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 --> 00:00:09.320 on the iHeartRadio app. Laughed out loud in the kitchen 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:12.800 this morning when I noticed that the La Times did 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.000 a six page story on a man whose goats were 6 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:20.199 taken away by animal services in Los Angeles. Did we 7 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.600 ask do we need six pages on the goat napping? 8 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.879 They're finding some stuff to write on and we know 9 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:26.519 that that's. 10 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:28.519 Important, so we'll get into that plate. 11 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.200 One of Gaza's last functioning hospitals has been emptying out. 12 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.520 Israel has ordered the evacuation of some nearby areas. Israel 13 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:39.479 signaled a possible ground operation in a town that has 14 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.799 largely been spared throughout the war that was ignited by 15 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:47.359 Hamas's October seventh attack. The Alaxa Martyr's Hospital is the 16 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:51.000 main hospital that serves the central part of Gaza, and 17 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.000 the Israeli military is not ordered that the hospital be evacuated, 18 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.159 but patients and some people sheltering there said it may 19 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.960 be caught up in the fighting or possibly even targeted 20 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:02.520 in a raid. 21 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.799 Well, we told you on Friday about Tom Girardi taking 22 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.920 the stand in his wire fraud trial, the final witness 23 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:16.079 called by his lawyers to testify, claiming he did that 24 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.079 every client of his got every penny that every client 25 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.480 was supposed to get. They say that he suffers from 26 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.920 dementia but was deemed able to assist in his own defense. 27 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:31.159 The defense is that it's the now closed firm's former 28 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:35.159 bookkeeper that is in trouble. First that is responsible for 29 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:38.959 stealing at least fifteen million dollars from former clients, spending 30 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.400 it on private jets, jewelry and other things. 31 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.120 And then that guy Chris Cayman is also facing several 32 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:46.840 charges too. 33 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.879 Yeah, and I'm not sure how it works if Chris 34 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.120 Cayman is the one getting the blame for this when 35 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.560 there are receipts that they can show that a lot 36 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.079 of it went to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 37 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.480 star Erica Jane a star very loosely, she's featured on 38 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.000 the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 39 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.840 Yeah, and the public defender that's working on Tom Girardi's 40 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.039 behalf said that Girardi was forgetful, he got more and 41 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.639 more confused as the years went by, and that that 42 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.719 bookkeeper Chris came and took advantage of the fact that 43 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.000 he was diminished mentally. 44 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:27.599 He is eighty five now. 45 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.919 Tom Girardi, former plaintiff's lawyer, ex owner of that firm. 46 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 Girardi keys the most connected lawyer you could argue in 47 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.360 La County for sure, up and down the state. 48 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:41.800 Really he could yield power. 49 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.000 This was a guy who, if you wanted to be 50 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:48.199 a judge in this state, you'd have to kiss the ring. 51 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:50.919 Very very well connected. 52 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.680 And this is all about him using the client trust 53 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.719 accounts as his personal piggy bank. These are people who 54 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.400 lost loved ones and plane crashes, people that were injured 55 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.039 to the point of not being able to leave their 56 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.240 house or use their legs again. And they would say, sorry, 57 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:11.520 we haven't We just haven't gotten the check yet, while 58 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:13.800 all the time they had the check and they were 59 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.000 spending the check's register. 60 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.879 His appearance, I guess on Thursday was enough to give 61 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.319 the public defender the ability. And I don't know why 62 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.479 you'd put him on the stand. I mean, because he's 63 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.639 not a sympathetic character, yes, but he is. He has 64 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:37.879 that charisma. 65 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.800 He is one of those people comes across very likable 66 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.120 and if he gets on the stand and he is 67 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:49.080 this adult, older man with dementia but still has that likability. 68 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.360 I think that goes a long way if you can 69 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.680 get up there and pretend enough that you don't know 70 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.639 you know that this is day taco. 71 00:03:58.319 --> 00:03:58.919 You know what I mean? 72 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.039 Like if you get up and you appear to be 73 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:05.719 so out of it that there's and a likable guy. 74 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.240 He's got this affable, like almost Midwestern type of affectation 75 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.840 about him. And if you can do that and then 76 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:19.160 show that you have diminished mind capacity, they're probably going 77 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.680 to be more likely to side with you that you 78 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:23.839 didn't know what was going on. 79 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.240 Well. 80 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:29.240 And we saw something along these lines in Lee Baccha's trial, 81 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.959 a former sheriff in lam Yes, And I thought it 82 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.720 was interesting because the public defender put Tom Girardi on 83 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:39.439 the stand and asked him questions like is your law 84 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:43.319 firm still open? And he said, yes, it is not, 85 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.519 it is not. And then he said Tom, what's my name? 86 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.560 And Tom Girardi replied from the witness stand, I don't know, bad, 87 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.079 mean terrible. 88 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:53.160 It's one of those. 89 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.240 Yeah, So I mean the public defender and I don't 90 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.360 know what sort of discussions go on between and Tom Girardi. 91 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.639 But if your point is to put him on the 92 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.959 stand and make an example of him and show him 93 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.319 in diminished capacity, you give him the suggestion, Hey, I'm 94 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.800 gonna ask you some pretty simple questions, and if you 95 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.720 get them a little bit wrong, maybe you look a 96 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.759 little bit more sympathetic in the eyes of the jury. 97 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:21.480 I mean, this is somebody who has done enough favors 98 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.120 for people where he does not need to live a 99 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:29.360 destitute life. They are all in with this destitute life narrative. 100 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.480 He's living in a nursing home in Orange County, and 101 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.079 not even a good one from what I've heard. He's 102 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.240 appearing to be dishoveled. Somebody who was always dressed to 103 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.240 the nines and very much cared about his appearance is 104 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.199 now wearing like a homeless get up with a mismatched 105 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:49.120 suit jacket and shirt and pants, and he's disheveled. His 106 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:49.759 shirt's on. 107 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.879 Tough to me. They're selling it. 108 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.160 They're selling the fact that he has lost his mind 109 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.000 with the Alzheimer's or the dementia or whatever, and that 110 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:57.920 he's penniless. 111 00:05:58.279 --> 00:05:59.360 When this is somebody. 112 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.079 If they weren't trying to sell it, if he wasn't 113 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.079 in trouble with the law, he'd be just fine. 114 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.240 It also reminds me of Vincent Gigante, if you remember 115 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:12.079 the mob boss who was put on trial and then 116 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.360 was pretending to be crazy the entire time. Yeah, and 117 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.920 again I don't know if they're faking this with Tom Varrity, 118 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.959 but the idea that you would introduce it as as 119 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.360 a potential explanation for why things went wrong, that he 120 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.519 was simply out of it, he was being taken advantage of, 121 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:30.560 or even if he did do some of these things, 122 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:32.879 it wasn't because he was in control of his own faculties. 123 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.040 So anyway, closing arguments today in that case, and we'll 124 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.040 see where it goes over the course of the next port. 125 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.959 They are underway right now, they have begun. I was 126 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.480 surprised that this was such a quick case when you 127 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:45.759 think about all the victims and things. But you know, 128 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:49.279 with wirefraud, you just put an accountant up there and say, Okay, 129 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.920 this is where the money was, this is where it 130 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.079 was supposed to go, this is where it went. But 131 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.079 if he is convicted, you got to believe you're going 132 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.120 to hear from the victims in the sentencing phase. Tropical 133 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.120 Storm hone is starting to move away from Hawaii to 134 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.279 the southwest. Storm was centered one hundred and eighty miles 135 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:09.199 southwest of Honolulu one hundred and eighty five miles south 136 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.240 of La Hui. Sustained wins. We're at seventy miles per 137 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:16.600 hour with higher gusts. The storm is continued expected to 138 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.319 continue to gradually weekend today. 139 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:25.319 Hey, Gary, that's outbreak movie is at t Bola? Yes, yes, 140 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.759 they weren't disseecting tarts in the laboratory. No, just clarifying, 141 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.399 thank you. I did conflate my ebolas and e. 142 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.319 Col Yes, I mean neither one is a good look. 143 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:39.600 Probably don't want either one. 144 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:40.720 Output with both of those. 145 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.000 I think he Coli is less likely to kill you 146 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.079 than ebola, but I don't think either one of them 147 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:45.800 would be fun. 148 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.279 Hear this Babe Ruth story about his jersey? 149 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:50.199 Yeah? 150 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:50.759 Who is that? 151 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:56.439 Who is spending twenty four million dollars on that jersey? 152 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:56.879 Of course? 153 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.319 It is the Great Game, the Infamous called Shot Game 154 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.959 three of the nineteen thirty two World Series. It sold 155 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.879 at an auction house in New York for twenty four 156 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:12.560 million dollars. It surpasses a nineteen fifty two tops Mickey 157 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:16.759 Mantle baseball card that sold for twelve point six million dollars. 158 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.600 Back in two thousand and five, that same jersey worn 159 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.120 by Babe Ruth sold for nine hundred and forty thousand dollars. 160 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.360 It was only known as the one he wore on 161 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.000 the road during the thirty two World Series against the Cubs. 162 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.159 Companies have photo matched it in recent years and discovered 163 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.559 he wore it in Game three when he pointed to 164 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:40.039 the outfield with the bat and hit a home run 165 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:41.360 into center field. 166 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.000 Called his Shot. 167 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.279 Steve Lopez has a great article, a great column in 168 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.399 the La Times regarding. 169 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:51.799 Regarding Langers Deli. 170 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.600 I mean it's Langers Deli specifically, but generally it's about 171 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.159 the condition of pockets. 172 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:01.000 I don't even want to a pocket. 173 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.480 The conditions of several areas of the city of Los 174 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.519 Angeles which have made everyday normal life untenable. 175 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:13.399 Norm Langer is a great guy. 176 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.440 I interviewed him years ago because I did a feature 177 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.279 story on the best public ar restrooms. I don't know 178 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.320 where the genesis for that came. There was something Michael 179 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.559 Clark and I cooked up, but there oh, there was 180 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.639 kids who were there was an app, I think at 181 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.799 the time, a new app that was a public bathroom 182 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:36.519 rating system. You go into the app and you could 183 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.480 rate public bathrooms. So I looked at the ones that 184 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.200 were great and the ones that were not. And I 185 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:44.639 went there and checked out the bathrooms, flushed the toilets, 186 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:46.480 you know, all the things that you do. 187 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.600 I'm trying to squeeze every little ounce of sound out. 188 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:51.480 Oh yeah, okay, it was a winner. It was the 189 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:53.000 best use of sound winner. 190 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.840 But I went to Langers because they had a five 191 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.120 star bathroom. And I interviewed Norm and he said, I'm 192 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.759 I'm so glad that we have five stars because I 193 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.120 just spent forty thousand dollars updating our bathrooms. And you know, 194 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.320 he went through the fact that, you know, his parents 195 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.519 got Langers or started Langers when he was a toddler. 196 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.399 And he said in this article, you know, I grew 197 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.559 up in MacArthur Park. He said, we go to the park, 198 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.080 we'd go for boat rides, we'd take naps. Older people 199 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:26.039 played shuffle board around there, backgammon, cards, whatever. 200 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:31.840 Naps, naps. You were comfortable enough as a kid you 201 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:32.679 could take a nap. 202 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.399 Could you imagine that when I was a kid, I 203 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.879 was comfortable enough to take a nap, like under the 204 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.600 sun and the grass of whatever parks we grew up around, 205 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:48.799 Like that was an awesome feeling. I can't imagine feeling 206 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.639 like I want to take a nap in a public 207 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:55.759 park anywhere. Yeah, Ever, that would be something that would 208 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.480 not even cross my mind to say, like, hey, let's 209 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:59.759 grab a blanket and let's go. 210 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.960 You know, like you go to the beach and you 211 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:02.279 do that. 212 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.120 You go hang out, but you would never be that 213 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.159 relaxed where you felt like you could take a name. 214 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.919 No, people would come and steal all your stuff. They'd 215 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:10.360 kill you, they'd rob you. 216 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.399 And that's just the beginning. 217 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.919 This is This is interesting because Steve Lopez writes, restaurants 218 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.200 come and go, but this wouldn't be just any business 219 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.840 going dark. Langers has been in La longer than the Dodgers, 220 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.720 longer than the Lakers. He describes it as an anchor 221 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.240 and institution and as a touchstone. But Langer says he's 222 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.840 tired of pushing the cart up the hill, of trying 223 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:39.039 to get city officials to clean up the streets, to 224 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.039 restore public safety, to make MacArthur Park MacArthur Park again, 225 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:50.360 MPAGA make MacArthur Park great again rather than a place 226 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.960 to avoid I screwed up the lettering. Just listen, it's 227 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.200 still got some safe areas. If you keep your you 228 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.360 know wits about you, it's probably going to be fine 229 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.320 for you to spend an hour or two in the 230 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.639 park there and not get robbed or killed or both. 231 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.600 So City Hall does have a big change in mind 232 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:08.399 for the neighborhood. 233 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:09.759 Remember we told you about this. 234 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.759 They have this proposal they announced last month to close 235 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.039 Wilshire Boulevard where it passes through MacArthur Park, span the 236 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.879 open spaces. But that's just expanding the problem of the 237 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:20.799 open drug market and crime. 238 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:22.559 It's a joke. 239 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.279 Yeah, it's one of those things we talked about it 240 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.200 when we first saw that story. You want to then 241 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:34.279 take even fewer You want to make it harder for 242 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.559 people to go through there, which is I understand why. 243 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:39.279 I mean the idea that this is going to be 244 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.840 now an open space and it's a safer place. All 245 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.600 you do is invite more people to set up camp there. 246 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:51.000 And I don't just mean housing enthused, no housing challenged. 247 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.279 Is that what we're saying, Whatever it is, homeless people. 248 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.320 It's not about housing. 249 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.960 It's about the drugs and the addiction and the mental 250 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:04.759 illness that goes unchecked. That's what it's about. I love 251 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.360 this quote here. Norm Langer said every man needs two things. 252 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:10.840 He needs a place to go when he gets up 253 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.200 in the morning, and he needs people who are dependent 254 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.759 on him. He said, I had lung cancer five times. 255 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.759 I've had the tops of both lungs removed. I've had 256 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.519 prostate cancer. I've had forty five radiation treatments. I've had 257 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.639 both knees replaced. But I'm here. I should be laying 258 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.600 down somewhere, but I'm not. Why Because I have a 259 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.159 place to go and I have people here who need me. 260 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.679 That's great. That's a great quote, isn't it. That's so true. 261 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:38.840 It's got to go up in the. 262 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.240 This is why I wanted to get the Hamster, because 263 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:43.399 it would be dependent on me. 264 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.960 Ah well, I don't know what to say. 265 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.559 I don't blame Langer's Deli for moving or leaving. 266 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.799 Took my family there last month. 267 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.840 It was like Zombieville. Yeah, getting into the restaurant and 268 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.639 out of the restaurant, parked in that little parking lot 269 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:05.240 that they have for their restaurant. That area has just 270 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:10.120 gone downhill prior to that visit. 271 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.159 We actually went during COVID. 272 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:18.039 And yeah, thirty seconds. We only have thirty seconds. That's sorry, Sorry, 273 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.360 got cut off. There's some good news fire wise in 274 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:24.919 the state of California. For one thing, that Park fire 275 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:29.559 burning up near Chico and places north of there finally contained, 276 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.120 not out, but it's not spreading. That And Steve Gregory's 277 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.600 going to join us in a few minutes and talk 278 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.600 about some of the new resources that are available to 279 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:38.480 the firefighter. 280 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:38.639 Oh. 281 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.480 Man, I burned through all that fire country, all those 282 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.360 episodes on my flight back. Oh it's one of those 283 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:49.639 just Virgin River, dumb feel good stories. 284 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.879 But with fire, but with fire. Steve Gregory has joined us. 285 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.600 One of the big news items, and I mentioned this 286 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.200 before the top of the hour, is that the Park fire, 287 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.080 the one that's burning up near northern your Chico in 288 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:04.200 northern California, peaked out at about four hundred and twenty 289 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.320 nine thousand acres and is now one hundred percent contained. 290 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.360 There were thousands of crews that were working on that 291 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.080 on that fire over the course of the last month 292 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.200 and a half or so, so that's great news. Doesn't 293 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:19.000 necessarily mean it stopped burning, but it is contained. They 294 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.720 have fire line built around all of it. So that's 295 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:25.159 what one hundred percent containment thing is. The other news 296 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.799 that Steve Gregory has been following is some new resources 297 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.200 that are going to be available to firefights. 298 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.279 Love seeing the C one thirty air tanker. 299 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:40.039 What is it about aircraft that we just all just 300 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:40.759 got at? 301 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.200 I know, I don't know. It's our lizard brain. 302 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.440 It is. We're like, oh my god, it flies, It's 303 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:45.919 so cool. 304 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.240 Well, not only that, when I've seen them at work, 305 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.159 it is it is. 306 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.799 I guess what do you mean you've seen them at work. 307 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:55.759 When we're covering fires? 308 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.360 Oh that you meant like when you were sitting at work? No? No, no, no, 309 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.480 I mean I when I see them working. How's that? 310 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:01.639 Not when I'm working? 311 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:06.440 When I see them working thirty or the decent it is, 312 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.600 it's proof that the powers that be are throwing whatever 313 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.200 they can at whatever this fire is to try to 314 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:14.240 prevent it from getting out of it. 315 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.120 It's nice to see a bureaucracy that works. 316 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:17.399 Now. 317 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.279 I don't know if it feels like that when you're 318 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.519 in the fire service, but for a civilian. It's nice 319 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:27.600 to see people be efficient and functioning the way that 320 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.919 they should be functioning in terms of putting out fires. 321 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:32.399 Well, you know when we let's go back to twenty 322 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:36.960 twenty pandemic time and remember we were all here together. 323 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.559 It was just a small group of us and we 324 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:40.320 got a ham Yeah, I do remember that. 325 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:41.879 And you ripped it apart with your bare hands, and 326 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:42.480 then we ate. 327 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.679 It very manly, very manly. 328 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:46.320 Man. 329 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:47.759 It was very manhammy. 330 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.759 But one of the things I kept talking about to 331 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:55.480 your point is that the politician should have stepped aside 332 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.080 during COVID and let the fire department, fire service come 333 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.919 in and handle it. Yeah, because they know how to 334 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.319 take care of crises. I mean they are experts at 335 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.680 this fire service, police service, all first responders. And in 336 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.559 this case, the C one thirty is one of seven 337 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.440 that will be delivered to California courtesy of the US 338 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.000 Coast Guard over the next few years. Today the first 339 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.759 one thirty Hercules went into service. It will be based 340 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:27.720 in Sacramento, and it has the capability or the ability 341 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.400 to carry four thousand gallons of fire retardant or water 342 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.640 and can be mobilized and airborne in twenty minutes. 343 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:36.759 It's impressive. 344 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.240 So it's just going to be a tanker. I mean yes, 345 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.599 because I know that that what do you call it? 346 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.960 That airframe has all kinds of different connection. 347 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.920 Configuration, right, and so the Coast Guard had it configured 348 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.720 for cargo, and so they redid it so that it 349 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.599 could could take on a tank much like those chinooks 350 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.759 that you see that the Colson has a helicopters, the 351 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:02.559 big double rotor helic coptor chotes. Those are configured where 352 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:05.559 you can remove the tank with in just under. Now 353 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.559 you can move the tank in hull you know, people 354 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:10.240 or supplies, and the same hold is true for this one. 355 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.079 It's going to be primarily designed for water dropping because 356 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.920 the National Guard already has C one thirties to transport 357 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.519 troops or people or firefighters or whatever the case is, 358 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.559 and and CalFire has other means to do that. So 359 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.920 this is primarily a fire attack apparatus. 360 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.319 Is the Coastguard just are they getting new ones and 361 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:29.680 they're giving us their old ones or what? 362 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.759 It's a surplus situation through the US Defense Act. It 363 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:36.359 was pastor assigned in the lock. I believe it was 364 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:37.119 a couple of years ago. 365 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:37.359 It was. 366 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.839 It's like a federal age, a federal aid package where 367 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.920 they took old military surplus and they're re vamping them 368 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.400 and retrofitting them for fire use and for other safety features. 369 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.799 And in this particular case, California really uh really uh 370 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.359 you know, the won the lottery on this one, getting 371 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.200 seven of these over the next couple of years and 372 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:01.079 then and they'll be stationed all throughout the state so 373 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:04.519 that they can be used where they think strategically those 374 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.599 kinds of equipment should be should be stationed. 375 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.359 My assumption, we talk about the super Scoopers that come 376 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.920 in out of Canada every fire season, right, we watch 377 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.079 them as they come in, We see them in action 378 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.640 when we're when they're working, not when we're working, but 379 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.240 when they're working. These are going to be permanently part 380 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:30.079 of California. Specifical Firefires owns the arsenal. Yes, CalFire owns them. 381 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:32.440 It is part of it, which is also the world's 382 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:38.279 largest collection of firefighting aircraft, and CalFire has the world's 383 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:43.680 largest collection airfire, airfire, air firefighting airpower. Sorry, you haven't 384 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:45.759 hour this morning. You haven't been in front of us 385 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:47.279 for a week. I mean it's probably. 386 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:48.880 Well, and I'm a little bothered, be nervous. 387 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.319 Did you get your email today about the I'm in 388 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:52.559 the middle of it right now, are you. 389 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:53.000 Yeah. 390 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:54.720 It's like first thing when you open it says hello, 391 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:57.599 Steve Gregory, this is to let you know that California 392 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:59.960 anti harassment training has been added to your learning profile. 393 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.720 Well, yeah, yeah, that's great. 394 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:02.799 That's the way it started my day. 395 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:04.720 It makes me want to harass everybody I see. 396 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.160 I'm just like, I'm glad you got it. Can I 397 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:08.319 give you an example? 398 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.799 Sure, you must come up with a strategy to improve 399 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.599 the quality of your work and help our team identify 400 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.079 new business opportunities. That's what Janet says to me. That's 401 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:22.240