WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.480 on the iHeartRadio app. It is Wednesday, March fifth, twenty 4 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:10.640 twenty five. 5 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:11.759 Thank you for joining us. 6 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.800 If you miss any part of the show, make sure 7 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:15.359 to hit us up on the podcast. 8 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:16.120 Subscribe to it. 9 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.079 That's the best way to always have it there whenever 10 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.000 you want it. Go to wherever you get your podcasts 11 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.559 and subscribe to Gary and Shannon and there you go. 12 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.920 Right there. On the iHeartRadio app, we. 13 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.039 Mentioned the medspas push to prey on people's insecurity over 14 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:38.920 balding how that's kind of the latest playground that they 15 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.520 are trying to. 16 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.159 Steal your money in. 17 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.520 There was an article in Blueberg Business Week about how 18 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:50.240 medspas conquered America, the tactics, all of our insecurities, how 19 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.920 they prey on us, how they pick their price points. 20 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:54.880 Is it all worth it? Where the best ones are? 21 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.920 We'll get into all that coming up in the eleven 22 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.759 o'clock hour. In the meantime, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says 23 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.959 there may be carve outs coming to the tariffs placed 24 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.159 on Canada and Mexico by President Trump. We've been talking 25 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.519 about this all morning in the wake of the speech 26 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:16.680 where the President said maybe a little bit of an 27 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.200 adjustment time, we can handle it kind of thing. 28 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:20.879 Well, the markets did not agree. 29 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.079 The markets responded not well to those tariffs going into effects. 30 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.079 So now the Commerce Secretary is saying, well, kind of 31 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:34.359 backing away after it saw the stock market get hurt 32 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.719 by this. Consumers are worried, according to polling, and a 33 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.040 trade war not a good optic, is it. In an 34 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.680 interview this morning with Bloomberg, Lutnick said that Trump would 35 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:50.040 update his tariff plans with an afternoon announcement potentially today, 36 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.879 possibly sparing sectors like autos from the import taxes. As 37 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.719 we've talked about, the price of new cars is going 38 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.920 to go up a dramatic if they don't back off 39 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.719 of these to some extent. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 40 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:10.360 is called Trump's sweeping tariffs very dumb. These are his 41 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:13.560 waning days in office, by the way, that should be said. 42 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.879 He called out for Trump's appeasement of Vladimir Putin while 43 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.240 launching this trade war against Canada. He said that Canada 44 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.000 will plaster retaliatory trade tariffs on more than one hundred 45 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.800 billion of American goods in response. So we'll stay on 46 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.360 top of all of that news. Huntington Park. What the 47 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.560 hell's going on in Huntington Park. This is a story 48 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.199 we're staying on top of. Huntington Park doesn't get a 49 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.199 lot of attention in La County. It's a small community 50 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.960 east of the one ten right there, not far from 51 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.360 Inglewood and Watts, ten miles away from Bell. The reason 52 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.039 I bring that up is because what's going on in 53 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:51.560 Huntington Park is very reminiscent of when the fiefs in 54 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:56.439 Bell decided to pillage the town's coffers for their own benefit. 55 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.080 And that seems to be what's going on just down 56 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.520 the road in hunting Park. And like I say, I 57 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.879 learned it from John and Ken. If you're not paying attention, 58 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.520 they're going to screw you over and twice on Sundays. 59 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.639 The people that you elected to look out for your cities, 60 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.560 for your towns, for your states, for your countries, what 61 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:15.879 have you. You've got to pay attention to where your 62 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.319 tax dollars are going or they're going to use them 63 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.680 to benefit themselves. Not everybody, but there are a lot 64 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:23.759 of them. That get into the game for number one, 65 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.479 Huntington Park. We've talked about it before. This is the 66 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:30.719 area where they got it signed off on that fourteen 67 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.840 million dollars would go to build this beautiful aquatic park 68 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.039 for the community. It would have an Olympic sized pool. 69 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.560 We're talking to thirty thousand square foot, two story, state. 70 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.000 Of the art facility. And it sounded great. 71 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.199 It sounded great for the beautiful park that is around 72 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.840 this center, sounded great for the kids growing up in 73 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.639 the community to have access to this. 74 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:53.280 It was. 75 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.599 It was wonderful and it was signed off on years 76 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.319 ago and fourteen million dollars have been collected for this. 77 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.639 What has been built absolutely nothing. 78 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:04.199 Nothing. 79 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.919 There has been an investigation by the La County DA's 80 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.560 office going back to the fall of twenty twenty two 81 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.039 about this, and it was go time this past week 82 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.959 when several homes and officers were raided in Huntington Park. 83 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.600 The Mayor Karina Massias her home was searched as part 84 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.720 of this corruption probe. A lot of people showed up 85 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.680 at the city council meeting that was called for last Friday, 86 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.879 and they were pissed off, as they should be, as 87 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.120 they should be in place like Huntington Park. 88 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:37.199 It's all about community. 89 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.360 It's all about local community, community and what's available for 90 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.959 the kids or what have you. And the fact that 91 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:45.959 this was a town that tried to pretend like it 92 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.800 was invested in that and then turned around and just 93 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:54.079 pillaged the tax dollars. They should be very upset. The 94 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.759 mayor is in her third four year term, very confident 95 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.720 in how things work and probably how to rob the city. 96 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.279 She says that the aquatic center in the pool project 97 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:07.199 is not an illusion in the community and will soon 98 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:08.160 become a reality. 99 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.560 That is the latest today where she says, no, it's just. 100 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.439 On hold, it's still going to happen, just not much 101 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.759 has been done yet, well, not anything has been done yet. 102 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:23.639 Longtime Huntington Park city attorney left. He said the current environment, 103 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.600 lack of communication with my office has made my job 104 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:32.920 unreasonably difficult. Basically, the attorney that is there to help 105 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.920 city council members not run. 106 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:36.639 A foul of the law says, I'm out. 107 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.439 I am out. Y'all are crazy. I don't know what 108 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.360 you think you're doing with your checkbooks over there with 109 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.000 the city checkbooks, but I can't defend your asses and 110 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.639 I certainly can't give you any legal representation, so I'm 111 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.079 out now. I don't know if he said any of 112 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:52.680 those things publicly, but that's essentially what that. 113 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.399 Means when the city attorney kicks out like that. 114 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:01.319 There are four former Huntington Park employees have sued the city. 115 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.279 They say that they face discrimination and retaliation for raising 116 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:10.319 their hand, for saying something's not right here, something's not 117 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.240 right with this project, something's not right with the way 118 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.879 the city is spending or is pretending to spend these 119 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.240 tax dollars on this project. All four of these people 120 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:25.000 were placed on leave. Three were fired for raising their 121 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.040 hand and saying something is a foul here. Well, we're 122 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.240 going to try and get their attorney on because those 123 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.839 people know where the bodies are buried. And the fact 124 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:36.079 that the fiefs that run the fiefdom that is Huntington 125 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.600 Park dismissed these people, fired them. My god, they thought 126 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.040 they could get away with everything, don't they. Around The 127 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.040 Horn has been canceled, going off the air after more 128 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:51.040 than twenty years on the network twenty three years on ESPN. 129 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:53.720 They made the announcement yesterday saying a half hour version 130 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.240 of Sports Center will air weekdays instead. 131 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.000 The last episode of Around the Horn will be made 132 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:00.959 at twenty third. 133 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.079 Eight leaders or members of a Chinese hacking company have 134 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.040 been charged alongside two Chinese law enforcement officers. This is 135 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.759 a global cyber espionage campaign that has targeted dissonance that 136 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.040 are here in the United States. Now we've known that 137 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.720 the Chinese government has deputized some of their brightest minds. 138 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.399 Think about Elon Musk and what he's doing with Doje. 139 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.439 That's what they're doing in China. Essentially, with hackers. They're 140 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.399 finding the best and the brightest, and they're using these 141 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:36.040 brilliant kids to as weapons against the US and against dissidents. 142 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.079 A set of criminal cases today adding new detail to 143 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.000 what US officials say is this hacking for higher ecosystem 144 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:49.319 in China. They are targeting victims of particular interest to Beijing. Well, 145 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.800 we've got a lot of probation officers in trouble here 146 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:57.079 in Ellie County. And sometimes when these stories surface, you wonder, 147 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.480 how are this many people involved? That mob mentality that 148 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.920 rears its head from time to time, and it could 149 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:09.040 be the mentality of three people, or five people, or 150 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:12.639 in this case thirty officers from the Probation Department have 151 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:17.000 been indicted on criminal charges. This was an investigation into 152 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:23.160 allegations that they allowed and encouraged fights between teenagers at 153 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:26.399 juvenile halls here in La County. Now, juvenile halls have 154 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.759 been in the news because they're a freaking mess. There's 155 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.600 not the funding, there's not the staffing. You think La 156 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.759 County jails are a mess, well, the juvenile halls make 157 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:39.120 those look like tea parties. An indictment and seal unsealed 158 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:43.600 this week shows seventy one counts of child abuse, conspiracy, 159 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.879 and battery against thirty of these officers. These are fights 160 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.840 in particular that took place from July to December in 161 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:56.720 twenty twenty three. Two officers are accused of telling other 162 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.919 officers not to intervene, not to make report. 163 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.559 That's when fights happened. Just don't fill out that What 164 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.679 are you doing over there, Bob, don't fill that out. No, no, no, 165 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:08.639 We're going to pretend like this didn't happen. 166 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.639 One of the officers told teenagers involved in the fights 167 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.279 not to seek medical attention in order to cover up 168 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:21.480 the fights. The Attorney General has referred to these as 169 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:27.799 gladiator fights, which means more media attention. The indictments were 170 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.960 the result of a Department of Justice investigation on a 171 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.120 state level because there were some leaked security video. 172 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:36.080 What is that video show? 173 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.879 It shows eight probation officers standing idly by while a 174 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.519 group of teenagers attacked a seventeen year old. This was 175 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.679 inside the Los Padrino's juvenile hall there in Downey. This 176 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.360 teenager suffered a broken nose and a TBI dramatic brain 177 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.120 injury because of this. This was not a scuffed up elbow, 178 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.759 rob Bonti said at the news conference. 179 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.919 The officers look more like referees. 180 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.600 Or audience members at a prize fight in this video, 181 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.039 not the adults charged with the supervision of these people. 182 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.200 The officers, they don't step in, they don't intervene, and 183 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:13.440 they don't protect the kids. 184 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.080 They reviewed all the videos. 185 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:21.440 They found sixty nine fights that occurred among dozens of teenagers, 186 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.639 and we're talking ages twelve to eighteen. And these are 187 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:29.080 fights in particular there at Los Padrinos. This was the 188 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.759 first six months after this hall opened. The thing about 189 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.480 the other thing I mentioned the mob mentality of thirty 190 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.120 officers being embroiled in this thirty people thought that that 191 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:44.320 was okay enough to be brought up on charges, not 192 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:46.840 just like somebody, I mean probably not just somebody walking 193 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.039 by seeing what's going on and continue to walk by. 194 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.759 Although maybe it's that easy that maybe the bars that 195 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.120 load to get charged in this investigation. But thirty people 196 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.440 thought this was okay, that they wouldn't get caught, that 197 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.879 this was copacetic to have these kids fight each other 198 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.480 for sport. If you're believing what the Attorney General says, 199 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.360 that's exactly what it is. That the probation officers were 200 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.759 just using these kids as entertainment to fight each other. 201 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.639 So there's that, and then the other problem I have. 202 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.279 The other hurdle is that the officers knew that there's 203 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:21.279 video running in these halls, and that somebody at some 204 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.840 point would get their hands on videos that showed their 205 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:30.919 role in all of this. That the fights were, they 206 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.960 say in the charging papers, orchestrated. It wasn't even that 207 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:38.279 these kids were just getting together and fighting maybe getting 208 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.159 a cut of it. Got to believe the kids were 209 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.159 getting a cut of it, that they were getting some 210 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.559 some sort of kick back from the probation officers, that 211 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.480 there was some sort of betting scheme going on. 212 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:48.919 All a fight club, right. 213 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.559 The Attorney General says, we believe these fights were planned, 214 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.240 They were intended that they wanted them to happen. The 215 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.879 officers did at the beginning of the day and at 216 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:06.000 a certain time a certain place. My goodness, they were instructed. 217 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.320 Rookie officers were instructed not to say anything, not to 218 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.039 write anything down, and just to watch when the youth 219 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:16.200 fight occurred. I wonder what would happen like that, Like 220 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.320 in your workplace, it's pretty it's pretty quiet around here. 221 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.000 It's pretty dull. Shanna, are you trying to spice them? 222 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.639 I'm not saying it would make it more entertaining, but 223 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.639 it would. It was like we could put money on 224 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.679 different people and have them fight in what used to 225 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.639 be the sales area. We are to have a basketball hoop, 226 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.799 why not throw in a ring of some kind and 227 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.759 put a couple of people in there. I mean, I've 228 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:46.080 got people I would bet on. Who Jacob he's pissed off, 229 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.879 you know, he'll hit somebody. Yeah, I mean I would. 230 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.480 Jacob would be my racehorse that I would bet on 231 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.720 all day long. I know I picked a winner. You 232 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:07.600 gotta go for the ones that are really angry. Okay, anyway, 233 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.759 I'm not saying that that's right. It's awful. And we're 234 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.919 talking about children, teenagers, not growing. 235 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:13.399 I train for you. 236 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.679 Okay, good, You're gonna have to drop some weight. You're 237 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.240 gonna have to drop some weight to get into your 238 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:17.759 weight class. 239 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.360 Jacob, Wow, got. 240 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.919 To start wearing three pairs of sweatpants and stuff because 241 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:27.000 the person I want you to fight is under your 242 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.279 weight class. 243 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.080 Do you have a spink cup? 244 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.200 Some stories we're following for you today, trending right now. 245 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:36.240 Firing squads. 246 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:39.519 They've had a long and storied history in the US, 247 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.480 served as punishment for mutiny and colonial times, way to 248 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.480 discourage desertion during the Civil War, a dose of frontier 249 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.159 justice in the Old West, right, But now they are 250 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.240 considered by some to be a more humane alternative to 251 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:00.600 lethal injection. South Carolina this week Friday is scheduled to 252 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:05.519 conduct the first firing squad execution in the US in 253 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:06.519 fifteen years. 254 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:08.360 Who's Gonna Die? 255 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.799 Guy by the name of Brad Sigmund, he was convicted 256 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.039 of killing his ex girlfriend's parents in two thousand and one, 257 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:17.759 has elected to the firing squad over what's available in 258 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.240 South Carolina, which is the good old electric chair, as 259 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:27.559 well as lethal injection. Minor updates maybe not some minor, 260 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:30.879 depending on how you feel about this story. To the 261 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:35.799 death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, one discrepancy, 262 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:40.559 I guess I should say has been cleared up. It 263 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:44.879 involves one of their dogs. Authorities mistakenly identified the dog 264 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.600 that was found dead. Remember in that closet near the 265 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:52.000 body of the wife, Betsy. There was a mistake when 266 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.080 they called this dog a German Shepherd. A dog care 267 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:59.639 facility owner says that a German Shepherd named Bear survived 268 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:03.279 from property, along with a second dog named Nikita. At 269 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.759 the same time, he says, the couple's Kelpie mex kelpie mix. 270 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:10.919 Excuse me if I'm screwing that up. Kelpie mix Zinna died, 271 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.720 of course, still looking for answers after the bodies of 272 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:20.679 Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were discovered partially mummified yet 273 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.600 last week in their home there in Santa Fe. All right, 274 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.600 how is my kid doing in school? That is a 275 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:32.559 perennial question, isn't it. That's why you've got state test scores, 276 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:38.120 among other things. And today the state Board of Education 277 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:42.120 is meeting, and a big topic on the table is 278 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:46.600 should they change the way they describe student performance on 279 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:51.679 standardized tests. I don't need to tell you that scores 280 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.240 have been in the toilet for quite some time here 281 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.120 in California. It's not just us, but let's just own 282 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.600 the problem and say we're not doing great. When it 283 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.440 comes to reading and math. Student scores have been ranked 284 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.919 in one of four categories on these tests. The topics 285 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.879 the subjects are math, reading, and science. And here are 286 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:18.120 the categories standard, exceeded, standard met, standard nearly met, or 287 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:25.240 standard not met. Now the consortium, now I'll talk about bureaucracy. 288 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:25.799 Listen to this. 289 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:32.679 The consortium that manages the standardized tests told officials in 290 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.600 California in a presentation last September that there has been 291 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.279 confusion about. 292 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:39.440 What those levels mean. 293 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:46.000 Again, standard exceeded, standard met, standard nearly met, or standard 294 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.120 not met. Seems pretty self explanatory to me, right, seems 295 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:55.039 pretty basic. They say, no, now that's confusing. They've suggested 296 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.120 new labels here. 297 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:56.679 They are. 298 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:12.440 Advanced, proficient, foundational, and inconsistent. So if you're failing, you're inconsistent. Now, 299 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.599 if you've gotten everything wrong, you're not wrong. You're inconsistent. 300 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.960 Inconsistent means they've kind of gotten some stuff right. 301 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:21.359 Right. 302 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.279 If you fail the math problem, you've failed the math problem. 303 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:26.720 There's nothing inconsistent about it. You're not going to go 304 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.759 to work once you graduate. If you graduate senior year 305 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:35.640 and fail to put in that pipe fitting correctly, your 306 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:37.440 boss isn't going to tell you, you know what, that 307 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.279 is inconsistent work. He's going to tell you, Hey, you've 308 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:43.559 screwing up that pipe fitting. And I have no idea 309 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.000 what I'm talking about right now. You know that, but 310 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.079 you screwed up that pipe fitting. That's going to cost 311 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.759 the company seven thousand dollars. That's coming out of your paycheck. Oops, 312 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.640 you haven't worked here long enough. You're fired. That's the 313 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.839 real world. It's not inconsistent. If you fail something, you fail, 314 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:05.319 it sucks. It sucks for whatever reason, maybe your school 315 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.599 or your tutors have failed you. But there it is failed, 316 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:11.519 And what are you going to do about it? Then? 317 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.200 Where do you go from there? Where are you going 318 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.839 to grow from there? You need to get better at 319 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.599 that math problem. You're going to get better at that 320 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.440 pipe fitting. Again, no idea what I'm talking about with 321 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.240 pipes so they're going to talk about this. They have 322 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.599 not gotten any public input, which they've gotten heat for. 323 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.759 Although whoever shows up at that meeting, wow, don't come 324 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.920 to any parties I throw. They say that the terms 325 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.599 are just they've always been kind of vague, but everyone 326 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:40.000 can agree that we need to do better. The pre 327 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:43.200 pandemic levels of twenty nineteen were not great to begin with, 328 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:49.720 and math and English test scores have declined nationwide between 329 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.200 fourth and eighth graders. They're about the same in LA 330 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.160 and California as well. They're just we haven't bounced back 331 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:01.920 from that. Attendance is one raison. The reliance on screens 332 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.000 probably another reason. 333 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.640 Like that, by the way that the I thought this was. 334 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.599 Interesting, the standardized tests are computer based. If I didn't 335 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:14.960 know this part. If students are doing well, the program 336 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.960 sends the student harder questions. If the student is faring poorly, 337 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:23.119 the program sends easier questions. They say the goal is 338 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:25.720 to get a more precise reading of a student's skills, 339 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.319 but the test represents only a snapshot of a student's performance. 340 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:30.440 Of course, the rest is. 341 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.559 Whether their teachers say what their you know, engagement is 342 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:36.720 in class extracurriculu, all those things. 343 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.519 You know that, so it's just a bar. 344 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.440 But I did not know that the test the questions 345 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.640 were adjusted for how they're doing on specific tests. That's 346 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.880 interesting to me. It makes sense. I guess it makes 347 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.240 sense to know exactly where they're at. You got to 348 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.559 constantly recalibrate the test to that particular student. 349 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:53.599 That's pretty cool. 350 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:57.799 President Trump granting a one month exemption on his stiff 351 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:03.319 new tariffs on imports from mexic in Canada for US automakers. 352 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:07.559 They are worried that this trade war is going to 353 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.960 harm the auto industry, which it would have. We heard 354 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.279 from leaders of the industry that said that new car 355 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:19.200 prices were going to be astronomical. Essentially, the announcement comes 356 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:22.680 after Trump spoke today with the leaders of the Big Three, 357 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:27.839 so that's Ford, GM and Stalantis. Trump said in a 358 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.319 statement read by a spokesperson, we spoke with the Big 359 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.359 three auto dealers, were going to give a one month 360 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:39.279 exemption on any autos coming through US MCA, which is 361 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:43.000 the North American Free Trade Agreement that HU renegotiated in 362 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.759 his first term. So that may be the compromise we've 363 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.079 been waiting for of course, Howard Lutnik, the Commerce Secretary, 364 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:53.480 went on Fox Business today said there may be carve 365 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.319 outs coming to those twenty five percent tariffs placed on 366 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.960 Canada and Mexico today. A softening really of position that 367 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.119 we talked about yesterday. Because the stock market reacted. It 368 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:09.200 was not good and nobody likes a trade war. You 369 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:11.920 want to pay your fair share, but the idea of 370 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.279 a trade war doesn't play well in the financial markets. 371 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.880 So at least now we have this one month exemption. Again, 372 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.599 we're not really sure what the bargaining goal is here, 373 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.480 what exactly he wants from Canada and Mexico, but one 374 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:33.079 month exemption on the stiff new tariffs on imports there, 375 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:35.519 so we will stay on top of that. We know 376 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.559 that Jade Vance has a trip to the border this afternoon, 377 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.039 so he will probably have more details that he announces 378 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:46.440 and we'll take you there live if it happens. All right, So, 379 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:49.680 there was a story about a woman in Hollywood. She 380 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:54.759 was convicted yesterday for running uber but for drugs. They 381 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.920 called this a lucrative drug delivery business out of her 382 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:03.519 apartment and the criminality, well it comes with the drugs, 383 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.359 doesn't it. But they were dirty drugs. This was woman 384 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:11.200 was essentially killing people. Jerry found her responsible for supplying 385 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.119 fentanyl that caused multiple overdoses. These go back to twenty 386 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.599 twenty twenty twenty one. Remember everything was delivery in twenty 387 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:21.960 twenty and twenty twenty one. You weren't going anywhere. Everything 388 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:25.200 was delivered to your door. It was the height of delivery. 389 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.880 Some people have not rebounded from that. She's just thirty 390 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:32.079 six years old. Marilla is her name, Marilla Tota Rova 391 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:36.640 and three overdose survivors testified at her trial in the 392 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.559 past week. Two of them warned this woman. They told 393 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:44.519 the jury that repeatedly they told her throughout the time 394 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:47.519 there twenty twenty twenty twenty one that she was selling 395 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.200 dirty drugs, but time and again she ignored their concerns 396 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:56.119 to keep profits up. Her former delivery driver testified during 397 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.480 the trial, saying, it's not something I signed up for. 398 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.160 People were getting sick, people were getting hurt. A delivery 399 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.480 driver making more than the average delivery person because he 400 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.200 was delivering drugs, but he didn't know he was delivering 401 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.240