Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I'm Phil Schumann with you for another hour.
Speaker 3: I'm going to start things off with a subject that
Speaker 3: has long been fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: Outrageous. Call it what you will.
Speaker 3: We live in a country where free speech is protected.
Speaker 3: In seventeen ninety one, the First Amendment was adopted. Is
Speaker 3: part of the Bill of Rights, protecting freedom of speech
Speaker 3: as well as religion, the press, thank you very much, Assembly,
Speaker 3: and the right to petition the government. So if you
Speaker 3: go to LA City Hall, and by the way, if
Speaker 3: you've never been to LA's City Hall in downtown Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: I really would encourage you to go and just take
Speaker 3: a tour of the building. It's spectacular, built in nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty seven, been restored.
Speaker 2: It's really a beautiful building.
Speaker 3: And three days a week the city council meets Tuesday,
Speaker 3: Wednesday and Friday. And you may not think about this,
Speaker 3: but the meetings are open to the public. You go
Speaker 3: to this beautifully ornate on Ferraro City Council Chamber and
Speaker 3: if there's an issue on the agenda that you'd like
Speaker 3: to speak about, you.
Speaker 2: Can essentially open mics.
Speaker 3: And what's happened is that there's these gadflies, a handful
Speaker 3: of them that are abusing the process. They use the
Speaker 3: most foul, shocking, offensive language. I mean it's I'm no prude,
Speaker 3: believe me. I've been known to use, like, you know,
Speaker 3: a bad word here or there, but I mean, even
Speaker 3: this to me makes me cringe. Michael Monks is a
Speaker 3: CAFI reporter who's covered plenty of these meetings at City
Speaker 3: Hall and I'm sure shares my outrage at this.
Speaker 2: Michael, I'm not exaggerating this, am.
Speaker 4: I You nailed it, especially when you said gadflies, because
Speaker 4: these are folks who are at every single meeting, and
Speaker 4: not just the main meetings you mentioned on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Speaker 4: and Fridays. They go to the committee meetings. That's usually
Speaker 4: just for nerds like me who go to the committee meetings,
Speaker 4: and these guys specifically go to those meetings to speak
Speaker 4: and they offer zero substance instead, it's just the litany
Speaker 4: of epithets.
Speaker 3: So it's like the N word, the C word, I mean,
Speaker 3: anti Semitic, anti racist comments, I mean, the most vile
Speaker 3: language in public.
Speaker 2: So let's say Michael Monks is winning.
Speaker 3: An award for a Reporter of the Year and you're
Speaker 3: so proud of it, and your mother and father are
Speaker 3: coming and your family members, and they're all happy to
Speaker 3: be there, and they're in the city Council chambers and
Speaker 3: the city and then they're listening to some of these
Speaker 3: comments in these public public sessions and.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh my god, how is this allowed.
Speaker 3: So the reason we're talking about this is that finally, finally,
Speaker 3: the La City Council President, Marquise Harris Dawson, has proposed
Speaker 3: a rule that essentially says he's limited it to two
Speaker 3: words which we certainly can't repeat here, and it is
Speaker 3: a way to prevent people from using those words, and
Speaker 3: they get a warning and then if they do it
Speaker 3: a second time, then they're essentially ejected from the meeting
Speaker 3: and maybe barred from future meeting.
Speaker 2: Everybody seems to think is a.
Speaker 3: Great idea, but it may not hold up because of
Speaker 3: the first Amendment.
Speaker 2: Is that a summary, and that's a.
Speaker 4: Pretty excellent summary. When Marquis Heristos and the councilman, was
Speaker 4: voted in as president of the City Council, I asked
Speaker 4: him last to fall, what are you gonna do about this?
Speaker 4: I mean, do you have any plan to address the
Speaker 4: chaos that emerges during the public comments session section of
Speaker 4: these meetings, and he did say at that time that
Speaker 4: he intended to address this some way, he couldn't offer
Speaker 4: any specifics. What they have dealt with are the courts
Speaker 4: who say, as vile as these comments are, they are
Speaker 4: protected free speech. The city has paid out before a
Speaker 4: six figure sum when they were sued over this exact
Speaker 4: type of thing. This is the only municipal building where
Speaker 4: I see this type of behavior routinely, though. That's what's
Speaker 4: so strange about it. It's almost like a microcosm of
Speaker 4: la at large. You know that there is chaos, there's there's.
Speaker 1: Beauty all around.
Speaker 4: You describe the building, well, it's a gorgeous building, and
Speaker 4: then inside it his chaos, just like the city all over.
Speaker 3: I have seen it at the Police Commission hearings, which
Speaker 3: are also ultimately like on Tuesday mornings.
Speaker 4: And it's a lot of the same, false same, and
Speaker 4: some of them even slither over to the Board of
Speaker 4: Supervisors meetings on Tuesday mornings. It's not as tolerable there.
Speaker 4: They tend to shut that stuff down, but there are
Speaker 4: occasions where you're very uncomfortable and as you noted, somebody
Speaker 4: getting award for something. I mean, this is still the
Speaker 4: city government. There are some basic, raw, raw things that
Speaker 4: happen even in a big city, like la high school
Speaker 4: basketball team being honored, a civic activist being honored, and
Speaker 4: they and their supporters and friends and family are there
Speaker 4: and they have to witness these racially charged words, these
Speaker 4: sexist remarks, these fat shaming remarks. It takes a lot
Speaker 4: to get people to feel sympathy for elected leaders in
Speaker 4: these country these days.
Speaker 3: But they can't help it. It's X rated, it's vulgar,
Speaker 3: it serves no purpose. These aren't legitimate people. They're commenting
Speaker 3: on an issue. They're just they're not I mean, that's
Speaker 3: I think would be a non clinical term.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're all for the First Amendment.
Speaker 3: Hey, we work in the news business, that's right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: nothing is more sacred than the First Amendment. But this,
Speaker 3: this is an abuse of the process, and it's a problem.
Speaker 4: The abuse of the process is exactly what I have
Speaker 4: personally felt weirdest about. Disregard the offensive nature of it all,
Speaker 4: but there are other folks who go to the city
Speaker 4: with legitimate concerns or suggestions, and what happens is because
Speaker 4: there is a parade of ridiculousness that takes place. The
Speaker 4: council members tend to disengage right out here. They're not listening,
Speaker 4: some leave, and so they don't even hear you when
Speaker 4: you get up to say, hey there's overgrown trees, or
Speaker 4: hey this road is messed.
Speaker 2: Up where they are broken.
Speaker 3: And so as a result, there the people that have
Speaker 3: a legitimate to comment, to make up a legitimate issue
Speaker 3: never really get heard because as you said, the council
Speaker 3: people aren't really paying attention because the majority of it
Speaker 3: is dominated by these these the vulgarity, That's exactly. And
Speaker 3: it's like personal too. I mean in this in the
Speaker 3: police commission hearings, the podium is like ten feet away
Speaker 3: from the police chief and he has to sit there
Speaker 3: whoever it may be, and be subjected to like vile, racist,
Speaker 3: homophobic attacks and like the worst language you could ever imagine,
Speaker 3: and you're just supposed to sit there because we have
Speaker 3: the First Amendment and take it. This has to change,
Speaker 3: and I know Dawson has proposed this, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: the City Council will pass it.
Speaker 2: It'll be challenging court. It's going to be an ongoing issue.
Speaker 4: Well, the city has grown a custom, especially this fiscal year,
Speaker 4: to writing checks when they lose a court case, and
Speaker 4: so if they are still in that habit when this
Speaker 4: thing is legally challenged, then I'm sure they'll just get
Speaker 4: the check book out and we'll go back to the
Speaker 4: side show that city Council meetings have become.
Speaker 2: Are you with me? Though?
Speaker 4: People should visit City Hall. It's really, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: if I say it all the time, it's just gorgeous.
Speaker 4: I live downtown and you know, it just sticks out above.
Speaker 4: It's like our original skyscraper here. It's just a stunningly
Speaker 4: gorgeous mix of like Art Deco and other period architectural
Speaker 4: styles from the nineteen thirties. It's a stunning building. The
Speaker 4: council chamber is beautiful, The press room is very old
Speaker 4: school and it makes you feel like you're in a
Speaker 4: mid century office. It's great all around. There's just a
Speaker 4: lot of unpleasantness that takes out.
Speaker 2: People don't realize that it's open.
Speaker 3: The meetings are open to the public and you can
Speaker 3: come in and you know, there's a great little restaurant
Speaker 3: slash stack snack.
Speaker 2: Bar up on dinner and a show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, up on top the Hall of Mayor's I think
Speaker 3: it's called there's an amazing you can go from the
Speaker 3: top floor and city and the Hall of Administration is
Speaker 3: not bad either. The building isn't as gorgeous from an
Speaker 3: architectural point of view, but it's a very cool building also,
Speaker 3: and there's a cafeteria open to the public I think
Speaker 3: on the twelfth floor. The amazing views of downtown Los Angeles. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's an old school office, a lot, a lot
Speaker 3: to offer, you know, if you can deal with the
Speaker 3: homeless issue, which.
Speaker 2: Is that's what I mean.
Speaker 4: That was my comparison earlier, is that these meetings are
Speaker 4: a microcosm of greater Los Angeles. Is that there is
Speaker 4: so much beauty surrounding you, and then you're also surrounded
Speaker 4: by chaos at the same time, and we're just trying
Speaker 4: to get by, just trying to live day to day.
Speaker 3: Man, all right, man, enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
Speaker 3: Michael monschrom KFI, thanks for coming on with us.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3: President Trump's concern about the US declining birth rate and
Speaker 3: how we want more babies. Perhaps that's why he's so
Speaker 3: close with Elon, who has fourteen children, some of which
Speaker 3: even like him. Maybe the majority apparently don't now don't
Speaker 3: see him as the father of the year at any rate.
Speaker 3: George Foreman had twelve kids, And there was a great
Speaker 3: post on social media, if you're so inclined to go
Speaker 3: look for it of a great family shot with I
Speaker 3: think I'm assuming it was all of his kids all
Speaker 3: around him. But what's fascinating, and if you've been following
Speaker 3: the story then you probably already know this, is that
Speaker 3: he had five sons.
Speaker 2: Did you know this?
Speaker 3: And he had and every one of them was named George,
Speaker 3: which always I always find obviously unusual, and I'm using
Speaker 3: and he said he just wanted to all know that
Speaker 3: they're all in this together. They each had obviously different nicknames.
Speaker 3: So before the break, we were talking about recalls. A
Speaker 3: product recall. You hear about them from time to time.
Speaker 3: It's pretty basic. It's a request from a manufacturer to
Speaker 3: basically return a product because there's some type of defect
Speaker 3: that's been discovered. But it's not just any old defect.
Speaker 3: It's something that might endanger a customer, or of course,
Speaker 3: as equally motivating, it's something that might put the make
Speaker 3: or the seller of the product at risk of legal action.
Speaker 3: So recalls. There's basically a corrective action. Why am I
Speaker 3: saying basically so much, Eileen. It's a corrective action, that
Speaker 3: is for products that are potentially unsafe. And you don't
Speaker 3: really think of cheesecake as something would be recalled. But
Speaker 3: we're going to go through a list of some of them.
Speaker 3: Just something interesting. This is a popular bakery item sold
Speaker 3: at Target, and it's been recalled for mislabeled packaging its
Speaker 3: Favorite Day Gourmet New York Style Cheesecake, because the product
Speaker 3: contains pecans or is it pecans yet the packaging does
Speaker 3: not disclose this is a potential allergen. People have analogy
Speaker 3: or sensitivity to nuts, specifically pecans can run the risk
Speaker 3: of series of life threatening allergic reactions if they consume
Speaker 3: these products.
Speaker 2: Now, when I go to Target.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that cheesecake is on my shopping list.
Speaker 3: I mean, unless for some reason you've tried it before
Speaker 3: and you're you like that particular brand. It's it's Target's
Speaker 3: Favorite Day Gourmet New York Style cheesecake. Hey, when I'm
Speaker 3: thinking I'm buying cheesecake, I'm gonna either buy it from
Speaker 3: a bakery or a supermarket.
Speaker 5: It's actually good. It's actually good. That's Richie is saying it.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's good. I mean, if you ever had
Speaker 5: bad cheese cake, it's like ice cream. You have had
Speaker 5: bad ice cream. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: But hey, all right, so if you have Target New
Speaker 3: York style cheesecake, be careful if you're allergic to nuts,
Speaker 3: because it has pecans and it's not in the label.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: And this is another one that I know is hitting
Speaker 3: home for some folks here at KFI. Chomps beef snacks
Speaker 3: were recalled after pieces of metal were found in the product.
Speaker 2: This was earlier this week.
Speaker 3: The USDA's Food and Safety Inspection Service announced that Idaho
Speaker 3: Smokehouse Partners recalled about twenty nine thousand pounds of eye
Speaker 3: Chomps ready to eat beef sticks. They were because of
Speaker 3: a possible contamination with metal. Two consumers reported that pieces
Speaker 3: of metal were found in the product. Not quite sure
Speaker 3: what the source of the metal was. Looking further into
Speaker 3: the story, it doesn't really say. But chomps, is that
Speaker 3: a pop? The brand Chomps another good item? Where do
Speaker 3: you get those anywhere? Gas stations.
Speaker 2: Target.
Speaker 5: All these sounds like you're spending a lot of time
Speaker 5: at targelves. I do not anymore the target.
Speaker 3: All right, So if you have chomps, grass fed and
Speaker 3: unfinished beef, as we like to say, all stick without
Speaker 3: the ick segwe, I don't think Segways are we're being
Speaker 3: made anymore.
Speaker 2: It's the Segue nine bought Mac six thirty.
Speaker 3: GPH and the Mac six thirty LP kickscooters, and this
Speaker 3: could be a problem. The handlebars or the stem of
Speaker 3: the scooter can pretty much just fold up on its own,
Speaker 3: uh during use. Apparently there's about two hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: thousand of these across the United States, and that's resulting
Speaker 3: user injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones. The Segway.
Speaker 3: We see the Bird scooter everywhere, but I don't see
Speaker 3: the Segway scooters around as much anymore. But apparently they're
Speaker 3: sold at best Buy, Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, of course, Target,
Speaker 3: online at Segway dot com and Amazon Amazon dot com,
Speaker 3: and they've been sold as recently as February twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: So if you have a Segway scooter, you definitely want
Speaker 3: to be careful and when I was young, a youngster,
Speaker 3: I had a mini bike. You remember mini bikes, It's
Speaker 3: like a mini motorcycle. And the one I had was
Speaker 3: special because it had no brakes. I'm sure my parents
Speaker 3: were really thrilled about that at the time, if they
Speaker 3: even knew. And it went fast, had no breaks, so
Speaker 3: you just let up off the throttle and you kind
Speaker 3: of use your sneakers to slow down. And I remember
Speaker 3: riding at full speed, wide open one time at the
Speaker 3: at Memorial School, the elementary school near my house, and
Speaker 3: the handlebar broke off with the throttle on it. That
Speaker 3: resulted in a major crash, which I'm still recovering from today.
Speaker 2: All right, and then what else has been?
Speaker 3: Oh, Tesla, I mean, it seems like you just can't
Speaker 3: get away from elon right, and this would be a problem.
Speaker 2: This was on Thursday. It's still happening.
Speaker 3: All cyber trucks, all cyber trucks, which is only about
Speaker 3: forty six thousand, fifty thousand, which is still a significant number,
Speaker 3: have been recalled because an exterrior panel that runs along
Speaker 3: the left and right side of the windshields can detach
Speaker 3: while driving standless steel trip called a can't rail assembly.
Speaker 2: It's between the windshield and the roof on both sides.
Speaker 3: Apparently it's glued onto the body with what they cleverly
Speaker 3: term a structural adhesive. So you imagine driving your Tesla truck,
Speaker 3: your cyber truck, and all of a sudden, pieces of
Speaker 3: metal from the windshields start flying off. Apparently videos on
Speaker 3: social media are showing people actually ripping off the panels
Speaker 3: of the cyber trucks with their own hands. I've seen
Speaker 3: so many of these cyber trucks, and now I would
Speaker 3: not buy a cyber truck. Aside from the elon musk,
Speaker 3: the you're supporting musk when you buy a Tesla or not.
Speaker 3: That's sort of a separate discussion, which is an interesting,
Speaker 3: interesting discussion, which we're not getting into right now. I
Speaker 3: personally wouldn't want a Tesla cyber truck, but I think
Speaker 3: they're cool looking in sort of a manly way, and
Speaker 3: we see them. So probably forty six thousand in the
Speaker 3: United States, probably half of those are in southern California,
Speaker 3: I mean only in.
Speaker 2: La or Beverly Hill.
Speaker 3: Say, well, you see, like you know, two cyber trucks
Speaker 3: parked at the curb, side by side. One's purple, and
Speaker 3: I saw one the other day that had this really detailed,
Speaker 3: like sort.
Speaker 2: Of wolf paint scheme on it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, if you've got a cyber truck, turn it back
Speaker 3: into Tesla. They'll fix it and send it back to you.
Speaker 3: They're saying that. You know, it's obviously a serious concern.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't want pieces of middle flying up.
Speaker 3: All right, So do you have anything else you'd like
Speaker 3: to add to the recall list? Anybody while we're While
Speaker 3: we're talking recalls now, a little bit of public service.
Speaker 2: Today, all right?
Speaker 3: When we come back West Hollywood residents say they're suffering
Speaker 3: from the neighbor from Hell for months. And what's more
Speaker 3: is that, Hey, if you call the authorities, what do
Speaker 3: they tell you, Oh, sorry, we can't really do anything.
Speaker 3: He's just an annoying neighbor. But it's not really a crime.
Speaker 3: Is that good enough? And what are they doing about it?
Speaker 3: This West Hollywood apartment building. It's something in all the
Speaker 3: local TV stations and I think radio stations have covered
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3: A great story that demonstrates the frustration of renters of
Speaker 3: homeowners with I guess the lack of response from those
Speaker 3: who you look to for help is from West Hollywood
Speaker 3: got a lot of attention this week after the newspapers
Speaker 3: the TV stations did at the residence of an apartment complex.
Speaker 3: They're felt they had no choice but to turn to
Speaker 3: the news media. They say they've been living in fear
Speaker 3: of their violent neighbor at an apartment complex a North
Speaker 3: Fairfax abage you for months. So if you saw this
Speaker 3: on the news, the TV news, he's caught on a
Speaker 3: security camera footage like violently banging on doors. He's throwing
Speaker 3: trash cans around, he's breaking windows, and the residents say
Speaker 3: they've called the Sheriff's department like twenty five times, but
Speaker 3: they say that he's not necessarily breaking any laws, so
Speaker 3: they can't do anything.
Speaker 2: Let's listen to a report from Fox eleven.
Speaker 6: He violently bangs on doors, verbally attacks neighbors, smashes windows,
Speaker 6: and screams at all hours of the day and night.
Speaker 3: It has been violent beyond anything you imagine.
Speaker 2: I am talking two am, four am, six am.
Speaker 6: Neighbors say they've been dealing with months of chaos and
Speaker 6: fear for their own safety. They asked us not to
Speaker 6: show their faces.
Speaker 3: If you can imagine a sledgehammer being dashed against the door,
Speaker 3: the walls for hours a day some time, it just sounded.
Speaker 7: Like he was semanishing furniture in there, and then all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, like the banging turned into like the
Speaker 7: building shaking.
Speaker 6: The apartment is located on the twelve hundred block of
Speaker 6: North Fairfax Avenue in West Hollywood. Residents say law enforcement
Speaker 6: has been called to the location at least twenty five times.
Speaker 2: And the same answer is this, we can't do anything.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: Since the man hasn't physically harmed anyone and most of
Speaker 6: the destructionists confined to his own apartment, Residents say deputies
Speaker 6: have told them there's nothing they can do. Their hands
Speaker 6: are tied.
Speaker 5: We have to wait for it.
Speaker 7: To get too bad for them to actually do anything,
Speaker 7: which is why they make dateline.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Like, it's just it's wild.
Speaker 6: Frustrated and desperate for change, These residents are speaking out,
Speaker 6: hoping to push for wronger laws that better protect them.
Speaker 3: We have to live in hell while this person is
Speaker 3: free to do anything.
Speaker 6: The landlord has informed the residents that the violent tenant
Speaker 6: will be forcibly evicted on.
Speaker 2: On Fox eleven is Gina Silva.
Speaker 3: Gina Silva and I go way back to our days
Speaker 3: working together at Extra. Remember the show Extra, which is
Speaker 3: on Fox eleven now with Billy Bush, began its life
Speaker 3: as a news and entertainment program we're talking in the
Speaker 3: late nineties, and Gene and I both worked there covering
Speaker 3: news stories around the country. Got some great stories about
Speaker 3: those days, which we'll share with you another time. But
Speaker 3: Gena is one of the great members of the Fox
Speaker 3: eleven News team, a veteran reporter who breaks a lot
Speaker 3: of stories. She did a similar story I think last
Speaker 3: fall with a neighbor from Hell. It's one of those
Speaker 3: sort of cliche news terms that was down in Santa
Speaker 3: Ana that was eventually taken into custody. And what's frustrating
Speaker 3: here is is that and again we did not hear
Speaker 3: directly from the Sheriff's department in this one. But what's
Speaker 3: clearly frustrating is that if this guy wants to make
Speaker 3: noise in his own apartment and damage things and break things,
Speaker 3: he can do that. But it sounds like he threatened
Speaker 3: violence against other members other residents in the apartment complex.
Speaker 3: And if that's the case. Then it seems like clearly
Speaker 3: that he could have been subject to arrest by the
Speaker 3: sheriff's apartment. So a lot we don't know about that one.
Speaker 3: We're just sort of hearing from the residents. But that
Speaker 3: the visuals on that were unbelievable. If you saw this guy,
Speaker 3: you know, banging on things, you could hear it in
Speaker 3: the background there. So it sounds like what's happened is
Speaker 3: that the landlords have gone through the legal process of eviction.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a big I'm a big handle, I'm
Speaker 3: a law fan. On Saturday mornings, what is that from
Speaker 3: eight to eleven now where Bill Handle gives out more
Speaker 3: our general legal advice. So one of the favorite subjects
Speaker 3: that often comes up there and he seems to know
Speaker 3: a little bit about this is eviction. It's a process.
Speaker 3: You know, it takes a while. You guys, listen to
Speaker 3: handle on the law.
Speaker 2: I love. I always tell people handle on the lot.
Speaker 2: This is my story about handling the law.
Speaker 3: Bill Uh, I lent my roommate twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: and he told me he'd pay me back, but now
Speaker 3: he won't. Can I call the police? And then Bill's response,
Speaker 3: you're an idiot and goes down over there. It's like
Speaker 3: the classic Handle.
Speaker 2: I like him. Yeah, you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Bill is Bill Handle one of a
Speaker 3: kind of what We're lucky to have him. I mean
Speaker 3: when I was telling you earlier, I'm listening to Amy
Speaker 3: King from five to six, and then when Handle starts
Speaker 3: saying at six o'clock with some just outrageous topic that
Speaker 3: is very narrowly skirting the bounds of what's appropriate and
Speaker 3: what is and it just you just you just shake
Speaker 3: your head.
Speaker 2: We love Bill Handling.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm Phil Schuman with you for another twenty
Speaker 3: minutes or so. God, it goes by so fast. I
Speaker 3: wish we were gonna be with you later. Chris Merrill,
Speaker 3: who has his own interesting take on things, is going
Speaker 3: to be coming up at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: We have more to discuss though about.
Speaker 3: One of the things that's fascinating to me is the
Speaker 3: trend towards using drugs to lose weight, because you know Americans,
Speaker 3: you know, we want everything fast, two weeks, want every
Speaker 3: two weeks. I took a yoga class once from a
Speaker 3: Korean instructor who's talked about how impatient Americans are. We're
Speaker 3: doing one particular yoga pose, and he says this position
Speaker 3: took him eight years to master. But here we want
Speaker 3: everything done fast, and that's why ozmpic is popular. So
Speaker 3: there's a new trend involving a zembic. And then TikTok
Speaker 3: is actually doing something worthwhile for once, we'll explain what
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I leave at four o'clock.
Speaker 3: The The Dodgers host the Detroit Tigers opening Day at
Speaker 3: a home opener of the twenty twenty five season, although
Speaker 3: opening Day was technically in Tokyo. Remember that about ten
Speaker 3: days ago, the Dodgers won two straight games from the
Speaker 3: Chicago Cubs playing in Tokyo in games that actually count
Speaker 3: in the standing. So they're two to no heading into
Speaker 3: the home opener on Thursday. Hopefully I will be there
Speaker 3: covering it for Fox eleven. It's always so much fun.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine anybody that's listening to KFI that has
Speaker 3: not yet been to a Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: But if you're for some reason you have not, please
Speaker 3: make that a priority. All right, Dodgers Opening Day Thursday tonight.
Speaker 3: One of the other fun things to do in southern California.
Speaker 3: Although it's pricey, there's no doubt about it is going
Speaker 3: to a Clippers game. I mean, we know what the
Speaker 3: Lakers games are like at Crypto formerly, God, my mine's
Speaker 3: complete blank. But the new Clippers into it Dome in
Speaker 3: Englewood is.
Speaker 2: So much fun.
Speaker 3: Steve Boma really built like an amazing facility there, and
Speaker 3: tonight they're playing the Oklahoma City Thunder, which I believe
Speaker 3: is the number one team in the West. Eileen, what
Speaker 3: was Crypto called before it was Crypto? I'm like totally
Speaker 3: blanking on that. How is that even possible? I've only
Speaker 3: been there, like Staple Staple Center, Thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: very much?
Speaker 2: All right, the wrong button?
Speaker 3: All right, it's sorry, right, I mean you're putting under
Speaker 3: too much pressure there. So, like many of us at
Speaker 3: us who have achieved a certain age, the weight, the
Speaker 3: pounds slowly start to creep up, right, no matter how
Speaker 3: hard we try. So obviously you're familiar with ozempic and
Speaker 3: other injectable weight loss drugs, so I would not I
Speaker 3: don't not use ozempic. I mean, if I weighed for
Speaker 3: hundred pounds, maybe I think about it because that would
Speaker 3: be a fairly drastic situation. But now there's a trend
Speaker 3: of microdosing o zepic, So apparently they become desirable among
Speaker 3: those who don't need the full dose of the medication,
Speaker 3: but you want to reap some of the benefits. So
Speaker 3: health quote influencers and there's that term that we love.
Speaker 3: Influencers have started sharing their micro micro dosing regimens on
Speaker 3: social media. There was a big New York Times report
Speaker 3: about this, saying that you can actually lose a few pounds.
Speaker 3: But then the benefit of microdosing, and you know this
Speaker 3: is their accounts, is that it avoids the more undesirable
Speaker 3: side effects of regular treatment, which is the always lovable nausea, vomiting,
Speaker 3: stomach pain, and constipation, among others. So if you ask
Speaker 3: people who are severely overweight if you would put up
Speaker 3: with those unpleasant side effects in order to have dramatic
Speaker 3: weight loss, obviously they're saying yes. But now this microdo
Speaker 3: dosing movement has apparently become a trend, and it's not
Speaker 3: just because it's avoids the side effects, it's also saves
Speaker 3: money because if you aren't following this, you know these
Speaker 3: drugs are typically not covered by insurance. A zimbig gov
Speaker 3: Manjaro is another one, and they're like one thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a month or so. So if you microdose, you can
Speaker 3: stretch that out over a period of time and you know,
Speaker 3: save money while you lose Weight's the that's the slogan
Speaker 3: for microdosing, right, save a dollar, lose a pound? All right, microdosing?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but again it's a trend. Speaking of trends,
Speaker 3: TikTok now, I am not on TikTok? Are you ladies
Speaker 3: on TikTok? Richie on TikTok?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 3: I mean I just feel like, what what is what
Speaker 3: is the value of TikTok? I mean that we don't
Speaker 3: already have in other social media apps.
Speaker 5: You know. It's just a quick little app that helps
Speaker 5: you learn a lot of things of life, like whether
Speaker 5: it's new stuff, trends, hairstyles, everything you think of.
Speaker 2: It's their trends. It's all about the trends. Yep.
Speaker 3: So I mean is it much better different slash than
Speaker 3: Instagram or x?
Speaker 5: Instagram is more for photos, I would say, or like
Speaker 5: selling a product I feel like, or you know, trying
Speaker 5: to flex something I feel like with TikTok, at least
Speaker 5: from what I get, it's it's just like more of
Speaker 5: a platform for people to storytell within a few seconds
Speaker 5: two minutes, and you know, they do dances, they do
Speaker 5: breakdowns of history.
Speaker 2: It's literally like a Google video time.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to sound like, you know,
Speaker 3: the old guy not using TikTok, but I mean, obviously
Speaker 3: I'm in the minority because I think I just want
Speaker 3: a quick update. Four point five billion people around the
Speaker 3: world use it. It's become hugely popular. It debuted I
Speaker 3: guess about ten years ago. So basically, you create and
Speaker 3: you share like short videos shot on your phone, quirky things, music.
Speaker 3: You know, it's controversial as its own bite China, but
Speaker 3: at any rate, one positive thing we can say about
Speaker 3: it is that they're partnering with the National Center for
Speaker 3: Missing and Exploited Children to bring real time AMBER alerts
Speaker 3: directly to users' feeds. I guess it's a feature called
Speaker 3: the four U feed in the United States. Now, it
Speaker 3: has to be activated if an AMBER alert is activated
Speaker 3: activated by law enforcement and you're in that designated geographical area.
Speaker 3: Apparently the alert appears in your for you feed and
Speaker 3: TikTok identifies where the user is within a specific location,
Speaker 3: of course, through their tracking, and so that's that's great.
Speaker 3: They they did a pilot program in Texas where Amber
Speaker 3: alerts on TikTok reviewed over twenty million times. This was
Speaker 3: back in August through December of last year, and it
Speaker 3: led to two point five million visits to the National
Speaker 3: Center from Missing and Exploited Children's website. So, you know,
Speaker 3: anything that can be done to help find missing children
Speaker 3: through the Amber alerts obviously would be a good thing.
Speaker 3: And so when we say social media is largely a
Speaker 3: waste of time, well, here's something good that it can
Speaker 3: be done for. I mean, I say it's a waste
Speaker 3: of time, and I'm as guilty as the next person
Speaker 3: because it's not the first thing I do when I
Speaker 3: wake up, Thank God.
Speaker 2: Usually that's like getting some coffee.
Speaker 3: But I'm as guilty as the next person of doom scrolling.
Speaker 2: I don't love that term, but it's very descriptive.
Speaker 3: Spend way too much time, by my own admission, look
Speaker 3: at at X, look at at Instagram, occasionally Facebook, and
Speaker 3: you know X for those of us in the news
Speaker 3: business has become like a very important platform for disseminating
Speaker 3: news releases, for breaking news, for sharing news updates. So
Speaker 3: in that regard it's very important and very legitimate, but again,
Speaker 3: a lot of it is nasty comments about somebody else
Speaker 3: or takes people's takes, and then everybody weighing in and
Speaker 3: criticizing them, whether it's sports or politics. So you know,
Speaker 3: my theory, which if you've listened to me before here
Speaker 3: on KFI or I've talked with you, is that when
Speaker 3: the history of our time is written, that it's the
Speaker 3: Internet and by extension, social media may turn out to
Speaker 3: be a net negative because there's for every good thing
Speaker 3: that you can do, like let me google how many
Speaker 3: people are in the world, what's the population of the
Speaker 3: United States, what's the percentage of police salaries that account
Speaker 3: for the thirteen billion dollar budget in the city of
Speaker 3: Los Angels who won the nineteen eighty four World Series?
Speaker 3: Who was the thirteenth President of the United States. For
Speaker 3: all of the great things that the internet allows, the
Speaker 3: downside is also huge. And the dark web we've heard
Speaker 3: about that, I mean the facilitation of crime and you
Speaker 3: know X rated things that happen online. I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to preach, I'm just saying that, in my humble opinion,
Speaker 3: when they write the history of our time, that the
Speaker 3: Internet may turn out to be a net negative. Hopefully
Speaker 3: I'm wrong about that. I mean, are you guys with
Speaker 3: me on this? You shake in your head? Am I crazy?
Speaker 3: I don't know? You know AI. We hear all the
Speaker 3: you know, the downsides and the abuse potential abuse of AI.
Speaker 3: So it's an interesting topic for discussion. I mean, could
Speaker 3: you imagine living without the Internet. I read a great
Speaker 3: novel recently called The President Is Missing by one of
Speaker 3: my favorite authors, James Patterson, who wrote it with former
Speaker 3: President Clinton of all people, and the plot revolves around
Speaker 3: this terrorist group that takes down the United States Internet
Speaker 3: and with it all of the infrastructure that's supported by
Speaker 3: the Internet.
Speaker 2: And can you imagine what that would happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know in my own house, if the
Speaker 3: Internet ever goes out, this is like Defcon three emergency situation,
Speaker 3: especially if you have to be doing any work from home.
Speaker 3: It's not just for fun that you know, I'm ordering
Speaker 3: you know, socks on Amazon, but most people do something
Speaker 3: do work from home or do email from home. You know,
Speaker 3: almost all of us do that if we have a job,
Speaker 3: not necessarily working from home, but you know checking in
Speaker 3: with work and so the internet obviously is crucial for that.
Speaker 3: But do you know how to reactivate the internet? Do
Speaker 3: you know what the difference between your router and your
Speaker 3: motim is? Do you know where it comes into the house?
Speaker 3: You know what to do if it goes out other
Speaker 3: than calling someone and saying, hell, my internet is out.
Speaker 3: So I know just enough about to get myself in trouble.
Speaker 3: But it's like when you call the eight hundred number,
Speaker 3: have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
Speaker 3: It's like, yes, I've tried that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that insight. So here's a tip for all
Speaker 3: of you. If you're not quite sure how the internet
Speaker 3: actually works in your house, maybe you should spend a
Speaker 3: minute and try to figure it out so the next
Speaker 3: time it goes down you can be the hero like
Speaker 3: I am with my wife. Whenever the internet goes out
Speaker 3: and I can fix it, I'm so proud. All right,
Speaker 3: that is going to pretty much do it for me.
Speaker 3: I'm Phil Schumann. You can catch me here occasionally. I
Speaker 3: think I'll be here next week at this time from
Speaker 3: two to four. Also from time to time on Fox
Speaker 3: eleven News and my in Fox eleven Plus at eight
Speaker 3: and nine PM. So, I guess what you would call
Speaker 3: at the luxury of being like semi retired, so I
Speaker 3: don't really have like a full time job, which is
Speaker 3: an interesting new reality for me. All right, thanks very
Speaker 3: much for the opportunity to sit in KFI AM six
Speaker 3: forty on demand