WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:03.279 A M. 3 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:06.000 Six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on 4 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:08.839 the iHeartRadio app. I actually thought it was gonna I 5 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:10.800 thought today was supposed to be somewhat sunny. 6 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.880 It was sprinkly all morning. See what you get for 7 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:15.800 thinking that's my problem. 8 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.920 But by again, by the later this afternoon, there will 9 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.760 be some more showers coming in through southern California. I 10 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:23.480 don't know if it's going to be stronger, but it 11 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.480 is going to be the same style of storm that 12 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.640 we saw over the last couple of days, with just 13 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:34.240 some steady rain. Probably dinner time ish tonight through tomorrow 14 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.520 morning is what we're looking at in terms of the rain. 15 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:42.079 Yesterday I had the weirdest, uh, the weirdest rain related 16 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:47.240 car issue. I was driving home and I hit a 17 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.119 puddle on the right side of the car. It was 18 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:52.759 sort of in the curb there, and it's not a 19 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:54.960 deep puddle. I've seen it before when it rains, it's 20 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.159 a commonplace for there for a puddle to develop. But 21 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.920 I hit this puddle and immediately I heard this noise 22 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:05.040 on the side of the car, and I realized that 23 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.719 something from the puddle had gotten jammed up somewhere in 24 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.159 the wheel well, and it was just kind of making 25 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.760 this noise, not loud, not crazy loud. There's no place 26 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.200 for me to pull over and check it out or 27 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.920 anything like that. But I got all the way too 28 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:20.920 close to my house. I pull over in like a 29 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.319 Ralph's parking lot, and I get out of the car, 30 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.480 and I realized that on that side of the car, 31 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:32.319 the splash from the puddle had ripped a piece of 32 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.400 would you call it molding, plastic molding that is that 33 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:42.120 runs from the back of the front wheel well just 34 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.000 along the bottom of the car to the front of 35 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.400 the back wheel well, so it's like what a four 36 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.920 maybe five foot piece of plastic, and it had snapped 37 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.480 off of the front half of that, so it was 38 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.000 kind of bent under itself and was dragging on the roadway. 39 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.680 The whole time it was sticking out, nobody said anything 40 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:07.640 to me. I passed all kinds of people stopped at 41 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.479 plenty of stoplights, and nobody did the thing where they're 42 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:13.159 like pointing at the hey, hey, that thing is. 43 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.840 Hanging off of your car. Nobody cares anymore? 44 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.240 It is it that nobody cares or they they assume 45 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.639 that I know that there's this giant piece of plastic 46 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:21.879 hanging off of my car. 47 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:23.000 And I don't. 48 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.039 I mean, is that nobody cares? I guess, oh, Michelle, 49 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:29.879 you're so jaded. I would have said something, well, I hope. 50 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.199 So that's the thing is if there's no way to 51 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.800 tell and listen, if I was in another car, if 52 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.400 I saw that on someone else's car and I pull 53 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.159 up next to him and I roll down the window, 54 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.960 even if it's raining, and just go, hey, you got 55 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.240 a thing sticking out. It's dragging on the road there. 56 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:45.280 And the. 57 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.599 Best thing they could say is, yeah, I know, I'm 58 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:50.960 going to get it fixed right now. 59 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:51.919 That's it. 60 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.960 If you see somebody with a flat tire, you reach 61 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:57.680 out and you point, you go, hey, your tire's flat. 62 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.319 Because a lot of people don't know what it feels 63 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.479 like to drive on flat tire these days, because there's 64 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.159 so many sensors in the car, they assume that the 65 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:05.520 car is going to tell them in their car or 66 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.280 when their tire is flat. It was just as strange 67 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:09.599 as that I made it all the way home, and 68 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.319 I mean I was driving for a good ten to 69 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.560 fifteen minutes with this thing dragging on the side of 70 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.919 the car, and I didn't I didn't realize that's what 71 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.840 that was. Easily snapped back into place the car, you 72 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.280 would never be able to tell the difference. 73 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.159 Like it was. It didn't cause any damage. 74 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:26.960 There's a couple of scrapes on the bottom of the thing, 75 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.039 but once you snap it back into place, the scrape 76 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.680 side of it actually disappears. 77 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.159 Under the car, so you'll never see it. There's just 78 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.639 if you see somebody with something hanging off of your car, 79 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.479 tell them to tell them you sound like Jimmy Stewart. 80 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.719 My car, my car. Oh just marry. You'll never know. 81 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.639 You'll never guess what happened to you married? My car? 82 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.280 Those falling apart. Nobody told me what am I supposed 83 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.639 to do? Mary? What do you want? Mary? You want me? 84 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.719 You want to you want to tire that's not flat, Murray, 85 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.919 Just pull it down from the moon and I'll. 86 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:05.280 Give it to you. 87 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.400 Office space is coming to a government agency near you. 88 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.639 What would you say you do here? 89 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.759 I mean there are thousands of government employees who are 90 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.519 sitting at a table across from the bobs and trying 91 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.439 to justify their existence at the bottom of the hour, 92 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.079 we're going to talk more about what's going on with 93 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:32.079 this Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk's plan to 94 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:36.040 try to trim some of the fat that exists in 95 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:40.120 the federal bureaucracy. Why Democrats are so upset about it. Right, 96 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.680 Republicans are letting this guy do what he wants to do. 97 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:44.680 And the team of. 98 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.120 People he's got a core group of people that he 99 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:53.040 has I guess deployed, for lack of a better term, 100 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.720 he deployed to take over some of these agencies and 101 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:01.199 to dig into at least the computer codes that exist 102 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:06.560 around the Department of the Treasury, the Office of the USAID, 103 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.160 the CIA. Even so, we'll talk about some of these 104 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.560 literal kids that are involved with the Department of Government 105 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:19.240 Efficiencies Office of Geek Executives. That's okay, you could change that. Yeah, 106 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:20.839 I'm sure somebody is probably going to make a T 107 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:25.480 shirt of that. But nothing, there's nothing inherently wrong with 108 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:30.360 a twenty year old who is a master coder going 109 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.480 in and looking at computer codes. I think there's this 110 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:37.600 impression that you've got twenty year olds with beer cans 111 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.759 and chocolate stains on their T shirts going through and 112 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.759 making decisions about what government agencies and specific workers are 113 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:46.759 valuable and are not. 114 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.720 That's not what these guys are doing. 115 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.720 But we're going to start with what's going on with 116 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:55.399 this plan for Gaza. Yesterday we were talking about President 117 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.040 Trump's surprise announcement that he wants to turn Gaza into 118 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.639 the riviw area of them vy era of the or 119 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.920 of the Middle East. I shouldn't say the Mediterranean, since 120 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.879 there is already a riviera there, but the the riviera 121 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.319 of the sorry riviera of the Middle East. I said yesterday, 122 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.959 he doesn't have a plan for this. He's just spitballing here. 123 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.079 Apparently I was wrong. This is something he's talked about 124 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.800 for months, and in fact may have gotten the idea 125 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.199 from his son in law, Dimple's Kushner. We'll talk about that. 126 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.120 We'll talk about what's going on with Gaza. We got 127 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.800 doze a lot of fire coverage from next hour. There's 128 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.040 a lot of interesting stuff that's coming up about our fires, 129 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.560 both in Altadena and over in Pacific Palisades. And guests 130 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:44.319 who sat down with President Trump yesterday, your Governor Gavin Newsom. 131 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.759 We'll talk about that conversation late in the show as well. 132 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.160 I'm glad your co host said it. Yeah, Gary, nobody 133 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.519 cares how many cars you drive by on the highway 134 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.040 that half their front or rear bumper is hanging off. 135 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.800 We don't care because some people are going to take 136 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:07.759 that as, I don't know, an aggressive move these days, 137 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.120 So to tell people, huh, I guess just got to 138 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.160 suck it up, brother, I did, and I'm everything's fine, yes. 139 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:21.000 But nobody cares what you're having issues with on your car. 140 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.600 Remember you're in California, self centered land. 141 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.360 That's a good point. But but why can't Why does 142 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.240 it have to be that way? You can't just point 143 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.639 and say, hey, your your tires flat? 144 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.199 You got something hanging off your car? 145 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.720 Gary, I live out in Oxnard. Been listening to you 146 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.720 all for years. So I once tried to tell someone 147 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.800 that neither of their break lights were on and we 148 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.959 were at a stop sign. Stop light, excuse me? And 149 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.160 I got screamed at for the entire remaining time of 150 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.360 the red light, because of course I was an idiot 151 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.040 and I should have known that they knew that both 152 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.839 of their back break lights are out. Period. I will 153 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.040 no longer be notifying people of issues. 154 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.959 Don't let one, you'll get the I'm telling you, if 155 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:10.800 you roll down your window and try to say something, 156 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.959 people will think you're trying to scream at them, you're 157 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:13.800 going to get the finger. 158 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:14.839 Nobody cares. 159 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.399 I mean, the one guy said that it may be 160 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:18.839 seen as an act of aggression. 161 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:19.920 I think that's a little bit over it. 162 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:21.920 Hey, good morning, Gary. You said you're going to talk 163 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.240 about the doge thing. Yes, next, Why are people freaking 164 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:29.600 out that he wants to have our tax money dwindle 165 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:31.600 down to where we may get more money in our 166 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.000 pockets or enough throwing it away on other people's needs 167 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.919 somewhere else and not here. I don't understand that for 168 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.840 the life of me. Why American citizens are upset that 169 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.279 we're looking into our money being spent on foolish things 170 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:46.559 makes no sense at all. 171 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.519 Well, we'll talk about it coming up at the bottom 172 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.639 of the hour. But first we know that President Trump 173 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:55.559 has said that the United States would somehow take control 174 00:08:55.759 --> 00:09:02.279 of Gaza voluntarily or maybe forcibly, evacuate the two hundred, sorry, 175 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.399 the two million people that live there to other countries 176 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.480 there throughout the Middle East, even though nobody has said 177 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.519 that they would accept them Benjaminette Yahoo, the Prime Minister 178 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:12.639 of Israel loves the idea you have to rebuild Gaza. 179 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:14.919 If you want to rebuild Gaza, you can't have. 180 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.480 This is the first good idea that I've heard. 181 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.120 It's a remarkable idea, and I think it should be 182 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:22.799 really pursued. 183 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.240 And yesterday we were saying, I was saying specifically that 184 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:27.919 this is not a thought out plan. 185 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.039 This is just sort of a pie in the sky thing. 186 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.000 It's also in terms of negotiations for what the future 187 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.240 of Gaza looks like. It's an opportunity for Trump to 188 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.639 do what he has done in the past and make 189 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:43.159 a big, bold statement and then use that as the 190 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.960 beginning of whatever negotiation he has in mind. 191 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:47.559 I said there's no plan to it. 192 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.840 Some people are saying there is a plan because he 193 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.000 posted on truth Social today and I quote the Gaza 194 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.960 Strip would be turned over to the United States by 195 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.559 Israel at the conclusion of fighting. The Palestinians would have 196 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.879 already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities 197 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:05.279 with new and modern homes in the region. They would 198 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.559 actually have a chance to be happy, safe and free. 199 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.200 The US working with great development teams from all over 200 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.440 the world would slowly and carefully begin the construction of 201 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.320 what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular 202 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.879 developments of its kind on Earth. No soldiers by the 203 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.639 US would be needed. Stability for the stability for the 204 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:25.600 region would reign. Now that's not a detailed plan, but 205 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.039 it is more than just saying it's going to turn 206 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.240 into the riviera of the Middle East. So there's an 207 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:34.919 article in The Telegraph, the London newspaper that says that 208 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.039 this plan is something that's been rattling around his big 209 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:43.559 brain for some time. About a year ago, Jared Kushner, 210 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:48.279 first son in law Dimple's Kushner, who in the previous 211 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.960 administration was a Special Envoy to the Middle East, he 212 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.440 said that he would in the when it comes to 213 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:01.399 the future of Gaza, look at other places around the 214 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:06.879 world that have been developed a long coastline like Gaza, 215 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.240 and he said that Gaza possessed very valuable waterfront property 216 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.600 and could become a hub for tourism, that is, if 217 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.679 the people of Gaza were relocated, at least temporarily out 218 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.519 of the area. Now he's talking in Miami's referring to 219 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:27.519 the offices of his investment firm, Affinity Partners, and he 220 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.559 said at the time, I'm not sure anybody's talking about it, 221 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:32.679 but it's a great idea. 222 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:33.200 Now. 223 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.919 Yesterday morning, sorry, Tuesday morning, after Trump talked about the 224 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:42.080 plans for Gaza, the world was barely talking about anything else. 225 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.919 Monday morning, when he was waiting for Benjamin Nett Yahoo 226 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:51.159 to arrive White House, Aids told mister Trump that rebuilding 227 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:55.120 Gaza would take about fifteen years, and Steve Whitkoff, who 228 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:58.519 is the new envoy to the Middle East, said, just 229 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.240 the cleanup process, when you're talking about removing debris from 230 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.679 what is it sixteen months of Israeli bombing would take years. 231 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:13.480 The disposal effort in Gaza is we estimate three to 232 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.480 five years just to dispose of all the things before 233 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.159 you can look down but believe beneath the surface of 234 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:22.039 the soil, and then before you get a master plan done. 235 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.320 By the way, Steve Whitcoff one of the first Western 236 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.399 officials to actually walk through areas of Gaza. 237 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:28.519 He did that last week. 238 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.320 According to Wall Street Journal, Trump told net Yahoo months 239 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:36.440 ago that the Gaza strip was a prime piece of 240 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.039 real estate and that he should think about what kind 241 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:42.399 of hotels could be constructed there. So this plan, whatever 242 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:47.879 it looks like, whatever however it materializes, could potentially just 243 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.679 be like I said the beginning of the negotiation plan, 244 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:52.039 that would be his style. 245 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.519 But there are ways, it seems that it could be done. Again. 246 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.600 You've got to get whatever Middle East states, whether it's Jordan, Syria, Egypt, 247 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.480 Saudi Arabia, you've got to get more than just a 248 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:08.960 couple of them to agree to resettle two million Palestinians. 249 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.440 And no one is on board with that now because, 250 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:16.639 among other things, taking away Gaza from Palestinians would mean 251 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.240 there is no two state solution, and most of those 252 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.639 other Middle East states have said that they want a 253 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.200 two state solution. Side note, Benjamin Netanyahu apparently gave the 254 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:33.440 president a golden pager at this visit this week, a 255 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.759 sort of a nod towards the detonation of those pagers 256 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.080 in the hands of the Hesbalah operatives earlier in the year. 257 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.919 Later later last year, I should say, all right, what 258 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.320 is it you. 259 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.440 Say you do here? The bobs are running amok. When 260 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.240 it comes to the federal government, we'll talk about what 261 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:55.639 DOJE is. And this team of very young but very 262 00:13:55.720 --> 00:14:00.159 smart young people who are at the center of this 263 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.600 government takeover. It's a little harsh, but this government cleanup, 264 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.240 that's what we'll call it. Shannon's out today, back tomorrow 265 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.840 for some quick dental work. Economic losses from the fires 266 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.320 they tore through La County could range from ninety five 267 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.600 billion up to one hundred and sixty four billion. This 268 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.919 is a new report from a couple of UCLA economists. 269 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.720 I mean that it would mean that these fires here 270 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.559 in southern California last month would be the second costliest 271 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.879 natural disaster in history. The Eton Fire and the Palisades 272 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.360 Fire killed at least twenty nine people, burn more than 273 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:38.720 thirty seven thousand acres, destroyed sixteen thousand structures, including more 274 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:42.120 than eleven thousand single family homes. And if you're just 275 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:46.279 talking about the insured losses, they're talking about seventy five 276 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.200 billion dollars. We'll talk next hour a little bit more 277 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:53.240 about some of the fire stuff, including what the LAUSD 278 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.200 is going to do to fast track rebuilding some of 279 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:57.799 the schools, especially over the Palisades area, and then also 280 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.679 the EPA and where they're going to be putting together 281 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.279 a household hazardous waste of facility as they try to 282 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.080 clean out what's left of the palisades. A state of 283 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.120 emergency has been declared on the Greek island of Santorini. 284 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.879 It's been rattled, we told you, by dozens of earthquakes 285 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:17.679 over the last several days, but a strong earthquake, a 286 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.519 five point two is the most powerful to have hit 287 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.679 that island in recent weeks. It happened at a depth 288 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:24.799 of about three miles, and as we know that that's 289 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.879 a pretty good shaker that you could feel pretty well. 290 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.600 Thousands of people have gotten off of the island and 291 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.519 some of the neighboring islands and the GNC because they're 292 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.039 afraid that they a massive earthquake is about to hit 293 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:41.600 that could bring a tsunami, even a volcanic eruption. Perhaps, well, 294 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.600 I feel better that I'm not the only one who 295 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.480 would have pointed something out if my car was trailing 296 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.399 a giant piece of plastic. 297 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.639 Hey gear bear, hey, on the freeway with a car problem, Yeah, 298 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:56.720 I would have said something. I know a lot of 299 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:04.080 people really don't care, but I know sometimes. 300 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.519 We both got it. But he was going to be 301 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.279 nice to me, I think, And here it goes. 302 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:14.000 Oje is burrowing into different parts of the government and 303 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:21.720 trying to root out different waste in the government. And 304 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.159 of course it's the agency, this pseudo government agency that's 305 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.519 led by Elon Musk. We talked about it yesterday in 306 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.279 terms of people bad mouthing Elon Musk because he's a 307 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:35.480 billionaire that that somehow means that he doesn't have the 308 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:40.080 United States best interests at heart. And at the center 309 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:44.360 of all of what DOGE is doing is a group of. 310 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:48.399 Kids. 311 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:55.039 I mean, they're all men legally, but this group of 312 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.200 about six young men, all between the ages of nineteen 313 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.919 and twenty four, they don't have very much, if any, 314 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.960 government experience, and now they're playing critical roles in the 315 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:13.960 Department of Government Efficiency because the Executive Order says that 316 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:18.519 DOGE is tasked with modernizing federal technology and software to 317 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:24.960 maximize government efficiency and productivity. They all hold jobs with DOGE. 318 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:29.440 They're all weird job titles, and at least one of 319 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.799 these guys is working completely as a volunteer. So let's 320 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:41.640 talk about who they are. Akash Boba, Edward Korustein, Luke Farrator, 321 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:51.880 Gatti a cole Killian, Gavin Kleiger, and Ethan Shautran Wired 322 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.359 Magazine put together sort of a profile of each of 323 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.319 these guys and to give you an idea of what 324 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:03.519 it is that they are doing. Akash Bolba went to Berkeley. 325 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:08.359 He won the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Sorry, he was 326 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.039 in that program. According to a copy of his now 327 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.640 deleted linked in, he was an investment engineering intern at 328 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.880 the Bridgewater Associate's Hedge Fund as of last spring, an 329 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:23.480 intern at Meta, an intern at Pallenteer also featured guest 330 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.079 on a podcast with Aman Manazer, an engineer who interviews 331 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.240 engineers about how they land their dream jobs. He talked 332 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.000 about those experiences in a podcast last June. 333 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:35.000 Edward Corsateam. 334 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:40.400 May have just recently graduated from high school and was 335 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.039 to have been enrolled at Northeastern University. According to a 336 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.200 copy of his resume, he spent three months at Neuralink, 337 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:51.839 which of course is the brain computer interface company that 338 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.759 Elon must put together. Both of these guys are listed 339 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:00.599 in records as experts at OPM and they report directly 340 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:02.839 to Amanda Scales, which is a new chief of staff. 341 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.599 Scales previously worked on talent for Xai, which is the 342 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:14.640 artificial intelligence company The Elon must put together. Employees at 343 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.960 General Services Administration have said that Corstein has appeared on 344 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.400 calls where workers were made to go over code they 345 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:25.039 had written and to justify their jobs, which of course 346 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.440 brings up the old office space meme. 347 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.559 What would you say you do here? 348 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.279 Coursu Teine also added to a call with GSA staff 349 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.519 members using a non government Gmail address, and they were 350 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:41.839 not given an explanation as to why who he was 351 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:43.640 or why he was even on the call. 352 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:44.440 Now. 353 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:49.799 Luke Ferrator, another one of these was working GSA email 354 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:54.799 has a working GSA email address. A former intern at SpaceX, 355 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.680 currently a Field Fellow, according to his LinkedIn, dropped out 356 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.880 of the UNI Diversity of Nebraska, Lincoln. This is a 357 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.279 guy who, while he was at University of Nebraska Lincoln, 358 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.000 was part of an award winning team that deciphered portions 359 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:14.480 of an ancient Greek scholl a scroll using artificial intelligence. 360 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.200 These are not dumb people. We're talking about this Department 361 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:21.880 of Government Efficiency. What is it actually doing while it's 362 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:23.279 going through these different agencies? 363 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.559 Hey, Gary, I used to live right across the street 364 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:26.440 from SpaceX. 365 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:28.559 Man, he had them kids out there. 366 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:36.880 Designing that super tunnel. Get down for Dodger Stadium to 367 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:41.400 downtown Los Angeles or just a whole infrastructure on how 368 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.319 that is. That's what he does, man, you know, and 369 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:47.759 kids are super smart like that, So I don't see 370 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:50.079 no problem with the young minds trying to come up 371 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:51.119 with new ideals. 372 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:52.079 You know. 373 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:53.279 Yeah, I do know. 374 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:56.440 Hey, Gary, if Biden brought Bill Gates and and a 375 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:58.240 bunch of twenty year olds to do the same thing 376 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:00.559 Elon Musk is doing with that had been okay, I 377 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.200 don't think so. I don't think it's okay what Elon's doing. 378 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:08.160 They're not government employees. It just seems wrong and probably 379 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:08.960 is well. 380 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.440 Listen, when it comes to that, I have been pretty 381 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:17.680 consistent in that whatever government is needs to be reliant 382 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:21.519 upon us for permission to do the things it does. 383 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.039 Whether it's a member of Congress, whether it's a member 384 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.240 of a bureaucracy, or whatever it is. We are the 385 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.839 ones that drive the bus. So the more information we 386 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.079 have about what's going on, I think is a good thing. 387 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:36.400 And if you agree with or don't agree with whatever 388 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:40.000 funding exists at USAID or any of these other groups, 389 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:44.359 then that will determine how you vote for people And 390 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:47.640 like it or not, whether we voted for him or not, 391 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.559 the guy in the White House is the one who's 392 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:52.839 in charge. It was the same thing for Biden, it's 393 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:55.119 the same thing for Trump. Now, there were a lot 394 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.440 of people who obviously do not like this. What they 395 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:00.960 refer to us a takeover democracy. 396 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.200 We're witnessing an assault on our democracy, make no mistake, 397 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:08.319 and the Congressional Progressive Caucus will fight at every opportunity. 398 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.799 Senator Mark Warner, for example, You've got folks we don't 399 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:15.279 know anything about. 400 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:20.480 Looking at potentially all of our personal information, all of 401 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.319