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 --> 00:00:09.679 on the iHeartRadio app. Huge hockey game tonight is said 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.359 to be one of the more important international hockey games 5 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.080 in the last decade and a half, if not even 6 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:15.599 more than that. 7 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:18.879 We know there's a bunch of stuff going on in DC. 8 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.960 We're going to be talking at the bottom of the 9 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:26.079 hour about some of these FAA layoffs that the President 10 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.199 has demanded. Department of Government Efficiency has come in and 11 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.159 tried to cut some of the waste, and we're seeing 12 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.679 plane crashes now, is there any connection? We'll talk about 13 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.479 that coming up at the bottom of the hour. Also, 14 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:42.759 do you have a favorite kid? And I say that 15 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.840 because I have two kids, and I'm not going to 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.520 get into the well maybe I will. I was gonna say, 17 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.320 I wouldn't ask you to answer a question that I 18 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.240 wouldn't want to answer myself, But do you have a 19 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.600 favorite kid? There's a new study out that suggests, no 20 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.880 matter what what you say, yes you do have a 21 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:08.120 favorite kid, and science can probably tell which kid it is. 22 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:10.920 So do you have a favorite kid? 23 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.319 Does your kid know that they are the favorite kid 24 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:16.920 my sisters, and I have two older sisters, and I 25 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.079 always used to joke that my parents would always tell 26 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.280 me that I was their favorite, but they would never 27 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:25.079 tell my sisters that I was their favorite. But anyway, 28 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.000 we'll take your talkbacks about whether or not you have 29 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:28.719 a favorite kid. 30 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.760 Coming up a little bit later. 31 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.480 One of the issues that's going on in DC is 32 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.040 we do expect to see a vote to confirm Cash 33 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:41.400 Patel as FBI Director in the Senate. Now we know 34 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:45.000 that at least one Republican has said she would vote 35 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.760 against the nomination of Cash Pattel, that is Susan Collins 36 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.560 of Maine. She noted the recent actions at the Justice 37 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:58.200 Department and the FBI, from prosecutors resigning after facing pressure 38 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:01.519 on how they handled certain cases to FBI agents facing 39 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.200 firing over the work on the January sixth case, and 40 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.560 she said in a statement, there is a compelling need 41 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.319 for an FBI director who is decidedly a political you know, 42 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.360 without politics. While mister Patel has had sixteen years of 43 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.520 dedicated public service, his time over the past four years 44 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:21.960 has been characterized by high profile and aggressive political activity. 45 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.479 So the expectation is that Susan Collins in fact will 46 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:31.639 vote no, and if that's the case, he would still 47 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.000 be on track to be confirmed in just a few 48 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.639 hours to lead the FBI. So we'll talk about that internationally. 49 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.759 Hamas did something that I don't think a lot of 50 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.280 people were expecting, and that is that they handed over 51 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:52.000 the bodies today of Israeli babies. Kafir Bibass was ten 52 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.719 months old, nine months old his four year old brother Ariel, 53 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:58.360 the two youngest hostages taken by Hamas in that October 54 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:03.280 seventh attack from twenty twenty three, among the most potent symbols, 55 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.039 according to Reuters, of the trauma from that day. Red 56 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.479 Cross vehicles drove away from the handover site at the 57 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.360 Gaza Strip with four little black coffins, two little black 58 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.639 coffins and two normal size adult size that had been 59 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.599 placed on a stage, and each of the caskets had 60 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.639 a small picture of the hostages. Now a couple stories 61 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:27.520 about what happened. First of all, they paraded these black 62 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.879 cloth draped coffins amongst hundreds, if not a couple thousand 63 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:37.080 militants at the handover site. They were also, according to 64 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.000 a couple of different reports, and we're not sure if 65 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.960 This has been verified by Israeli officials. But Hamas locked 66 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.080 the coffins and then turned over the wrong keys. 67 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:50.080 So when the Red. 68 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:54.479 Cross took custody of these boxes, they actually had to 69 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:59.000 check them for bombs because Hamas had locked them. Like 70 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.759 I said, now, in Goza, the militants were standing beside 71 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:06.639 a poster of a man standing over the coffins, wrapped 72 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.240 in Israeli flags, and instead of legs he had tree roots, 73 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.879 suggesting the land belongs to the Palestinians, and the poster 74 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.720 read the return of the war equals the return of 75 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:22.199 your prisoners in coffins. I do you remember the two 76 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.680 little boys, their mother Shiri, and then a fourth hostage 77 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.600 oded Liftshitz handed over under the ceasefire agreement that was 78 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:34.519 reached last month. Hamas says that the boys and their 79 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.199 mother had been killed in an Israeli air strike, but 80 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.759 their deaths were never confirmed by Israeli authorities. That they 81 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.079 said that they were killed back in late twenty twenty three. 82 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:50.319 This is one of the most egregious violations of whatever 83 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.040 sort of deal there exists internationally. 84 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:54.639 In fact, the. 85 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.839 UN Human Rights Chief had said that Hamas parading the 86 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.600 offense of these four hostages was abhorrent and cruel and 87 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:07.040 flies in the face of international law, which is probably 88 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:10.560 the most stern wording I've ever heard out of the 89 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.560 UN specifically in the way that Hamas has been handling 90 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:18.800 these hostage handovers, which has just been egregious. Four hostages today, 91 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.360 I should say, four bodies of hostages today, and then 92 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.319 more are expected to be released over the weekend. So 93 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.560 and whatever's going on between the United States and Ukraine 94 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.519 is still confusing to me, even if you take into 95 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:38.480 account the way that previous administrations had coddled of Vladimir's 96 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.680 Alenski and Ukraine in general, there's no reason for us, 97 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:47.040 the United States to be as complete a. 98 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:49.839 Holes as we are. 99 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:53.600 Appearing to be to a country that has been invaded 100 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.399 by its much more powerful neighbor. But that's the way 101 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.120 things are playing out right now. So this relationship between 102 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.439 the United States Ukraine is deteriorating, perhaps one way to 103 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:07.240 put it, at least that's the way that that's the way. 104 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.079 Where did it go? We'll stand by, I'm gonna pull 105 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:09.879 this up real quick. 106 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.079 That's the way it was described by Andrew Dimbert, who 107 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.279 is a reporter for ABC news. 108 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:20.319 Relations between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky deteriorates interiart Trump 109 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:25.480 accusing Zelensky of being a dictator. President Trump Zelinsky says 110 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.120 with Ukraine under martial law because of the war, he's 111 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.759 unable to hold elections. Supporters say the president's recent statements 112 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.120 criticizing Ukraine are all aimed at negotiating a deal to 113 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:36.279 finally end the war. 114 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.600 It's a weird negotiating tactic, to be honest, It's a 115 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.360 it's a weird negotiating tactic that I think makes the 116 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:45.720 United States look weak in the face of what's going 117 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.040 on in our relationship with Russia, because if if it's 118 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.720 a tactic, if the tactic is for us to cozy 119 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:57.560 up to Russia to get them to stop the aggression 120 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.160 in Ukraine, it makes us look as opposed to I 121 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:09.120 mean the picture of an old Western right where the sheriff, 122 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.680 Where the sheriff we come into this small town, where 123 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.319 the bad guys all dressed in black, black hats, all 124 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.079 that sort of thing. They had come in and marauded 125 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.800 through this town and sort of set up camp and 126 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.399 taking a mafia style approach to claiming properties and businesses 127 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.519 that weren't theirs in this case, territories, especially in the 128 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.120 eastern part of Ukraine, and the feckless mayor, the unable 129 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.680 to protect the townspeople, is looking for us, the sheriff, 130 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.800 to come in and restore some amount of order and 131 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.639 kick these guys out of the properties that they had taken. 132 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.240 And what we're doing, it appears, is walking up to 133 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.360 the bad guys and going, listen, I know that this 134 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:56.480 is a pretty small town and it ain't no big 135 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.360 deal for you guys. So let's cool it on the 136 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.120 shooting piece bull and we'll let you keep the old 137 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.639 laundry matt down at the end of the at the 138 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.639 end of the block, or something like that. John Kennedy 139 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:12.639 is a senator out of Louisiana, little homespun guy who 140 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.079 likes to talk in funny little euphemisms. 141 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:16.319 Uh. 142 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.160 He completely disagrees with the way that Trump has been 143 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:21.560 handling the negotiations with you. 144 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.040 Here's where I disagree with the White House to an 145 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.839 extent that the White House said that Ukraine started the war. 146 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:34.279 I disagree. I think Vladim Repute shirk for I also believe, 147 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:41.840 through bitter experience that Vladim Repute is a gangster. H 148 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:48.159 he's a gangster with the black heart. I don't he 149 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:53.000 makes He makes Jeffrey Domo. 150 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.159 Look like Mother Kisi. 151 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.159 He has Stalin's taste for blood. I don't want to 152 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.159 get between the presidents Lensky and President of Trump. I 153 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.559 never get between the dog and a fire hidrit. Man. 154 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.399 That's where I live in my life. I think they're 155 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.399 both good man. I think they both want the same time. 156 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:12.200 And I think when you get there. 157 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.159 Did you hear that I don't want to get between 158 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.840 Zelensky and Trump. I never get between a dog and 159 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.360 a fire hydrant. I guess that's a fun thing that 160 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:22.399 they say in Louisiana. But he is one of the 161 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.600 few Republicans in Congress that has come out and disagreed 162 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.480 with the way that the President has been handling this. 163 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:32.039 John Thun, the Senate majority leader, has said, I'm in support. 164 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.240 What I'm in support of is a peaceful outcome and 165 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:37.879 result in Ukraine. I said, I think right now the administration, 166 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.559 the president and his team are working to achieve that. 167 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:47.120 Of what Trump said, labeling Zelensky a dictator, John Thune 168 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:50.559 said the president speaks for himself. On Air Force One, 169 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.000 President Trump said, Hey, we still need to find all 170 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:55.279 of the money that the United States has given Ukraine. 171 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.720 Also time to find out what happened with all the money, 172 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.000 because he made the statement that half of it isn't 173 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.919 know where it is or something like that, and I'd 174 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.159 like to find out all the money that we've been 175 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.399 sending to Ukraine, where is it. 176 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.799 Well, it will continue, We'll definitely talk more about it 177 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:16.559 as the days go by. Right now in downtown La, 178 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.360 Sean Duffy, the new Secretary of Transportation, is making an 179 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.519 announcement about high speed rail. Our own Michael Monks is there. 180 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.440 We're going to talk more about that later in the 181 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.399 show about what this big announcement is, what it is 182 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.679 and how it's going to impact high speed rail. I remember 183 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.840 that yesterday we told you about that poll that was 184 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.799 taken that said that fifty four percent of people in 185 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.759 California with half a brain believe that it is still 186 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.200 a good use of taxpayer money. So the big announcement, 187 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.879 it appears from Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, who's 188 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.639 down at Union Station downtown LA, is that there will 189 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:53.279 be an investigation and audit basically of the billions of 190 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:57.360 dollars federally that have been spent on California's high speed 191 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:02.559 rail project. This comes after a letter from state Republican 192 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:07.639 legislators that asked it that asked for an examination of 193 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.600 the viability of the project going forward and to hold 194 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.320 High Speed Rail Authority accountable for what they said was 195 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.279 mismanagement and broken promises. That letter was dated February thirteenth, 196 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:22.360 and basically Secretary Duffy said, there is no timeline for 197 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.039 this high speed rail project to go from LA to 198 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:29.720 San Francisco. It doesn't exist. And the part that does exist, 199 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:33.639 the plan that is there is merceaid to Bakersfield, and 200 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.399 that is already three times over the original price tag 201 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:44.600 and no specific date of operation. Somewhere in early twenty 202 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.399 thirty two, something like that, just in time for the 203 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:51.200 asteroid to come and hit us. Speaking of the Transportation 204 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.919 Secretary Sean Duffy, he did an interview with CBS News 205 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.159 and he said, of course it is safe to fly. 206 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:02.120 We've seen a string of airplane incidents. 207 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:04.480 Over the course of the last couple couple of weeks, 208 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.840 obviously starting with the tragedy of the Regional Jet and 209 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:14.559 the Army Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into each other just 210 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.200 over the Potomac River near Rega National when sixty seven 211 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.039 people died. A few days after that, seven people died 212 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.279 when that small medical jet crashed in a neighborhood in Philadelphia. 213 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.519 On Monday, of course, the Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis 214 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.360 flipped upside down while landing in a Toronto. He had 215 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:36.399 a couple of smaller incidents with Vince Neil's private jet 216 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:41.080 that crashed on landing in Scottsdale, Arizona. And then another 217 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.320 crash just yesterday where two small planes collided in a 218 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:49.399 very small regional airport, also in Arizona. And the question 219 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.799 that has come up is does any of this have 220 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.960 to do with cuts to air safety personnel by the 221 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:01.279 FAA by the Department of Government Efficiency looking to save 222 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:03.480 money in the federal government. 223 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:05.720 This is New York Center Chuck Schumer. 224 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:10.440 Just weeks after the deadliest plane crash in a long time, 225 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.600 and just as we see more incidents around the country, 226 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.799 President Trump has fired hundreds of FAA workers, including air 227 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:25.679 safety personnel. Firing people whose very job it is to 228 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:29.240 keep air travel safe is nothing short of reckless. 229 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:31.879 Now, the White House. 230 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:35.879 Accused us of linking the crash of the Minneapolis flight 231 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.799 directly with FAA cuts and staffing. Nothing could be further 232 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.679 from the truth. I simply said that when there are 233 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:46.879 fewer FAA personnel, the skies are less safe. 234 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.559 Now there is a concern about who is being fired 235 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:55.799 at the FAA, And to be clear, even the head 236 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:01.399 of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists' Union, President Dave Sparrow, 237 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:06.080 he said that the layoffs do not include any air 238 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.960 traffic controllers or aviation safety inspectors. 239 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.679 Those who were let go were farther down on the latter. 240 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.919 He called them a support and administrative staff who, yes, 241 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.360 they do assist safety personnel, but they're not the aviation 242 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.679 safety inspectors and they're not the air traffic controllers. I 243 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:26.799 had a beer last night with a buddy of mine. 244 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.080 He's a friend, he's also a pilot, and he's a 245 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.080 pilot for an airline, and I was asking him when 246 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.240 whenever you see a crash of any kind anywhere in 247 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.679 the world, there is a recency bias. We see this 248 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.120 in all kinds of different news stories of different types, 249 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:49.200 but airplane crashes are of particular interest because they do 250 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:54.240 happen a lot. Right We just don't pay attention to 251 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.039 them a lot. Think of the small Think of the 252 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:01.039 regional crashes. Think of the lear je that's owned by 253 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:06.759 Vince Neil crashes on landing and kills a pilot. That's 254 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.519 not that uncommon for a plane to have an incident 255 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.000 on landing. Or the smaller Sesson one seventy two that 256 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.960 crashed into another plane in Arizona, also not that unusual 257 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.679 for a small plane to go down. But because we're 258 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.960 seeing it in the light of everybody suggesting that the 259 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.919 FAA is now crippled by these cuts, that's why there 260 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:33.080 is some concern. Caroline Levitt, she's the White House Press secretary. 261 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.240 It's incredibly irresponsible for Chuck Schumer to say such a 262 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.399 thing when the investigation is still underway. And as you 263 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.720 rightfully pointed out, John, this crash unfortunately took place in 264 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.759 Canadian airspace with Canadian air traffic controllers overseeing it. 265 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.480 And the facts about. 266 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.080 The FAA are that no air traffic controllers have been 267 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.440 let go by Secretary Duffy or this new administration. 268 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.360 In fact, Secretary she goes on, sorry, I cut her off. 269 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.600 The point to remember is we don't know the exact 270 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.240 cause of any of these crashes. The reports are not done. 271 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:10.080 The NTSB takes its time when it comes to piecing 272 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:14.519 together the details of these crashes, but the at first 273 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:19.399 blush even the investigators have said, these appear to be 274 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.600 equipment problems. I mean, the lear jet that crashes in 275 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.600 Scottsdale may have had other landing gear problems in the past. 276 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.679 The flight in Canada, it's in Toronto, for God's sake, 277 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.240 it was under Canadian air traffic control. That may have 278 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.360 been pilot error. Coming down too fast on that runway 279 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.519 and collapsing the landing gear may have been pilot error. 280 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:42.960 The most deadly of the incidents that we're talking about, 281 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.200 the crash between the American Airlines regional jet and the 282 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.840 Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac, may have been pilot error, 283 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.799 or the new version of it is equipment error on 284 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:57.120 the Blackhawk helicopter that was telling the pilot it was 285 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.519 at a different altitude than it actually was. So there, 286 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.440 listen you, I understand the idea that you want to 287 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:10.200 jump to the conclusion that the FAA cuts are causing 288 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.680 these planes to fall out of the sky. And then 289 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.279 Chuck Schumer's allegation that The reason that the Trump administration 290 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:20.920 is cutting the FAA is because they want to uh, 291 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:24.799 they want to cut taxes for billionaires. So the suggestion 292 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:29.720 is they're willing to crash airplanes in order to cut 293 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:35.839 taxes for billionaires. It's a pretty strong allegation. When we 294 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.720 come back, do you have a favorite kid? Do you 295 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.920 ever look at your kids and go, I like that one. 296 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:42.799 I don't like that one. 297 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:43.519 I like that one. 298 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.599 Good morning, Gary, not Shannon. As for a favorite kid, 299 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:50.880 I have two boys, they're eight years apart, and I 300 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.559 don't have a favorite one of them I have. They 301 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.480 each have their own unique traits that I prefer over 302 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:01.039 the others, different ways of dealing when hand, just whatever. 303 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:03.599 But I can tell you one thing. I do have 304 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.599 a favorite talk radio host. And she's not here right now. 305 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.720 Oh I love you, Gary, But hope Jamin's okay. 306 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.400 She's fine, everything's fine. Delta Airlines says it's going to 307 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.759 offer thirty grand to passengers who were on board that 308 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.519 flight from Minneapolis that crashed and then flipped over while 309 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.400 it was landing in Toronto on Monday. All eighty people 310 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.359 on board that flight survived and only one is still 311 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.720 in the hospital. I pose this question because I think 312 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:35.000 it's pretty It's a perennial question, especially if you have 313 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:37.440 more than one kid, and I don't know how you 314 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:39.039 do it if you have more than even two or three. 315 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.079 But do you have a favorite child? 316 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.119 Good morning Gary, Christina from Los Angeles calling to say, yes, 317 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.240 I do have a favorite child. I have a favorite 318 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:51.279 oldest child and I have a favorite youngest child. My 319 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.799 dad has always told me, out of the four children, 320 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:58.920 that I'm a favorite child, and my siblings definitely know it, 321 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.200 and I know sometimes, so that's why I always tell 322 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.680 my daughters I have a favorite oldest and I have 323 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:07.960 a favorite yet favorite oldest, favorite yet I just take 324 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:08.359 care of that. 325 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:10.599 It's kind of a cop out, but I get it. 326 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.720 Alex Jensen is a professor in the School of Family 327 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.519 Life at Brigham Young University and published a study in 328 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:24.640 the American Psychological Association and asked parents and kids. Instead 329 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:26.880 of asking them do you have a favorite parent, they 330 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:31.880 ask questions of the parents like does a parent experience 331 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.720 more conflict with one particular child than the other or others? 332 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.359 Which child does a parent spend more time with? 333 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.720 Is there a child who typically receives more affection or 334 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.160 more financial investment or more help with homework. And then 335 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.599 they'd ask the kids, also, compared to your sibling, who 336 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.079 does your parents spend more time with And they found 337 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.920 a few things across the board that tended to be consistent. 338 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:02.039 Daughters tend to be favored by parents, at least according 339 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:05.880 to the parents themselves. Kids don't see it that way, 340 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.160 but the parents see it that way. There are a 341 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.119 couple older studies that suggest that that fathers are going 342 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.160 to favor sons, mothers are going to favor the daughter. 343 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.440 So that's what they were expecting to find, but again 344 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.799 this professor says, it turns out that fathers favored daughters 345 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:23.000 as well. There are some benefits to being an older child. 346 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.880 For example, older siblings were given more freedom and more autonomy. 347 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:29.400 But they're also looking to see if there's a change 348 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.839 between childhood between teen years between adulthood, and found that 349 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.359 it doesn't matter. They said, even as adults, parents still 350 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:40.240 give more freedom to their older kids. I would add 351 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.759 to that, not just the freedom, but they also a 352 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:46.160 lot of times add more responsibility to the older kid. 353 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:51.359 They did say, obviously there were some personality traits that 354 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:54.519 are linked to being the favorite kid. A kid who's agreeable, 355 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:57.960 the kid who's compliant, the parent ask them to do something, 356 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.799 they're more likely to do it. That's obviously scores high 357 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.039 marks for the parents, and you tend to be a 358 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.720 more favored kid if they're conscientious. Kids who are more aware, 359 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.880 more responsible tend to be favored by their parents. They 360 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:16.400 took a whole bunch of studies together, included thirty studies 361 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:21.200 as well as fourteen unpublished data sets about parental differential 362 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:25.880 treatment that was about nineteen thousand different individuals from North 363 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:28.640 America and Western Europe, and he said it's important because 364 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.359 there are decades of research that show that the kids 365 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:33.680 who tend to get less favored treatment tend to have 366 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.559 poor outcomes. And if you have more than one kid, 367 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.039 it's hard not to have a favorite. The thing that 368 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.920 I think exists, or the thing that's probably important to 369 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:49.039 remember as a parent, is that changes or could change. 370 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.440 And as much as you enjoy time with a kid, 371 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:55.319 at one point, that kid's going to grow out of 372 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:59.079 that time, or maybe the other sibling is going to 373 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:02.720 change their characteristics that you don't like, or maybe even 374 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.039 be influenced by the amount of time or the affection 375 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.359 that you give to the other kid and realize that 376 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:13.160 they could get that same attention if they acted. 377 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.599 In the same way. 378 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.759 They said it might be of particular value to therapists 379 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.680 and social workers. Parental differential treatment not only shapes the 380 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.240 bond between the parent and child, but between those siblings 381 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:26.720 as well. 382 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:28.279 And how many times that play out. 383 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:30.599 If you have a daughter who thinks that the son 384 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.799 is the favorite because the parents never punish him, or 385 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.400 the son who thinks the daughter is the favorite because 386 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.119 she gets all of the money or the financial assistance, 387 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:43.759 that's going to create conflict between the siblings. And I 388 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.480 don't know how you avoid that necessarily, but they said 389 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:50.799 that that sibling relationship is especially salient and absence in adolescents, 390 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.000 and research has shown that those childhood dynamics kind of 391 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.319 set the stage for the rest of their lives. 392 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:00.640 For your kids' lives. 393 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.839 So that's the question, do you have a favorite kid 394 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:06.799 and does it follow that pattern? I mean, it would 395 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:10.319 suggest that if you have an older daughter, then that 396 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.400 older daughter is likely the favorite child, not the case 397 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:16.720 in my family. I'm the youngest son and my parents 398 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:19.119 told me repeatedly that I was their favorite, but they 399 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:21.160 only did it when my sisters were not around, so 400 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:23.359 they may have said the same exact thing to my sisters. 401 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.119