Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Well, let's start swamp watch. Swamp is horrible, so government
Speaker 2: doesn't work?
Speaker 3: Come man, make It's like a reality TV show.
Speaker 2: Was a bad noos, always a pleasure to be anywhere
Speaker 2: from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joe, A town hall too, clearly built on a
Speaker 1: swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 2: I have to watch it, malarkey, he said, drained the swamp.
Speaker 2: I said, oh, that's so he keepph.
Speaker 1: You know the thing. Well, Kamala Harris continues to enjoy
Speaker 1: a bounds in favorability when it comes to her ratings.
Speaker 1: There was an ABC News IPSOS poll released yesterday. It
Speaker 1: shows that her favorability rating has jumped to forty three percent,
Speaker 1: with an unfavorability rating of forty two percent.
Speaker 2: Oh well, the net of one. That's probably not awful.
Speaker 1: A week ago, though, her favorability rating was at thirty five,
Speaker 1: so she picked up eight percentage points in that regard.
Speaker 3: There was also a poll that came out from Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal today. I heard somebody refer to what we
Speaker 3: do here we talk about polls, the polar coaster that.
Speaker 2: We're about to be on.
Speaker 1: No, we're not doing that.
Speaker 3: Okay, This race between Harris and Trump is tighter than
Speaker 3: it was than it was with Biden involved. The former
Speaker 3: president leads the current vice president forty nine to forty
Speaker 3: seven if it's just a two person matchup, again from
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, that is within that margin of
Speaker 3: era of plus or minus three point one percentage points.
Speaker 3: Trump actually had a six point lead over Biden just
Speaker 3: before Biden got out of the race. If the ballot
Speaker 3: includes third party and independent candidates Robert Kennedy, Jill Stein,
Speaker 3: those people, Harris gets forty five percent, Trump gets forty
Speaker 3: four percent. In fact, Kennedy has got just four percent
Speaker 3: in that poll, and then five percent they say still undecided.
Speaker 3: So we I think all the pollsters know that this
Speaker 3: phase this week that we've seen is going to be
Speaker 3: a significant bump for her, specifically because of just the
Speaker 3: notoriety about it. That same Wall Street Journal poll says
Speaker 3: that eighty one percent of voters who support Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: say they are very enthusiastic to vote for her, compared
Speaker 3: to thirty seven percent who said they were enthusiastic to
Speaker 3: vote for Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: I'm still floored by this successful rollout, and I'm still
Speaker 1: floored that all the Democrats fell in line behind her.
Speaker 1: The organization, the cohesion is not something that I would
Speaker 1: have forecast for this candidate or this party. I I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's an illusion.
Speaker 2: I mean, because of course it's an illusion, because it
Speaker 2: almost does. I think you're right. It seems like it's
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Too too pretty to be true, Like how do you
Speaker 3: get everyone within twenty four hours to commit to this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, every one.
Speaker 1: It's going to be quite interesting at the convention in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I still maintain that they are going to use this
Speaker 1: as their coming out party. All the Democrats, the big
Speaker 1: names that came forward and endorsed her right away. They
Speaker 1: want a big role, they want a national audience, they
Speaker 1: want to raise their profile, and they're going to use
Speaker 1: the convention to do it. Because everybody's now just running
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: This But if she's the president.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's going to happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know either. I mean, my temperature has changed
Speaker 1: completely from when Biden was just circling the drain. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: that's not kind, but you know what I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just a figure of speech. When his candidacy, shall we say,
Speaker 1: was circling the drain, there was just very low. There
Speaker 1: was just no chance that Trump wasn't going to win.
Speaker 1: There's just no chance that he was not going to win. Right,
Speaker 1: the race was his, the presidency was his, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Biden drops out and the temperature
Speaker 1: changed by thirty degrees. I mean, she came out swinging.
Speaker 1: She sounded good, she sounded I mean again, the bar
Speaker 1: was very, very low with what we were getting from Biden.
Speaker 1: But even from her, even if you go, what if
Speaker 1: you look at her comments in the past has been
Speaker 1: word salid and she came out in her first remarks
Speaker 1: and she was succinct.
Speaker 3: She was on task. Part of it is teleprompter. I
Speaker 3: mean that makes a difference for her. I think she
Speaker 3: can do a very good points. She can deliver a
Speaker 3: teleprompter speech. But I wonder if this is a situation
Speaker 3: where yes, there's excitement behind it. But once we get
Speaker 3: to know her, or we I mean we in California
Speaker 3: have known her very well for the last two decades,
Speaker 3: but once the rest of the country, those independent, moderate voters,
Speaker 3: once they get to know her, is this something where
Speaker 3: they kind of like, well, I thought it was something different.
Speaker 1: It's like if you have a crush, get to know
Speaker 1: them and your crush will go away.
Speaker 3: Well, Sir Sarah Palin as an example, I mean, right,
Speaker 3: once we learned who she was, she was not the
Speaker 3: sharpest tool in the political shits not she was likable.
Speaker 3: And this is kind of what I landed on this weekend.
Speaker 3: Am I thinking about Kamala in her past week? Is
Speaker 3: I like her? She's likable to me right now.
Speaker 1: I do not agree with eighty percent of the things
Speaker 1: that she has said, though, when it comes to policies
Speaker 1: and the way she wants this country to move forward.
Speaker 1: I mean, she is more socialist than Bernie Sanders, and
Speaker 1: people don't and nobody knows that yet because of the optics.
Speaker 1: And she looks really pretty and she can talk about
Speaker 1: serious things very well with that smile, and she's going
Speaker 1: after Trump and I know his type and I'm the prosecutor,
Speaker 1: and it all sounds really great, But what is she
Speaker 1: going to mean for your life? That's what you need
Speaker 1: to start digging into stories that we are following the
Speaker 1: Park Fire. This is the big, huge one that's burning
Speaker 1: up in northern California, Butte Plumus Shasta in t Hama
Speaker 1: Counties the largest wildfire of the year by far, and
Speaker 1: now the seventh largest fire in state history. It's at
Speaker 1: three one hundred and sixty eight thousand acres right now,
Speaker 1: it's about twelve percent contained. They were able to get
Speaker 1: some more containment line around it over the weekend because
Speaker 1: things said cooled down at least a little bit. The
Speaker 1: Burrell Fire burning in Kern County tore through the little
Speaker 1: historic mining town of Havila. It started that fire start
Speaker 1: in the Kern River Canyon on Wednesday and then spread
Speaker 1: through that little town Friday night and took out almost
Speaker 1: every single building in the entire town. Tomorrow, the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: So one of the big things that's going on today
Speaker 3: is that President Biden is making his way down to
Speaker 3: the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. He's going to make
Speaker 3: an announcement regarding the Supreme Court. He wrote out a
Speaker 3: an op ed piece or somebody did put his name
Speaker 3: on it about the changes that he wants to see
Speaker 3: in the nation's highest court. The first thing that they
Speaker 3: it's a three point plan that he's got. He said,
Speaker 3: no immunity for crimes a former president commits in office.
Speaker 3: He said that the president's power is limited and that
Speaker 3: must ultimately reside with the people. So he's calling for
Speaker 3: a constitutional amendment that makes it clear that no president
Speaker 3: or anyone is above the law or immune from prosecution
Speaker 3: for crimes committed while in office. It would state, the
Speaker 3: amendment would that the Constitution does not confer any immunity
Speaker 3: from federal criminal indictment, trial, conviction, or sentencing by virtue
Speaker 3: of previously serving as president. Second thing is term limits
Speaker 3: for Supreme Court justices. I've seen the number eighteen years.
Speaker 3: They're talking about eighteen years for a term.
Speaker 1: Oh and no gifts, no trips. Yeah, in full disclosure,
Speaker 1: full transparency. The optics surrounding that Clarence Thomas stuff were horrific.
Speaker 3: That would be this binding code of conduct in the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court that supposedly we the people, through Congress, would
Speaker 3: be able to implement. Here was an opinion on this
Speaker 3: from a former assistant Deputy Attorney General guy named John Yuary.
Speaker 2: No, that's not it. This one that didn't sound like John.
Speaker 2: That wasn't John at all.
Speaker 4: Now Biden and Harris are going to say, oh, Congress,
Speaker 4: cham just pass it by statute. But really, if you
Speaker 4: want to be changing the term moments of justices of
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court, which in the Constitution are granted for life,
Speaker 4: I think you need to mend the constitution. That requires
Speaker 4: two thirds of the Congress and three quarters of the
Speaker 4: state legislatures. It takes years and years to get constitutional
Speaker 4: amendments through that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that I think is probably the biggest hill.
Speaker 3: There are people who say that these passed by Congress
Speaker 3: as laws would simply be unconstitutional. You can change the constitution,
Speaker 3: but that is a very slow, long process for a
Speaker 3: very good reason.
Speaker 1: So New Hampshire Governor Christian Unu yesterday dismissed Trump's claim
Speaker 1: that people won't have to vote anymore if they elect
Speaker 1: him as.
Speaker 2: As president. This was what Trump said Friday night, Christians,
Speaker 2: get out and vote, just this time, Justice time. You
Speaker 2: won't have to do it anymore. Four more years.
Speaker 4: You know what, It'll be fixed. It'll be fine to
Speaker 4: vote anymore, My beautiful Christians.
Speaker 2: I love you Christians. I'm a Christian.
Speaker 4: I love you.
Speaker 1: Get out. You gotta get out and vote.
Speaker 2: Chris and Martha Raddits asked Christian governor, what.
Speaker 1: The heck did he mean there?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think that was a classic trump ism,
Speaker 3: if you will, I think you're just trying to make
Speaker 3: the point.
Speaker 2: That this stuff can be fixed.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's we want everybody to vote in
Speaker 1: all elections.
Speaker 2: But I think he was just trying to make a hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: Point that it can be fixed as long as he
Speaker 1: gets back into office and all that.
Speaker 2: But you know, classic Trump right there. I love that line.
Speaker 2: Classic Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we don't know what he meant. Did he
Speaker 1: mean to say it? Did he stumble into that? And
Speaker 1: now it's caused controversy, So he's going to let it
Speaker 1: rye and people are saying, do you want to have
Speaker 1: a president where you have to translate everything that they're
Speaker 1: saying and what does it really mean? No?
Speaker 3: But I also don't want a president who sleeps? Uh,
Speaker 3: who sleeps twenty hours a day? Yeah, sound like a
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 2: We have a big announcement to make. Oh should I
Speaker 2: play the announcement music?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I love announcement music. Usually we announced our NEWSI
Speaker 1: and Bruce, which were not but that's coming up later.
Speaker 1: But guys, guys, guys, we are going to bring you
Speaker 1: all of the craziness from the DNC. What's that smell?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right here, nine to one from the DNC in Chicago.
Speaker 1: You He will be broadcasting live from there every day,
Speaker 1: documenting the weirdness. Do we see an Anthony Weiener? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Do we milk that thing for eight years?
Speaker 3: Yes, we're not milking Anthony Weiener at all.
Speaker 1: No, we are not. But but that was an interview
Speaker 1: that we milked for a very long time.
Speaker 3: You could argue that our trajectory went up after that
Speaker 3: and his fell precipitous.
Speaker 1: It was just such a perfect moment because it was like,
Speaker 1: let me see your phone, what's on your phone? And
Speaker 1: the news broke like a week and a half later
Speaker 1: that he had more weird images of his son and
Speaker 1: his penis and he was sending it to people.
Speaker 2: It was just so great. It was and him taking
Speaker 2: a shot at me, Oh I just had.
Speaker 1: The best part was when he's like, oh no, I
Speaker 1: just have pictures of my son, and then he takes
Speaker 1: a shot like it's been a while since you've had
Speaker 1: a four year old running around your house. Like I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was like thirty five years old. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? It's what's next for you? I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got to get back into somebody.
Speaker 2: We're going to miss.
Speaker 1: How do I possibly overcome anything bigger than KF I
Speaker 1: am six forty with with the Gary and Shannon Show. Now, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did yourself. That was his shot because he was
Speaker 1: like leaning back looking at the sign that's above us
Speaker 1: so that people could see where we're from, big salmon
Speaker 1: colored pants, and he just wanted to feed him something
Speaker 1: that wasn't Vegan. Sorry, Debra, you have a great figure,
Speaker 1: but men do not need to have a great figure
Speaker 1: like that. He was. He was so thin and like
Speaker 1: just kind of malnourished, and he did.
Speaker 3: This thing where I mean he was persona on Grada.
Speaker 3: Then this was before the pictures.
Speaker 1: Came, yeah, exactly, and nobody wanted to be around him,
Speaker 1: and he was literally walking around by himself, at the
Speaker 1: convention hall because.
Speaker 2: Everyone knew who he was.
Speaker 1: Everyone knew he.
Speaker 2: Was just a garbage human.
Speaker 1: But we just and the thing was we he he
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to get past us, like he couldn't wait.
Speaker 1: He's just looking over our shoulders at who else he
Speaker 1: might be able to talk to later on.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We had fun at those conventions.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 2: We talked to Lester Hoole.
Speaker 3: We talked to David Muir, We talked to Dan Dan Rather,
Speaker 3: We talked to uh and Antonio Vierragosa.
Speaker 1: We talked to John Bolton, talked to John Bolton, Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we we got it. We just will talk
Speaker 1: to anybody. It's probably not a great idea, no, all right.
Speaker 3: We will be doing our live coverage from Chicago the
Speaker 3: Democratic National.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, when we went to those conventions, this show
Speaker 1: was relatively new. We hadn't really found our footing. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, look out, we are going to really embarrass
Speaker 1: some people.
Speaker 2: I think, I hope it's just not about ourselves.
Speaker 1: I was going to play Olympic music and I totally
Speaker 1: blew it. I didn't grab that Darius book fanfare and
Speaker 1: Phil Schuman's here and You're gonna be JV.
Speaker 3: Well, I was I was distracted by uh? By the
Speaker 3: was I distracted by Phil Schum?
Speaker 2: I may have been distracted?
Speaker 1: Or were you distracted by the size of the cheesecake?
Speaker 1: That is basically the size of your forehead?
Speaker 2: I can't wait, I cannot wait. I know, I can tell.
Speaker 1: Your face is telling You're a short book with big
Speaker 1: letters and short sentences.
Speaker 2: What is it.
Speaker 1: You are?
Speaker 2: What did I say?
Speaker 3: You're a book with big words, short sentences in a
Speaker 3: lot of pictures.
Speaker 1: There are no picturestures.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: No, all right, a short book. I don't remember what
Speaker 1: it was. It was really well said, though basically I'm
Speaker 1: a dumb human. That is telling email M L E.
Speaker 1: For two hundred dollars. A towering figure in nineteenth century engineering,
Speaker 1: this Frenchman was known as the Magician of Iron. Oh
Speaker 1: the Julius, I felt Gustave, I felt, I have to
Speaker 1: say Gustav. I don't know how you say it in
Speaker 1: French eifel. No, I know his first name, Gustav.
Speaker 2: Is it is that his name?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: But it could be pronounced differently, like Gustave.
Speaker 1: All right, I do not think this was a sexist
Speaker 1: remark that was made by this eurosport broadcaster commentator, Bob Ballard.
Speaker 1: He has been sent home for saying, you know what
Speaker 1: women are like hanging around doing their makeup?
Speaker 3: This was This hurts me. This hurts me because I
Speaker 3: agree with you on one point. It should not have
Speaker 3: caused him to be to be sent maybe an apology exactly, Oh, the.
Speaker 4: Women just finishing off. You know, women alike hang it
Speaker 4: around the make up.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so he says, no.
Speaker 4: What women are like hanging around and doing the makeup?
Speaker 3: You know what women are like hanging around doing the makeup,
Speaker 3: and the woman that's doing the play by play with
Speaker 3: him with a smile on her face.
Speaker 2: That's outrageous.
Speaker 3: Ball as I mentioned, are doing that as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was dumb. That was a dumb thing to say.
Speaker 1: But as I mentioned at the top of the show,
Speaker 1: I watched the Simone Biles documentary on Netflix. Excellent, give it,
Speaker 1: give it a go, just two episodes. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of time when she's not being the number one gymnast
Speaker 1: in history where she is hanging around doing her makeup.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what That's a real statement.
Speaker 1: That is not an Outlanda's statement to make it's not rude,
Speaker 1: it's not putting them down, it's not saying. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's quite the opposite, isn't it. Are you insinuating that
Speaker 1: female athletes are not girly girls who like to do
Speaker 1: their makeup, because they are some of the most girly
Speaker 1: girls I know are the best athletes, some of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, it just it rubs me
Speaker 1: the wrong way that people are in an uproar over
Speaker 1: this and that the guy was sent home.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use what I call the Matt Damon
Speaker 3: rule here, which is, if someone says something that's legitimately sexist, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's probably time to take them off the air. Or
Speaker 3: if it rises to the level of actually offending somebody,
Speaker 3: even then there's got to be a little bit more
Speaker 3: meat to it than women do their makeup.
Speaker 1: One of my best friends played D one basketball and
Speaker 1: is the go to person for doing her makeup. I
Speaker 1: get all my advice from her. She helps me. She's
Speaker 1: like knows everything about the makeup. Why because when you're
Speaker 1: an athlete, you spend a lot of downtime, you have
Speaker 1: a lot of downtime. You have a lot of time
Speaker 1: when you're not practicing saying, and you're not working out,
Speaker 1: you're not in a gym, and you're at home, and
Speaker 1: there's really not a lot to do, and you got
Speaker 1: to look good if you're going to hit that three
Speaker 1: from the corner. You know, girls like makeup. Guys buy shoes.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of a thing. Guys buy shoes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where did that come from? Male athletes are really big
Speaker 1: into the shoes.
Speaker 2: All right, I see that. Well, I mean you.
Speaker 1: Figured that that's one of the tools of the trade
Speaker 1: for a lot of the guys is the shoes, and
Speaker 1: that's it's a fashion shoes, not the shoes. I know
Speaker 1: that part, but I'm just saying that that problem. I mean,
Speaker 1: think of basketball players, that's a massive poor part of
Speaker 1: of their sport is that to have the right shoes
Speaker 1: on a bunch of stuff that's going on today at
Speaker 1: the Olympics, archery, canoe slalom, artistic gymnastics, judo sal that
Speaker 1: that event I think is uh, it's lost a little
Speaker 1: bit for me because I was watching some of the
Speaker 1: kayak stuff and they do it in such a sanitized
Speaker 1: concrete channel that it does not ring true to me.
Speaker 1: I mean they've there's nowhere in all of France that
Speaker 1: they could set up something on an actual river and
Speaker 1: do it that way.
Speaker 2: But what would be.
Speaker 1: Your sport aside from swimming? I know you were a professional,
Speaker 1: semi professional swimmer in high.
Speaker 2: School, semi. The only one who paid me was my coach.
Speaker 1: Why was your coach giving you money as a young boy?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You have some questionable relationships in your past, highly questionable.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a lot of money. What was what were you?
Speaker 3: What was the question? Again, what would my sport be?
Speaker 1: That question flew out the window as soon as I
Speaker 1: found out you were getting money from a grown man
Speaker 1: as a boy.
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I don't know artistic gymnastics, not
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 3: I like the trampoline. That's not even like a gymnastics thing.
Speaker 3: It's a guy on a trampoline. Is that a that's
Speaker 3: a real sport?
Speaker 2: Really? Yes? Oh you could do that.
Speaker 3: I could fall. I could do that and fall. But
Speaker 3: they you know, the skateboarding is this year, they break dancing.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen any of that yet. I watched table tennis
Speaker 3: the other day.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 1: Those guys are a lot of time on your hands.
Speaker 2: This weekend, my couch and I became very well acquainted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why don't you go down to the home depot
Speaker 1: get yourself something nice.
Speaker 2: I was going to the last time I did.
Speaker 3: I took my dog with me to get it out,
Speaker 3: try to socialize it a little bit, and a woman scolded.
Speaker 2: Me, you shouldn't have your dog out here. It's too hot. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's sexist. And I was like, she knows better than
Speaker 2: you because you're a man. She's more caring than I am.
Speaker 3: And they cannot swim in the Sane River again today
Speaker 3: concerns about water quality. They called off a portion of
Speaker 3: the Olympic triathlon training session for a second straight day.
Speaker 3: You know, they were even talking about potentially canceling the
Speaker 3: swim portion of the triathlon because they can't find a
Speaker 3: clean enough box water to do it in.
Speaker 2: How much money did he give you? And was it Ratetime.
Speaker 1: President Biden will roll out his package of Supreme Court
Speaker 1: reforms that will never happen today during a visit to Texas.
Speaker 1: Term limits for justices, new ethics rules among the key proposals,
Speaker 1: as we outline during Swamp Watch in an op ed
Speaker 1: this morning that was said to be written by Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: It said that no one is above the.
Speaker 3: Law, and again, I don't have a problem with that
Speaker 3: constitutional amendment that he was proposing, which was basically that
Speaker 3: a president cannot be cannot have limitless powers. A president
Speaker 3: would be subject to law as anybody else would as well.
Speaker 1: California Park fire up near the Chico Areas has spread
Speaker 1: to four counties. It is now the nation's largest active wildfire.
Speaker 1: It's burned about seven hundred thousand acres north of Sacramento.
Speaker 3: The Israeli military says it's holding nine soldiers for questioning
Speaker 3: following allegations of abuse of a detainee at a facility
Speaker 3: where Israel has held Palestinian prisoners ever since the war
Speaker 3: in Gaza started. Now the military did not disclose additional
Speaker 3: details about this alleged abuse. It said that its top
Speaker 3: legal official has started an investigation, but the Associated Press
Speaker 3: says that there are abysmal conditions inside the stay team
Speaker 3: and facility, the largest attention center in Israel. The military
Speaker 3: has generally denied any ill treatment of the detainees, but
Speaker 3: these soldiers, these nine soldiers that are now being held
Speaker 3: for questioning prompted an outcry among members of Israel's pretty
Speaker 3: far right government, and they're trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: they're going to do in response to a bombing attack
Speaker 3: in the Goal On Heights that killed twelve kids who
Speaker 3: were playing soccer.
Speaker 1: Well, the narrative has been that home prices rising, home
Speaker 1: price is out of reach, home prices have been the
Speaker 1: reason behind homelessness, that it's home prices that drive the
Speaker 1: massive numbers of homeless in California. When you drill down,
Speaker 1: and we have always drilled down here on KFI, you
Speaker 1: realize that it's more about treating people's mental illness and addictions.
Speaker 1: That should be kind of like a trias situation. What
Speaker 1: does each person need in terms of treatment? And it's
Speaker 1: not just taking somebody who's mentally ill and on drugs
Speaker 1: and throwing them in a free house, right.
Speaker 3: And it's not to say that there aren't people who
Speaker 3: can't afford homes. Of course there are, and there are
Speaker 3: people who find it. I mean, we actually heard from
Speaker 3: one last week when we were talking about it. Somebody
Speaker 3: left us a talkback message and said they have a
Speaker 3: pretty steady job, but they can't afford first last month's
Speaker 3: rent to get into an apartment to begin that safe
Speaker 3: transition so they're in their car.
Speaker 1: And there will be people like that, and that's why
Speaker 1: I say you've got a triage the situation. For the
Speaker 1: people that are not on drugs or addicted or have
Speaker 1: men illness problems, maybe that is the answer. Maybe that
Speaker 1: is what you do with those housing units. But for
Speaker 1: the people who are, you got to treat that first
Speaker 1: before you can put them in a free home.
Speaker 3: And the majority of the people we're going to see
Speaker 3: do have those addiction issues, the mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Well, now we have a new problem when it comes
Speaker 1: to homelessness. Now they're blaming outdated computer systems with being
Speaker 1: a speed bump.
Speaker 3: This report came from the ap Forty five thousand people
Speaker 3: are experiencing homelessness in La alone. Many of them need shelters.
Speaker 3: So they say deficiencies in technology like no online system
Speaker 3: of tracking the number of available shelter bits in La
Speaker 3: County makes it difficult for people to find places to sleep.
Speaker 3: The CTO for Better Angels United Chief Technology Officer says
Speaker 3: LA's technology as it described LA's technology as systems that
Speaker 3: don't talk to one another, lack of accurate data, nobody
Speaker 3: on the same page about what's real and isn't real?
Speaker 2: How does that change whether or not.
Speaker 3: Jimmy mcleather face over here is going to be getting
Speaker 3: a safe bed tonight.
Speaker 1: Could there be a more crooked name from a for
Speaker 1: a nonprofit than Better Angels United?
Speaker 2: That just reeks of crooked. Yeah, it's not good. They said.
Speaker 3: There's no uniform practice for caseworkers to turn from information
Speaker 3: into a central database. That that can lead to the
Speaker 3: loss of miss recorded or unrecorded information, especially when written
Speaker 3: down on a notepad or a phone, and then it
Speaker 3: could quickly become outdated with the delay between data collection
Speaker 3: and entry time. There is a homeless Management information system,
Speaker 3: the main federal data system said could be another bump
Speaker 3: of the road because it's difficult to navigate on a
Speaker 3: phone since it was designed as a desktop application, and
Speaker 3: that our local LA version of it doesn't even communicate
Speaker 3: with the federal system, so they have to re enter
Speaker 3: the data once again, and that opens the door for
Speaker 3: numerical mistakes that could make the difference between someone sleeping
Speaker 3: in a shelter out on the streets. Again, they don't
Speaker 3: show their work here necessarily. How some simple typos like
Speaker 3: this are going to exacerbate the homelessness problem. Homeless Services
Speaker 3: Authority in LA says that work is underway to create
Speaker 3: a database of twenty three thousand beds by the end
Speaker 3: of the year, hopes of improving how they use technology
Speaker 3: to address homelessness. Are a lot of those beds going
Speaker 3: unused every single night? Is that kind of seems to
Speaker 3: be the underlying current that they're trying to say here,
Speaker 3: is that out of the twenty three thousand beds, because
Speaker 3: they can't keep a very straight record of them, that
Speaker 3: they are not able to fill them all the time.
Speaker 3: Some people don't want to go to shelters. Some people
Speaker 3: are never going to want to go to shelters. This
Speaker 3: is their right and they love it and they want
Speaker 3: to live out there.
Speaker 2: I want to be free.
Speaker 3: They or they may not love it, but they certainly
Speaker 3: don't want to live by the rules that a shelter
Speaker 3: is going to impose upon them.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you missed our big news, it is this
Speaker 1: can I am Oh the music awesome. We are going
Speaker 1: to the DNC in Chicago. We are we are, We
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Speaker 1: day from nine to one. That's what time the show
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Speaker 2: Do we have to thank Darren for that?
Speaker 1: Are we thinking, Darren? Thank you, thank you, thank you, Darren.
Speaker 1: I don't think we needed to do that. I was
Speaker 1: a little overkill.
Speaker 2: It just likes to be around us.
Speaker 3: Yes, August nineteenth is when it starts there in Chicago,
Speaker 3: and we'll be going And as we did eight years ago,
Speaker 3: couldn't figure it out necessarily to go to the Republican Convention.
Speaker 3: But we've put our ducks in the correct order this
Speaker 3: time and we will be there in Chicago August nineteenth
Speaker 3: through the whatever the end of that week is.
Speaker 1: I love it when our ducks are in order. Where
Speaker 1: are we on getting that baby duck to into our
Speaker 1: foster program?
Speaker 2: I don't know how many of them are still well.
Speaker 1: Now we probably can't because we're gonna be out of town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta, you gotta. Jacob can watch him.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jacob, would you watch the baby duck?
Speaker 2: Well, when are we getting the baby penguin?
Speaker 1: We're not getting a penguin that was unrealistic, Wellether. We're
Speaker 1: not getting a duck that that that does not compute.
Speaker 2: Oh it makes sense now, that's the that's the thing.
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