This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Senator jd Vance is
apparently one of the leading candidates to be former to be a running mate for
former President Trump. But back in twenty sixteen, there's been a lot of
people who have gone through the potential VP candidate's statements about Trump over the course
of years. Back in twenty sixteen, he was known as the author of
Hillbilly Elogy, but was not yet a senator. That was a great book
that really helped I think understand how Trump got elected in the first place,
in terms of people in many parts of the country feeling disenfranchised, feeling like
it's all the elite that control the country. He captured it, Larry Well
captured it very well. Many words have been written about his comments about Trump,
but including including I should say he declared Trump an idiot. He compared
him to Adolf Hitler. But he went so far as to say on MSNB
see one point that he believed the story of a woman named Jessica Leeds who
claimed that Trump had groped her before. I don't know if that comes up
in the conversations or part of the vetting process. But it's one of those
things that has come out lately about some of these vice presidential potential running mates.
Your Costco membership is going up. Yeah, they're going to be increasing
the annual membership fee between five and ten dollars. Five bucks for the lower
end. I think ten bucks for the executive membership. Yeah. The gold
Star membership will go from sixty to sixty five a year. The Premium Executive
membership will increase from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty dollars.
What's the difference between the membership plans if I remember correctly, if you get
the higher end, can be you can go shop an hour earlier. Really,
Yeah, I think that's one of the benefits, so you can get
in there before the cords. Yeah. Well, I mean there's still a
lot of people because it's Costco on a Saturday. If that's where you're going,
yeah, I can't do it. I get a little homicidal. My
husband goes to Costco and we need to go to be safe. It's safer
for everyone. The California Independent System Operator is saying that at this time the
grid is are you going to I feel like I have to sneeze. Go
ahead, I know, I feel like now it went away? Oh did
I shame it back? The California Independent System Operator insists that the grid is
stable. However, today is likely going to be the hottest day in parts
of the state as we continue our heat wave. According to cal ISO,
it's important emphasized that events that linger for many consecutive days can actually over tax
generators that are running at high outputs for very long periods. That can cause
outages that can reduce generation. When you look at the cal ISO website,
they do a great job of keeping people informed. It's very easy to go
see basically what the capacity is, what the expected demand is, and we've
kind of forecasted out over the course of a couple of days. We peak
usually at about six o'clock six point thirty in the summer, and today that's
when they expect to have the highest amount of electricity usage. Is sometime between
six and seven o'clock. You've got people going home flipping on their air conditioners,
dishwashers, washing machines, whatever they say. And of course they tell
you to do that late at night. Not in the mid in the middle
of the day, but that's why people flipping on their lights and TVs and
things like that. So that's why in about six six thirty in the evening
is when in the summer, is why that's when you see the demand peak.
Now. The other nice thing about it is that even though the demand
is high right about now, probably next hour or so, the net demand
is relatively low and there's a big margin there because of the amount of solar
that is produced throughout the state of California. So we are well below they
I know they said that it could drive up power demand, but our capacity
right now is almost fifty eight thousand megawats. Have we hit a flex alert
yet this week? Nope. I love a flex alert because then I don't
have to do things around the house. Oh. I thought you were gonna
say it's because petros and money start at one or something like that. Sure,
or the show is it's different than the normal hours. Yeah, and
they might because the game starts at three. So when's that show on today?
I don't know. It's a good we have to get the flex alert
I find it out. But the capacity is about fifty eight thousand megawatts.
They say the peak will only be at about forty five thousand, and that
they expected to be at six forty five tonight, So we're well below capacity
in terms of the demand. But they're saying because this has continued for so
long, the production is not as efficient as it should be or could be
at this time of year. But over the course of the next few days,
today is really the day they're most concerned about. Over the next several
days, we seem to have plenty of margin. So yeah, I think
I'm not going to do laundry today, just to do my part for the
state of California and the power system. Right, I think I'm just gonna
leave it for another few days. I have a metric butt ton of laundry
to do it, do you and I? As long as I can push
it off for another day, I feel proud. Why do you have so
much laundry built up? Because I'm lazy? You're lazy? Yep, yeah,
me too, also lazy. But we're in serving power for the greater
good. Yes, it's as if we're like we're bed rotting our way through
through bed laundry. Bed Rotting does not take up any energy, zero.
You know, so just lie there and not doing laundry. It takes up
zero energy. Shannon, please tell me you didn't go to detox. That
would absolutely break my heart. That would make me feel like I'm the only
drunk let here. No, quite the opposite. Gary. I usually don't
agree with you because I think you're kind of dumb. But you are spot
on with this Alick Baldwin coverage that you're doing that correct. Thank you is
that you did? You just call from the other room, and maybe it's
so sometimes I feel dumb. I don't know. That's how I don't do
well to compliments. Compliments. He said. He doesn't agree with me all
the time because he thinks I'm dumb, but he said, in this case,
you're spot on. That was a compliment. Well. City leaders here
in Los Angeles have plans to close the road running through MacArthur Park to boost
more local access to green space. Do you know what happens when we're giving
green space here in Los Angeles? We are given more homeless encampments, is
what we're given. Residents who live there say, hey, instead of more
green space, why don't you do something about all the homelessness that exists there?
Already. Why don't you do something about all the homeless people that are
walking around like zombies rampant drug use? They say, do something about that
before you expand the space where people can be homeless and do all their drugs.
Reuben or Neo Rodriguez is a person who lives in the area. Secretary
of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council says, I don't see Wilshire Boulevard crossing and
splitting the park as really a problem that needs a solution right the priority should
be making all of the park accessible to all people, specifically the Partner Alvarado,
which is not very accessible because it has been overtaken by drug users.
So why not expand the space where they can do their drugs? I mean,
who comes up with this stuff? She says Unices Hernandez. She is
no stranger to the drug and homelessness crisis. In fact, last month she's
secure three million dollars to make it worse. How a respite center near the
park which will provide sterile drug supplies and the lock zone for those people who
have too much of it and referrals to housing and other services. As we've
seen over and over and over and over and once again over again. If
you provide people with sterile drug using supplies drug using drug supplies, they will
continue to use and where do they get their drugs antithetical to solving the problem.
It shows that you don't actually care about those people. Because the example
I use all the time is if you come in here tomorrow, may you
Gary Hoffman and you're on heroin? Right? If I came in on Monday
and you're still on heroin, you've gone through it in the weekend, okay,
And I wouldn't you with a needle because I care about you. I'd
throw you in a treatment facility. I want to say, here, there's
more stuff to do your heroin with. I would hope not. I mean
I in the moment, I would hope you would provide me with some more
needles because I ran out or whatever. I don't know how you run out
of needles. Well, it's like you lose them. I would assume it's
all this. It's all this clean needle talk, right, like your needle
gets dirty and is that a Well, if it's my needle and I'm the
only one using it, then it's it's clean for me. I think if
you're not sharing your needles, you're in a good spot. People are gonna
just roast us. I can't wait. I can't wait to hear how stupid
we are that we don't know how to shoot ourselves up with heroin. The
Unicus Hernandez went so far as to hold a press conference to announce the Reconnecting
MacArthur Park project, and the people who showed up said, I applaud all
the people that came out here today and here's the key. But what are
we going to do to clean out the park and clean out the fentinel use
because that's the real problem. We don't need to see any more people dying
in MacArthur Park. How do you keep your needles clean? Little baby,
little baby amount of bleach and dress it out with water? And do you
have to do that every time you do the heroin? I'm going to say
no, because again, am I using it's my need I think it's just
yours. You're not sharing it. I wrote a little G on the side
of it so you could tell it was mine and I share a needle the
MacArthur Park. Okay, so if it's contaminated with infected blood, that's where
you get a problem. So if you had it because your blood is infected,
and then you were nice enough to share it with me, I would
probably want to try to stain it. Probably, but since your focus is
on doing heroin, it's probably not going to be top of mind. I'll
excuse your infections in order to get hot so hepatitis, HIV all through sharing
the needles. You No, not you, you're saying if if somebody right.
MacArthur Park, by the way, is that the epicenter of the overdose
epidemic in Los Angeles? Two years ago, there were eighty four fentanyl deaths
recorded in the one square mile zip code surrounding MacArthur Park, far higher than
any other zip code in La County. Eighty four fentanyl deaths. And the
thing you want to do is close the street at a cost of three million
dollars. However, two and a half million dollars. It's it's unbelievable,
the idea that you would fix a problem that does not exist. The problem
is not traffic on Willshire. No, that's insane. Thankfully, it's only
in the planning stages. Although there is a two million dollar grant from the
Department of Transportations, renect Reconnecting Communities pilot it sounds crooked, and then a
half a half a million from the SoCal Association of Governments Sustainable Communities Program so
traffic analysis, community outreach studies, and hopefully the people who live in that
neighborhood who do not want to see people die a fentanyl on a You know.
That's the nice thing is they could They could die in the middle of
the street without running getting run over because traffic will be blocked off. That's
the nice thing. I'm super excited to get our needle feedback. I just
want to say, Gary is not down. I am. Yeah, I'll
take that one as a I don't think you're dumb. Could that sound not
genuine? It did not sound genuine at all. I was trying so hard,
so genuine which to go backfires. I could hear your throat clench.
I'm like this, you like this. The City of Sacramento has an attorney
named Susanna Alcala Wood. She is the city Attorney for the Great City of
sacrament The Sacramento Bee has an article that the legal department under her office has
threatened to find target for public nuisance after several calls to police because thieves were
stealing from the target in Land Park. You know where that is? I
know exactly where that, Yeah, Riverside. I used to play in the
dumb radio station softball league at a park right next to it. The only
people in the stands it would come to watch our games were the homeless people
in Land Park, and there were a lot of them. Drew quite the
crown. One corner of the park was the Sacramento City Fire Department, and
they were regular visitors as well, because people would often fall off of the
stands in some sort of stupor that they happened to be in. But this
give you an idea of kind of the neighborhood that this target happens to be
in, just south of downtown Sacramento. Now, the target on Riverside Boulevard
in Land Park was warned that they would be given an administrative fine if they
continued to call in to the police department thefts of their property. What is
the thought process behind the gret question? They will not explain as of yet.
The city attorney in Sacramento, Susann a'l Calla Wood, has not explained
to any media outlet why they would issue a warning like that, now you
can you can cut it? Is it because the police department's hands are tied
and the city's hands are tied with Prop forty seven, and they're not able
to process people or or or charge them because it's it's under nine and fifty.
That is possible. But the ten thousand foot look at this is described
by California Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher. He said Newsome, obviously referring to
Gavin Newsom. Newsom keeps insisting that reports of theft are dropping. Well,
now we know why. Not only are thieves let off without even a slap
on the wrist, but now the victims are being threatened for even reporting crimes.
If this is a political thing, if this is for what that reason
he outlines is that is a real problem. If you're trying to manipulate crime
stats to make it look like this is actually a law and order society in
California. That should be criminal right, that should come with a fine criminal
defense attorney and listen, I don't have a lot of love lost for criminal
defense attorneys in general. But Nicole Castronovo weighed in on this matter. She
said, Californians politicians in California are leaving citizens out to dry because crime begets
crime, and she goes on to say lawmakers have allowed smash and grab robberies
to terrorize our cities. As a consequence, retailers are leaving major cities and
droves and taking jobs with them. Yeah, why not drive target out?
And this is a criminal defense attorney who was saying this. Her job is
to defend the people who are accused of these types of things. So again,
I don't know why it is. They have not yet explained why target
that got that warning that they could be fined for reporting thefts multiple times or
less in those location just south of Sacramento. You know what, I read
this story about bed rotting. I was going to go after millennials and gen
z ers for doing just that, just wasting the way the day away in
bed. But now I understand after that story why you just want to get
under the covers and not leave the bed and hope that nobody smashes through the
sliding glass door in the backyard and robes to rob your house because you'll get
in trouble for calling the police. Apparently in California, well, you can't
shoot back no, can't defend your property. What else are we gonna do?
It's okay, we'll be fat. Everything's fine, it's fine, Everything
is fine. Dodgers are taking on the Phillies today in Philadelphia. First pitches
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An in a third as r A is down to like sixteen and a half,
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We've got a couple of talkbacks to tell you about your heroin. Shin
m Cook the heroin. Oh no, and you take it in the needle.
It image is the needle. You need a new needle every time.
I'm never talking about Heroina. That was terrified. Good thing. Those Faratu
knows how to use the iHeart app. Hey guys about the needle thing.
You can reuse the needle for some use. It doesn't make it dirty.
But if you don't clean it with like a little bit of bleach and water,
any blood in there can go bad and then you're, you know,
messing yourself up with your own blood. I've been using I was using heroin
since I was fourteen. I'm forty now. I stopped when I was twenty
eight. Good or two? Be safe? All right, thank you,
good for you. I'm done with that topic. I think, oh you
are. Yeah, okay, I took a dark turn your Now your notebook
is filled with all of your heroin safety procedures. That's good. That's good.
Millennials and gen zers are taking advantage of the day off days and their
weekends by bed rotting. This is bad because you know what they're doing.
Probably when they're bed rotting decomposing. They're just scrolling. Yeah, decomposing physically
and mentally decomposing. I love the idea of it. I love the idea
of being able to sleep in longer than you do, Like the Saturdays and
Sundays. You don't have to go anymore. We get to be a certain
age and we just wake up. It's not impossible to sleep in. I
don't even know if it's that. It's it's that I'm I feel awful if
I don't do something that's good. That's a good thing, that's I mean,
I even if I'll on a Saturday, for example, I'll make a
sandwich and I'll sit down and I'll turn on a football game or a baseball
game or golf or something. Right, there's some sporting event on TV.
And I'll sit on the couch and I'll eat, and then I'll go,
yeah, but those guys are out there doing something and I'm sitting on my
couch doing nothing, And then I got I feel guilty and I feel stupid,
and really yeah for eating a sandwich. Well, I mean just that
there's so much that I could be doing right now instead of sitting on my
fat What do you expect of yourself? You need to be gentler. Well
that's very nice, But the idea of laying on a couch again not sick.
Sick is a holy totally different thing. You're sick, you don't feel
good, I understand. But on a perfectly normal day, when you're otherwise
perfectly healthy and capable of doing something and you lay around all day, it
just feels awful. Yeah, Well, you don't feel good at the end
of it day o'clock and you're like, what, wait, what did I
do today? Yeah? I moved from that arm of the couch to that
arm of the couch. Well, maybe you should go to home depot and
get a project going. You know, isn't there a project you can do
at the house? Probably could resand something sand bring out the old dresser and
sand it and painted. No, those never turn out the way you want
them to. Well, only because you don't put enough outy, that's what
it is. Maybe I'm laying around too much, dear. Yeah, maybe
it's fewer sandwiches, more sanding. Bedrodding they said could disrupt your circadian rhythm,
your natural alarm clock. Of course, you think it's one of those
things that you think is going to make you happy. I'm going to do
nothing today. I've earned it. I've had a you know, I've worked
Monday to Friday Saturday. I'm just gonna lie around and do nothing. I've
earned it. I have some me time. And you think it's going to
make you happy. But like you said, at the end of the day,
what did I do today? It doesn't make you happy. Johns Hopkins
University actually says too much sleep is associated with health issues, heart disease,
obesity, depression. Extended time staring at your phone or your TV can cause
eyestrained sleep, disturbance, poor mental health. And when you sleep too much,
binge watching new series or get lost in social media, you aren't actually
resting. I mean, your body is physically, you know, prone sometimes,
but you're not actually resting in those cases, You're just distracting yourself from
whatever it else, from whatever it is that you should be doing, whether
it's dealing with problems or work or homework or whatever. And in line with
our wellness check up here on the Garan Scheninchew, there was a dietitian that
wrote, there's one ultra processed food I never consume. The dietitian says,
I would never consume soda. Really, soda doesn't have any nutritional value other
than just calories in the form of sugar. Empty calories. They don't give
us any nutrients, she says. When you drink soda, it's digested very
quickly. It can cause you to feel hungry, which can lead you to
eat more food than you plan to. She says, just drink tea water
still or sparkling she's fun. In part. He's a lot of fun,
isn't she. Sometimes I drink a cold hibiscus tea plain water. Of course,
it's a great alternative. No, no, coffee can be an option.
Water alternative to soda. Those are very different things. I have been
on a kick lately where I like the idea of uh, say, Celsius
drinks. You know, those kind of little caffeinated little boop in the in
the afternoon, a little little, a little, a little less than cocaine,
but a little more than a soda. Yeah, I don't like those
things because I feel like they're full of chemicals. Well, that's an issue,
and I'm trying to find a great alternative. Nobody wants him on kombucha.
You should see what he eats. That is no fun. It is
no lemona. It's delicious. Yeah, and it's also probiotic. I guess
after you drink that, how long until you go to the bathroom? You
know what it does? It doesn't do anything for me moments with all that
veggy stuff too. Now you have control over your institution, Good for you.
But I'm open to a good soda alternative. I just gave you one.
I'm not listening to you. What about like poppy or lollipop? I
have not tried those, but are those supposed to be good? Those are
really good? Like they have interesting flavors, but they're very delicious. Is
it a seltzer thing? It's like a probiotic soda. So let's stop.
Though. Gary does not like gut health My gut is what are you talking
about? I have the guts of a Haitian street dog. I'm fine.
Well, maybe we could make it healthier in there. It's not unhealthy.
I eat everything. Okay, Wow, I know, I know all right.
Coming up next, swamp watch. Oh my goodness, the swamp is
overflowing today, isn't it. Yeah, it's a swamp add strawberry lemonade,
kombucha. Would you like to try some? Oh? I can't wait.
A shot I will have. I will go in there and be poor a
little and cup I'll drink it. Yeah there, I'll run straight to the
bathroom. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always
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