Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: of stories that we're keeping our eyes on. Of course,
Speaker 2: the big inauguration day today, the sixtieth presidential inauguration, the
Speaker 2: forty seventh and forty fifth President Donald Trump and his
Speaker 2: second inauguration. About six hundred people were in the room
Speaker 2: in the Capital Rotande itself. About two thousand people said
Speaker 2: to have been in the overflow room there at the Capitol.
Speaker 2: And like we said, we know that there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of executive actions that are expected, more than two hundred
Speaker 2: executive actions. About fifty of those are believed to be
Speaker 2: specifically executive orders, which would be legally binding things like
Speaker 2: border security, domestic energy production, designed to ensure that federal
Speaker 2: workers are hired based on merit. One of them to
Speaker 2: simply define two genders men and male and female when
Speaker 2: it comes to the federal government and definitions.
Speaker 1: Thereof President former President Biden delivering remarks before departing DC earlier.
Speaker 1: Look at Jill there standing next to him at the podium.
Speaker 1: In her beautiful purple coat. All she's thinking of is
Speaker 1: pino noir noir. They're headed to Santa anaz.
Speaker 2: So do they have I'm sure they have, a friend
Speaker 2: say they'd have wine on the Air Force one, wouldn't they?
Speaker 1: Sure? But it's different when you're sitting at a vineyard.
Speaker 1: Keani vineyards to be exact, a democratic downer, Okay.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna say you're going to turn down a
Speaker 2: glass of wine on Air Force one.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm just saying it's different than
Speaker 1: sitting at a vineyard. It's true.
Speaker 2: It's probably beautiful day in Santa Oh my gosh, incredible.
Speaker 2: If none of this means anything to you, Tonight is
Speaker 2: the National Championship game Notre Dame in Ohio State at
Speaker 2: Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun question. Yeah there.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably five o'clock. I don't know exactly
Speaker 2: when kickoff is. The Falcons do fan first pricing, with
Speaker 2: a soda costing two bucks. It's It's says that fan
Speaker 2: first prices haven't changed from the usual amounts that the
Speaker 2: Falcons charged during their home games. So does two bucks.
Speaker 2: Pratzels and popcorn, two bucks, three bucks for a hot dog,
Speaker 2: five bucks for a draft beer.
Speaker 1: Nice that I ever heard of that before. I remember
Speaker 1: being at the Super Bowl and getting a cors Light
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to be drunk for the game,
Speaker 1: like I want to. Obviously you wanted that after right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I know that that would be the outcome. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and I got a cours Light and it was like
Speaker 1: five bucks, and I remember thinking, Wow, what a magical
Speaker 1: place that is. If I bought this Corps light in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, it'd be twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Now, getting in the building is what's going to cost you.
Speaker 2: The cheapest ticket that's still available for tonight's National Championship
Speaker 2: game is over seventeen hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Wow, well it's gonna be a It should be a
Speaker 1: good game. Do you have a preference Notre Dame ouse Date. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad's a huge Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: I could see that. Yeah, and I like Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Just I don't know, I say, because of the I
Speaker 2: don't know the God, because of God.
Speaker 1: Because of God.
Speaker 2: I suppose not that Ohio doesn't have God on its side, But.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's just go with God, like you don't want to
Speaker 2: forget about that.
Speaker 1: I hope they wear their gold helmets. They will, man,
Speaker 1: they always they always do. They don't. They don't always
Speaker 1: wear their gold helmets. They do.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they wear the crazy green outfit.
Speaker 1: What okay? They do? Here?
Speaker 2: We are bracing for another potentially destructive windstorm. We now
Speaker 2: know how dangerous these particularly dangerous situations are that the
Speaker 2: National Weather Service has put in place. The red flag
Speaker 2: warning is in effect today until tomorrow night for much
Speaker 2: of inland southern California, parts of Entia, La Orange, Riverside,
Speaker 2: and San Bernardino counties.
Speaker 1: Dennis Burns is a fire behavioral analyst. He says this
Speaker 1: is basically one tick below the January seventh event. Depends,
Speaker 1: he says, on whether or where the low pressure and
Speaker 1: high pressure systems that cause the events line up as
Speaker 1: to the areas that are going to see the largest impact.
Speaker 1: But you're going to see, of course, the areas that
Speaker 1: you know, if you live here, usually see the high
Speaker 1: winds the coasts and the valleys fifty to seventy miles
Speaker 1: per hour sustained winds wind gus excuse me, gus as
Speaker 1: high as sixty to one hundred miles per hour in
Speaker 1: the mountains and foothills. So just looking now, my husband
Speaker 1: said that the wind was already kicking up at our area.
Speaker 1: In our area, in the San Gabriel area, I'm just
Speaker 1: wondering what they the sustained winds are there at this point.
Speaker 1: There is a red flag warning. It says in my
Speaker 1: neck of the woods that they're about to be the
Speaker 1: worst at about noon and then two and three. But
Speaker 1: in terms of the sustained winds, they say it's only
Speaker 1: at about ten miles per hour right now. That's not
Speaker 1: bad with the gusts about twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we mentioned the red flag warning from ten
Speaker 2: am this morning to ten pm tomorrow night. Inside of
Speaker 2: those parameters, this particularly dangerous situation red flag warning goes
Speaker 2: from noon today until tomorrow morning. So the wider red
Speaker 2: flag warning is already in effect and will go until
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, but that particularly dangerous situation warning starts at
Speaker 2: noon and goes until ten in the morning.
Speaker 1: Wild story you've heard in the news the past couple
Speaker 1: days about that firefighter in the guy impersonating a firefighter
Speaker 1: claiming that they worked for the Roaring River Fire Department
Speaker 1: firetruck and all full size red fire engine with emergency
Speaker 1: lights guys in a yellow firefighter turnout and claims that
Speaker 1: he is a firefighter from Oregon. They say now that
Speaker 1: he was a one time arsonist firebug. As it were,
Speaker 1: He and his wife both arrested. Well.
Speaker 2: He claimed that they were from Oregon. He presented with
Speaker 2: the Oregon driver's license, but the fire truck had California
Speaker 2: plates on it. Now, I don't know if that's and
Speaker 2: you know, obviously the American flag. That would be the
Speaker 2: common livery, if you will, for a fire engine like that.
Speaker 1: Apparently the truck that you had been originally used by
Speaker 1: a fire department up in northern California, had been decommissioned
Speaker 1: about thirty years ago and auctioned off. It w'd be
Speaker 1: kind of fun to buy an old fire truck. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's tool around in for the for what, just to
Speaker 1: drive across America, live off the land.
Speaker 2: I would think there'd be some requirement that if you're
Speaker 2: going to buy that an auction, they tell you, okay,
Speaker 2: just so you know, you can't drive around with this
Speaker 2: thing painted red and white or with you know, fire
Speaker 2: markings on it to make people think that you're actually
Speaker 2: an emergency vehicle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just don't present as an
Speaker 1: emergency vehicle, because this looks like the original paint job
Speaker 1: on this truck doesn't look like he you know, not
Speaker 1: like they painted it at all yellow or purple.
Speaker 2: Not clear how long he'd been here, but apparently he
Speaker 2: went to a holiday in express and said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: a firefighter, so they put him.
Speaker 1: Up in a room. Oh god, well, how gross. People
Speaker 1: keep asking me about your groin, and I texted you,
Speaker 1: I think, what's going on with your groin here? I'm
Speaker 1: hearing about a groin injury? Oh yeah, you said your
Speaker 1: groin was fine. Did you? Did you publicize some sort
Speaker 1: of groin injury at some time? Was there ever a
Speaker 1: groin injury?
Speaker 2: There was never a question. I don't even think I
Speaker 2: talked with Mark and Marla. I believe it was Wednesday,
Speaker 2: did Yeah?
Speaker 1: I k anybody on the air here. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: is they were busy.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to take up time me talking about
Speaker 2: a vacation spot in Arizona while people were actually still
Speaker 2: dealing with fire stuff, so we only did one segment.
Speaker 2: But I don't think it came up then. Honestly, I
Speaker 2: felt better in terms of soreness. The only thing I
Speaker 2: felt was was Wednesday evening into Thursday morning or Thursday
Speaker 2: into Friday. Was probably when it happened was my quads.
Speaker 2: Because you go from zero to one hundred or in
Speaker 2: my case, zero to about sixty four.
Speaker 1: Quickly.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of standing around, a lot of standing
Speaker 2: around baseball, and then all of a sudden, somebody hits
Speaker 2: a ball at you and you got to move quickly
Speaker 2: before you hit the ball, and you got to run.
Speaker 2: So there was a lot of that, and your quads
Speaker 2: are the first things to feel.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, how many cramps down you have?
Speaker 2: I don't have any cramps, really, no, I did, and
Speaker 2: again my knees hips, everything felt great, arm felt great good.
Speaker 2: But I was more sore yesterday, like last night, than
Speaker 2: I was all week during the games. And I think
Speaker 2: part of it has to do with adrenaline. Part of
Speaker 2: it has to do with them out there doing.
Speaker 1: Part of it is because you were sitting. If you're
Speaker 1: like those active and then you're sitting whether it's a
Speaker 1: five hour drive or even a two hour flight, that
Speaker 1: wreaks havoc on your body. We're not supposed to be
Speaker 1: sitting like that.
Speaker 2: All there was a pretty funny text chain about people
Speaker 2: getting off the airplane and not walking asking for wheelchairs
Speaker 2: to get off theirselves.
Speaker 1: No, it's a real thing. Like I noticed it offter
Speaker 1: football games. It's like you're walking around, running around, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're sitting for hours and
Speaker 1: then you can't move. You know what we're going to
Speaker 1: do the rest of the show standing up? Okay, it's
Speaker 1: fine for your quads. Have you done any of these
Speaker 1: these you know, these good ones? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we do that every day a couple of times.
Speaker 1: You stretching every day day? You know? At times? Do
Speaker 1: you know? Have you now? Do we come back? Have
Speaker 1: you accepted though, the benefits of stretching every day? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why would I have not? Why would I not? You
Speaker 1: don't do that at home? I do?
Speaker 2: I ask my wife? You text her right now? Unprompted,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to text her first ask how often
Speaker 2: do I stretch?
Speaker 1: I don't care that much, but I take your word
Speaker 1: for it. It is inauguration day there. It is President
Speaker 1: Trump's ball, so to speak. The luncheon is underway of
Speaker 1: the swearing in has happened in the Capitol Rotunda. Carrie
Speaker 1: Underwood presenting a spur of the moment, a cappella rendition
Speaker 1: of America the Beautiful, which was lovely. The music didn't work.
Speaker 1: She just grabbed the mic and went with it. People
Speaker 1: join in beautiful moment there. Now all the power brokers
Speaker 1: are chit chatting at that luncheon there at Statutory Hall.
Speaker 1: President will be having a rally at the Big Arena
Speaker 1: there in DC coming up later on as well. He
Speaker 1: kept it pretty buttoned up during his comments following the
Speaker 1: swearing in, talked about a return to prominence, the golden
Speaker 1: era of America as he talked about how the world
Speaker 1: will respect us again, that he will put America first.
Speaker 1: Some flurry of executive orders he mentioned, like a national
Speaker 1: emergency at the southern border, the Gulf of Mexico becoming
Speaker 1: the Gulf of America, de nally returning to Mount McKinley,
Speaker 1: things like that, and then went on to Emancipation Hall
Speaker 1: where he just went off the cuff for.
Speaker 2: Over an hour, a long time, to the point where
Speaker 2: everybody in the room appeared to be standing the whole time.
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott was the lucky one.
Speaker 2: He got to sit the entire time, and it looked
Speaker 2: like about fifteen minutes into the speech he had lost
Speaker 2: his own vice president and the Speaker of the House
Speaker 2: that they were waiting for the President to just wrap
Speaker 2: it up. He's right back to where he was just
Speaker 2: a few years ago. Internationally, Hamas has released three Israeli
Speaker 2: hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip. Israel released ninety
Speaker 2: Palestinian prisoners. This is the first day of that long
Speaker 2: awaited ceasefire agreement that went into effect. The three Israeli
Speaker 2: women who were taken hostage by the group back on
Speaker 2: October seventh of twenty three held in captivity for four
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy one days.
Speaker 1: In his first remarks as former president, Joe Biden thanked
Speaker 1: members of administration. He was at Joint Base Andrews just
Speaker 1: before taking off for California. He said, Jill and I
Speaker 1: are forever grateful to you. No president gets to choose
Speaker 1: the moment they enter history, but they get to choose
Speaker 1: the team they enter history with, he said, and we
Speaker 1: chose the best damn team in the world. Big day
Speaker 1: for damn and hell. JD Van saying hell at least
Speaker 1: three times in his opening remarks there Emancipation Hall.
Speaker 2: On today, of all days, We'll talk a little bit
Speaker 2: later more about my injuries, which don't thankfully didn't exist.
Speaker 2: I was telling you that there were a couple of
Speaker 2: guys at this baseball fantasy camp. One guy specifically blew
Speaker 2: his hamstring out on the first day, and that was rough.
Speaker 2: It was a sort of a practice game where everybody
Speaker 2: got to play in front of the coaches as before
Speaker 2: they make their draft. And he pulled up lame about
Speaker 2: halfway down first base, and it was he went down,
Speaker 2: and he stayed down for a while. The trainers came.
Speaker 2: They had wrapped him up with ice and everything, and
Speaker 2: his only goal was that he wanted to play in
Speaker 2: a game, in one of the real thinker quotes, real games.
Speaker 1: So it was like an Aaron Rodgers type of a situation,
Speaker 1: kind of he gets out there, he carries the flag
Speaker 1: out and just goes down right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was bad because he was what I mean,
Speaker 2: it's super nice guys. He and his brother were there.
Speaker 1: Nice doesn't matter. And the arena of death.
Speaker 2: He had retired on Friday, was his last day working,
Speaker 2: so this was his gift to himself and his family's
Speaker 2: gift to Oh that's unfortunate. It's kept a great attitude
Speaker 2: the whole time. So late Thursday, he gets into the game.
Speaker 2: All he wants to do is taken at bat. That's
Speaker 2: all he wants. He just wants taken at bat. And
Speaker 2: we're at a point where we're pretty shallow on pitchers,
Speaker 2: so his own coach was pitching to him. So this
Speaker 2: is George Kantos, reliever for the Giants at one point,
Speaker 2: is now pitching to his own team and we're playing
Speaker 2: in the field. Did duck and the first pitch goes
Speaker 2: up and in and he throws his head back like
Speaker 2: this to kind of get out of the way the pitch.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that close, but he throws like this because
Speaker 2: that's your immediate reaction, grabs his back, immediately grabs his hamster,
Speaker 2: and then asked to hobble off.
Speaker 1: So he didn't even get one pitch in. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't a Kirk Gibson moment where he's hobbling up there.
Speaker 1: It's a triple Yeah. No, I have a quick question,
Speaker 1: and I didn't notice it. It is MLK Day today.
Speaker 1: The President was speaking at Emancipation Hall. Did he make
Speaker 1: any mention of it being MLK Day?
Speaker 2: He did in the in the inaugural speech. Right, he
Speaker 2: did mention it, but he didn't spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time on it.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, I would think that Emancipation Hall, you mention
Speaker 1: it considering it was built for the slaves that built
Speaker 1: the capitol, Right.
Speaker 2: But he's completely off script at that point.
Speaker 1: Right, You'll think that was still mention it. Hope, Yeah, ye, hope.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the whole Karen Bass situation. I'm surprised
Speaker 2: it has endured as much as it has me too.
Speaker 1: Usually people move on, and like I hear John talking
Speaker 1: about it right where he's like, people move on, I'm
Speaker 1: not moving on, And I get that, and that's John's
Speaker 1: brand of special But like usually everybody else moves on
Speaker 1: even though John doesn't, it seems like everyone's sticking with this,
Speaker 1: like major media markets are talking about or outlets are
Speaker 1: talking about her ineptitude with this whole thing. I have
Speaker 1: a theory. I do want to hear about your theory
Speaker 1: about Karen Bass. I also want to get to this
Speaker 1: story coming up at at some point in the show
Speaker 1: about Disney's haunted mansion. Apparently over the weekend it's refurbishings
Speaker 1: were revealed, and it seems like they have toned it
Speaker 1: down a little bit because the scary because of feelings.
Speaker 1: It gets pretty scary in there. No, no, no, be sure,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happened. They said. It's sad but
Speaker 1: not scary.
Speaker 2: Weather is going to be a huge headline across the
Speaker 2: country over the course of the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Back down in the South, heavy snow and ice from
Speaker 2: Texas to the Carolinas. Tonight into Wednesday. Here in California,
Speaker 2: yet another powerful and potentially damaging Santa Ana windstorm. Extreme
Speaker 2: fire risk is coming in today and tomorrow. Listen, we've
Speaker 2: hopefully proven to you and shown you over the last
Speaker 2: several least couple of weeks now that we are on
Speaker 2: top of this story, and we will continue to be
Speaker 2: on top of this story. And if any comes out,
Speaker 2: you can always let us know what's going on in
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Speaker 2: might be able to help some of those people who
Speaker 2: have been affected by these wildfires.
Speaker 1: One of the persons who has not been able to
Speaker 1: escape the wildfire has been Karen Bass. Karen Bass has
Speaker 1: been raked over the coals for this one. Starting from go.
Speaker 1: She had the forecast put on her desk that showed
Speaker 1: dangerous life threatening conditions where the words that were used,
Speaker 1: at least the words that we saw. This was after
Speaker 1: she cut the fire department pretty severely got this forecast,
Speaker 1: made the decision to continue her travel plan to Ghana
Speaker 1: despite the fact she was told this is going to
Speaker 1: be really bad. Then the pictures came out of her
Speaker 1: at the cocktail party in Ghana after evacuation orders were
Speaker 1: issued to the George w reading to school children after
Speaker 1: the second plane had hit type images that are not
Speaker 1: going to go away. The fact that there was not
Speaker 1: enough water in the hydrants, the reservoir issue, it's all
Speaker 1: not going away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then the controversy about whether or not she
Speaker 2: had fired the fire chief because the fire chief came
Speaker 2: out with some critical comments placing the blame when it
Speaker 2: comes to lack of readiness on city hall for not
Speaker 2: fully funding the department the way that the chief thought
Speaker 2: it should be funded. Now she's been.
Speaker 1: I guess this.
Speaker 2: Article says she's been struggling with perceptions of her leadership.
Speaker 2: I would just say that there's been There's not a
Speaker 2: lot of highlights that would come out of Karen Bass's
Speaker 2: time as mayor so far.
Speaker 1: But she had kind of turned the tide a little.
Speaker 1: But she was a tough talker. She had kind of
Speaker 1: come around a little bit. I thought, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember the moment where I felt this, what if it
Speaker 1: was a disaster, what it was? But she was speaking
Speaker 1: like a normal person. She exuded strength. I was into it.
Speaker 2: She was making I will say this, she was making
Speaker 2: more progress on the homelessness issue. Yeah, than we've seen
Speaker 2: in multiple administrations.
Speaker 1: Preez. So that's what it was. But now Rick Caruso
Speaker 1: has become kind of the voice of common sense and
Speaker 1: the guy who kind of stuck with the community. His
Speaker 1: community was burning to the ground. He was here, he
Speaker 1: was vocal, he ran to the microphones. He was specific
Speaker 1: about what the city could have been had done differently.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a weather event, a wind event,
Speaker 1: this was a recipe for disaster from go, but there
Speaker 1: were some things that could have mitigated the damage that
Speaker 1: were not done preemptively, and he was one of the
Speaker 1: first to raise his hands and talk about those in specifics.
Speaker 1: And you know, she is up in next year twenty
Speaker 1: six and a lot of people are talking about Rick
Speaker 1: Crusoe making another run at this thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's my theory. I feel like one of
Speaker 2: the sentiments that is very common when it comes to
Speaker 2: politics lately, it's is that the only choice I have
Speaker 2: is that person or that person. Can't we do better?
Speaker 2: Can't there be better people who run for whether it's
Speaker 2: a local office like the mayor of la or the
Speaker 2: governor or the president, whatever it is. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of people who have been disenchanted with politics. And it's
Speaker 2: not new necessarily, but this idea that you're choosing between
Speaker 2: the lesser of two evils is getting really frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and in the event that something happens, the event that
Speaker 2: something like this happens, whether it's foreseen or unforeseen, this
Speaker 2: not really unforeseen. I mean the idea that it these
Speaker 2: fires blasted through the neighborhoods the way that they did
Speaker 2: was the unforeseen part. But the idea that we would
Speaker 2: have a damaging, destructive, and potentially deadly wildfire should not
Speaker 2: surprise anybody. That's where we live. We've covered them for
Speaker 2: twenty years since you and I have lived in southern California.
Speaker 2: But there's a sentiment. I think the reason that this
Speaker 2: is sticking right now is because people are starting to
Speaker 2: realize they need to be as much a part of
Speaker 2: the process of choosing the next leader as allowing a
Speaker 2: party to do so, right, And I think there's a
Speaker 2: lot of factors that go into that. People look at
Speaker 2: whoever you want to say that was running against Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom the last couple of times, or whether he was
Speaker 2: going to be recalled. People just they get stuck in
Speaker 2: these cycles of well, I don't like that guy, or
Speaker 2: I don't like that lady because of the letter that's
Speaker 2: behind her name, as opposed to saying we need constant
Speaker 2: updated change, constant updated philosophy in our government to make
Speaker 2: this thing continue to succeed.
Speaker 1: To take your theory a step further, it's the pendulum theory,
Speaker 1: isn't it. People are tired of the establishment, whether it
Speaker 1: was the establishment of the old white guy Republicans in power,
Speaker 1: or if it was most recently, the establishment of the
Speaker 1: people who don't look like that in power that are
Speaker 1: legislating on feelings and let all the prisoners out and
Speaker 1: abolish the police, and let's treat people with hugs and
Speaker 1: tickles and clean needles. And that's not working. People are
Speaker 1: seeing that, even people in California, which is why George
Speaker 1: Gascon got booted out. That's why people are rolling back
Speaker 1: Prop forty seven. The tide is turned in terms of
Speaker 1: that's not working. It sounded good, it sounded nice. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be a nice world where we just rehabbed people
Speaker 1: and there were no punishments. That sounds so nice, But
Speaker 1: then people's homes were broken into and people are now
Speaker 1: afraid to go to the mall. So tide is turning
Speaker 1: back to someone like Rick Caruso, someone with law and
Speaker 1: order and establishment and maybe not somebody who's going to
Speaker 1: be worried about, for lack of a better term, because
Speaker 1: it's thrown around the DEI stuff. Right, Get somebody in
Speaker 1: there that is a businessman that can cut red tape,
Speaker 1: that can get the building permits to to just be
Speaker 1: done with. In terms of rebuilding homes after a wildfire,
Speaker 1: sweepster communities and destroys them. That's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: people want. They want action, like we talked about two weeks.
Speaker 2: Ago, and listen, I think Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: to a lesser degree, simply because he's at a higher
Speaker 2: level of government. I think she has the opportunity to
Speaker 2: turn this around, to do those things that you're talking about,
Speaker 2: to cut through this red tape, to pour resources into
Speaker 2: those communities. The thing is, at the beginning, she will
Speaker 2: constantly have that stain of in the beginning, she was
Speaker 2: drinking cocktails at a presidential inauguration in Ghana while the
Speaker 2: evacuation orders were in place. And that is the thing
Speaker 2: that I think she's gonna have to live down. And
Speaker 2: I don't know how you do that. I mean, Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom in the French laundry, I don't know how that
Speaker 2: did not tank his candidacy for governor.
Speaker 1: How it'll come back, Well, that it will come back,
Speaker 1: that it sounds like a bad fashion trend. It'll be back.
Speaker 1: But what then? Why?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at a guy like Rick
Speaker 2: Crusoe and you say to yourself, he saved the Palisades,
Speaker 2: that shopping center that he owns in the Palisades and
Speaker 2: that people say there's like music playing there and it's
Speaker 2: gross because there's a hold on a second, he was
Speaker 2: able to do something that other people were unable to do.
Speaker 2: So does that make him a bad guy? Makes him
Speaker 2: a rich guy? Clearly?
Speaker 1: How dare you gentrify a shopping center? We want people
Speaker 1: coming in and looting. We want organized crime rings coming
Speaker 1: into our shopping center and making you scared to take
Speaker 1: your kids to the mall to pick up back to
Speaker 1: school clothes. That's what we prefer. I mean, that's where
Speaker 1: we went. We went from the La Times ripping Rick
Speaker 1: Caruso for piping classical music into a shopping centers and
Speaker 1: the fountains and it being too beautiful, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the gentrification. Where's the graffiti? Where are the people robbing
Speaker 1: people like they are at Fashion Island and gunpoint and
Speaker 1: with their vehicles? That's what we is, That what we
Speaker 1: want because y'all did that to us. It's this is a.
Speaker 2: For both Karen Bass and like I said, I think
Speaker 2: to a lesser extent, but also for Gavin Newsom, this
Speaker 2: is going to be a thing that is their defining moment.
Speaker 2: Whatever they plan to do next, politically, how.
Speaker 3: Many times do we say groin? Are we going to
Speaker 3: say groin?
Speaker 1: Gary's groin?
Speaker 3: Is it okay? Is growing okay?
Speaker 1: I mean groin?
Speaker 3: Happy groin day.
Speaker 1: Well, Gary came back from his adult fantasy baseball camp
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco Giants. He was that's why we
Speaker 1: were gone last week. And it's a very cool opportunity
Speaker 1: where former players are out there. It's beautiful. You're in Arizona.
Speaker 1: The sun is shining, and you get to play games
Speaker 1: and you there's camaraderie and all of the good things.
Speaker 1: While you were gone, I got a few messages about
Speaker 1: you potentially having a groin injury, which is why I
Speaker 1: brought it up, and you quickly quashed that and said, no,
Speaker 1: there was no injury. You did just fine. But I
Speaker 1: do want to hear your tails.
Speaker 2: I pulled a groin.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't mine. I don't want to hear your tails.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about the weird stuff, but
Speaker 1: the baseball stuff that sounds that sounds good. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: did not win the MVP.
Speaker 2: I did not win the MVP. I struck out once
Speaker 2: my first at bat of the week. I struck out.
Speaker 1: What was the count what was the pitch count.
Speaker 2: It was a full count a couple so you made contact.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, so I the very first it was
Speaker 1: a forwards k, not a backwards k.
Speaker 2: Correct, But I went I think four for five and
Speaker 2: the rest of that game or three for five, three
Speaker 2: the rest of that game. Really a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot about bats. I had one double
Speaker 2: in that game. Nice, And I put the ball in
Speaker 2: play most of the time. And listen, when you're playing
Speaker 2: against other advanced players, we'll call it.
Speaker 1: We'll just say advanced players. You mean advanced players or
Speaker 1: advanced age.
Speaker 2: Age players, is what I mean. Just putting it in play.
Speaker 2: Something's going to happen. You force them to make the
Speaker 2: play and they are not, you know, nine hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty of yeah.
Speaker 1: But the fact that you put it in the thing
Speaker 1: like that's the win, right, So that's hard to do.
Speaker 2: I literally hit a pop up at one point to
Speaker 2: the pitcher and not to go after George Kantos again,
Speaker 2: former pitcher for the Giants. He missed the play. It
Speaker 2: bounced off his glove and I was on first for
Speaker 2: the air. It was an infield pop.
Speaker 1: Up and he feel really good. It made me laugh.
Speaker 2: It made everybody laugh. But that's the kind of stuff
Speaker 2: that was really funny. So I go all week with
Speaker 2: one strikeout, and again it was the first step out
Speaker 2: all week. On Friday, we play a championship game. One
Speaker 2: team was wiping everybody else out. They had a four
Speaker 2: and one record for the week. So what they did
Speaker 2: was because all the other teams, many of them were hurt.
Speaker 2: We only had a certain number of people who were
Speaker 2: even capable of playing on Friday afternoon for the championship game.
Speaker 2: So the championship team played against sort of a Frankenstein
Speaker 2: All star team of the other three teams. So we
Speaker 2: all got together and fured out who's going to play,
Speaker 2: and we rotate in and out everything.
Speaker 1: So you got to be on the all star team
Speaker 1: because you're good.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was left.
Speaker 1: What happened to the other island of misfit toys? They
Speaker 1: just stand in the stands, some of.
Speaker 2: Them dressed and hung out in the dugout with us
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But that well, I had a
Speaker 2: concussion and went home early. Well like it's a little
Speaker 2: not my fault, hurt, but I struck out three times
Speaker 2: in that game.
Speaker 1: Well, you're playing the best team.
Speaker 2: Yes, but the guy who was pitching at first, he
Speaker 2: just threw it down the mill.
Speaker 1: He wanted people to hit under the ball. Were you
Speaker 1: behind the ball?
Speaker 2: The last one. The last one was super frustrating because
Speaker 2: there's there's that one or two guys who take it
Speaker 2: way too seriously, and this was a guy who was
Speaker 2: taking away too seriously, and he was pumping it in
Speaker 2: there somewhere above eighty two eighty three miles an hour,
Speaker 2: probably according to Rich Murray.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say a player who.
Speaker 2: Was sitting right on my own plate to know this.
Speaker 2: So not making excuses.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say your many excuses. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to say, maybe if you could humor me, because
Speaker 1: I did mention it before you left, and this is
Speaker 1: not and I told you so. It's just I brought
Speaker 1: this up. Have you gone to the batting cage? Okay,
Speaker 1: you said to me when I said that, for the
Speaker 1: last five days, I've been in the case, so that's
Speaker 1: an excuse. Okay, well all right, yeah, but before you
Speaker 1: went there, but at the beginning you said that week
Speaker 1: I did great. But you said to me, yes, you
Speaker 1: didn't mean to raise my voice. You just did. You
Speaker 1: said to me I'm not going to be hitting eighty
Speaker 1: mile per hour balls. These are old men like I
Speaker 1: don't need to go to the batting cage. I said, okay, well,
Speaker 1: listen the guy. The the guy starts me off with
Speaker 1: the ball outside. Okay, I don't swing at it. It
Speaker 1: was really fish. It was by far the fastest pitch
Speaker 1: that I'd seen all week. And then you took a pitch.
Speaker 2: No, I took that pitch. That's ball one.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Second pitch comes in a little bit closer. It was
Speaker 2: over the plate and I fouled off, but I pulled
Speaker 2: it foul, like I fouled it down the third baseline.
Speaker 2: I had pretty good contact, but I had pulled it foul. Okay,
Speaker 2: just at a long, long strike at that point. So
Speaker 2: then he tries to drop a curveball in, and listen.
Speaker 2: He had a fine curveball, but I saw it coming
Speaker 2: from a mile away and it ended up it stayed high,
Speaker 2: So two in one count.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a sinker.
Speaker 2: Then he bangs me inside for a three in one right,
Speaker 2: and I knew that I'm just going to choke down
Speaker 2: on that bat and I'm going to swing out of
Speaker 2: my shoes because he knows enough that he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to walk me. I know enough that he's going to
Speaker 2: try to pitch one past me and it's just going
Speaker 2: to be all fastball all day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I swing out of my shoes and I foull
Speaker 2: it straight back.
Speaker 1: Same thing.
Speaker 2: Now it's three and two, same thing. He pitches me inside.
Speaker 2: I found two more pitches off. Good battle right, even
Speaker 2: to the point where the catcher was like, hey, you're
Speaker 2: fighting pretty good here, and I'm getting mad. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: this guy, listen, we all have to go to work
Speaker 2: on Monday. Like this is not This is not the
Speaker 2: end of the world. This is You've already he had
Speaker 2: already won the cy Young Award for the camp because
Speaker 2: of his pitching performance in the week.
Speaker 1: You don't take the foot up, you don't take your
Speaker 1: foot off the.
Speaker 2: Gas, Gary, I know, listen, trust me. I heard you
Speaker 2: in my head. I heard you in my head. So
Speaker 2: two strikes. I choked back up on the bat.
Speaker 3: I'm just there to protect, right, I just got to
Speaker 3: protect question. Last pitch low outside, I flipped the bat.
Speaker 3: I'm walking to first and the umpire calls strikes and
Speaker 3: the dugout went crazy.
Speaker 2: Even they knew that that was not. But then I
Speaker 2: looked at the clock. We were about five minutes before
Speaker 2: they'd already said we can't go past two o'clock or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then you look closer at the picture and you're like,
Speaker 1: is that Patrick mahomes right? Do you use a thirty
Speaker 1: four ounce bat?
Speaker 2: I use a thirty four inch bat. I honestly don't
Speaker 2: know how much it weighs. It's not I don't know, huh.
Speaker 2: But that was some of the bigger guys on the team,
Speaker 2: or thirty three. They had a lot of thirty three
Speaker 2: inch bats, and I wasn't You didn't have a.
Speaker 1: Problem coming around on the fastballs.
Speaker 2: Oh I pulled that one down the third base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's good. That's good. I think you did
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 2: I need to do better about hitting to the opposite
Speaker 2: I need to hit to right field it field, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I need to let that ball travel.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, I'm happy to go to the batting cages
Speaker 1: next year if you want to what heckle me, No,
Speaker 1: I'll be there. Taken batting practice too, albeit on the
Speaker 1: softball machine. Why because I am a girl. There were
Speaker 1: girls that were playing in there, I know, and I've
Speaker 1: got bless them. Bless their hearts. I like the bigger balls.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say.
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Speaker 2: Oh hey girl, or hey, how would you say that
Speaker 2: with an accent?
Speaker 1: Just say hey girl, I guess so can you do
Speaker 1: that in a British accent? I just did? I think
Speaker 1: there's not enough there for me. There's not enough meat
Speaker 1: on that bone. Put an accent.
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