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Speaker 2: the administration's take on what we've seen today, where it
Speaker 2: looks like the protests largely stayed non violent.
Speaker 3: And let me clarify this.
Speaker 2: The protests began around Lame and in fact, Michael Monks
Speaker 2: was there. Michael is with us right now. Michael Monks
Speaker 2: was reporting live and Michael, you and I went on
Speaker 2: the air about noon and we talked about how things were.
Speaker 3: You know, the crowd was.
Speaker 2: There, a lot of yelling, a lot of name calling,
Speaker 2: some people showing some sign language with which were were
Speaker 2: awfully familiar on the freeways.
Speaker 3: But things were still pretty chill.
Speaker 2: Then about one o'clock the National Guard formed a line
Speaker 2: has started pushing people away, and we find out later
Speaker 2: that was to try to get vehicles into the loading
Speaker 2: dock area. And you're the Federal building off Alameda.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I got to tell you Chris. It looks
Speaker 4: like things have deteriorated in the past thirty minutes to
Speaker 4: an hour because some of those protesters who refused to
Speaker 4: leave have now turned antagonistic toward the police. At least
Speaker 4: three vehicles that appear to be way mos are on fire,
Speaker 4: and the police have ordered everyone to leave the Civic
Speaker 4: Center area of Los Angeles. They've urged people not to
Speaker 4: come anywhere near this area because a little bit of
Speaker 4: chaos is ensuing down here. So there are fires, the
Speaker 4: LAPD deploying those less lethal arms and ordering people to leave.
Speaker 4: There have been more arrest So if we thought things
Speaker 4: were calm, and I certainly did at least relatively calm,
Speaker 4: we were mistaken because it's starting to flare up pretty
Speaker 4: well down here in town. LA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, pun intended, because right there on Arcadia and
Speaker 2: I think Los Angeles Street is where I think those
Speaker 2: waymos are in that exactly.
Speaker 4: It's that old era pueblos, you know, the historic site,
Speaker 4: the old Los Angeles, the El Pueblo Olvera Street is
Speaker 4: where a lot of this is centered right now. And
Speaker 4: it really ramped up after the protesters took over the
Speaker 4: one oh one freeway and the CHP managed to get
Speaker 4: them off of there. This is the aftermath of that,
Speaker 4: and I'm seeing a lot of you know, live feeds
Speaker 4: from from some of the people who are participating. They're
Speaker 4: on TikTok and they're on Twitter, they're posting their videos.
Speaker 4: It's it's quite antagonistic. They want to see if they
Speaker 4: can corral the police and that sort of thing. And
Speaker 4: this has really taking a turn. And it's you and
Speaker 4: I talked about this a little bit earlier about, you know,
Speaker 4: the messaging that can get lost when protests take this turn,
Speaker 4: because you don't win friends, you don't win people over
Speaker 4: when it starts to look like this. Uh, these are
Speaker 4: the folks who may not necessarily stand for the issue,
Speaker 4: but they certainly stand for the chaos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: In fact, we were pointing out one guy who was
Speaker 2: jumping on top of the weimo who was smashing the
Speaker 2: car with his skateboard, and I don't think that he
Speaker 2: is out there concerned necessarily with ice detaining people in
Speaker 2: a home depot parking lot. He just looked like he
Speaker 2: wanted to be Oh.
Speaker 4: I mean, if this would have been for Black Lives Matter,
Speaker 4: that this would have been for Palestine, whatever, it would
Speaker 4: have been had taken this turn, you would have seen
Speaker 4: a lot of the same folks, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so now I'm watching some of the aerial footage
Speaker 2: from the TV stations and it looks like the police
Speaker 2: are trying to set up a perimeter as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: around that, you know, the Civic Center area, but still
Speaker 2: thousands of people, not nearly as.
Speaker 3: Concentrated as what we saw earlier today.
Speaker 2: But I would say that there are still thousands of
Speaker 2: people in that vicinity, many of whom are you know,
Speaker 2: live streaming their TikTok. But does this run the risk
Speaker 2: of turning violent? I'm seeing that we have some law
Speaker 2: enforcement as saying it could be a rough night.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, this is where we start to figure
Speaker 4: out what violent means and what peaceful means. Because the
Speaker 4: march that took place a couple of hours ago, with
Speaker 4: those thousands of people, that was just a lot of
Speaker 4: people making their presence known. It was quite a big,
Speaker 4: powerful scene there. And you know, while there were a
Speaker 4: little bit of a skirmish, a skirmish with the police
Speaker 4: on Alameda, it wasn't very severe at all, and then
Speaker 4: it broke up. But then they took over the freeway,
Speaker 4: some of those folks did. And now they're burning cars
Speaker 4: and they're fighting back with police. They're throwing the tear
Speaker 4: gas back at the police when it's deployed at them.
Speaker 4: So at what point do we have to concede? Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is certainly a level of violence, you know, and
Speaker 4: a lot of defacing of property, a lot of graffiti,
Speaker 4: a lot of vandalism is taking place now, so this
Speaker 4: definitely could be shaping up to be a long night
Speaker 4: that people were certainly hot over the deployment of the
Speaker 4: National Guard, so that raised the stakes down here. But again,
Speaker 4: when you start to see these types of scene that
Speaker 4: we're seeing with the waimos on fire and the vandalism
Speaker 4: that's going on, it's the message of the protests from
Speaker 4: earlier today has certainly drifted away from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a fellow leave a talk back as well,
Speaker 2: and he said, you know, when when things get out
Speaker 2: of hand like this, that's when you lose me.
Speaker 5: And and I think I think a lot of people anyway,
Speaker 5: I mean yes, which, by the way, speaking of which,
Speaker 5: I saw some of the people who were stuck on
Speaker 5: that freeway, the southbound side.
Speaker 2: There were people at just wrong place, wrong time, and
Speaker 2: the protesters start making their way out.
Speaker 3: These people are stuck. They can't get to an exit.
Speaker 2: They are literally stuck there for a couple of hours
Speaker 2: watching these protesters shut things down, and as chp entered on,
Speaker 2: I think they came on from Spring Street or maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit further north than that. But then they
Speaker 2: started walking, you know, southbound in between the traffic that
Speaker 2: was stuck, and the people got out of their car
Speaker 2: and started cheering them on.
Speaker 3: Go get them, go get.
Speaker 4: Them, go get them exactly. You know, these are folks
Speaker 4: who could have theoretically been sympathetic to the cause here today.
Speaker 4: But now, why have you turned towards them? You know,
Speaker 4: the protesters turned on those drivers, you know, whether they
Speaker 4: did so willingly or not. Have they turned on those
Speaker 4: crowd They made those drives and that is not the
Speaker 4: way to win people over. Nobody stuck in that traffic
Speaker 4: is saying, you know what, I'm going to vote with
Speaker 4: these guys.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: In fact, that happened to my wife presidential visit. She
Speaker 2: was late to a meeting, had missed a meeting scheduled. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because the president was in town and they had they
Speaker 2: had to shut down the freeway, you know, as the president.
Speaker 2: She was so miffed. She's like, he's not getting my vote.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was always taking a chance with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who it is?
Speaker 4: I mean the person shuts down the traffic and it's awful.
Speaker 4: It's just completely irritating. And that's kind of where we
Speaker 4: are now. I think we're into the riff raft stage
Speaker 4: of the protest and some of the uh, I'm using
Speaker 4: the term professional here as an insult, not to suggest
Speaker 4: that these people are being paid, but the professional protesters,
Speaker 4: the people who really dig into this sort of thing
Speaker 4: and really just like warring with the police.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks, who was reporting on all of this, is
Speaker 2: that are KFI downtown headquarters and a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't know the address of that place, and they won't.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to share it, yeah, because otherwise you're
Speaker 2: gonna have somebody showing up trying to pick up a
Speaker 2: T shirt. So, Michael, as we talk about the protest
Speaker 2: sort of taking on this next leg, whether it's these uh,
Speaker 2: you know, let's let's call them, uh, you call them professionals,
Speaker 2: I'll just call them run of the mill, you know,
Speaker 2: caused the jure type people.
Speaker 3: Is there any sort of a centralization to this movement.
Speaker 2: When we were watching the protesters gather earlier, I remember
Speaker 2: you remarking that now you've got the free Palestine people
Speaker 2: are showing up. Now you've got the you know, no justice,
Speaker 2: no peace of people showing up for this, and and
Speaker 2: so there doesn't seem to be any sort of central theme.
Speaker 2: And that mish mash, I feel like, allows for a
Speaker 2: number of these protesters to have their identity set by
Speaker 2: the vandals.
Speaker 4: That's exactly it. And you know, there are some leftist
Speaker 4: groups here in Los Angeles, and regardless of what you
Speaker 4: think of their politics, they are skilled organizers for this
Speaker 4: sort of thing. I'm thinking about the Democratic Socialist Chapter
Speaker 4: here in Los Angeles and groups like that, not necessarily
Speaker 4: the immigrations groups that will put out a message say hey,
Speaker 4: we're having a rally. We're going to talk about, you know,
Speaker 4: what Trump has done and what's going on in the city.
Speaker 4: It's not that these are folks who not only know
Speaker 4: how to mobilize and get their people to wherever they
Speaker 4: need them to be, but these are folks who know
Speaker 4: how to protest in situations, specifically like what we're seeing
Speaker 4: now when tear gas is thrown at you. Do you
Speaker 4: have the right equipment, do you have the right mass?
Speaker 4: Do you how to throw a backt There are videos
Speaker 4: of people who have these large I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's cardboard or some sorts of screens, but they are
Speaker 4: able to wave the tear task back towards the police.
Speaker 4: And they do this orchestrated. They know how to lock arms,
Speaker 4: they know how to what they call the water when
Speaker 4: police come towards them, so as not to help the
Speaker 4: police even remove them from the scene. These are people
Speaker 4: who know exactly what they're doing in moments like this,
Speaker 4: and they get lots of practice here in LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I should also point out though that that all
Speaker 2: of the tactics they're using are we would call them
Speaker 2: less than what the police are using. So it's not
Speaker 2: like they're using shields or now we're talking about the
Speaker 2: organized ones here, it's not like they're using the shields
Speaker 2: or it's not like they're showing up with with their
Speaker 2: own cannisters of tear gas. They are they're deflecting, right,
Speaker 2: They're they're sort of they're sort of reacting in.
Speaker 4: Their preparation exactly so they know exactly what to do. Uh,
Speaker 4: they anticipate the type of weaponry that will be used
Speaker 4: against them, and they have learned how to defend themselves
Speaker 4: and then go on the offensive with the police own tools.
Speaker 4: So we see them kicking those canisters of tear gas
Speaker 4: back at the police, we see them fanning the smoke
Speaker 4: back at them. And then you've got other groups stat
Speaker 4: that may not be affiliated with those political activists who
Speaker 4: are just there for the joy ride, just there to
Speaker 4: burn some way moos. And I don't know what waymo
Speaker 4: did to anybody, but there were three of them on
Speaker 4: fire Elan Olvera Street just moments ago and burned to
Speaker 4: an absolute crisp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and so tough to put those out too. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 2: thank you so much, man, You a tremendous job.
Speaker 4: My pleasure. Yeah, yeah, hey, thank you too, man.
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, appreciation you. Michael Monks. Guy's gonna win
Speaker 2: awards for today's work. Took tear gas. I was talking
Speaker 2: to him earlier today.
Speaker 3: We were on it.
Speaker 2: We did a special from noon to two for those
Speaker 2: that were here. You know, you may have heard us, and.
Speaker 3: As I'm talking to him, you hear this chaos sort of.
Speaker 2: Building and building and building and building and building, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, signal goes dark, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I hope he's okay. Right, but I'm
Speaker 2: on the air and I have to be professional ish
Speaker 2: at all this, so I'm really worried about the guy.
Speaker 2: We go to a commercial break and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I get a text from him. This says, get me
Speaker 2: back on the air. I thought, oh, thank god, he's okay,
Speaker 2: and then I thought, oh, no, he's mad at me
Speaker 2: because we're not on the air. And the reason, of course,
Speaker 2: is that the things were going on, things were popping off.
Speaker 7: As Kayla likes to say, I mean, listen, he may
Speaker 7: have thrown himself in front of the tear gas for
Speaker 7: those awards.
Speaker 8: Let's just be real.
Speaker 2: You think I think he took a hit by pitch
Speaker 2: so he can get the free base. I think that's
Speaker 2: what it was.
Speaker 8: I think he's going he's got him for that pulletz er. No,
Speaker 8: he stands the chance, he does. I go for him.
Speaker 8: I know for him, Michael Monks, he is just the best,
Speaker 8: the best of the best.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Immigration protests continuing downtown. Most people have dispersed. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say most people have dispersed, which means you have a
Speaker 2: larger area of people, and awful lot of people were
Speaker 2: in a very small concentrated part of town. Uh Alameda
Speaker 2: and right there by the Federal building basically one on
Speaker 2: one Alameda. Uh So we had a lot of people
Speaker 2: right there earlier today and Temple Street kind of in
Speaker 2: that vicinity. Then Basically, the police said, okay, enough of this,
Speaker 2: and they started saying, you got to disperse everybody out.
Speaker 2: An awful lot of people started sort of backing down,
Speaker 2: and the police were slowly moving their their skirmish line
Speaker 2: back and pushing people down Alameda Street to Temple and
Speaker 2: sort of blocking that whole area off and protecting the
Speaker 2: Federal building in the area around the Federal Building. Some
Speaker 2: people then, however, made their way onto the freeway under
Speaker 2: the one on one and they started blocking traffic, got
Speaker 2: onto the freeway, block traffic because there's a protest in
Speaker 2: southern California. Somebody's gonna step in front of the the
Speaker 2: traffic on a freeway because that's what we do. The
Speaker 2: other sort of lining the bridges that cross the one
Speaker 2: to one downtown excuse me. At some point we had
Speaker 2: a number of waymos that were dropping people off downtown
Speaker 2: or I don't know, maybe coming to pick people up.
Speaker 3: But the.
Speaker 2: Shenanigans around the waymos began and people began blocking the waymos,
Speaker 2: drawing graffiti on the weymos, showing off their spelling skills
Speaker 2: of curse words, and then they somehow were able to
Speaker 2: light the waymos on fire. It looks like we do
Speaker 2: have Is this going on on Main Street right now?
Speaker 2: Are you seeing what I'm seeing here? I'm watching the
Speaker 2: streaming feed on ABC seven. Guys with the horses, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got the horses and now they're it looks like
Speaker 2: they're firing non lethal weapons that people who were holed
Speaker 2: up with chairs and they're kind of backing them down
Speaker 2: the street.
Speaker 9: Yea.
Speaker 2: And yeah, the horses and pushing people down the street.
Speaker 2: And they're using I don't know if those are pepper
Speaker 2: balls that they're firing in the in the in the crowd.
Speaker 8: Here kind of stick.
Speaker 7: It's a non lethal like stick that they're sitting up,
Speaker 7: but there it's there's Yeah, they're pushing people back, and
Speaker 7: there were some people kind of hiding behind like parking
Speaker 7: things and parking.
Speaker 3: Blocks, and then some office chairs of some sort.
Speaker 8: That yeah, they were just kind of in the streets,
Speaker 8: but they're.
Speaker 3: The ones you'd have a cheap waiting room right right.
Speaker 7: But they're definitely pushing people back. They formed their line
Speaker 7: and they are scooching people back back back with those
Speaker 7: horses and they are firing something at them.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to figure out what that is.
Speaker 2: Okay, And now there's some dude who is rolling on
Speaker 2: the ground and now the horses. Now they're beating the
Speaker 2: guy that was on the ground with sticks and trying
Speaker 2: not to walk on him with horses. And this again,
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is on a Liso street.
Speaker 2: I know it was on Main and then I think
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it must be a lease. So because it
Speaker 2: was Main between Maine and Spring, and it looks like
Speaker 2: they just kind of pushed them all the way back.
Speaker 2: What they're trying to do, I assume, is to take
Speaker 2: anybody that's still lingering and say it's time to get out.
Speaker 2: Most people have left. Most people are gone. We saw
Speaker 2: thousands there earlier. Most people have dispersed, not in the
Speaker 2: concentrated area. How many total people are left, it's hard
Speaker 2: to say because there's just so many, so many people
Speaker 2: in this in this area, but the area where people
Speaker 2: are concentrated is spread, so it's not it does that
Speaker 2: make sense, No, it doesn't. Uh, it's a wider area,
Speaker 2: so we can't really account for as many people. When
Speaker 2: they were all concentrated in about half a block, you
Speaker 2: could see just how many people were there. Now that
Speaker 2: you're covering three four blocks north and south and east
Speaker 2: and west. It's much harder to to gauge how many
Speaker 2: people are are there. So it looks like police are
Speaker 2: engaging with some of these individuals on a limited basis.
Speaker 2: Still a number of people on the bridges. Still, it
Speaker 2: looks like we have some these overpasses that are uh.
Speaker 3: Littered with individuals.
Speaker 2: And as we heard from Michael Monks in the last segment,
Speaker 2: things seem to be escalating a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say you had the kind of escalating, but it's also
Speaker 2: very isolated incidents of escalation, so it doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: a massive clash. It just feels like a bunch of
Speaker 2: a bunch.
Speaker 8: Of like pockets.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Pey for saving me on that.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 7: There's pockets of people that are spread out now across
Speaker 7: several streets in downtown. It looks to me like most
Speaker 7: people are backing away. I saw some people like walking
Speaker 7: towards you know, parking lots and.
Speaker 8: Maybe a bus.
Speaker 7: Nobody it seems, you know, is still actively engaging with
Speaker 7: the police or with the authorities there.
Speaker 8: They're all sort of back in your ways.
Speaker 7: They're kind of like not in large group, they're kind
Speaker 7: of just like meandering at this point, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and some And now we've got some traffic.
Speaker 2: Some cars have gone on of those surface streets, some
Speaker 2: cars with signs, and I don't know if the signs
Speaker 2: are in support of the protesters are in support of
Speaker 2: the law enforcement, but there is some very limited traffic.
Speaker 2: If you have the intention of getting anywhere, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: go down there. I mean, it's still a total mess downtown.
Speaker 2: So unless you want to be a part of the problem,
Speaker 2: don't go down there. And I would guess that the
Speaker 2: people that are down there either live there and are
Speaker 2: trying to go, you know, someplace else, maybe grab some sizzler,
Speaker 2: or you've got people that are just trying to be
Speaker 2: a part of the problem right now. So just avoid
Speaker 2: the hell out of that. All right, let's check with Heather.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get my bearings, grab some more of your talkbacks,
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Speaker 2: If it's not, you'll probably get to put in the
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Speaker 2: hear yourself on the air, it's Kala's full. If you do,
Speaker 2: it's because I did it, because I like, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: just letting you know how this hour works beyond the scene.
Speaker 3: That's what it is, all.
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Speaker 2: you to day because washing was going on. There's still
Speaker 2: still got some protesters who were just hanging out downtown.
Speaker 2: I did get a note on Twitter. It said, reminder,
Speaker 2: there's a Sparks game at Crypto tonight. You can take
Speaker 2: five South as a workaround since one on one is
Speaker 2: kind of a mess, still will continue to be a mess. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it depends on WHI which way you're coming from. But yeah, yep,
Speaker 2: I guess you're right.
Speaker 3: Do that.
Speaker 2: Sparks game starts at seven, so if you're not near
Speaker 2: the the arena already, then you're you're gonna be host,
Speaker 2: so just a heads up on that, but I want
Speaker 2: to give you a shout out. Thanks for hitting me
Speaker 2: up on the Twitter machine. So many of you had
Speaker 2: thoughts on what you've seen today, what you've witnessed from
Speaker 2: the protesters, from the politicians, from the vandals that have
Speaker 2: gone on, from the Waymos that caught fire. As you
Speaker 2: heard Heather Brooker talking about, they got all five of
Speaker 2: those cars caught. They got them all lit up, right,
Speaker 2: all five of those Waymos caught fire. One of them
Speaker 2: was burning the look.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: It looked like they were having trouble getting the other
Speaker 2: ones caught, but then they got it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they got them all.
Speaker 2: Perseverance. Yeah, let it not be said that this group
Speaker 2: lacks perseverance.
Speaker 3: They have it.
Speaker 2: So anyway, those Waymos and man did they burn hot.
Speaker 2: I mean they burned that steel right down to the
Speaker 2: ground or I guess aluminum in many cases.
Speaker 7: But yeah, a lot of smoke too that I think
Speaker 7: a lot of people are saying they're seeing smoke in
Speaker 7: the area. I mean, five cars burning, and then plus
Speaker 7: you know all of the tear gas and stuff that's
Speaker 7: being deployed.
Speaker 8: It looks like people now are still.
Speaker 7: They're hiding behind these barricades, parking you know, barricades, and
Speaker 7: they're just sitting there.
Speaker 8: A lot of people are sitting.
Speaker 3: Now, almost daring the cops.
Speaker 8: Almost steering them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see one set skirmish
Speaker 7: line and the officers continue to move forward on horseback
Speaker 7: and on foot. What happens once they get to that line,
Speaker 7: Because there's a good you know, I would say almost
Speaker 7: one hundred or so people gathered either behind those lines
Speaker 7: or behind these parking you know, barricades, or around it.
Speaker 7: So we'll see what happens then.
Speaker 2: But one hundred people is a far cry, or a
Speaker 2: couple hundred people is a far cry from a couple
Speaker 2: thousand people we saw earlier. Yes, so we're certainly seeing
Speaker 2: people that have gone home, or I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: they ain't go home, maybe they're going somewhere else. Like
Speaker 2: you said, a lot of black smoke from those weymos,
Speaker 2: and I do see that there are people who are there.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at a camera shot now that's sort of
Speaker 2: overlooking the freeway and it's set back a few blocks
Speaker 2: away from the waymos, so you can see black smoke.
Speaker 2: But I think there's probably people there wondering what's on fire,
Speaker 2: and it's those cars. It looks like it's more. The
Speaker 2: smoke doesn't look like it's just a carbecue. The smoke
Speaker 2: looks like it's a structure fiber.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: There's also a good deal of haze in the air
Speaker 2: from whatever the non lethals were that the police have
Speaker 2: been using, which makes me wonder how the California Apartment
Speaker 2: of Environmental Quality is gonna feel about this whole thing.
Speaker 2: I think probably citations for everyone, you know, protesters for
Speaker 2: letting those way Mo's on fire without a permit, and
Speaker 2: then the authorities for contributing to global warming. Everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: feel the wrath. It's just it's my gut. It's my gut,
Speaker 2: all right. What's happening on the talk back? Your thoughts
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Speaker 3: Let us know your thoughts on whatever.
Speaker 8: Just wanted to say. Trust me, they're not going to
Speaker 8: the sizzler. No one in fact is going to the cyne.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes they are. Anybody that's on the road, there's
Speaker 2: two reasons to be on the Road one. You're trying
Speaker 2: to downtown, I mean you're trying to get to be
Speaker 2: a part of the chaos. Or you live downtown, you're
Speaker 2: trying to get away and maybe go grab dinner at
Speaker 2: the Sizzler.
Speaker 8: Wait, there's a Sizzler downtown La.
Speaker 3: Not no as Korea Town.
Speaker 2: But if you live downtown, you may be trying to
Speaker 2: get away from downtown because you don't want to be
Speaker 2: around all the chaos.
Speaker 3: Right, where better would you go?
Speaker 7: I go to the one in Atwater Village. That's my Sizzler,
Speaker 7: That's my sizzler of choice.
Speaker 2: So when this person says nobody's going to Sizzler, she's
Speaker 2: dead wrong, because I'm with you.
Speaker 3: There's some grade A steak.
Speaker 8: I mean that cheese bread woo.
Speaker 3: Who love that?
Speaker 8: Now we're all hungry.
Speaker 3: You're darn right love me some sizzler.
Speaker 7: Someone you know, you don't how on breaking news days,
Speaker 7: people order pizza for the newsroom because we're all like,
Speaker 7: you can't leave and we're stuck, you know, stuck working.
Speaker 8: What do we have to do to get some sizzler?
Speaker 3: Right up to the stage, some sizzler up in.
Speaker 8: This is my Oklahoma showing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, I love it though. Growing up for me,
Speaker 2: we didn't have Sizzler. We had Ponderosa. But it is
Speaker 2: basically the same thing. We had, the Pondo. And there's
Speaker 2: only a handful of those open nationwide, and there's still
Speaker 2: one in my hometown. And uh, I got a little
Speaker 2: vacation coming up, the problem, and I would be hitting
Speaker 2: a pondo, but my.
Speaker 3: Wife won't go with me. She refuses. She's like, I
Speaker 3: am not going there. It is so good missing out,
Speaker 3: missing out.
Speaker 8: They have all you can eat salad bar.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, I mean they're basically the same place.
Speaker 2: The Podros Sizzler is basically the same place. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like, I don't know that it's the same
Speaker 2: as Carls Junior and Hearty's, but it's roughly the same thing.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, oh here we go, here we Chris, he
Speaker 10: love the show, Love you guys. Laila Layla.
Speaker 8: La hasn't worked here in two years, but.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, differently, this is Kayla okay with Layla Lailao.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, Well better than Bill a food guy.
Speaker 3: That's that's what I got called that.
Speaker 10: Here I am sitting in beautiful southern California, San Diego.
Speaker 10: I'm surrounded by uh nurseries and orange groves.
Speaker 3: Oh you're not play out in the yard. Oh it's sweet.
Speaker 10: I got no problems. Right, let's cities burn. Let the
Speaker 10: city wish you're on more Chris.
Speaker 3: Thanks? Okay, all right, okay, Well you know what I
Speaker 3: like about that dude? Chill is chill? Let him burn.
Speaker 3: You brought it on yourself. All right, I'm good. No,
Speaker 3: you know what, when when the when the when the
Speaker 3: last of us zombies hit?
Speaker 2: The cryptids or whatever they are, right whatever, the mushroom
Speaker 2: brain people, the funguses hit.
Speaker 3: I'm go hang out with that dude. We'll let you
Speaker 3: come along too. But my name right, and I like,
Speaker 3: dang it.
Speaker 8: I knew this will be a thing.
Speaker 7: But you know what if they think I'm Leila Mohammad,
Speaker 7: I take that as the ultimate compliment.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he just thinks your name is it's not that?
Speaker 8: Well then there's that.
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 5: Is there?
Speaker 8: Nothing wrong with my name?
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 2: No, listen, we're letting you stay at the at the
Speaker 2: at the hacienda where you can avoid the fungus people.
Speaker 3: If that follow the half stappen is we call you
Speaker 3: Yla instead of Cala that's Kayla needs to chill. That's
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Yeah, is our Sarah Connor moment.
Speaker 11: Man, we gotta burn those waymoths before they take control.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, tell me two something all right.
Speaker 9: Hey, Chris Fellow, Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: Fan here, I'm so sorry for your years of embarrassment.
Speaker 9: Hey, can you ask Lucy the traffic person to say
Speaker 9: jaguar with her English accent?
Speaker 3: Lucy, can you say jaguar?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, you will say it wrong.
Speaker 8: It's jaguar. That's how I say it, exactly how you
Speaker 8: say it.
Speaker 3: Jaguar.
Speaker 6: Yeah, jaguar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm like when I firsts aren't like jaguar, Like,
Speaker 6: what is that?
Speaker 8: What is that?
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, James brownce Porsche too.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah it's yeah, uh what I And I'm I'm
Speaker 2: okay with kind of the English pronunciation of jaguar. It's
Speaker 2: the jaguarar that makes me crazy when they say I'm
Speaker 2: going to watch the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: I don't like that anyway.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, it's it's fine.
Speaker 3: So the way mos that are burning are in fact Jaguars.
Speaker 6: Yes, the Jacks even better, the Jacks Jags just jags Jaggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you drive a jack.
Speaker 2: I have never driven a Jag. My wife won't let me. No,
Speaker 2: she doesn't like to pay the insurance, says I have
Speaker 2: to drive something fancy. So can you say it with
Speaker 2: with your English accent?
Speaker 3: Can you say Hyundai?
Speaker 6: Hyundai rhymes with Sunday? Because I remember that commercial? Yes, yeah, right,
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 2: We used to laugh about pronouncing cars, right and Heather.
Speaker 2: The first time Heather made me die laughing. I was
Speaker 2: talking about Porsche's because I have this I have this
Speaker 2: clip of a guy pronouncing Portie, but it's it's almost
Speaker 2: exaggerated full show.
Speaker 3: And I said, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, Heather, I don't know if you remember this, but
Speaker 2: I said, Heather, would you like to drive a Porsche
Speaker 2: or are you driving a portion?
Speaker 3: And you said something about that. No, I'm in my
Speaker 3: Sorento Creno. It was so good. All right, Back to
Speaker 3: our suffering Lions.
Speaker 9: Fan And also, what do you think of Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 9: going to the steel Come on as and the Lions
Speaker 9: are going to face each other in Detroit. No later
Speaker 9: in the season.
Speaker 3: Now we're not talking of your show. All right? Thank you?
Speaker 9: No from Michigan. So I'm a fellow Michigan.
Speaker 3: But I've looked out here for several years.
Speaker 10: Have a great day.
Speaker 2: By h We're not talking all right, We're not talking football,
Speaker 2: We're not doing that. But I look forward to crushing
Speaker 2: rogers Ford Field game a circle on my calendar.
Speaker 3: We'll crush him. That's all I got.
Speaker 2: All Right, more of your talkbacks as of you continue
Speaker 2: to listen, and then we'll hand things off to doctor Wendy,
Speaker 2: Doctor Wendy After Dark begins at seven o'clock. Chris Merril
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio abbe.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk.
Speaker 3: It has been an honor talking with you throughout the day.
Speaker 2: It looks like a fire department has shown up to
Speaker 2: try to put some of these fires out around the
Speaker 2: weaymos that people put on fire. The protests which have
Speaker 2: been going on since a little before noon. We started
Speaker 2: covering our protest coverage today at noon and then they
Speaker 2: got they grew and there was a little bit of
Speaker 2: a friction, and mostly it was the dispersion and then
Speaker 2: just disruptions of the of the traffic. There were some
Speaker 2: arrests that were made there, there was some violent interaction,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't We didn't have any shootings. I don't
Speaker 2: think we even cracked out rubber bullets today. So I mean,
Speaker 2: as protests go, this one didn't get two out of hand.
Speaker 2: Credit goes to everybody involved, both the law enforcement who
Speaker 2: kept things chill and then the majority of the protesters
Speaker 2: who also kept things chill.
Speaker 3: And again, you did have a.
Speaker 2: Few rabble rousers who did not, and you know they're
Speaker 2: gonna come with all the different protests, but it certainly
Speaker 2: could have been a whole lot worse when you had
Speaker 2: so many people that were involved in this. Uh, those
Speaker 2: of you that have been leaving talkbacks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I want to fire through a few more here and
Speaker 2: then we'll talk with the great Doctor Wendy, who's up
Speaker 2: here at seven o'clock with Doctor Wendy after dark. All right,
Speaker 2: here we go, Oh way, moo's on fire. And I
Speaker 2: also made mention that if you were, there's no reason
Speaker 2: to be on the streets. There are a few cars
Speaker 2: on the surface streets downtown, and I said, there's no
Speaker 2: reason to be there at all unless you live downtown
Speaker 2: and you're trying to get out to go grab some
Speaker 2: sizzler or something, or you want to be a part
Speaker 2: of the problem.
Speaker 3: Those are the only two options.
Speaker 2: Either you live in like an apartment complex and you
Speaker 2: I got to get out of here grab some sizzler,
Speaker 2: or you're trying to be a part of the problem.
Speaker 2: It's the only reason there'd be cars down there, all right,
Speaker 2: So other just avoided if you can't.
Speaker 3: Yo yo yep. Hey.
Speaker 11: So it's pretty sad what's going on. I mean, all
Speaker 11: the force being used this, but you deal got to
Speaker 11: flex that muscle to show what's going on in Kurtel
Speaker 11: anything that's gonna happen. The protest should be about the
Speaker 11: people allowing these people to come over. And I get
Speaker 11: we're all humans, we need a nice place to live,
Speaker 11: but you got to keep your house strong and then
Speaker 11: we can allow people in. It's sad, It really is sad.
Speaker 11: But it's come to this point because it's been allowed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wonder what the protest would look like if ICE
Speaker 2: actually started cracking down on the businesses that we're hiring people,
Speaker 2: if we actually started enforcing that and we started saying, oh,
Speaker 2: this farm has got too many people here without documents.
Speaker 2: We're going to crack down on the farmer. This meatpacking
Speaker 2: plan has got too many immigrants. We're going to crack
Speaker 2: down on the meat packers.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, this politician has people working for them that are
Speaker 2: without documents, that are working in the gardens or are
Speaker 2: working in the service industry around their homes.
Speaker 3: We're going to crack down on them. Then, I wonder
Speaker 3: what the protest would look like.
Speaker 12: Your coverage of the unrest this weekend was excellent.
Speaker 3: Oh that's Michael Munks.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 12: I needed to hear blow by blow and then know
Speaker 12: that your guy was okay. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Michael Munks was amazing today. He's been amazing all weekend
Speaker 2: and stuff today was amazing. And Heather Brooker read some
Speaker 2: news too. All right, at least nobody's mislabeled you. I've
Speaker 2: been called, uh, the food guy, which is Neil. I've
Speaker 2: been called Bill, and then Kayla was called Leila. So
Speaker 2: nobody's mistaken you and been like, oh, feather looker has
Speaker 2: got news.
Speaker 3: Nobody's done that.
Speaker 10: You're talking sisther my kind of talk.
Speaker 3: Yes, my sister is.
Speaker 12: Someone in low Salamados. And Phil Beach I love me son, sister.
Speaker 3: I love you, guys.
Speaker 2: I just love that we're talking protests and it devolves
Speaker 2: quickly into Sizzler.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's my talk to you. Guys are the best.
Speaker 9: I didn't even know that Sizzler was still in business.
Speaker 4: I thought you were totally joking.
Speaker 2: No, not joking. Sizzler is amazing and you're totally missing out.
Speaker 10: There's an episode of it too, like on ah, it's
Speaker 10: a Anthony Bourdain or somebody does.
Speaker 3: An episode the cooking shows did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, with David Cho, Davo and him, oh outstanding.
Speaker 3: Pretty sure.
Speaker 13: There's Gravin Newsom, head of the AQMD or Quality Management District.
Speaker 2: Okay, so in California, that's Gavin Newsom. Guys, he called
Speaker 2: the talk back line. That's him. Wow, Cry, you want
Speaker 2: to you wanna roll tape on this other so you
Speaker 2: can put work it into a story.
Speaker 13: I cry the aspect of burning Waymo vehicles because those
Speaker 13: are our future. Yeah, and they pollute the environment. So
Speaker 13: the protest must stop burning Waymo vehicles. AQMD requires that
Speaker 13: demand that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I love that Gavin Newsom to stop burning
Speaker 2: the vehicles bad for the environment.
Speaker 3: Ye Hi, Chris I'm sorry. I thought you were Neil
Speaker 3: the food guy.
Speaker 10: But anyways, what would you recommend for some Mexican taco seasons?
Speaker 8: These people are so funny.
Speaker 3: I can't That is awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh well listen, since I'm not the food guy,
Speaker 2: I will give you my recommendations. Which is gonna be Ortega,
Speaker 2: which Raoul told me is the whitest you can get.
Speaker 2: So he says, I have to go with the nor
Speaker 2: Can O R R so, but me, it's ortega, our
Speaker 2: old mission or some McCormick. Yeah, a little paste pecante
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 8: Everything but the bagel. That's my seasoning of choice.
Speaker 3: All right, Then one more last one?
Speaker 8: Hi, Chris, Hi Laila.
Speaker 3: Jesus, No, that is a good call.
Speaker 8: Thank you for that. Man.
Speaker 3: We need this fact that she just threw it in there.
Speaker 8: I sent you one that was really sweet to me.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna play that one? No, I lost that one.
Speaker 3: That's weird. That's the weirdest thing. Doctor Wendy.
Speaker 2: After Dark starts at seven o'clock, Doctor Wendy, what can
Speaker 2: we expect today?
Speaker 1: How you doing well?
Speaker 3: It's been a day, girl.
Speaker 14: How can I follow a day like that? Except that
Speaker 14: I have to put some psychology into it. One of
Speaker 14: the things I'm going to talk about is could the
Speaker 14: National Guard be causing attachment injuries in kids?
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 14: Are we going to see intergenerational trauma happening because of this?
Speaker 8: And I have to talk.
Speaker 14: I know it's been a while the must Trump bromance
Speaker 14: breakup and how it's very similar to our own. There's
Speaker 14: one particular technique they used that many lovers use, and
Speaker 14: if you haven't been following it, he Diddy's girlfriend who's
Speaker 14: currently testifying at his trial and we'll come back tomorrow
Speaker 14: is a text book case study of an anxious attachment style.
Speaker 14: So don't kidding, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about love
Speaker 14: and relationships. You know, love isn't all about pleasure. There
Speaker 14: can be a lot of pain.
Speaker 8: In there too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I hear you. This is why I love
Speaker 3: listening to your show.
Speaker 2: Wayna State way to work in the psychology on the
Speaker 2: current events.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 14: Remember, love is not about finding happiness. Love is about
Speaker 14: finding the familiar and defending what happened in your early childhood.
Speaker 14: Thinking about pdd's girlfriend, Yeah, I wonder what happened to
Speaker 14: her because she is so afraid of losing him that
Speaker 14: she would do anything and put her own feelings aside.
Speaker 2: That's fascinating to me. And I'm going to think about
Speaker 2: what you actually just said. I don't have enough time
Speaker 2: to get into it right now, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: thinking about this for the next week.
Speaker 3: Yes, I had never heard it put that way before.
Speaker 2: Love is about finding familiarity, not happiness, and that is
Speaker 2: so spot God, You're good, all right, Doctor Wendy. After
Speaker 2: dark starts next, Doctor Wendy, love you to death. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, Heather. Love it when you step in
Speaker 2: things take a turn for the worst every time. And
Speaker 2: I adore that Raoul buddy off the air. Raoul gave
Speaker 2: me tips on best scizzlers in the area. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna actually do a tour. And that's why I love him.
Speaker 3: And Kayla. Kayla needs to chill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to you guys next time. Chris Merril KFI
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