WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.919 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:05.200 It's May gray. 3 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:09.640 It is May gray, and a little reminder of what 4 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:11.519 it would be like if we lived up in the 5 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:16.480 Pacific Northwest. When that sun comes out three hours a year, 6 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.640 they rejoice. By the way, speaking of Andrew, it is 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.039 I'm told your last day here. Yeah, at AM six. 8 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.120 Forty, they rolled out the red carpet. 9 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:28.920 iHeartRadio. 10 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:33.200 How could you leave the nirvana of broadcast? It's an outrage. 11 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.960 I know, I know what has happened. Where are you going? 12 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:38.719 Can you say or would you prefer not to? 13 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.560 You know, NDA's had to sign those no? 14 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:44.840 Is that right? Yeah? 15 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.039 I am exploring other opportunities. It's just I'm at a 16 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:50.600 crossroad where it's time to just kind of step back 17 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.920 and do it. This is now my fifth year of 18 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.119 doing news here in La, ten years TV and radio 19 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.759 in Southern California, and I just I want to explore 20 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.879 some other opportunities in my career. It is radio, though, 21 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.159 so I'm Southern California born and raised. I'm not going anywhere, 22 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.680 so I'm sure I'm going to cross paths with KFI 23 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:13.959 and iHeart again one day down the road. 24 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.359 Oh yeah, I have no doubt. I mean, this is 25 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.680 the way it goes. Maybe you'll come back. I remember 26 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.760 when Joe Kwan left KFI, you know, Joe Kwan, Yeah, 27 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.920 over and the Spectrum and stuff. We had a big 28 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:26.959 kind of farewell and you know, the tears and the 29 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.519 hugs and oh my gosh, it was exciting. She's going 30 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.480 on to TV. She's gonna be reporter. I think it's 31 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.040 Spectrum or k CAL. I forget exactly all the details. 32 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:39.359 Maybe it was both. And then eight months later, I'm 33 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:41.280 listening to KFI and there's Joe quant on the on 34 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:44.920 the radio again, and it's because she, you know, dipped 35 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:46.840 her toe back into the KFI water. 36 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:47.840 And this is what happens. 37 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:49.480 You know, the bat beam goes up as it did 38 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.840 today for me, and you go, yeah, I'll come help out, 39 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:59.200 and you know, in your case, do the news. My case, yeah, 40 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.840 basically captain the ship as I am on short notice. 41 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:04.519 It's a delight. 42 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.000 And when it's in your blood as it is ours, 43 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.800 I think it's probably true. 44 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:13.120 I mean, you know, if anything, kay if I has 45 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.960 been like a gift for me. I have grown and 46 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.360 I have become a stronger person as far as you know, 47 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.800 storytelling and journalism goes. I mean, I can't. I can't 48 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.000 thank this place enough for everything that I've done here 49 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.919 in the last five years. So I mean, you know, 50 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.960 I'm nothing but fortunate and have gratitude for everything and 51 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:34.240 everyone that I that I've met. 52 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:39.240 Well, it's very cool that you're so gracious about this place. 53 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.280 And it's just a weird coincidence that you and I 54 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.439 would be on together on your last day. 55 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:46.840 I know, I saw that, and I'm like, oh, I 56 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.159 wonder if he requested that. 57 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:53.719 It's all part of the exit package. 58 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:56.960 All employees that leave iHeart will spend their last airshift 59 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:57.680 with Mark Thompson. 60 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.319 It's kind of it's kind of like a live in 61 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.599 real time said interview. 62 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:01.800 Thank you. 63 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.120 We actually have a really cool configuration of people today 64 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:11.479 because Robin, Matt, Nicky and you. Now Nicky is from 65 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.520 Australia and New Zealand, I believe both, and she is 66 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.960 riding shotgun with Matt, who's been at iHeart for a 67 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.520 while and sort of knows all the producer ins and outs. 68 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.960 But it's you know, when you see new blood and 69 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:30.120 new people into this community of people who work at 70 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:31.800 iHeartRadio and at KFI Radio. 71 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.599 It's cool. It's a great dynamic. 72 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.280 So we'll get to maybe know her a little bit 73 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.400 later on, and of course we continue to focus on 74 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:47.479 Andrew and his fine service to this company. So did 75 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.280 you watch the Kentucky Derby. I don't mean to bring 76 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:52.599 this in there. I'm about to say something very Unamerican, 77 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:56.080 so I hope you'll are very un Kentucky derbysh But 78 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.319 I don't know if anybody saw the Kentucky derbut watched 79 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.719 Kentucky Deberty whatever it is. I'm not a huge Kentucky 80 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:03.719 Derby fanel though, I thought one of the interesting things 81 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:05.960 about the Kentucky Derby. You know, I worked with Conway 82 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.479 on Tuesday nights, and he's the greatest, and he's you know, 83 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:12.719 he's connected to horse racing in a way that is, 84 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.839 it's like in his DNA. But what I thought was 85 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:23.759 interesting is that the winner of the Kentucky Derby is 86 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:30.600 a descendant of Secretariat, and most of the winners of 87 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:37.120 the Kentucky Derby are descendants of Secretariat. Secretariat nineteen seventy 88 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:45.399 three and fifty years later, the I guess what would 89 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:50.160 you call that? The progeny, the you know, the lineage. 90 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.639 It continues. But that's not the un American part the 91 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.439 thing I'm going to say that it's on American. I'm sorry, 92 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.560 but I did watch. The pageantry is a big part 93 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:03.560 of the Kentucky Derby. The outfits and the women wear 94 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:07.759 these hats and they're celebrated for wearing these hats. So 95 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.160 all yesterday I'm watching and I'm seeing and again it's 96 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.600 this long ramp up to the actual race, and you 97 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.240 hear from all these handicappers and all these former winners 98 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.279 and all these trainers, etc. But one of the huge 99 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:25.680 things they focus on is the hat thing. That all 100 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.680 of these women are wearing hats. And my Instagram feed 101 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.800 is filled with all of these people who I know, performers, producers, 102 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:38.000 people who are just fans of being on Instagram. They're 103 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.639 all there at the Kentucky Derby and all the women 104 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:41.399 are wearing these hats. 105 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.079 You can ask you a silly question. I would never 106 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.240 dare ask Conway, do you think it's kind of silly 107 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.959 that it's like as big as a super Bowl for 108 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.319 less than like a five minute race. 109 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:00.639 No, I don't think that's silly. I think that the 110 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:06.560 pageantry and the anticipation and the I guess just the 111 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.839 overall ramp up to it is part of excitement, if 112 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:10.519 you want to call it. 113 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.079 It's not even like an all day thing, you know, 114 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.160 like there's no like pre races or anything. 115 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:21.560 It's no, it's not like the freaquess. But I'm really 116 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.759 out of my depth talking about the you know, Conway 117 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.480 should be here to talk about the horse racing part. 118 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.040 I don't really know much about horse racings. 119 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.160 Like halftime show, like there's none of that. 120 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:30.839 No, But here's the way you have to look at it. 121 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.639 I think they're looking at it maybe the wrong way. 122 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:34.560 There's no playoffs, like, none of that. 123 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.040 You're right about that, there's no disputing what you're saying. 124 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.639 But you have to look at all the pageantry, the analysis, 125 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.199 and the world that they build for you, the world 126 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.480 of anticipation. You have to look at that as all 127 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.160 the things that you just mentioned. You have to look 128 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.000 at it as the playoffs. You have to look at 129 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.199 it as the halftime show. It's all wrapped into the 130 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:59.879 ramp up in the pregame show. I could say, boy, 131 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.560 super Bowl, don't you think it's kind of silly? I mean, 132 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:04.879 it only lasts two and a half three hours, and 133 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:08.120 there is two weeks of stuff leading up to it. 134 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:09.279 Don't you think you know what I mean, I can 135 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.759 play that game with anything. I think, you know, Christmas, 136 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:15.639 we lead up to it for two and a half 137 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.079 months and then it's all over in, you know, one day. 138 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:22.079 So it's not to me the length of time that 139 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.759 the event takes. It's more sort of the significance that 140 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.000 the event has wrapped itself in. And that's where you 141 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.759 could say, you know, to me, it doesn't hit or 142 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.720 it doesn't land or whatever. But what really doesn't hit 143 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.920 and land in Kentucky Derby Land for me is the hats. Sorry, 144 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.279 I think they look silly. I think they it's not 145 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:45.519 a good look. Now, this is maybe modern person looking 146 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:48.279 back at a wonderful tradition. And I'm not saying the 147 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.199 tradition shouldn't still exist. I'm just saying it doesn't land. 148 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.040 For I don't go, wow, look at all those glorious hats. 149 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:59.199 I think, boy, these are really some of them lovely people, 150 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:02.720 most of them all lovely people, and they have these 151 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.439 hats that are pinned onto the side of their head 152 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.120 and stuff. It's weird. It just doesn't work yet clearly 153 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.720 that's all part of the pageantry. It's not going anywhere. 154 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.160 So in a way, this is a confession. I feel 155 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:21.319 guilty as an American for somehow rejecting this part of 156 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:26.279 the pageantry that I guess is Americana. But it just 157 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:32.159 show me one of these people with a hat, yellow, purple, 158 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:36.840 they're all pinned to the side, big small. I love hats, 159 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.039 but I don't love the derby hats. 160 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.559 Like what if you're ending, like like, who were it better? 161 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.200 What if you're matching somebody? Like does that ruin it 162 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:44.519 for you? 163 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.879 Yeah? Well that's I mean, that's a total faux pas. 164 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.399 That's a fashion faux pas. 165 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:48.799 Yeah. 166 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:49.600 Yeah. 167 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:54.240 Anyway, Well we've all come down to earth. And who 168 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.200 won again? Which horse Stow won? 169 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.720 Was it? Anybody? They beat? 170 00:08:58.799 --> 00:08:59.480 Journalism? 171 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.320 Journalism law? I think finished third? Right? 172 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:09.879 And oh my god, isn't that crazy just happened yesterday. Sovereignty, 173 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:15.279 Thank you very much, sovereignty. Sovereignty the big winner. 174 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.279 Thank god. Matthew's here. Gosh, he's terrific not checking everything. 175 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.720 Yeah, he's probably bumming out that I haven't gotten any 176 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.600 of the Trump sat down with Kristen Welker from Meet 177 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.759 the Press, Matthew's bumming that I haven't even mentioned it yet, 178 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:28.759 but I just mentioned it and. 179 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:30.320 We will get into it with audio. 180 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.639 Next it's KFI AM six forty Mark Thompson here on 181 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:36.519 Sunday afternoon. Glad you could hang out with us Andrew's 182 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.399 last day and we will. We have two guests coming 183 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.480 up actually bottom of the hour, a doctor who will 184 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.960 talk about some of the things that happened, things that 185 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.879 are happening in California to pick up the slack because 186 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.840 the lack of funding at the federal level for our 187 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.679 medical research. Will talk about that and more with him. 188 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.840 And then my mentee stops by and she has a 189 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.759 new podcast that is fascinating. I think you'll be into 190 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:02.200 that too. So a lot to do. 191 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.799 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 192 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.440 Follow up to what we were talking about at the Derby. 193 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.080 Apparently one of the things that was an issue, and 194 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.559 this is sort of old school meeting new school, like 195 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:21.720 the classic history of Southern attendees of the Kentucky Derby 196 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:28.960 meeting the influence driven world of contemporary America. Apparently everybody's 197 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:34.039 complaining from the old school about various influencers who showed 198 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.759 up and didn't kind of play by the fashion rules 199 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.000 of Kentucky Derby and the only reason this is really 200 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.759 sun is turned into a bit of a standoff. And 201 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.519 there is an influencer named Gabriella Mora who's on TikTok. 202 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:53.960 She's pretty big, and apparently she was wearing inappropriate and 203 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:59.159 revealing attire to this prestigious event of the Kentucky Derby. 204 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:04.399 That is them of many who both attend and worship 205 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:13.960 the Kentucky Derby and the traditions she apparently has. She 206 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:20.120 has large breasts and they are much on display. I 207 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.279 haven't seen pictures of it, but these are the complaints. 208 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.120 She wore a dress that kind of showcase them, is 209 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:33.039 what we're hearing, and that's what been the complaint she said. 210 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.799 And others have defended her saying, hey, look do they 211 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.559 have a dress code there? I mean, this is her 212 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.759 first time going, she doesn't know. Others say, wow, it's 213 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:48.919 a way to cheapify the Derby. The Kentucky Derby shouldn't 214 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:55.840 be an influencer event. And she's saying, you're boob shaming. 215 00:11:57.799 --> 00:11:59.799 Nobody in their right mind is going to stand for that. 216 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.200 You can criticize this all you want, She said, quote, 217 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.679 I'm getting ready for Kentucky Derby day too, And I 218 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.679 saw a couple of comments on my last video. I 219 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:10.559 don't know if you're going to misunderstand what I'm saying 220 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.000 in this video, but big boo girls are going to 221 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:20.120 understand what I'm saying. And she's saying, there's no way 222 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:25.360 to hide it, like honestly she said somebody else said, 223 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.360 and more importantly, why would you want to hide them? Well, 224 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.320 there are ways to dress tastefully, and there are ways 225 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.879 to dress provocatively, and apparently at the Kentucky Derby they 226 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:39.120 want you to lean toward tastefully. Look, it's old school South, 227 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:46.399 but the influencer world is getting into everything, even at Coachella. 228 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.639 Did you see what they were writing about Coachella. This 229 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:56.000 is an outrage that has kicked up around Coachella because 230 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:03.080 they say that influencers have room in that event. There 231 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.919 is a sense of unattainable luxury that has swept over 232 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:16.360 the festival's reputation, with well known creators Charlie Tomalio attending 233 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.039 the event, posting a photo with a lace top that 234 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.080 appeared to be from Chloe and is priced at sixteen 235 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.159 hundred and ninety dollars, while Kylie Jenner roamed the crowd 236 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:31.559 with her actor boyfriend Timothy Challome during Charlie XCX's performance. 237 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.240 Kendall Jenner hosted a tent at the Coachella Festival promoting 238 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.159 her eight P one eight tequila brand. She was at 239 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.600 the festival in a butter dress next to her fellow 240 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:48.000 celebrity bestie, as they say here, Hayley Bieber. So the 241 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:53.320 overwhelming presence of these well known trendsetters and influencers has 242 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.679 made the festival appear not to be about the music 243 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.639 as much as it is about a fashion parade and 244 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.120 about influencer market And the demand for Coachella this year 245 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:08.559 was so great the first weekend general admission tickets for 246 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.919 Coachella were going around six hundred and fifty bucks apiece. 247 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.559 Second weekend kicked off at six hundred dollars apiece, and 248 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.480 then you have to pay one hundred dollars for access 249 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.039 to the shuttle. The IP prices started about fourteen hundred dollars, 250 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.480 and the prices only included an entry, so you have 251 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:32.919 to get to food, lodging, travel. So Coachella has become 252 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.039 something else that has the complaint is gotten out of 253 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:40.120 the reach of a lot of people who are just 254 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:44.399 there for the music. Like the grassroots aspects of Coachella 255 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.600 have been lost, so the Kentucky Derby people would say, yeah, 256 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:52.840 and the grassroots parts of this storied Southern event have 257 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.039 been spoiled by all of you influencers with your dresses 258 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:00.559 that are all too exposing of the human form. And 259 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.559 Anna Nicole Smith's daughter stepped out of the Kentucky Derby 260 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.320 with her father, Larry Birkhead and with her controversy about 261 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.960 she wore her mom's black halter gown. This is the daughter, 262 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.200 the eighteen year old daughter of Anna Nicole Smith. She's 263 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:18.960 all grown up. 264 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.559 I thought that was a nice tribute wearing it. It's 265 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:22.879 an appropriate looking dress. 266 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.759 Yeah, and she says, quote, this is the closest I'll 267 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.759 ever be getting to a hug from her. 268 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:30.759 Oh my god, that's so sad. I want to cry. 269 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.639 It is sort of sin. She turned to eighteen late 270 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:40.879 last year, and what an interesting world she steps into, 271 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:44.279 I mean, with the legacy of her mother, etc. But 272 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:49.080 she was there at the Kentucky Derby as well. Donald 273 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:55.720 Trump spoke to Kristin Welker about the economy. It was 274 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:01.960 a pretty far reaching sit down interview, and it's good economy, 275 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.279 bad economy with Donald Trump. 276 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:05.480 Here's a little bit and I really mean this. 277 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.879 I think the good parts of the Trump economy and 278 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.799 the bad parts of the Biden economy because he's. 279 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:11.600 Done a terrible job. 280 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.240 He did a terrible job and everything. 281 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:18.240 I actually love that take. If you feel the economy 282 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:21.279 works in some places, that's my stuff. Yeah, the stuff 283 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.440 that's not working for you, that's his stuff. There is 284 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.679 nothing that Trump did better, which is why he was 285 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:35.360 such a great campaigner, than trolling the competition, and indeed 286 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:41.120 he did that. In the interview he talked about he 287 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:46.720 took almost most questions to somehow dumping on Biden and 288 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:50.000 the Democrats. Here was a piece of sort of that world. 289 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.279 Looking at the Democratic Party and. 290 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.679 You know what, I can't name I can't name one Democrat. 291 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:56.440 I mean, I look at the Democrats. They're in total 292 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.120 this array. They have a new person named Crockett. I 293 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.320 watched her speak the other day. He's definitely a low 294 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.119 IQ person and they said she's the future of the party. 295 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:08.680 I said, you have to be kidding. 296 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.599 I don't know what they're going to do. And I 297 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.119 really believe in the two party system because it's good 298 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:16.839 to be challenged. It's really good to have a two 299 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.839 party you know, it's good being challenge is okay, it 300 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.440 keeps you sharp. I don't know what they're going to do. 301 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.680 They have nobody. Bernie's eighty seven years old or something. 302 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.599 And you know, Biden is the worst thing that ever 303 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:30.839 happened to old people. 304 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:32.000 You know, I have to say this. 305 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:36.039 He's never as comfortable as he is bagging on Biden. 306 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:40.480 I mean that is just for him. All roads lead 307 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.680 to smearing Biden. 308 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.960 And you know, Biden is the worst thing that ever 309 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000 happened to old people because he was grossly incompetent. And 310 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:52.519 I think maybe for artificial reasons, you know, at Operation something, 311 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.160 so maybe that's an artificial But I know people that 312 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.720 are unbelievably sharp and they're older than eighty seven. But 313 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.279 I watched Bernie Sanders. He's a nuts job, but he's 314 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:03.920 still sharp. 315 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.519 He's sharp. He's the same guy who was. 316 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:10.920 He hasn't gone down. But Biden is really he's the 317 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.519 worst thing to happen to old people. 318 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.440 Yeah, you know, look, I will say this. 319 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.599 I know many an old person who is older than 320 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.240 eighty seven or eighty five or whatever. 321 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.720 My mom's ninety five. She's sharp. 322 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:28.240 He's attending two university classes right now, and so it 323 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.240 does happen. There are plenty of very sharp people. Again, 324 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:37.279 taking this entire conversation as he was having toward dumping 325 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.119 on Biden is something that he has sort of made 326 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:44.680 a reflexive move of his. It is something of a 327 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.440 distraction from the conversations around things that are contemporary policy, 328 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.599 you know, deportations, tariffs, et cetera. Now he did get 329 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:57.559 into some of that, but again he really ascribes the 330 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.839 negatives in the economy and any of the nation's ills 331 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.319 right now to Biden and his view is and that 332 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.160 was sort of, you know, the additional piling on with 333 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.319 how bad Biden was and how the Democrats are in trouble, 334 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.920 and you know, Biden was just out of it. And 335 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.880 there may be truth to the fact that Biden was 336 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.039 out of it, and there may be truth to the 337 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.240 fact that he inherited an economy, but there's definitely a 338 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:25.440 lot that he has to account for because of the 339 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:31.119 herky jerky nature of economic policy right now. The tariff policy, 340 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:35.200 which is a bit unclear the adversarial footing that we're 341 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.039 on with China and what is the future of that. 342 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:41.400 He did remark on some of that, so we'll get 343 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:46.839 to those clips from that interview a little bit later on. Next, 344 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.240 we talk to a doctor about the fact that federal 345 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:55.880 funding is leaving California when it comes to medical research. 346 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.680 In fact, federal funding is leaving the United States when 347 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:06.079 it comes to medical research. NIH CDC all being sapped 348 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:10.079 of funding across the board. It's not just the vaccines 349 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:15.079 with RFK junior, it's cancer research, it's Alzheimer's research, et cetera. 350 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:19.319 So might the future of some of that research be 351 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:24.039 California funding that research here in the Golden State. 352 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.799 We'll talk to a doctor about that. Next. 353 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:31.799 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 354 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:36.559 Huge cuts at the federal level when it comes to 355 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:42.400 medical research. The National Institutes of Health and Science cut dramatically. 356 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:46.240 And it's a weird thing because we do a lot 357 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.279 of that research, the federally funded research here in California. 358 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:51.519 When we say when I say we, I don't mean myself, 359 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.440 of course you'll be relieved to know, but very smart 360 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:01.599 researchers exist with super Big Brain program here in California 361 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:05.319 doing critical medical research to talk to us about the 362 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.359 fact that we might be able to fund our own 363 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:13.839 NIHE here in California, to essentially replace a lot of 364 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:17.799 the federal funding that would have come to California. Is 365 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:23.279 doctor Michael Daniel. Hello there, sir David. I say, Michael David, 366 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:24.680 how are you, sir? 367 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:26.039 Good? 368 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:26.759 How's it going. 369 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.799 I'm well, nice to have you on board. You've seen 370 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:34.519 doctor Daniel on Fox eleven. He's a regular on my podcast, 371 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.519 The Mark Thompson Show, and so cool to have you 372 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.480 here to talk about this. So, first of all, we 373 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:45.519 do a lot of medical research here in California, do 374 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:46.400 we know, as. 375 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:51.720 You mentioned, Yeah, yeah, and those are the major institutions there, UCSF, Berkeley, 376 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:55.480 u CLA, you see, San Diego, Stanford, And if you 377 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:58.480 look at the cuts from the Trump administration in DOGE, 378 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:02.440 it was about a forty percent reduction to NIH, which 379 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.119 is about eighteen billion dollars less, and a lot of 380 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.440 that funding from NAH just then gets parsed out to 381 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:14.279 the universities, as you mentioned, particularly in California. So right 382 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.920 now they're looking at about one hundred research grants totally 383 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:21.279 approximately three hundred and two, three undred and twelve million 384 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:25.400 that have been canceled, and that's disrupting ongoing research studies, 385 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.960 leading to a lot of hiring freezes and potential layoffs. 386 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.799 And so what State Senator Scott Weener had come up 387 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.839 with was, as you mentioned, a California NIH and he 388 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.160 wants to call it the California Institute for Scientific Research. 389 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:44.119 And basically, it would be a state level agency that 390 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.359 provides these grants or re implements the grants to fund 391 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:51.599 these research studies that have been disrupted. And you know, 392 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:54.240 as you mentioned, a lot of the science and the 393 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:58.640 research and the medical research comes out of California from 394 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:02.640 our university. So this would, you know, sort of prevent 395 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:05.440 that disruption. And I think it's a great initiative, and 396 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:09.839 it's scheduled for a legislative hearing tomorrow actually, so we'll 397 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:12.319 have to really pay close attention to what happens. 398 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:14.319 And when we look at you know, it's funny we're 399 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:16.759 we're talking to doctor Michael Daniel about the fact that 400 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.039 maybe funding within the state of California could replace a 401 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:22.519