eileen. It's a corrective action, that 199 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.720 is for products that are potentially unsafe. And you don't 200 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:02.039 really think of cheesecake as something would be recalled. But 201 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.559 we're going to go through a list of some of them. 202 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.519 Just something interesting. This is a popular bakery item sold 203 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:13.519 at Target, and it's been recalled for mislabeled packaging its 204 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.919 Favorite Day Gourmet New York Style Cheesecake, because the product 205 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.519 contains pecans or is it pecans yet the packaging does 206 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.000 not disclose this is a potential allergen. People have analogy 207 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.919 or sensitivity to nuts, specifically pecans can run the risk 208 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.279 of series of life threatening allergic reactions if they consume 209 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:34.200 these products. 210 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.759 Now, when I go to Target. 211 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.600 I'm not sure that cheesecake is on my shopping list. 212 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:44.960 I mean, unless for some reason you've tried it before 213 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.480 and you're you like that particular brand. It's it's Target's 214 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:55.039 Favorite Day Gourmet New York Style cheesecake. Hey, when I'm 215 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.600 thinking I'm buying cheesecake, I'm gonna either buy it from 216 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.679 a bakery or a supermarket. 217 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.759 It's actually good. It's actually good. That's Richie is saying it. 218 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.240 I'm sure it's good. I mean, if you ever had 219 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.639 bad cheese cake, it's like ice cream. You have had 220 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.600 bad ice cream. I don't think so. 221 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.519 But hey, all right, so if you have Target New 222 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:17.120 York style cheesecake, be careful if you're allergic to nuts, 223 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.559 because it has pecans and it's not in the label. 224 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:21.159 All right. 225 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:22.960 And this is another one that I know is hitting 226 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:27.120 home for some folks here at KFI. Chomps beef snacks 227 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:32.000 were recalled after pieces of metal were found in the product. 228 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:33.279 This was earlier this week. 229 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.240 The USDA's Food and Safety Inspection Service announced that Idaho 230 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.600 Smokehouse Partners recalled about twenty nine thousand pounds of eye 231 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:44.720 Chomps ready to eat beef sticks. They were because of 232 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:49.799 a possible contamination with metal. Two consumers reported that pieces 233 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.559 of metal were found in the product. Not quite sure 234 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.200 what the source of the metal was. Looking further into 235 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:59.559 the story, it doesn't really say. But chomps, is that 236 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:03.679 a pop? The brand Chomps another good item? Where do 237 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.559 you get those anywhere? Gas stations. 238 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:07.120 Target. 239 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.120 All these sounds like you're spending a lot of time 240 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:14.720 at targelves. I do not anymore the target. 241 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.279 All right, So if you have chomps, grass fed and 242 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:22.519 unfinished beef, as we like to say, all stick without 243 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.080 the ick segwe, I don't think Segways are we're being 244 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:28.879 made anymore. 245 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.919 It's the Segue nine bought Mac six thirty. 246 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:38.360 GPH and the Mac six thirty LP kickscooters, and this 247 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.720 could be a problem. The handlebars or the stem of 248 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:44.159 the scooter can pretty much just fold up on its own, 249 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:47.840 uh during use. Apparently there's about two hundred and twenty 250 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.559 thousand of these across the United States, and that's resulting 251 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:55.559 user injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones. The Segway. 252 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.279 We see the Bird scooter everywhere, but I don't see 253 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.960 the Segway scooters around as much anymore. But apparently they're 254 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.799 sold at best Buy, Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, of course, Target, 255 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:12.240 online at Segway dot com and Amazon Amazon dot com, 256 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.600 and they've been sold as recently as February twenty twenty five. 257 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.480 So if you have a Segway scooter, you definitely want 258 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:24.440 to be careful and when I was young, a youngster, 259 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.600 I had a mini bike. You remember mini bikes, It's 260 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.440 like a mini motorcycle. And the one I had was 261 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.799 special because it had no brakes. I'm sure my parents 262 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.840 were really thrilled about that at the time, if they 263 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.559 even knew. And it went fast, had no breaks, so 264 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:40.360 you just let up off the throttle and you kind 265 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.559 of use your sneakers to slow down. And I remember 266 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.960 riding at full speed, wide open one time at the 267 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:50.519 at Memorial School, the elementary school near my house, and 268 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.840 the handlebar broke off with the throttle on it. That 269 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:57.679 resulted in a major crash, which I'm still recovering from today. 270 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:59.960 All right, and then what else has been? 271 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.759 Oh, Tesla, I mean, it seems like you just can't 272 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.480 get away from elon right, and this would be a problem. 273 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.000 This was on Thursday. It's still happening. 274 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.960 All cyber trucks, all cyber trucks, which is only about 275 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.440 forty six thousand, fifty thousand, which is still a significant number, 276 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:21.399 have been recalled because an exterrior panel that runs along 277 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.080 the left and right side of the windshields can detach 278 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.679 while driving standless steel trip called a can't rail assembly. 279 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.120 It's between the windshield and the roof on both sides. 280 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:36.200 Apparently it's glued onto the body with what they cleverly 281 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:41.320 term a structural adhesive. So you imagine driving your Tesla truck, 282 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.960 your cyber truck, and all of a sudden, pieces of 283 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.759 metal from the windshields start flying off. Apparently videos on 284 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.440 social media are showing people actually ripping off the panels 285 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.000 of the cyber trucks with their own hands. I've seen 286 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.000 so many of these cyber trucks, and now I would 287 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.200 not buy a cyber truck. Aside from the elon musk, 288 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.200 the you're supporting musk when you buy a Tesla or not. 289 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.000 That's sort of a separate discussion, which is an interesting, 290 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:08.080 interesting discussion, which we're not getting into right now. I 291 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:11.639 personally wouldn't want a Tesla cyber truck, but I think 292 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.720 they're cool looking in sort of a manly way, and 293 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.360 we see them. So probably forty six thousand in the 294 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.759 United States, probably half of those are in southern California, 295 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.919 I mean only in. 296 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:24.799 La or Beverly Hill. 297 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.960 Say, well, you see, like you know, two cyber trucks 298 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.080 parked at the curb, side by side. One's purple, and 299 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:34.000 I saw one the other day that had this really detailed, 300 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:35.000 like sort. 301 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.120 Of wolf paint scheme on it. 302 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.440 Anyway, if you've got a cyber truck, turn it back 303 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.480 into Tesla. They'll fix it and send it back to you. 304 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.840 They're saying that. You know, it's obviously a serious concern. 305 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:51.759 I mean, you don't want pieces of middle flying up. 306 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:53.519 All right, So do you have anything else you'd like 307 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.440 to add to the recall list? Anybody while we're While 308 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.480 we're talking recalls now, a little bit of public service. 309 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:00.000 Today, all right? 310 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.600 When we come back West Hollywood residents say they're suffering 311 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.159 from the neighbor from Hell for months. And what's more 312 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:09.799 is that, Hey, if you call the authorities, what do 313 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.559 they tell you, Oh, sorry, we can't really do anything. 314 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.039 He's just an annoying neighbor. But it's not really a crime. 315 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:18.519 Is that good enough? And what are they doing about it? 316 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.679 This West Hollywood apartment building. It's something in all the 317 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.080 local TV stations and I think radio stations have covered 318 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:23.519 as well. 319 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.440 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 320 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:35.240 A great story that demonstrates the frustration of renters of 321 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:40.440 homeowners with I guess the lack of response from those 322 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.279 who you look to for help is from West Hollywood 323 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:45.919 got a lot of attention this week after the newspapers 324 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.200 the TV stations did at the residence of an apartment complex. 325 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.559 They're felt they had no choice but to turn to 326 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.879 the news media. They say they've been living in fear 327 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.080 of their violent neighbor at an apartment complex a North 328 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.600 Fairfax abage you for months. So if you saw this 329 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.160 on the news, the TV news, he's caught on a 330 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.119 security camera footage like violently banging on doors. He's throwing 331 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:16.559 trash cans around, he's breaking windows, and the residents say 332 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:21.000 they've called the Sheriff's department like twenty five times, but 333 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.759 they say that he's not necessarily breaking any laws, so 334 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.039 they can't do anything. 335 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.680 Let's listen to a report from Fox eleven. 336 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:40.799 He violently bangs on doors, verbally attacks neighbors, smashes windows, 337 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:45.839 and screams at all hours of the day and night. 338 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.400 It has been violent beyond anything you imagine. 339 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.599 I am talking two am, four am, six am. 340 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.160 Neighbors say they've been dealing with months of chaos and 341 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.920 fear for their own safety. They asked us not to 342 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:01.039 show their faces. 343 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.440 If you can imagine a sledgehammer being dashed against the door, 344 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:09.559 the walls for hours a day some time, it just sounded. 345 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:15.039 Like he was semanishing furniture in there, and then all 346 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.799 of a sudden, like the banging turned into like the 347 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.000 building shaking. 348 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:22.920 The apartment is located on the twelve hundred block of 349 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.920 North Fairfax Avenue in West Hollywood. Residents say law enforcement 350 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.839 has been called to the location at least twenty five times. 351 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.039 And the same answer is this, we can't do anything. 352 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:34.759 I'm so sorry. 353 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.200 Since the man hasn't physically harmed anyone and most of 354 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.240 the destructionists confined to his own apartment, Residents say deputies 355 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.079 have told them there's nothing they can do. Their hands 356 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:45.559 are tied. 357 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:46.839 We have to wait for it. 358 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:48.960 To get too bad for them to actually do anything, 359 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.519 which is why they make dateline. 360 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:52.640 You know what I mean. 361 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:54.200 Like, it's just it's wild. 362 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.440 Frustrated and desperate for change, These residents are speaking out, 363 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.440 hoping to push for wronger laws that better protect them. 364 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.839 We have to live in hell while this person is 365 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.359 free to do anything. 366 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.160 The landlord has informed the residents that the violent tenant 367 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.279 will be forcibly evicted on. 368 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.079 On Fox eleven is Gina Silva. 369 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.160 Gina Silva and I go way back to our days 370 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:25.680 working together at Extra. Remember the show Extra, which is 371 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.200 on Fox eleven now with Billy Bush, began its life 372 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.960 as a news and entertainment program we're talking in the 373 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.759 late nineties, and Gene and I both worked there covering 374 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.160 news stories around the country. Got some great stories about 375 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:42.960 those days, which we'll share with you another time. But 376 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:46.240 Gena is one of the great members of the Fox 377 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.440 eleven News team, a veteran reporter who breaks a lot 378 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:52.640 of stories. She did a similar story I think last 379 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.680 fall with a neighbor from Hell. It's one of those 380 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.039 sort of cliche news terms that was down in Santa 381 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.880 Ana that was eventually taken into custody. And what's frustrating 382 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.119 here is is that and again we did not hear 383 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.279 directly from the Sheriff's department in this one. But what's 384 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.680 clearly frustrating is that if this guy wants to make 385 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.200 noise in his own apartment and damage things and break things, 386 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:20.079 he can do that. But it sounds like he threatened 387 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:24.279 violence against other members other residents in the apartment complex. 388 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:28.599 And if that's the case. Then it seems like clearly 389 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:30.960 that he could have been subject to arrest by the 390 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.920 sheriff's apartment. So a lot we don't know about that one. 391 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.640 We're just sort of hearing from the residents. But that 392 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:40.359 the visuals on that were unbelievable. If you saw this guy, 393 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:42.839 you know, banging on things, you could hear it in 394 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:45.880 the background there. So it sounds like what's happened is 395 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.119 that the landlords have gone through the legal process of eviction. 396 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:53.359 You know, I'm a big I'm a big handle, I'm 397 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:56.680 a law fan. On Saturday mornings, what is that from 398 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.000 eight to eleven now where Bill Handle gives out more 399 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.880 our general legal advice. So one of the favorite subjects 400 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:04.799 that often comes up there and he seems to know 401 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:07.720