Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio an The person who called nine to
Speaker 1: one one to report the bodies of Gene Hackman and
Speaker 1: his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was very emotional. The audio has
Speaker 1: been released of the nine to one one call that
Speaker 1: led to police discovering the bodies of Gene Hackman and
Speaker 1: Betsy Arakawa. An unnamed caretaker of the area can be
Speaker 1: heard frantically pleading for the dispatcher to send someone to
Speaker 1: the house. The call starts with the caretaker, whose name
Speaker 1: we don't know, says he believes they've just stumbled across
Speaker 1: one or two dead bodies. He seems unsure at the
Speaker 1: time of the call that they need immediate assistance. All
Speaker 1: the dispatcher puts up a call for the paramedics. The
Speaker 1: caller repeatedly says damn into the phone while sniffling away tears.
Speaker 1: He's then asked a series of questions about the patients
Speaker 1: as the dispatcher calls them. He doesn't have the answer
Speaker 1: to these questions, like ages genders. The collar does say
Speaker 1: he can't see anyone moving inside the house. He's not
Speaker 1: in the house with them, but outside looking through a
Speaker 1: window with no way of getting in again. Gene Hackman
Speaker 1: and his wife found dead yesterday afternoon in their home
Speaker 1: in Santa Fe.
Speaker 2: Very odd.
Speaker 1: She's found in the bathroom, more decomposed than Gene Hackman is.
Speaker 1: She's much younger than he is. She's just in her
Speaker 1: early sixties. She's got a bottle of pills splayed out
Speaker 1: there with her and the bathroom. There's a dead dog
Speaker 1: in the closet in the bathroom, German shepherd. Gene Hackman's
Speaker 1: in another area of the house. He appears to have
Speaker 1: fallen sunglasses off his head. The family came out right
Speaker 1: away and said that it was carbon monoxide poisoning. But
Speaker 1: the firefighters, the carbon monoxide company or the gas company,
Speaker 1: i should say, and the police officers all say there's
Speaker 1: no evidence of that.
Speaker 2: All very weird.
Speaker 3: He was interviewed this was actually backstage, I believe, at
Speaker 3: the Oscars one time, when he was asked to his
Speaker 3: career as an actor.
Speaker 4: The thing that's all I ever wanted to do. So
Speaker 4: few people ever get what they really want in life.
Speaker 4: It's a make believe world, and as I say, it's
Speaker 4: what I wanted to do as a child, and I
Speaker 4: have fulfilled a lot of my dreams.
Speaker 2: Good for him.
Speaker 3: The ridge of high pressure is going to bring another
Speaker 3: round of well above average temperatures.
Speaker 2: Today we will see some winds pick up.
Speaker 3: Also look too bad right now, but afternoon highs in
Speaker 3: the valleys are expected to be well into the eighties,
Speaker 3: possibly near ninety.
Speaker 2: I think it topped out at about eighty five on
Speaker 2: my drive home yesterday.
Speaker 3: Mid eighties or forecast along the coast in La and
Speaker 3: Ventura Counties. But this is going to change because big
Speaker 3: drop in temperatures is coming. Increased cloud cover we'll see
Speaker 3: tomorrow and a series of storms moving through the area
Speaker 3: starting Friday night with a chance of rain off and
Speaker 3: on through the weekend into next week.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to come home for seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going from a place with a regular morning
Speaker 3: fog that burns off to display beauty too.
Speaker 1: That was beautiful yesterday afternoon. Usually the wind kicks up
Speaker 1: here about four o'clock hour, but yesterday it was beautiful,
Speaker 1: seventy degrees with the sun, no wind. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: the heck is this?
Speaker 2: Thank you God? Are you getting out and doing anything
Speaker 2: or are you just sticking around? It's a touch and go.
Speaker 2: Every day is different.
Speaker 3: You know, they are talking about record high temperatures in
Speaker 3: southern California that will happen, and these don't sound incredible.
Speaker 3: Palmdale at eighty is nothing. I mean, that doesn't seem
Speaker 3: very warm at all as a matter of fact, because
Speaker 3: Palmdale gets up to one hundred and teens regularly in
Speaker 3: the summer. Santa Barbara, though, broke its regular record by
Speaker 3: two degrees. Santa Barbara hit eighty two degrees yesterday. What
Speaker 3: is that like? I don't think I've ever been in
Speaker 3: Santa Barbara when it's been above seventy.
Speaker 2: And I have.
Speaker 1: I've done there in the summer a couple times. In
Speaker 1: July it gets to be about eighty. It's so beautiful there.
Speaker 1: I love Santa Barbara. I don't get there enough.
Speaker 3: And then this, I'm I, what do people think we
Speaker 3: have available to us?
Speaker 5: Gary, I'm really surprised that you would get stuck in
Speaker 5: traffic or anyone really, as far as I know, working
Speaker 5: at KFI gets stuck in traffic, especially in the morning,
Speaker 5: because don't you have guys have an eye in the
Speaker 5: sky and it maybe have like a hotline that eye
Speaker 5: in the sky.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, we also have traffic apps and a lot
Speaker 3: of people have navigation now in their cars and things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: But sometimes there's only one road in and one road out.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just a crap shoot. And today I got
Speaker 3: the crappy end of the shoot.
Speaker 1: So, oh my gosh, do you feel a little bit
Speaker 1: Do you feel a little violated by him insinuating that
Speaker 1: as a man you wouldn't be able to figure out
Speaker 1: your way around a traffic situation, like that's not what
Speaker 1: you were born to do.
Speaker 2: That I don't think he was saying.
Speaker 1: I mean I have I hope that's not what he
Speaker 1: was saying, because you know, you pride yourself on getting
Speaker 1: around stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, I have what I like to think is a
Speaker 3: pretty good sense of direction, even in places where I
Speaker 3: haven't spent a lot of time, Like if we go
Speaker 3: to Waco to visit my daughter, I have a pretty
Speaker 3: good sense of where stuff is and can at least
Speaker 3: point us in the right direction. Whereas my wife will
Speaker 3: She'll have no clue. She will go the wrong way
Speaker 3: for twelve miles before she realizes that. I hope she's
Speaker 3: not listening before she realizes that she's going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I feel like twelve miles was an exaggeration.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Texas miles, twelve Texas miles, which is more
Speaker 3: like one hundred and fifty California mile. It's flatter there,
Speaker 3: but I have a pretty good sense of direction. And
Speaker 3: now that I.
Speaker 1: Still couldn't get your way to work, couldn't figure out
Speaker 1: the way to get around that.
Speaker 2: Jam boy, Now you'm totally kidding. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3: It's like a Tuesday for me? Hey, Keussy, all right,
Speaker 3: local politicians are dirty?
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Oh God, this is like that story yesterday about there
Speaker 1: were big drugs in the jails in La County. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my eyes are being open this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Huntington Park City Hall and the homes of current and
Speaker 1: former city council members have been searched yesterday as part
Speaker 1: of a corruption investigation. LA City Hall not the only one.
Speaker 1: I mean, we could really go down the list. I
Speaker 1: think it all started with Bell right where we all
Speaker 1: started going, what's really going on with those people who
Speaker 1: say that they want to do good for the community. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're just trying to enrich themselves. Guess what it's nothing new.
Speaker 1: It didn't start with Bell, it won't end with Bell.
Speaker 1: It's been going on for a long time and it
Speaker 1: will go on as long as.
Speaker 2: We have elected officials.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you about the latest Huntington Park operation, Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about this anti aging pill for dogs
Speaker 1: that is clear to FDA hurdle. They say that this
Speaker 1: means good news for anti aging drugs for humans, but
Speaker 1: what do we care about them? Back to the dogs.
Speaker 1: They say that this is going to be It's done
Speaker 1: by a company named Loyal and they say that they're
Speaker 1: going to launch this pill under an FDA clearance for
Speaker 1: animal drugs. It's called conditional approval. What that does is
Speaker 1: it allows a company to start selling a treatment that
Speaker 1: the agency FDA is said is safe and reasonably expected
Speaker 1: to work as they gather additional data to fully prove
Speaker 1: effectiveness while it's on the market. They say that this
Speaker 1: is going to be less than about one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people that would pay a
Speaker 3: lot more than that to kell, yeah, keep their animals alive.
Speaker 3: They haven't said much about the what's the quality of
Speaker 3: life if your dog is already at a certain age.
Speaker 3: There are things that come with that, arthritis, cancer, Are
Speaker 3: you just prolog and the breeding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends on the breed and everything.
Speaker 1: So well, they said that the dogs have to be
Speaker 1: at least ten years old and be at least fourteen pounds.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would assume it just means for relatively
Speaker 1: healthy dogs. I don't think you'd want to extend your
Speaker 1: your dog's life.
Speaker 2: If it was going through something. Some people the opposite.
Speaker 2: Some people do because they put them, they put their own.
Speaker 3: Comfort. It's a horrible decision. I've had to make it.
Speaker 3: It's not like it's it's an awful decision, but there
Speaker 3: are some people who err on the side of well,
Speaker 3: I'd be more comfortable if my poopy was with me.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to one of my friends and
Speaker 1: she had to put down her dog last week, Ellie,
Speaker 1: and she said that she was just struggling. There was
Speaker 1: no quality of life. She couldn't jump up onto the
Speaker 1: couch to get cuddles, like. It was just awful, and
Speaker 1: she was, you know, she couldn't walk. It was just
Speaker 1: it was awful. It was clearly the end. And she said,
Speaker 1: you know that her dog just looked at it. Gave
Speaker 1: her a look and she just she saw that look
Speaker 1: and she called the vet and she said, I got
Speaker 1: to come in. We got to put her down. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's awful.
Speaker 3: And I can't imagine when we went through that same
Speaker 3: thing a little more than a year ago, the vet.
Speaker 3: How many times a day does the vet have to
Speaker 3: tell somebody, Hey, this isn't gonna this isn't gonna last,
Speaker 3: and your dog is in pain and discomfort. We can
Speaker 3: make her comfortable, but it's not good. And I can't imagine,
Speaker 3: because there was a time when I thought I wanted
Speaker 3: to be a vet, and I just that would be
Speaker 3: the hardest.
Speaker 2: I think that would be the hardest part of the job.
Speaker 3: Is every day you're going to go in, someone's going
Speaker 3: to bring, you know, twelve year old cocker spaniel in
Speaker 3: there that's been can't move its back legs or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: It's like working in the ICU. It sounds good, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a challenge, and then you realize all the
Speaker 1: death that goes into it.
Speaker 2: The entry door is a lot bigger than the exit door.
Speaker 1: You don't think about these things when you think about
Speaker 1: certain jobs. You don't think about what what you're facing emotionally.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine putting down dogs like that? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't even.
Speaker 2: Well hold on to your skirts, ladies.
Speaker 3: The Huntington Park City Hall has been raided by the
Speaker 3: La County DA's office.
Speaker 2: They have executed a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of search warrants, not just in city Hall, but
Speaker 3: at the home of the mayor and nine other locations,
Speaker 3: part of a public corruption probe that they're calling Operation
Speaker 3: Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1: The warrants were served at the homes of Mayor Karina Messias,
Speaker 1: council member Eddie Martinez, other members Graciela or Tees, Maryland
Speaker 1: Santa Bria, the sister of a current council member as well.
Speaker 1: The city manager was served with a warrant. Public Works
Speaker 1: department is involved as well. There's a lot of police
Speaker 1: tape involved the district attorneys as numerous items have been
Speaker 1: seized from every location, public records, financials, computers, tablet, cell phones,
Speaker 1: all of that. This investigation apparently began in November of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and it revolves around the construction of
Speaker 1: a regional aquatic center at Salt Lake Park Dirty Pond,
Speaker 1: Dirty Lake.
Speaker 2: Dirty Pond.
Speaker 1: The city allocated more than twenty million to the project
Speaker 1: has spent about fourteen million. But what about that regional
Speaker 1: Aquatic Center? I bet it's beautiful, right, They've spent fourteen
Speaker 1: million on it.
Speaker 2: It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: A lot of glass, new pools Olympic size, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sounds wonderful. What you can do with fourteen million dollars?
Speaker 1: What has been constructed? There nothing?
Speaker 3: A graffiti covered slumping sign that says coming soon.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's the only thing that's say.
Speaker 3: Now, listen, this is the this is the Huntington this
Speaker 3: is Huntington Park. This happens all over the place. This
Speaker 3: is not the exact right use of the term, but
Speaker 3: this is the turpin rule, as awful as it sounds.
Speaker 3: And we think, gosh, that can't happen anywhere else, And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden we get another story about
Speaker 3: another group of kids that's been held hostage in their
Speaker 3: own home by some ridiculously crazy parents. In circumstances like this,
Speaker 3: we think to ourselves, oh, the City of Bell, you
Speaker 3: got paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for being
Speaker 3: the mayor of the City of Bell.
Speaker 2: Good thing.
Speaker 3: That doesn't happen very often, And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: something like this happens once again, and well, it's.
Speaker 1: Like John and Kenne been saying it forever, and John,
Speaker 1: now people don't pay attention, and the politicians take.
Speaker 2: Advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you're not paying attention, they get to
Speaker 1: be these fat pigs that just play around in their
Speaker 1: slop and they get to take all of your tax
Speaker 1: dollars and do whatever the hell they want with it
Speaker 1: because you're not reading those city council minutes. You're not
Speaker 1: paying attention. Oh, a new aquatic center for the city
Speaker 1: where the kids can go after school.
Speaker 2: That sounds great. I'll vote for that.
Speaker 1: But nobody ever circles back and pays attention to Hey,
Speaker 1: whatever happened with that aquatic center? All that money that
Speaker 1: was earmarked for that, where's it going to progress? And
Speaker 1: then you kind of run the risk of, well, first
Speaker 1: of all, you're living your own life. Is time to
Speaker 1: be the police of the Huntington Park City Council. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got a million things to do on your own.
Speaker 1: And then you run the risk of being the person
Speaker 1: who shows up and asks questions when you've got the
Speaker 1: power of what seems like the entire city council that's
Speaker 1: in on this this criminal behavior. You're going to ask
Speaker 1: questions before this board who has all the power in
Speaker 1: your city, You're going to be laughed away.
Speaker 2: That's never going to rise to the level of news.
Speaker 3: And in this case, you're talking about, you know, the
Speaker 3: thirty thousand square foot, two story, state of the art
Speaker 3: aquatic center, millions of dollars, right, fourteen million, something like that,
Speaker 3: twenty million. Imagine how much money is available to be
Speaker 3: stolen when you're talking billions of dollars at the state
Speaker 3: level with high speed rail. And to your point, I
Speaker 3: think this is important because people in two thousand and
Speaker 3: eight we voted, unfortunately, we voted to start high speed rail,
Speaker 3: and I think there are plenty of people who seventeen
Speaker 3: years later think to themselves, Oh, I'm sure they're doing
Speaker 3: just fine.
Speaker 2: I'm sure everything's fine.
Speaker 3: I voted for it a long time ago because I
Speaker 3: like to live in fairytale Land, and I sure hope
Speaker 3: they're making progress on fairytale Land.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a delayed frustration with my traffic.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I think Fairytale Land sounds amazing, And
Speaker 1: I probably would ask no questions about Fairytale Land. Tell
Speaker 1: me more. Is there a castle on the hill. Does
Speaker 1: it have a moat?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Are there horses? Do they are they unicorns or do
Speaker 1: they have sparkles?
Speaker 2: They have wings like Pegasus?
Speaker 1: They have wings, they're Pegasa's si pegas.
Speaker 2: I yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Is there a lake near the castle?
Speaker 3: There is a two story Olympic pool, aquatic center. It's
Speaker 3: all right there in fairytale Land. Newsome, you haven't heard
Speaker 3: enough of him yet. You're going to listen to the
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom podcast. This one is not the one with
Speaker 3: Marshawn Lynch. He's launched another one. Although I thought he
Speaker 3: was the governor of the state of California and was
Speaker 3: relatively busy.
Speaker 1: Did you know how dark the fairy Tale of Rumpelstiltskin
Speaker 1: really is? Like the original?
Speaker 2: Very dark? Is that the one he pricks his finger
Speaker 2: on the on the what is it the that's the
Speaker 2: watered down version? Oh really?
Speaker 1: But I mean the grim fairy tales. Man, when you
Speaker 1: get into the first in the first the way they
Speaker 1: were intended. Yeah, first incarnations of those, they are dark
Speaker 1: and terrifying.
Speaker 3: Vatican says that Pope Francis continues to improve, but his
Speaker 3: prognosis is guarded. That's the word guarded. I've known people
Speaker 3: that have come out of guarded condition. Sure, usually you're
Speaker 3: guarded right after surgery, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 3: And maybe guarded it probably means different things to different
Speaker 3: healthcare people. But guarded could just be like, hey, we're
Speaker 3: cautiously optimistic. We're not gonna we're not gonna give you
Speaker 3: some rosy outlook like oh, he'll be give him a week,
Speaker 3: he'll be fine, he'll be playing soccer again or football.
Speaker 3: But it's guarded because he's eighty eight and double pneumonia
Speaker 3: is not easy for anyone.
Speaker 1: I am not one to stand up for Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: There's not much about Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: That I enjoy.
Speaker 1: At all, really that I can think of now that
Speaker 1: I think about it. But this whole backlash against him,
Speaker 1: I think is maybe a little bit overkill. Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: is being viciously mocked for launching a podcast, and I'm
Speaker 1: reading verbatim here. Two months after Los Angeles was turned
Speaker 1: to ash by wildfires, Okay.
Speaker 2: A couple things.
Speaker 1: Number One, Los Angeles was not turned to ash by wildfires.
Speaker 1: Another thing, Yes, it was very sad for the Palisade.
Speaker 1: It's very sad for Altadina, very sad for all of
Speaker 1: us to watch this happen and people lose their homes
Speaker 1: and where they built their lives and everything. But all
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles is not in ashes. Also, it has
Speaker 1: been two months, and launching a podcast is not labor intensive.
Speaker 1: It's not like Gavenusom is pouring his life into this
Speaker 1: new podcast. It's a very simple, very easy, very low
Speaker 1: maintenance thing to do that doesn't require a lot of time.
Speaker 1: He can still be paying attention to what's going on
Speaker 1: with wildfire recovery. I just think if you're going to
Speaker 1: go after Gavenusom, there's a lot of things to go
Speaker 1: after this, ain't it Okay?
Speaker 3: I want to play for you the promo that he
Speaker 3: put out on his Twitter account yesterday pitching the podcast,
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what my problem is with it.
Speaker 2: We need to change the conversation.
Speaker 6: And that's why I'm watching a new podcast, and this
Speaker 6: is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast.
Speaker 6: I'm going to be talking to people directly that I
Speaker 6: disagree with, as well as people I look up to.
Speaker 6: But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly
Speaker 6: with you the listener, real conversations. What's going on with
Speaker 6: the cost of eggs, what are the impacts, real impacts
Speaker 6: to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order
Speaker 6: really have? And what's really going on inside of Dotsch. Look,
Speaker 6: there's an onslaught of information that we take in, so
Speaker 6: let's take it to the sources without the typical political
Speaker 6: mumbo jumble. In the first few weeks, we're going to
Speaker 6: be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and
Speaker 6: architects in the Mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: This is Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: I kept waiting for the pizza boy to take off
Speaker 1: all of his clothes with that music. Ma'am, did you
Speaker 1: order extra anchovies? You're damn right, I did leave it
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: The problem ever saw that movie?
Speaker 1: No, No, it's like a late eighties early nineties movie
Speaker 1: where he is a piece. It's a boy who services
Speaker 1: the board mothers of the suburban town where he dishes
Speaker 1: his pizza.
Speaker 3: No, when I was fifteen, I didn't watch movies like
Speaker 3: that where you were nine when you saw that movie.
Speaker 3: Probably my problem is that he's talking about these national issues.
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem. I generally don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with the governor of a state doing a podcast
Speaker 3: for the reasons that you talked about. He's got people
Speaker 3: to produce it for him and schedule the interviews and
Speaker 3: do all that thing. All he's got to do is
Speaker 3: sit down and bang out forty five minutes with whoever
Speaker 3: he's going to be talking to. But he's talking about
Speaker 3: issues that are very specifically national issues. When it comes
Speaker 3: to the Department of Government efficiency or the price of eggs,
Speaker 3: these are not things that are specific to California.
Speaker 1: He's been doing this for a year and a half
Speaker 1: because he's running for president.
Speaker 2: I know, but that's my problem. That's why I have
Speaker 2: a problem with him doing this.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to do a podcast that was like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm the governor of California, here's how we can make
Speaker 3: California great again, or here's how we're going to be
Speaker 3: able to make sure that everybody in the state of
Speaker 3: California has healthcare, or whatever topic he wants to.
Speaker 2: Do, as long as it's specific to California.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of him running for president but then telling
Speaker 3: everybody that he's not running for president.
Speaker 1: It's very rare that a governor is just going to
Speaker 1: be focused on the state's business, right, especially a Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom like governor, and he hasn't spend one second being governor.
Speaker 1: He's been running for president ever since. He's been running
Speaker 1: for president for a very long time. I like the
Speaker 1: idea that he's sitting down and talking to Republicans. I
Speaker 1: like that they're opening up the podcast for the kind
Speaker 1: of dialogue that I'm begging.
Speaker 2: For to get more out of. I like that.
Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't rub me the wrong way because
Speaker 1: he has been running for president for a year and
Speaker 1: a half. I got to get past the Gaven Newsom part.
Speaker 1: But I am interested to see I mean, I'll listen
Speaker 1: to a couple of these because I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: how he handles a real conversation. Also, who is he
Speaker 1: going to have, Like if he has Tom McClintock on,
Speaker 1: for example, I'll listen to that podcast of Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: and Tom McClintock, hopefully having two very different viewpoints about
Speaker 1: California or the country or what have you, and seeing
Speaker 1: how that conversation goes. I think there needs to be
Speaker 1: more of those conversations.
Speaker 3: What about those points that you just made I think
Speaker 3: I totally agree with because I want to I want
Speaker 3: to hear those conversations.
Speaker 2: Also, it's going to depend on who he has.
Speaker 3: You know, are there people that he thinks are the
Speaker 3: head of the MAGA movement or are they people who
Speaker 3: are actually legitimately involved in the Trump administration and can
Speaker 3: answer the questions specifically about what's going on in there.
Speaker 2: Maybe the thing that.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to do is not what my
Speaker 1: fantasy is of him having staunch Republicans, conservative Republicans from
Speaker 1: California who care about California and the country on. He
Speaker 1: sees himself still as the resistance movement. He sees himself
Speaker 1: as the face of the Trump resistance movement. So he's
Speaker 1: going to, I think, try to appease all the people
Speaker 1: who are looking for that Trump resistance daddy. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's what you're going to get, more than
Speaker 1: intelligent conversation between real players and the Republican Party. And
Speaker 1: can we find some common ground or can you explain
Speaker 1: the way you're thinking to me, because this is the
Speaker 1: way I'm thinking, and maybe if we can come together
Speaker 1: and actually speak to each other, we can find some
Speaker 1: sort of understanding.
Speaker 2: So you're going to subscribe to this podcast.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not subscribing to anything with Gavin Newsom's name
Speaker 1: on it. Please, I'll listen to clips on Twitter.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: That's about as far as my commitment goes.
Speaker 3: All right, up next, we're about a month in now,
Speaker 3: the la Unified Annoying cell phone band that we have
Speaker 3: championed for years now may actually be working. We are
Speaker 3: now on the clock, apparently a few social media influencers.
Speaker 3: We're the first to receive the Jeffrey Epstein file from
Speaker 3: Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1: Conservative political commentators have been spotted at the White House
Speaker 1: holding binders that that say on the top of them
Speaker 1: the Epstein Files.
Speaker 3: Epstein Files Phase one specifically, so those they.
Speaker 2: Read the binders declassified. Huh.
Speaker 1: But they don't know if it's if this is all
Speaker 1: for show, or if the information's trickling out. Bondie said
Speaker 1: on Fox News that the documents would include flight logs and.
Speaker 2: A lot of names, but we don't know.
Speaker 1: If those see. I think that if they were names
Speaker 1: we hadn't known already, she would have.
Speaker 2: Said that, what do you mean she could if there
Speaker 2: were surprises? Right? Yeah, And I don't know why there's
Speaker 2: like this is a lot much ado about nothing.
Speaker 3: Could be, like I said, it could be that your
Speaker 3: reference to Rachel Maddow and those tax documents that were
Speaker 3: supposed to be so earth shattering they came out to
Speaker 3: be a big nothing. So anyway, those videos of these
Speaker 3: people walking out of the White House with these binders
Speaker 3: have just been making the rounds on social media in
Speaker 3: the last few minutes. So maybe we will see something.
Speaker 2: Top of the Hour. We're going to get into swamp
Speaker 2: watch and among other things.
Speaker 3: Keir Starmer, the new British Prime Minister, is visiting President
Speaker 3: Trump at the White House today. Tomorrow, Vladimir Lensky, the
Speaker 3: President of Ukraine, is expected in DC to sign this
Speaker 3: Minerals agreement where the United States gets a share of
Speaker 3: all of the rare earth minerals that exist in or
Speaker 3: at least the sales of those rare earth minerals in Ukraine,
Speaker 3: in exchange for continued military aid that has been poorn
Speaker 3: into that country.
Speaker 1: LA Unified voted back in June to expand the district's
Speaker 1: existing cell phone band to include lunch and passing periods,
Speaker 1: so basically bell to bell right starting bell to finishing
Speaker 1: bell policy took effact last Tuesday, and LA Unified has
Speaker 1: reported no major disruptions in the first week. Some schools
Speaker 1: are still waiting on their equipment, the lockers, the pouches,
Speaker 1: the other devices used to store phones. The district spent
Speaker 1: seven million dollars on all of that. Half of schools,
Speaker 1: they say, chose to rely on the honor system as
Speaker 1: they await that requiring students to keep their phones turned
Speaker 1: off in their backpacks. But it appears to be working
Speaker 1: for when they for the schools that have the stuff
Speaker 1: in play in terms of kids, like they mentioned at
Speaker 1: Venice High School that kids now report to their six
Speaker 1: period class for the first ten minutes of every day.
Speaker 1: That's where they stow their phones and the portable medical
Speaker 1: metal cases.
Speaker 2: It's got a.
Speaker 1: Clear locking door and then that's where they finish their day.
Speaker 1: So that's where they pick up their phones before they
Speaker 1: go home.
Speaker 3: Some students this is not a surprise, and some students
Speaker 3: are upset by this policy. I think it's I think
Speaker 3: the number is somewhere around ninety five of teenagers now
Speaker 3: carrie smartphones. Fifteen year old freshman at the Sherman Oaks
Speaker 3: Center for Enriched studies. Says that before the policy, before
Speaker 3: he had to give his phone up in the morning,
Speaker 3: he would use his phone to take pictures of assignments
Speaker 3: and when he would finish his work, and he said,
Speaker 3: for day to day school life, it's just really really annoying.
Speaker 3: Banning our phones just makes us more focused on our
Speaker 3: phones and missing our phones. If they want to get
Speaker 3: us more focused on our education, they have to make
Speaker 3: the education more interesting to us.
Speaker 1: There's two parts of habit that is a real I
Speaker 1: want to punch that kid right in the face.
Speaker 2: Well, there's two parts of that.
Speaker 3: The first one is, hey, Miles, that means you're an addict.
Speaker 2: Right, Miles, give it five days. It takes five days
Speaker 2: to break a habit.
Speaker 1: That's what they say.
Speaker 2: Five days.
Speaker 1: How about five days you don't have your cell phone
Speaker 1: in class and see if your dts have worn off?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? OK.
Speaker 3: There was a study that it keeps floating up in
Speaker 3: the different headlines that I see every night getting ready
Speaker 3: for the show, and we haven't brought it to the
Speaker 3: table yet, but it's there's a study that asked people
Speaker 3: to do away with their cell phones for two weeks.
Speaker 2: I mean just gone. Not that you couldn't look at email.
Speaker 3: Obviously, you still have computer and things at home, but
Speaker 3: you didn't have this constant thing with you on your
Speaker 3: pocket or in your purse or on your body twenty
Speaker 3: four to seven. And for two weeks ninety two ninety one,
Speaker 3: ninety two percent of people said everything about their life
Speaker 3: was better. They felt better, they were less stressed, they
Speaker 3: weren't worried about stuff. And the best part is we
Speaker 3: we were afraid to give up our phones because we're
Speaker 3: afraid we're going to miss something. Someone's trying to call
Speaker 3: us and we don't get the message, or someone the
Speaker 3: email is an important document and we.
Speaker 2: Didn't get it. It does not fall it doesn't.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing is that we have such a
Speaker 3: hard time seeing beyond, you know, looking looking into what
Speaker 3: would two weeks feel like if I didn't have my
Speaker 3: phone with me. But then when you do it, gosh,
Speaker 3: darn it, everything feels great.
Speaker 1: You kind of sound like your kid, don't you when
Speaker 1: you start making excuses for reasons why you need your phone. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: somebody you may need to get a hold of me.
Speaker 1: I may need to get a hold of you know,
Speaker 1: my brother, or you know, my my boss may be calling.
Speaker 1: It's like you find yourself making these excuses for your addiction.
Speaker 2: Actually, none of that would none of that is going
Speaker 2: to be the end of the world. Oh I have
Speaker 2: we have MENSA members that listen to this show.
Speaker 3: Did you know that, I would hope so this one specifically,
Speaker 3: he was pointing out one of the characteristics that I
Speaker 3: said that I've been told, which is that I have
Speaker 3: good directional sense. My wife says that about me. And
Speaker 3: this was his talk back about about that topic. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm Gary, I have a good sense of knowing where
Speaker 3: I'm at.
Speaker 2: I really like that guy. I really like that guy.
Speaker 2: I really liked the guy. I'm so good at direct
Speaker 2: I totally feel that way.
Speaker 1: I think I do that in my head several times
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 2: Oh Gary, I'm good at everything.
Speaker 1: Just because you are, you're kind of infuriating a little bit,
Speaker 1: just because you market it. Yeah, I mean, if you.
Speaker 2: Could just screw up once in a while, it would
Speaker 2: help the rest of us.
Speaker 3: All Right, Well, coming up, We're not gonna do swamp.
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