WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:09.640 A couple of stories who were following President Trump expected 5 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.039 to sign an executive order probably this hour to close 6 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:15.199 the Education Department. He's going to hold an event at 7 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.800 the White House today and of course Education Secretary Linda 8 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.199 McMahon will be there. It does take congressional approval, so 9 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:24.399 we'll see if he can get that. 10 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.879 We're asking you, and now that Southwest has canceled their 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:32.479 free checked bags racket, what did you pack in your 12 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.679 free bag for Southwest? Maybe you chose Southwest because you 13 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.759 could pack that for free. Was it a turkey? Was 14 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:40.600 it a tire rim? Was it a child? 15 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:43.520 I just want to point out I told you about 16 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:44.679 a couple of them that we've gotten. 17 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:46.560 The bar is high. 18 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.359 Don't come to us with like I packed an empty 19 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.679 box of wheedies, right, No, no, no, no. 20 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:52.920 I packed my Chick fil a. 21 00:00:54.520 --> 00:01:00.719 There are some significantly important international laws that may have 22 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.439 been broken. That's what I want. 23 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.519 That's exactly the kind of feedback that I'm looking for. Gary. 24 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:07.840 I understand it's hard for you to hide your disdain 25 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:14.519 for the World Series champion LA Dodgers. But baseball season 26 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.599 started this week. 27 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.200 Pal Go Dodgers. 28 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.239 Gary led the show with the Dodgers game on Monday, 29 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.560 Like that was his idea to start talking about the 30 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:29.120 Dodgers beating the Cubs in Tokyo. He's not hiding the 31 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.239 fact that he supports your Los Angeles Dodgers. He's a 32 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.640 Giants fan, but he doesn't hate the Dodgers. 33 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.120 But if you're also not a Dodgers fan and you're 34 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.680 not a Cubs fan, the season starts next Thursday, Right, 35 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:45.599 that's a that's not a just a thing. 36 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.079 Opening days different for a lot of people. 37 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:50.200 It brings a lot of different emotions. 38 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:51.040 It sure does. 39 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:54.719 Sometimes it brings the immediate sense of dread that you're 40 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.159 never going to win anything again. 41 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.519 Well, you shouldn't have been feeling that way for a while. 42 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.719 I will say they've looked great during the spring, have 43 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.200 the Giants. But that's spring training and nobody cares. 44 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.680 Michael Monk says, join us from KFI News, and it 45 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.759 looks like suddenly people locally are saying, we're not doing 46 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:18.039 this homelessness thing right. People have given us boat tons 47 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.280 of cash and we're still effing it up. Wow, a 48 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.479 little self awareness in government is wild, and so I'm 49 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.599 immediately thinking that that's not what this is. 50 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:28.639 Michael, tell me what. 51 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.400 I'll tell you why. You're exactly right. 52 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.639 It is a little self awareness on the city's part 53 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:37.919 here because it's different than the county. The county has 54 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:41.159 also recently said, Oops, this isn't going well. We should 55 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:45.120 try a different approach after multiple skating audits have revealed 56 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.400 we don't really know how this money is being spent. 57 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:49.520 We're not even properly accounting for it. We don't know 58 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.879 how much has been spent. We don't know what the 59 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.560 results are. That is, after reviewing LASA, the homeless organization, 60 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.919 the only homeless services authority that is governed by both 61 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.879 the county and the city. The county has now moved 62 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.439 to make their own department the city. As I explained 63 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.000 to John Coblt yesterday afternoon, they're not creating a new department, 64 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.879 they're creating a new bureau. 65 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:09.080 We don't let people name drop other shows. 66 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:10.960 I'm Sergy. 67 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.080 And I'm a tramp from wayback, So I just bounce 68 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.680 around all of the shows. Wherever you you're showing up 69 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.360 and I'm here to polease Maryland and a Kennedy pool exactly. 70 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:26.719 So anyway, so the city now is like, hey, yeah, 71 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.759 it's true, we don't have any oversight. In fact, Councilman 72 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.479 Nythia Rahman said, we have nobody at city Hall who 73 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.840 is overseeing where these funds are going, how they're spending, 74 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.560 and we should probably have that person here. And so 75 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.479 that's what they've moved to do is to have a 76 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:43.360 bureau inside City Hall. They're trying to figure out how 77 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.199 many people they might need to work there and how 78 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.560 much money they would need to fund. 79 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:47.800 The more bureaucracy. 80 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.000 It's literally called a bureau. They're not even hiding it. 81 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:52.360 This is insane, you know. 82 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.960 I want to say it was twenty fourteen when we 83 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.879 signed that county measure. It was a bond measure for homelessness. 84 00:03:59.479 --> 00:03:59.759 Is that what? 85 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:00.560 Yeah? 86 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:00.919 Thank you? 87 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.879 And I think it was twenty fourteen. It's anyway, it 88 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.759 was an s ton of money. And what happened was 89 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.360 there was too many cooks in the kitchen and they 90 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:14.199 essentially said that where they got together city and county 91 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.240 think think about the bureau at City Hall, but a 92 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.120 bigger room. And they all got together for like a 93 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.839 week to figure out how to spend all this money. 94 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.519 And everyone had there and it was activists and it 95 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.319 was people from the interventionists and people from the homeless 96 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:32.319 and city and federal, like all the people, all the 97 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.360 people involved in homelessness for La County were in this room, 98 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.560 representatives for all the people involved, and they brought in lunch. 99 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:42.800 They met for the whole week, and at the end 100 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.000 they were like, we've decided nothing. They could there were 101 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.000 too many cooks in the kitchen. They couldn't figure out 102 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.560 how to spend all the money. Money has never been 103 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.319 a problem for the homelessness issue, at least in La County. 104 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.199 Voters have seen there's a problem. They don't like seeing 105 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:00.279 the problem. They don't like walking over the problem. Blem 106 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.519 if they live downtown, they don't like any of it. 107 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:09.199 But it seems like the disconnect has been not with 108 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.160 the money we're pledging, but with the people that will 109 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.120 actually put the money into use. 110 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.720 What are the expectations, you know, obviously, if you're a 111 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.120 voter says yeah, we'll pay a little bit more this 112 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.319 time around because you're going to fix it, right, the 113 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.399 expectation is there will not be homeless camps near my 114 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.560 kid's school. There are expectations that there will not be 115 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.480 mentally ill, drug addicted people walking across the five and 116 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.800 creating a dangerous situation for drivers on their way to 117 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.519 work so they can pay these higher taxes. Yeah, that's 118 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:41.160 the expectation. The expectation from the government side is so unclear. 119 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.879 And that's what these audits keep coming back. They show 120 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.319 that there are contract signed to vendors who are supposed 121 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:51.199 to execute homeless goals without any outline goals and without 122 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.800 any evidence that those goals were achieved because they are 123 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.519 so loose and undefined. 124 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:57.839 And here's the deal. Here's where it gets harrier. 125 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.759 And I think the reason that you're seeing a little 126 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.399 more action for both the county and a little action 127 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.639 from the city this week. In a week or so 128 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.240 week and a half, our sales tax is going up 129 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.480 in Los Angeles County. We voted for this again because 130 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.839 we want to put six hundred million other billion dollars 131 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.879 every year into supporting homeless program. 132 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:18.720 Can you stick with us for another segment? 133 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:20.879 I mean, the Louisville game is on, but we have 134 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:25.000 it on the telly. It's right there on Fine. I'm 135 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.720 they're ahead and tell Cobalt. 136 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:27.879 I did too, So I think it's still the first 137 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.879 period's halftime. 138 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.519 That would be really quick if it was. Yea, it is, yeah, 139 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:37.720 sure starts at noon East. 140 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.000 I was watching. 141 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.560 I haven't been closely watching it. 142 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:45.439 It is halftime, yeah, yeah, wow. 143 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:47.720 I'm glad we we got that all squared. 144 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.000 Away by fifteen. Was down by fifteen to Creighton. 145 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:54.079 You have them in the Elite eight. 146 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.480 Yeah, from Kentucky. You know, I know, I know what. 147 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:56.720 You know? 148 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:57.639 What year do you think? 149 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.680 It's been a long time since Louis has been in 150 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:04.040 the You're not thought narratives of March madness. 151 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:05.879 I've been on the narrative and they've got a great narrative. 152 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:06.959 Gary Well, I. 153 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.240 Do love betting on a narrative, which is my problem. 154 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.879 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 155 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:14.959 AM six forty. 156 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.959 China has done it again, provoking international outrage. They executed 157 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:25.439 four Canadian nationals on drug related offenses. Now, Canada's Foreign 158 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.879 Affairs minister has said that she and former Prime Minister 159 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.759 Justin Trudeau had asked for clemency for these for these 160 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.040 four men, these four dual citizens of China and Canada 161 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.319 after they were implicated in these alleged crimes. Beijing came 162 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:46.519 back and said, we put to death drug criminals, and 163 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.519 we do not recognize dual citizenship. So take your fancy 164 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:53.439 passports and stuff them up your moose. 165 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.240 Oh I've never heard that before. 166 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.519 Well, you spent a lot of time in Canada. 167 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.720 Canada, they refer to your rear end as your moose. 168 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.920 No, they refer to a moose as a moose. Ah, 169 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.160 everybody in Canada has a moose. 170 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:10.759 I don't know why I felt like you needed to 171 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:22.399 stem it up your That's a better question, isn't it. 172 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.439 A family led group advocating for the release of the 173 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.839 Menendez brothers has rallied outside the CCB this morning. 174 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:32.600 That'll do it. 175 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:34.720 They said that. 176 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:41.039 Nathan Hoffman's ignoring the good work that they've done in prison. Explain, 177 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.759 you can do all the work you want un till 178 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.480 you've got a moose in your ass, but you killed 179 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.480 people and it's hard for the justice system to get 180 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:49.840 over that. 181 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:53.120 Okay, now you're completely muddling my words. 182 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:57.360 You put your fancy passports in the moose, right, not 183 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:58.799 a moose in your butt? 184 00:08:59.279 --> 00:08:59.519 Right? 185 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:00.440 Okay? 186 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:05.919 Sorry, Michael, I appreciate that you're here, and I will 187 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.039 try to maintain. 188 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:09.840 I haven't been the original, while I will be going 189 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:14.840 this weekend. This is I need community service. I need 190 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:16.120 to be showered in the holy water. 191 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:17.320 Back to a church. 192 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:18.879 I might need to be washed in the blood. 193 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.799 Well, we were talking about the City of LA now 194 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.879 creating a Homeless Oversight Bureau because that's the way we'll 195 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:32.159 solve homelessness. There's more people on it to try to 196 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:33.600 keep an eye on all of our money. 197 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.600 Yeah, as more money is coming in for it because 198 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.720 of the sales tax. And I should also note that 199 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.919 we're putting more money into these homeless programs while the 200 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:45.840 City of Los Angeles is now admitted more clearly than 201 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.200 ever that they don't have any money. It's a situation 202 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.080 that's only gotten worse all year long. Been harping on 203 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.559 this since last fall, and I cannot believe that there 204 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.080 hasn't been like an emergency press conference to say, like 205 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:56.799 this is our plan. 206 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.240 This No one's paying attention, everyone's on TikTok. 207 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.120 It started with like over a couple hundred million short 208 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:03.840 in a city this large and a budget this large. 209 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:05.639 You think that's bad, but that can be fixed that 210 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:07.360 can be. It will move some money around, we'll change 211 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.000 some things. But just yesterday the city administrator told the 212 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.000 City Council for the next budget, we think there's going 213 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.080 to be a billion dollar short a billion billion dollars 214 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.799 of an eight billion dollar budget. So that's a significant amount. 215 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.399 And he said not tens of layoffs, not hundreds of layoffs, 216 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.559 thousands of layoffs are possible if we don't. 217 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:28.759 Course correct in the response from the mayor. 218 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.399 So far as we have previewed what our plan is, 219 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.480 and it's basically the first page of a PowerPoint. We 220 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.279 should reduce spending, we should not spend so much on 221 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.919 legal settlements, but no details. And so the lack of 222 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.399 urgency in both this financial crisis that the city now 223 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.799 finally admits out in the open, and to the lack 224 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.679 of urgency with getting homeless people off of the street 225 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.919 and out of your neighborhoods and out of your business. 226 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:55.559 Getting the money from that they got the money from 227 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.039 in prior years. 228 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.279 What they say is that revenues are down across the 229 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.720 board in a variety of ways. That includes property tax, 230 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.000 sales tax, business tax, the hotel tax. 231 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.879 Why because we're taxed crazy and like your point that 232 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.440 sales tax is going to be going up. 233 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.440 Sales tax is going up to fund the homeless programs 234 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.559 and the and the whole county. But in the county 235 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.519 opery they say that, and that's included of course LA 236 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:21.679 obviously a big part of the La county. But they're 237 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.200 not having the transactions that they had that they had 238 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:24.759 budgeted for. 239 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.000 It isn't that does not add up to a billion 240 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:28.440 dollars though. 241 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.080 Well, you know what does is when you budget each 242 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.799 year to anticipate a certain amount of lawsuits that you 243 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.000 will have to settle just by nature of being the government. 244 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.759 You know, some people are gonna fall on the sidewalk, 245 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.960 you know, the police are probably going to do something wrong, 246 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.000 and you're gonna have to write a check. They budget 247 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.279 for that every year. There are hundreds of millions of 248 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.720 dollars over budget. And that area alone, they were about 249 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.919 to have to borrow money specifically for the purpose of 250 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.240 covering more legal settems. I'll tell you just Tuesday, while 251 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.360 I'm watching a city council meeting, they approve more than 252 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:01.879 eight million dollars more in lawsuits, the bulk of that 253 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.399 going to an laped shooting and the next day in 254 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.519 the budget committee, twenty eight more lawsuits to be concerned. 255 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.960 So the word has gotten out that the city settles everything. 256 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.080 So file the lawsuits and you'll end up with a settlement. 257 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.159 And all year long they note these little problems that 258 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.399 they have, and they form these committees or ask for 259 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.600 staff reports on various little issues like maybe we should 260 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.519 sell some property, or maybe we should figure out a 261 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:26.159 way to fight the lawsuits. 262 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:27.120 A little more out a waste of time. 263 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:27.799 But that's it. 264 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.679 We're now the new budget is supposed to come out 265 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:32.840 from the mayor next month. Yeah, and now we're facing 266 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.000 And that's what I mean about urgency. I'm just shocked 267 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.320 to the lack of urgency in this never never. 268 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:39.360 It kicked the can down the road. 269 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:40.399 So shocking. 270 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:40.639 You know. 271 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:43.039 I come from a city of forty three thousand strong 272 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.919 in Kentucky and we had a financial crisis fifteen years 273 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.279 ago because two large employers left. 274 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:51.320 They just sold the city off to Indiana. 275 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.799 We should that was my suggestion, like, let's go in Ohio. 276 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.960 We're connected by bridge to Cincinnati. We could have just 277 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.000 become ohioan we're union anyway, you. 278 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:58.639 Know, let's do it. 279 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.159 We were not part of the Confederacy, the good part 280 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.879 and instead the city leadership like went around the whole city. 281 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.320 They did a budget road show to explain like, this 282 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.159 is the problem, this is how we're going to fix it, 283 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.080 and within the next year all your sidewalks are going 284 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:13.360 to be fixed. We just have to get through this. 285 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:15.759 I haven't heard that here. What did so what did 286 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:19.000 they do in Kentucky? Yeah, they made some tough decisions. 287 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.039 They got rid of their nine to one one dispatch 288 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.000 center and combined it with the county for example, that 289 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:25.120 they had to renegotiate with the unions. 290 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.440 And this is stuff that this city is going to 291 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.200 happen to about these stuff, Yeah, I mean. 292 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:31.840 There are a lot of pay raises on the horizon, 293 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.600 there are union contracts to consider, there are legal settlements 294 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:36.240 that need to be dealt with the. 295 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.159 Host I was just going to say, we, I mean, 296 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.960 the time, the time element is here. There is time 297 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.679 for us to get this on the right track. But 298 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:47.840 it takes more than just beloviation from city hall in 299 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.159 terms of putting the making those hard decisions. 300 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:53.200 That's right, and it's what you see with the homeless stuff. 301 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.320 Just to kind of intertwine these things. Last year in 302 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.679 the homeless account. It's true, for the first time in 303 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:59.879 six years they saw a decline. It was very modest, 304 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.919 it was very small. And instead of like attacking that 305 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.000 like you go up a point, let's let's lay it 306 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.679 on them thick and get aggressive. I mean, you continue 307 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.600 to see press releases about, well, we housed thirty six people, right, 308 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:12.960 seventy five thousand people in the county without a how. 309 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:15.039 I did want to point out because I saw this quote. 310 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.639 Niffia Rahman, one of the city council members, described that 311 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:21.200 this homelessness bureau that they're talking about would be quote 312 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:26.559 lightweight and fiscally responsible. When is the last time any 313 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.799 government bureaucratic agency has been described as or or I 314 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.080 should say, has fulfilled its description of being lightweight and 315 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.759 fiscally responsible, especially when the plan appears to be to 316 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.960 bring in professionals that already exist and just kind of 317 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:44.480 reassign them from agencies that should be overseeing this spending. Anyway, 318 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.240 Great stuff, Michael. 319 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.080 Michael, always great to have you in here. We appreciate it. 320 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:50.519 Enjoy your most have fun. 321 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:51.840 Sorry for being offensive. 322 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.360 Let us know what it is that you crazy stuff 323 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.159 that you have packed into your what. 324 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:00.399 I kind of feel like Michael's been here long to 325 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.759 where I can be offensive and it's okay. 326 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.559 He's clearly not offended. Right, you can go a lot 327 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.919 farther maybe next time. Okay, let us know the craziest 328 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.159 thing that you put in your carry on bags or 329 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.000 checked bags. We don't care. Craziest stuff that you've gotten 330 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.879 away with. There's good ones, there are, there's really incredible ones. 331 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.519 People are a whole lot more conniving than I would 332 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:25.480 have given them credit for. 333 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:26.240 So excited. 334 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.919 But when we come back, we'll talk about what's going on. 335 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:31.600 The La Times had to pull a video of a 336 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.279 guy who was in Japan for the Dodgers games against 337 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.600 the Cubs. Why they pulled this video? Stop with the 338 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:39.759 pearl clutching people. 339 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.080 Good lord, you're. 340 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.679 Listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 341 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:46.200 six forty. 342 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:49.799 A couple stories who were following senior military officers from 343 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.679 around Europe and beyond our meeting in the UK today, 344 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.480 just outside London, trying to flesh out plans for an 345 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:02.159 international peacekeeping force for Ukraine. UK's Prime Minister Care Starmer 346 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.320 says this coalition would be led by Britain and France. 347 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.639 They're moving into an operational phase, but at this point 348 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.799 they said they don't know how many countries would be 349 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.320 willing to send troops and even if there will be 350 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.159 a ceasefire to protect. Obviously, Ukraine and Russia have been 351 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.960 agreeing not with each other, but in principle to a 352 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:20.960 limited ceasefire. 353 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.320 It still remains to be seen when that's going to 354 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:23.879 take effect. 355 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:27.120 Probably coming to a movie theater near you. 356 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.679 Is this story that we kind of forgot about the 357 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.879 family of that former Boeing quality control manager who killed 358 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:39.159 himself after being questioned for days by Boeing lawyers for whistleblowing. 359 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:41.200 His family suing the company. 360 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.960 His family has fow the wrongful death lawsuits that Boeing 361 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.279 subjected him to a harassment campaign. They tried to discredit 362 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.759 him humiliate him after he reported defects in the company's 363 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.440 jumbo jets. He shot and killed himself in March of 364 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.120 last year after several days of questioning. 365 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.799 Well, there was a cascade of backlash, if you want 366 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.039 to call it that. The La Times has pulled down 367 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.359 an Instagram reels video that showed one of their journalists 368 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.480 their video journalists perusing some of the concession items inside 369 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.920 the Tokyo Dome. Obviously, the fascination that the Japanese have 370 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:19.599 with Japanese baseball players playing in America, the Dodgers Cubs 371 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:25.799 two game series that took place, it was high level information. 372 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.200 I mean they were infatuated. Japan went crazy last week. 373 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.559 So if you go to different stadiums, I do you 374 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.559 know that every stadium has their own thing when it 375 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.200 comes to food, concessions and things like that. It's kind 376 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.039 of one of the fun things. What does this stadium have? 377 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.599 And you can imagine or even if you're an international traveler, 378 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.000 what kind of food does this place have. It's just 379 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.880 one of the fun things. It's an adventure. And one 380 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.799 of the things the La Times did was sending a 381 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.720 guy who's never been to Japan I'm guessing, never been 382 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:59.720 to Tokyo to the game and hey, sample the food, 383 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:01.000 take video. 384 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.640 And so he did what you would expect. 385 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.720 He did as first time in Japan, Tokyo at a 386 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:08.839 game and he went and he's like, what's this and 387 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:09.559 how did they use it? 388 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.319 How do you use these chopsticks? I guess I just 389 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:12.119 stab things. 390 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.880 And that's what everyone thinks when they're using chopsticks for 391 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.480 the first time. It's not a racist thing, it's just 392 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:24.720 a different thing. And they were lit up on social media. 393 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:26.519 Is this a joke? This guy doesn't even know what 394 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.720 he's doing. He's making fun of fish being sold the game. 395 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:32.039 Doesn't he know that's a delicacy? Blah blah blah. Come on, 396 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.680 lighten up, give me a break. 397 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.640 I mean, I don't use me to use the term 398 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.720 because you just talked about the fish. But part of 399 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.039 what makes this, what would have made it entertaining, is 400 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.680 the fish out of water element that this guy has. 401 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.720