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 --> 00:00:08.039 on the iHeartRadio an The person who called nine to 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:10.640 one one to report the bodies of Gene Hackman and 5 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:16.160 his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was very emotional. The audio has 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.519 been released of the nine to one one call that 7 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.399 led to police discovering the bodies of Gene Hackman and 8 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:26.160 Betsy Arakawa. An unnamed caretaker of the area can be 9 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:30.039 heard frantically pleading for the dispatcher to send someone to 10 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.880 the house. The call starts with the caretaker, whose name 11 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:40.600 we don't know, says he believes they've just stumbled across 12 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.240 one or two dead bodies. He seems unsure at the 13 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:46.359 time of the call that they need immediate assistance. All 14 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.719 the dispatcher puts up a call for the paramedics. The 15 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:53.159 caller repeatedly says damn into the phone while sniffling away tears. 16 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.759 He's then asked a series of questions about the patients 17 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.960 as the dispatcher calls them. He doesn't have the answer 18 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.280 to these questions, like ages genders. The collar does say 19 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.159 he can't see anyone moving inside the house. He's not 20 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.159 in the house with them, but outside looking through a 21 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:13.280 window with no way of getting in again. Gene Hackman 22 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.599 and his wife found dead yesterday afternoon in their home 23 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:18.560 in Santa Fe. 24 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:20.000 Very odd. 25 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.680 She's found in the bathroom, more decomposed than Gene Hackman is. 26 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:26.480 She's much younger than he is. She's just in her 27 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.480 early sixties. She's got a bottle of pills splayed out 28 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:32.879 there with her and the bathroom. There's a dead dog 29 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.280 in the closet in the bathroom, German shepherd. Gene Hackman's 30 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.640 in another area of the house. He appears to have 31 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:43.239 fallen sunglasses off his head. The family came out right 32 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.680 away and said that it was carbon monoxide poisoning. But 33 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.599 the firefighters, the carbon monoxide company or the gas company, 34 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:51.879 i should say, and the police officers all say there's 35 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:52.599 no evidence of that. 36 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:54.480 All very weird. 37 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:58.280 He was interviewed this was actually backstage, I believe, at 38 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:00.480 the Oscars one time, when he was asked to his 39 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:01.560 career as an actor. 40 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.719 The thing that's all I ever wanted to do. So 41 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:09.080 few people ever get what they really want in life. 42 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.639 It's a make believe world, and as I say, it's 43 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.439 what I wanted to do as a child, and I 44 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:17.879 have fulfilled a lot of my dreams. 45 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.919 Good for him. 46 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.319 The ridge of high pressure is going to bring another 47 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.479 round of well above average temperatures. 48 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.479 Today we will see some winds pick up. 49 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.560 Also look too bad right now, but afternoon highs in 50 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:33.479 the valleys are expected to be well into the eighties, 51 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:34.680 possibly near ninety. 52 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:36.719 I think it topped out at about eighty five on 53 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:38.000 my drive home yesterday. 54 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.680 Mid eighties or forecast along the coast in La and 55 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.319 Ventura Counties. But this is going to change because big 56 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.840 drop in temperatures is coming. Increased cloud cover we'll see 57 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.560 tomorrow and a series of storms moving through the area 58 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.800 starting Friday night with a chance of rain off and 59 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:56.719 on through the weekend into next week. 60 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.759 So I'm going to come home for seasonal effective disorder. 61 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:00.439 I'm here. 62 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.400 Yeah, you're going from a place with a regular morning 63 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.719 fog that burns off to display beauty too. 64 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.879 That was beautiful yesterday afternoon. Usually the wind kicks up 65 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.599 here about four o'clock hour, but yesterday it was beautiful, 66 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.240 seventy degrees with the sun, no wind. I'm like, what 67 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:18.080 the heck is this? 68 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.439 Thank you God? Are you getting out and doing anything 69 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.520 or are you just sticking around? It's a touch and go. 70 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:25.680 Every day is different. 71 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.759 You know, they are talking about record high temperatures in 72 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.879 southern California that will happen, and these don't sound incredible. 73 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.199 Palmdale at eighty is nothing. I mean, that doesn't seem 74 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:40.840 very warm at all as a matter of fact, because 75 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.240 Palmdale gets up to one hundred and teens regularly in 76 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.919 the summer. Santa Barbara, though, broke its regular record by 77 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.240 two degrees. Santa Barbara hit eighty two degrees yesterday. What 78 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.080 is that like? I don't think I've ever been in 79 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.520 Santa Barbara when it's been above seventy. 80 00:03:58.439 --> 00:03:58.800 And I have. 81 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.639 I've done there in the summer a couple times. In 82 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.599 July it gets to be about eighty. It's so beautiful there. 83 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:06.280 I love Santa Barbara. I don't get there enough. 84 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:11.360 And then this, I'm I, what do people think we 85 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:12.960 have available to us? 86 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.079 Gary, I'm really surprised that you would get stuck in 87 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.680 traffic or anyone really, as far as I know, working 88 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.839 at KFI gets stuck in traffic, especially in the morning, 89 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.279 because don't you have guys have an eye in the 90 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.560 sky and it maybe have like a hotline that eye 91 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:28.040 in the sky. 92 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:29.360 Yeah. 93 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.000 I mean, we also have traffic apps and a lot 94 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.600 of people have navigation now in their cars and things 95 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:34.920 like that. 96 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.600 But sometimes there's only one road in and one road out. 97 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.680 Sometimes it's just a crap shoot. And today I got 98 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:44.000 the crappy end of the shoot. 99 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.560 So, oh my gosh, do you feel a little bit 100 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.519 Do you feel a little violated by him insinuating that 101 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:56.480 as a man you wouldn't be able to figure out 102 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.759 your way around a traffic situation, like that's not what 103 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:00.959 you were born to do. 104 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.879 That I don't think he was saying. 105 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.480 I mean I have I hope that's not what he 106 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:09.519 was saying, because you know, you pride yourself on getting 107 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:10.240 around stuff. 108 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.000 Well, I have what I like to think is a 109 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.519 pretty good sense of direction, even in places where I 110 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.920 haven't spent a lot of time, Like if we go 111 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.839 to Waco to visit my daughter, I have a pretty 112 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.560 good sense of where stuff is and can at least 113 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.639 point us in the right direction. Whereas my wife will 114 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.639 She'll have no clue. She will go the wrong way 115 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.240 for twelve miles before she realizes that. I hope she's 116 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:39.240 not listening before she realizes that she's going the wrong way. 117 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:42.920 I feel like twelve miles was an exaggeration. 118 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.240 Well, it's Texas miles, twelve Texas miles, which is more 119 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.959 like one hundred and fifty California mile. It's flatter there, 120 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:55.240 but I have a pretty good sense of direction. And 121 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:56.600 now that I. 122 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.920 Still couldn't get your way to work, couldn't figure out 123 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.040 the way to get around that. 124 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.040 Jam boy, Now you'm totally kidding. Are you kidding? 125 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.199 It's like a Tuesday for me? Hey, Keussy, all right, 126 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.519 local politicians are dirty? 127 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:11.600 Did you know that? 128 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.399 Oh God, this is like that story yesterday about there 129 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.759 were big drugs in the jails in La County. Yeah, 130 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.000 my eyes are being open this week. 131 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:21.279 Yeah. 132 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.720 Huntington Park City Hall and the homes of current and 133 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.879 former city council members have been searched yesterday as part 134 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:31.879 of a corruption investigation. LA City Hall not the only one. 135 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:34.240 I mean, we could really go down the list. I 136 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.800 think it all started with Bell right where we all 137 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.560 started going, what's really going on with those people who 138 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.160 say that they want to do good for the community. Oh, 139 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.160 they're just trying to enrich themselves. Guess what it's nothing new. 140 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.120 It didn't start with Bell, it won't end with Bell. 141 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:48.959 It's been going on for a long time and it 142 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.160 will go on as long as. 143 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:51.040 We have elected officials. 144 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.240 We'll tell you about the latest Huntington Park operation, Dirty Pond. 145 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.720 We'll be talking about this anti aging pill for dogs 146 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.199 that is clear to FDA hurdle. They say that this 147 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.240 means good news for anti aging drugs for humans, but 148 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.079 what do we care about them? Back to the dogs. 149 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.680 They say that this is going to be It's done 150 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.879 by a company named Loyal and they say that they're 151 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.480 going to launch this pill under an FDA clearance for 152 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:25.120 animal drugs. It's called conditional approval. What that does is 153 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.399 it allows a company to start selling a treatment that 154 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.040 the agency FDA is said is safe and reasonably expected 155 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.399 to work as they gather additional data to fully prove 156 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.720 effectiveness while it's on the market. They say that this 157 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:39.399 is going to be less than about one hundred dollars 158 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:39.839 a month. 159 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:43.360 I know a lot of people that would pay a 160 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.319 lot more than that to kell, yeah, keep their animals alive. 161 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.879 They haven't said much about the what's the quality of 162 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.839 life if your dog is already at a certain age. 163 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.959 There are things that come with that, arthritis, cancer, Are 164 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.680 you just prolog and the breeding. 165 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.519 Yeah, it depends on the breed and everything. 166 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:04.439 So well, they said that the dogs have to be 167 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.120 at least ten years old and be at least fourteen pounds. 168 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.199 But yeah, I would assume it just means for relatively 169 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.720 healthy dogs. I don't think you'd want to extend your 170 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.480 your dog's life. 171 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.199 If it was going through something. Some people the opposite. 172 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.439 Some people do because they put them, they put their own. 173 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.519 Comfort. It's a horrible decision. I've had to make it. 174 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.240 It's not like it's it's an awful decision, but there 175 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.000 are some people who err on the side of well, 176 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.200 I'd be more comfortable if my poopy was with me. 177 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:36.639 I was just talking to one of my friends and 178 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.960 she had to put down her dog last week, Ellie, 179 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:42.000 and she said that she was just struggling. There was 180 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.600 no quality of life. She couldn't jump up onto the 181 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.120 couch to get cuddles, like. It was just awful, and 182 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:50.240 she was, you know, she couldn't walk. It was just 183 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.600 it was awful. It was clearly the end. And she said, 184 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.879 you know that her dog just looked at it. Gave 185 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.000 her a look and she just she saw that look 186 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.559 and she called the vet and she said, I got 187 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.320 to come in. We got to put her down. I mean, 188 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:02.519 it's awful. 189 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.039 And I can't imagine when we went through that same 190 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:10.360 thing a little more than a year ago, the vet. 191 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.440 How many times a day does the vet have to 192 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.679 tell somebody, Hey, this isn't gonna this isn't gonna last, 193 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.919 and your dog is in pain and discomfort. We can 194 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:23.279 make her comfortable, but it's not good. And I can't imagine, 195 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.600 because there was a time when I thought I wanted 196 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.879 to be a vet, and I just that would be 197 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:28.440 the hardest. 198 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.120 I think that would be the hardest part of the job. 199 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.960 Is every day you're going to go in, someone's going 200 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.799 to bring, you know, twelve year old cocker spaniel in 201 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:38.320 there that's been can't move its back legs or something 202 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:38.559 like that. 203 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.200 It's like working in the ICU. It sounds good, it 204 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.679 sounds like a challenge, and then you realize all the 205 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:46.919 death that goes into it. 206 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.200 The entry door is a lot bigger than the exit door. 207 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.440 You don't think about these things when you think about 208 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:59.120 certain jobs. You don't think about what what you're facing emotionally. 209 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.799 Could you imagine putting down dogs like that? Oh my gosh, 210 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:03.799 I can't even. 211 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.120 Well hold on to your skirts, ladies. 212 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.120 The Huntington Park City Hall has been raided by the 213 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.039 La County DA's office. 214 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.919 They have executed a. 215 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.559 Bunch of search warrants, not just in city Hall, but 216 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.000 at the home of the mayor and nine other locations, 217 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.960 part of a public corruption probe that they're calling Operation 218 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:24.120 Dirty Pond. 219 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.440 The warrants were served at the homes of Mayor Karina Messias, 220 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.120 council member Eddie Martinez, other members Graciela or Tees, Maryland 221 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:38.039 Santa Bria, the sister of a current council member as well. 222 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.759 The city manager was served with a warrant. Public Works 223 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:45.679 department is involved as well. There's a lot of police 224 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:49.279 tape involved the district attorneys as numerous items have been 225 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:54.120 seized from every location, public records, financials, computers, tablet, cell phones, 226 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.559 all of that. This investigation apparently began in November of 227 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:01.960 twenty twenty two, and it revolves around the construction of 228 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:06.600 a regional aquatic center at Salt Lake Park Dirty Pond, 229 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:07.679 Dirty Lake. 230 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:08.360 Dirty Pond. 231 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.480 The city allocated more than twenty million to the project 232 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:17.519 has spent about fourteen million. But what about that regional 233 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.279 Aquatic Center? I bet it's beautiful, right, They've spent fourteen 234 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:20.960 million on it. 235 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.720 It's gorgeous. 236 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.879 A lot of glass, new pools Olympic size, I don't know. 237 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.320 Sounds wonderful. What you can do with fourteen million dollars? 238 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:30.919 What has been constructed? There nothing? 239 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.799 A graffiti covered slumping sign that says coming soon. 240 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.360 That's it. That's the only thing that's say. 241 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:42.039 Now, listen, this is the this is the Huntington this 242 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:47.360 is Huntington Park. This happens all over the place. This 243 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:52.240 is not the exact right use of the term, but 244 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.639 this is the turpin rule, as awful as it sounds. 245 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:58.120 And we think, gosh, that can't happen anywhere else, And 246 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.279 then all of a sudden we get another story about 247 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.519 another group of kids that's been held hostage in their 248 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.879 own home by some ridiculously crazy parents. In circumstances like this, 249 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.840 we think to ourselves, oh, the City of Bell, you 250 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:13.559 got paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for being 251 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.080 the mayor of the City of Bell. 252 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:15.799 Good thing. 253 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.559 That doesn't happen very often, And then all of a sudden, 254 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.440 something like this happens once again, and well, it's. 255 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.639 Like John and Kenne been saying it forever, and John, 256 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:27.559 now people don't pay attention, and the politicians take. 257 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:28.120 Advantage of that. 258 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.960 Oh yeah, if you're not paying attention, they get to 259 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.679 be these fat pigs that just play around in their 260 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.159 slop and they get to take all of your tax 261 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.480 dollars and do whatever the hell they want with it 262 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.840 because you're not reading those city council minutes. You're not 263 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.440 paying attention. Oh, a new aquatic center for the city 264 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:45.759 where the kids can go after school. 265 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:47.279 That sounds great. I'll vote for that. 266 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.440 But nobody ever circles back and pays attention to Hey, 267 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.679 whatever happened with that aquatic center? All that money that 268 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.080 was earmarked for that, where's it going to progress? And 269 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.679 then you kind of run the risk of, well, first 270 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:00.799 of all, you're living your own life. Is time to 271 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.480 be the police of the Huntington Park City Council. You know, 272 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.240 you've got a million things to do on your own. 273 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.720 And then you run the risk of being the person 274 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.480 who shows up and asks questions when you've got the 275 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.879 power of what seems like the entire city council that's 276 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:20.120 in on this this criminal behavior. You're going to ask 277 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.080 questions before this board who has all the power in 278 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:24.960 your city, You're going to be laughed away. 279 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.600 That's never going to rise to the level of news. 280 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.320 And in this case, you're talking about, you know, the 281 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.240 thirty thousand square foot, two story, state of the art 282 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:40.320 aquatic center, millions of dollars, right, fourteen million, something like that, 283 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:47.080 twenty million. Imagine how much money is available to be 284 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:51.840 stolen when you're talking billions of dollars at the state 285 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.360 level with high speed rail. And to your point, I 286 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.399 think this is important because people in two thousand and 287 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:02.399 eight we voted, unfortunately, we voted to start high speed rail, 288 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.279 and I think there are plenty of people who seventeen 289 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.039 years later think to themselves, Oh, I'm sure they're doing 290 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:08.720 just fine. 291 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:09.840 I'm sure everything's fine. 292 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:11.600 I voted for it a long time ago because I 293 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:13.759 like to live in fairytale Land, and I sure hope 294 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.679 they're making progress on fairytale Land. 295 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.639 Maybe it's a delayed frustration with my traffic. 296 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.159 Maybe that's why I think Fairytale Land sounds amazing, And 297 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.159 I probably would ask no questions about Fairytale Land. Tell 298 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.600 me more. Is there a castle on the hill. Does 299 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:34.320 it have a moat? 300 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:35.480 Yes? 301 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:38.480 Are there horses? Do they are they unicorns or do 302 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:39.320 they have sparkles? 303 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.039 They have wings like Pegasus? 304 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.720 They have wings, they're Pegasa's si pegas. 305 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.840 I yeah, sure. 306 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:52.279 Interesting. Is there a lake near the castle? 307 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.279 There is a two story Olympic pool, aquatic center. It's 308 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.159 all right there in fairytale Land. Newsome, you haven't heard 309 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:02.679 enough of him yet. You're going to listen to the 310 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.759 Gavin Newsom podcast. This one is not the one with 311 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.159 Marshawn Lynch. He's launched another one. Although I thought he 312 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.279 was the governor of the state of California and was 313 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:12.200 relatively busy. 314 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.720 Did you know how dark the fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin 315 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.720 really is? Like the original? 316 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.559 Very dark? Is that the one he pricks his finger 317 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.080 on the on the what is it the that's the 318 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:26.200 watered down version? Oh really? 319 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.960 But I mean the grim fairy tales. Man, when you 320 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:35.639 get into the first in the first the way they 321 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.960 were intended. Yeah, first incarnations of those, they are dark 322 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:41.840 and terrifying. 323 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.600 Vatican says that Pope Francis continues to improve, but his 324 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:52.679 prognosis is guarded. That's the word guarded. I've known people 325 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.399 that have come out of guarded condition. Sure, usually you're 326 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.840 guarded right after surgery, right. 327 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:58.600 Yeah, and I'm not. 328 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.120 And maybe guarded it probably means different things to different 329 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.200 healthcare people. But guarded could just be like, hey, we're 330 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.519 cautiously optimistic. We're not gonna we're not gonna give you 331 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.240 some rosy outlook like oh, he'll be give him a week, 332 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:17.399 he'll be fine, he'll be playing soccer again or football. 333 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.720 But it's guarded because he's eighty eight and double pneumonia 334 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.879 is not easy for anyone. 335 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.639 I am not one to stand up for Gavin Newsom. 336 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.759 There's not much about Gavin Newsom. 337 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:31.559 That I enjoy. 338 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.480 At all, really that I can think of now that 339 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:41.240 I think about it. But this whole backlash against him, 340 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.679 I think is maybe a little bit overkill. Gavin Newsom 341 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:50.720 is being viciously mocked for launching a podcast, and I'm 342 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.440 reading verbatim here. Two months after Los Angeles was turned 343 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.440 to ash by wildfires, Okay. 344 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:56.720 A couple things. 345 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.960 Number One, Los Angeles was not turned to ash by wildfires. 346 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.119 Another thing, Yes, it was very sad for the Palisade. 347 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.960 It's very sad for Altadina, very sad for all of 348 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.599 us to watch this happen and people lose their homes 349 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.359 and where they built their lives and everything. But all 350 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.960 of Los Angeles is not in ashes. Also, it has 351 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:21.880 been two months, and launching a podcast is not labor intensive. 352 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.680 It's not like Gavenusom is pouring his life into this 353 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.000 new podcast. It's a very simple, very easy, very low 354 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.039 maintenance thing to do that doesn't require a lot of time. 355 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.279 He can still be paying attention to what's going on 356 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.599 with wildfire recovery. I just think if you're going to 357 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.519 go after Gavenusom, there's a lot of things to go 358 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:39.160 after this, ain't it Okay? 359 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.279 I want to play for you the promo that he 360 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:46.279 put out on his Twitter account yesterday pitching the podcast, 361 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.079 and I'll tell you what my problem is with it. 362 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:49.519 We need to change the conversation. 363 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.599 And that's why I'm watching a new podcast, and this 364 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.640 is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. 365 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.160 I'm going to be talking to people directly that I 366 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.000 disagree with, as well as people I look up to. 367 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:04.799 But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly 368 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.680 with you the listener, real conversations. What's going on with 369 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.839 the cost of eggs, what are the impacts, real impacts 370 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.720 to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order 371 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:20.200 really have? And what's really going on inside of Dotsch. Look, 372 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.880 there's an onslaught of information that we take in, so 373 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.559 let's take it to the sources without the typical political 374 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.079 mumbo jumble. In the first few weeks, we're going to 375 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:30.920 be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and 376 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.680 architects in the Mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom. 377 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:36.799 This is Gavin Newsom. 378 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.440 I kept waiting for the pizza boy to take off 379 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:45.160 all of his clothes with that music. Ma'am, did you 380 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.359 order extra anchovies? You're damn right, I did leave it 381 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:48.839 right there. 382 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.799 The problem ever saw that movie? 383 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:59.279 No, No, it's like a late eighties early nineties movie 384 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.519 where he is a piece. It's a boy who services 385 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:06.920 the board mothers of the suburban town where he dishes 386 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:07.720 his pizza. 387 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.440 No, when I was fifteen, I didn't watch movies like 388 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.599 that where you were nine when you saw that movie. 389 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:18.039 Probably my problem is that he's talking about these national issues. 390 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.680 I don't have a problem. I generally don't have a 391 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.519 problem with the governor of a state doing a podcast 392 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:26.079 for the reasons that you talked about. He's got people 393 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.440 to produce it for him and schedule the interviews and 394 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.079 do all that thing. All he's got to do is 395 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:32.720 sit down and bang out forty five minutes with whoever 396 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:34.799 he's going to be talking to. But he's talking about 397 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.119 issues that are very specifically national issues. When it comes 398 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:42.960 to the Department of Government efficiency or the price of eggs, 399 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.599 these are not things that are specific to California. 400 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.880 He's been doing this for a year and a half 401 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.079