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 --> 00:00:07.200 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.320 Gary and Shannon k i AM six forty Live everywhere 5 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:11.480 on the iHeartRadio app. 6 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:13.119 Feels like day popcorn. 7 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.160 Here at the end of the week of the Democratic 8 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.239 National Convention, and listen, we're not even the ones who 9 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.399 were partying like these Democrats were. I mean, there were 10 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.640 people up late into the night last night. 11 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.800 I was an adult all week long. I'd like to 12 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:28.039 point that out mostly. 13 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.280 I mean, let's not be too serious. You were constantly 14 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.399 saying you were going to climb the Michael Jordan statue. 15 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:34.320 I did, but did not. 16 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:35.840 I didn't r you didn't. 17 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:37.920 Yeah, exactly, we had a chance to. 18 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.320 We ran into literally ran into former Mayor Antonio Vira 19 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:45.280 Gosa and had an opportunity to talk to him about 20 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.439 a bunch of stuff. Now, stay tuned to KFI. Of course, 21 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:50.960 we're going to be talking much more about the RFK 22 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.600 Junior announcement. Former President Trump has a big rally that's 23 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.399 planned later tonight, so all of that is still to come. 24 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:01.880 But here's a peek into the world that is Antonio Virigosa. 25 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.679 You know we miss you. I think I like a 26 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.239 lot of Democrats miss George w I think a lot 27 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.599 of people miss you as mayor of Los Angeles after 28 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.280 Garcetti and now Karen Karen Bass ditched us. By the way, 29 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.760 I may have run a foul for I complimented her 30 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.319 dress from the Olympics, and that was my lead in. 31 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.359 And now she won't talk to us. You always shocked 32 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.760 to us. Yes, I am so what launched? Like what 33 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:29.799 started this whole thing? To get back into it? 34 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.640 You know when you well, first of all, thank you 35 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:34.400 for having me on. 36 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:36.799 I was walking out and we bumped into each other 37 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.439 and said, oh, we had to. 38 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:39.680 Do this interview. 39 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.400 Look, a few years ago, I was on the ConA 40 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:48.959 Nolan Show, and I think I surprised everybody when I 41 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.799 said I was born and raised here. I've never seen 42 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:59.280 this city so dirty, homeless grow so fast, crime out 43 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.560 of control. It feels like Rome is burning and the 44 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.000 city's adrift. I felt like there was no leadership. And 45 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.840 that was a few years ago. And then I was 46 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:13.599 asked to be Governor Newswrom's infrastructure advisor, and I went 47 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.159 up and down the state from the Oregon to the 48 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.120 Mexican border, and people said you need to come back. 49 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.400 They said, we're looking for a problem solver. 50 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.240 You know, I'll tell you something what I've liked about 51 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.120 this convention. There's too much screaming on both sides. I'm 52 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:33.840 a Democrat, and you know, unabashedly so, but I'm not 53 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:34.400 a screamer. 54 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.759 I like working with people. I like, you know, I 55 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.479 know that people have other. 56 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.800 Views, that they're not made in my image, and that 57 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.120 when you work together, you get things done. 58 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:47.080 And that's why when I. 59 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.120 Was Speaker, I got two budgets on time when we 60 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.039 didn't have a super majority. I had forty two votes 61 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.960 members one year, forty eight another. 62 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:57.680 I had to work with Republicans. 63 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.960 We got two budgets on time with the surplus and 64 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.080 invested more money and education that we had previously. I 65 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.919 did the same thing as mayor. You know, I took 66 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.039 on my friends from time to time. Not because I 67 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:13.840 was looking for a fight with my friends, but because 68 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.120 I understood, you know, in these jobs, you got to 69 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:21.159 make the tough calls. Sixty percent increase in the graduation rate, 70 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:25.120 forty eight percent drop in violent crime, number one American city, 71 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:26.800 and reducing carbon emissions number. 72 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.800 Five in the world. So I think people are looking 73 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.800 for people that don't just talk. 74 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.240 And you know, I like to talk to we all do, 75 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:35.960 especially if you're a politician, but they want to do 76 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.680 they want to roll up their sleeves. I was joking 77 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.080 with one of my assistants. I said, you know, I'm 78 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:43.520 an eighteen hour day guy. Get up before you and 79 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.479 go to sleep after you. And that's what these jobs 80 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:47.039 are all about. 81 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.520 It's weird hearing somebody talk about policy and numbers here 82 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:53.400 at this movie that. 83 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.280 Have not yet used the word joy. 84 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.560 I haven't heard joyful warrior or anything. But I mean 85 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:02.199 this convention seemed short on facts and figures and. 86 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.960 Policy and big party. 87 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.560 Right, yeah, yeah, so this is this is refreshing. What 88 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.080 is your what has been your takeaway here? You agree 89 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:13.800 with us, don't you? 90 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:17.399 It's okay to say that's all right. 91 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.360 I like the joy part. I like that. 92 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.759 I like what the admonition from Bill Clinton, uh and 93 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:30.000 Oprah that those people are neighbors, and I think we 94 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.720 forget that. You know, how many of us go to 95 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.839 a Thanksgiving dinner and have family members that have diametrically 96 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.839 different views in you and you love them. They're good people. 97 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.120 They just don't agree with you. And I think if 98 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.759 we approach that so that part of it, I like, 99 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.959 I agree that, you know, we need to define Kamala 100 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.279 Harris before the other side does. And that's why they 101 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.040 focused on a lot of that because they know in 102 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.920 a couple of days, you know, somebody else is. 103 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:07.040 Going to define her. 104 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:10.160 But you know, look, in the course of this campaign, 105 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.480 you're going to see more press conferences because you got 106 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.000 to have them, and more detail to the program. 107 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.759 But remember she's part of the Biden Harris team. 108 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:25.199 We know what their politics were all about, we know 109 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.120 what their policies are all about. 110 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:28.480 So it's not. 111 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:33.160 As if we don't know what Democrats have for because 112 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:33.399 we do. 113 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.040 Yeah, let's talk specifically about California and the legislature. 114 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:39.920 You mentioned super majority. If you were to. 115 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:44.839 Become governor, is super majority with your party in power? 116 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.600 Is that the most optimal way for you to run 117 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.079 a state of California or would you rather see and 118 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.839 without campaigning for Republicans obviously because that's not going to 119 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.800 happen from you, but would you rather see a more 120 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:59.639 evenly split legislature so that work can be done with 121 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.439 a little bit more bipartisan work. 122 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.720 I actually would like to campaign for Republicans. I want 123 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.519 every vote, not just a Democratic vote. But I recogniz 124 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.720 I'm not pollyannish. I recognize that we've gotten. 125 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.519 So partisan, so polarized. People see a D or an 126 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.639 R in front of your name and they just say, no. 127 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:27.600 What I like, you know, a more even legislature. 128 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.519 If there was more consonants in terms of our policies. 129 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.120 Sure, right now there's not. I want to bring people 130 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.319 to a results or in the politic. 131 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:47.399 You know, people love to talk about fifth largest economy 132 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:52.199 in the world. How about highest effective poverty rate in America? 133 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:58.480 You know, how about too many people you know work 134 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:03.079 in every single day and don't make enough to pay rent. 135 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.000 You know, it used to be that buying a house 136 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:09.839 was part of the American dream. Now renting an apartment 137 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.839 with three roommates. Talk to my kids and everybody else. 138 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:18.800 So, yeah, I do. I will try to work. 139 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.040 With the other side. I don't think there's a problem 140 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:25.600 with it. I'm proud of that. When they asked me 141 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.120 to be infrastructure advisor, the first thing I did. Met 142 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.199 with the speaker, met with the pro tem, met with 143 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.519 the two Republican leaders, They were so surprised that I 144 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.519 sat down on them and I said, infrastructures are not partisan. 145 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:39.240 Man, Let's put. 146 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.079 People to work, you know, Let's build rebuild our roads 147 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.480 and our highways and our bridges. 148 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.480 So I think you're going to see somebody's going to 149 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:47.040 reach out. 150 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.920 I think at first, you know, there's not going to 151 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:54.839 be a lot of folks running to my candidacy. But 152 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.680 I think over time, what people see I'm a nier. 153 00:07:57.879 --> 00:07:59.639 I want to work with everybody. 154 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.680 In California is Cesspool. Okay, we're both from San Francisco area. 155 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:04.879 That was a shining city on that I mean, it 156 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.199 was a wonderful place. It was one of the best today. 157 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.920 It was a tourist destination. I don't go there anymore. 158 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:11.680 I don't want to go there. It's very I got 159 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.720 married there, Like, I love that city, but I don't 160 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.079 want to go there anymore because it's it's scary. Frankly, 161 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.160 like the crazy people, the people on the fentanyl, the 162 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.839 open drug markets. I mean, I'm not being super conservative. 163 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.199 I'm saying what I see with my own eyes. You know. 164 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.959 Gavin Newsom comes to Los Angeles a few weeks ago 165 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.240 when he starts tearing down an encampment, and he's like, 166 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:34.919 if you're not paying attention, It's like, what are you 167 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.720 talking about. We're paying attention, we're living in it. You're 168 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.080 not living in it. So what's your plan to clean 169 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.759 up the cesspool that has become California? 170 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:50.480 You know, one side talks constantly about we can't criminalize homelessness, 171 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.440 and I agree we can't, but we can't. 172 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.240 Have the chaos we have today too. Look, I've said, 173 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:57.679 as an. 174 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.279 Example, you can't put a tent and an encampment in 175 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.000 front of a school because I know what neighborhoods are 176 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.200 going to go to them. I know what neighborhoods are 177 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:07.360 going to go. So they're not going to go to 178 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:08.919 the affluent and they're going to go. 179 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:10.039 To the poor neighborhoods. 180 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:11.600 Those kids are going to have to walk in the 181 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:17.799 street while somebody is urinating, defecating, or taking drugs. Yes, 182 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.360 I want to build more housing because we know building 183 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:27.440 housing with wraparound services for the chronically homeless is one 184 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.360 of the solutions. 185 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:32.120 More drug rehabilitation programs. 186 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:39.279 But you can't not refuse to go to rehabilitation, stay 187 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.559 on the street and say that there aren't going to 188 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.159 be consequences for it. So I'm not a criminalization person, 189 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.480 but I'm not for the chaos that you talked about either. 190 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.120 That's why I said a few years ago. 191 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:54.320 And let's be clear, I think Karen Bass has done 192 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.519 a really different job. 193 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.919 With respect to homeless than her predecessor. 194 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.279 Let's just be honest and so, but at the end 195 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.559 of the day, I think we need to cut red 196 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.720 tape and permitting build more housing. You know, I never 197 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.639 was afraid to go to a town hall where everybody 198 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:15.960 would scream at me. 199 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.279 And sometimes, you know, you think. 200 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.000 At first you'd say, Wow, they don't like me, and 201 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.320 then when soon it's over, they're taking pictures with you. 202 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.039 And self and will you sign my hat? 203 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:26.720 Isn't it weird? 204 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.120 You know? So it's like it's a noise man. 205 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.360 And what I noticed after all these years that I've 206 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.879 been involved, is like, do the right thing. It's not 207 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.639 always going to be popular. People be upset. But I'll 208 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.120 tell you what you just said. San Francisco is a 209 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:47.200 great city. Let's make it beautiful again. La is a 210 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.840 great city. Let's make it beautiful again. 211 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.279 What do you think about George Gascon? 212 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.320 You know, look, I'll be real clear, because it's bad. 213 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.759 LA is bad right now. Ellie County is lawlessness, I 214 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:02.720 mean no law and order. It's horrible. And like you said, 215 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:04.360 the homeless people are not going to go to the 216 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.960 affluent neighborhoods. Guess what the criminals are going to wreak 217 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.120 havoc on the most vulnerable citizens in Los Angeles. And 218 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:12.559 that's what's happening under his reign. 219 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.919 I think we have a lot of things going. I 220 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:22.080 think it's a district attorney. I also think that it's 221 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.519 that we're going to have to beef up some of 222 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:25.200 our laws. 223 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.919 You know Prop forty seven I voted for. 224 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:33.080 It wasn't perfect. We can't be afraid when something's not 225 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.200 working to fix it. I'm not for thirty six. 226 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:37.039 And I'll tell you why. 227 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:42.679 You don't make change, in my opinion, with a sledgehammer. 228 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.159 You make it with, you know, surgically. So there are 229 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.480 things we need to do, you know, whether it's smash 230 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.960 and grab, whether it's people that walk around, rob you once, 231 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.399 get out and then rob you again. 232 00:11:57.799 --> 00:11:59.759 No, that is unacceptable. 233 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:00.240 You know. 234 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.240 Look, I was doing criminal justice. 235 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.919 Reform in the nineteen eighties and nineties when I was 236 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:06.200 President of the ACLU. 237 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:08.000 I believe in that we were. 238 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:12.720 Incarcerating more people than anybody in the world per capita. 239 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:15.000 But some people. 240 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.679 Belong there, and particularly people who are violent, you know, 241 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:20.639 poor sexual predators. 242 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.639 There are people that belong in jail. 243 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:27.120 And this notion that, oh, you know, those people can 244 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:31.039 be redeemed, Yes, some of them can, but yes they're 245 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.799 going to jail first. And let me just say something 246 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.799 else about that forty eight percent drop in violent crime. 247 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:39.080 We went from one of the most dangerous big cities, 248 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.679 more dangerous in Chicago, to one of the safest. 249 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.759 How did we do it? More cops, putting. 250 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.080 A thousand cops on the street or close to a thousand, 251 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:52.320 but also taking guns off the street. Prevention and intervention 252 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:57.919 programs I expanded dramatically, after school programs, summer youth jobs, summer. 253 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.480 Night lights, which you've gone to it. So you got 254 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:02.960 to do all of the above. 255 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.480 I want to do all of the above, not just 256 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.759 talk tough, be smart on crime. But let's be clear 257 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.279 about one thing. You got to be accountable for your actions. 258 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:15.559 And so that's what I think. 259 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.159 Describe the relationship between the mayor of a big city 260 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.399 like you were and the governor whoever it is at 261 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.320 the time, because you're going to be you want to 262 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:23.879 be on the other side of that. You want to 263 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.360 be the governor who helps out these you know, big 264 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.960 city mayors. What is that relationship? Like, how do you 265 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.120 work with somebody in that capacity. 266 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.080 Well, you're a supplicant. 267 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.600 You know, you got to go to the governor and 268 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.799 the legislature for resources, for. 269 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:42.200 Money, for changing laws, for making laws. 270 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.000 So you know, trying to be nice, right, trying to 271 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:49.720 work with them, but you're also an advocate. If you remember, 272 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.320 we cut redevelopment in the middle of the worst recession 273 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.759 since the nineteen twenties, and I had to take on 274 00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:59.639 the governor and he was the governor of my own 275 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:04.120 party when I was speaker. From time to time I 276 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.919 took on Pete Wilson, but I also worked with him. 277 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:09.759 We did healthy families together. 278 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.600 We did the largest school bond in US history together, 279 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:15.480 nine billion dollar bond we did. We did a lot 280 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.639 of things together, and so you know, you mostly try 281 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.440 to work on them because you are a supplicant. You're 282 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.159 going to them, but sometimes you got to stand up 283 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.600 for what you got to stand up for. 284 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:29.840 I'm glad you cut your hair it was getting a 285 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.039 little wild there I was. 286 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.240 There was a great picture that we saw yesterday. We 287 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.440 were talking about trying to find you here at the convention. 288 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:41.279 It's a picture from a few years ago. Your hairs 289 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:45.200 a little bit longer. What's collars? You got like pokahs 290 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:45.639 or something. 291 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.639 It's like a burning man. What are we doing here, folks? 292 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:55.519 People tell me, sir, you know this jacket with a 293 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.879 T shirt, jeans and sneakers. 294 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:01.600 Ain't got it. 295 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.759 You can't do it to have a time, I don't 296 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:05.679 have to have a tie anyway. I want to be 297 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.639 a regular guy. And they said, please put on a suit. 298 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.799 Mayor and TONI were so also running for governor. Twenty 299 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.120 twenty six is the election. Thanks for stopping by, Thanks 300 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:17.960 for making time for. 301 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:19.840 Us, man, Thank you appreciate it. Thank you to see you. 302 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:25.120 Fun Gary and Shannon. Our final day in Chicago. And 303 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:28.399 I've got to tell you, I'm looking forward to Monday. 304 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.559 Since we've committed to a politics free show, We're going 305 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:38.840 to be bringing you murder and mayhem and gay penguins. 306 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.320 Everything, everything that has nothing to do with politics. 307 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.519 I want to talk about butter some more. I want 308 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.639 to talk about breads and butters and and apples. 309 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.440 We could we could still go through and review some 310 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:56.120 of our culinary choices in Chicago, couldn't we? 311 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.440 Oh yeah, I mean I'm thinking like an hour on 312 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:04.840 the sausages and the steaks and the pizza, and then 313 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.279 we got to break up the pizza from deep dish 314 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:08.919 to thin crust. 315 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:10.879 I mean, I do have a whole list of things 316 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.840 that we have said that I've been keeping track of. 317 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.960 We cannot say the list on the air. Probably much 318 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:17.759 of it you did. 319 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.000 You did refer to me. I forgot to mention this 320 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:26.080 of yesterday. You referred to me as your dad at. 321 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.879 The Cubs game. When we're at Wrigley Field. Oscar was 322 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:32.039 gonna buy me a beer, and you said, Dad's an alcoholic, 323 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:33.399 he doesn't need any more beer. 324 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.840 I was doing a bit for the concessions guy, uh huh, 325 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:40.960 because because I like to make fun of the fact 326 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.240 that you're older than me, I've took it a little 327 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:44.559 bit further this time. 328 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:45.600 It was pretty fun. 329 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:45.679 Oh. 330 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.679 The other thing I forgot to mention about the Cubs 331 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.519 game is you mentioned that we were sitting behind the 332 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.919 Detroit Tigers dugout. There's a kid who got up there 333 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.399 he's just called up for the Tigers. He's only had 334 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.200 I think before the game, he'd only had about six 335 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.519 or seven at hit his first major league home run 336 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.319 into a basket. That was the second home run that 337 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.440 we saw in that inning. And his high school teammate 338 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:10.960 was sitting right in front of us, and he got 339 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.359 up and he lost his ever loving mind when he 340 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:15.799 saw his buddy hit that home run. 341 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.559 So those people were so nice, weren't they? 342 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.640 Very cool moment? It was very very cool. Yeah, until 343 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:22.720 you got the security guard fired. But again, you know, 344 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:23.960 maybe sin he. 345 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.920 Has a name, it's Jason. I felt bad about that, 346 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.640 did you? Well, what happened if you missed the story? 347 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.519 There was a security guard that would stand between the 348 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.519 seats and the dugout. The visitor dugout was just three 349 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.759 rows ahead of us, and I asked Jason, the security guard, Hey, 350 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.720 what would happen if I jumped on this dugout and 351 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.599 started dancing around? And he says, well, you'd get tackled. 352 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:50.640 And I said, well, would I go to the stadium 353 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.119 jail or would I go to real Chicago jail? And 354 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:55.519 he said, you go to real jail. I said, all right, 355 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.839 Well I don't want to futs with that. And then 356 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.119 I asked for my picture to be taken with Jason 357 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.640 and we did that, and the next inning there was 358 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.119 a new Jason. There was a new guy stand leave. 359 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:09.279 They knew Jason, and I was like, what happened to Jason? 360 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:11.480 What's going on? And I said, can I take a 361 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.960 picture with you? And he said, no, That's why Jason's 362 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:14.799 not here anymore. 363 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.039 It was the funniest thing because those guys ahead of us, 364 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.240 the guy sitting in the row ahead of us, saw 365 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:24.119 and heard the entire thing. So when he said that 366 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.920 that's why Jason's not here anymore, they all started busting up, laughing. 367 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:31.119 Yeah, yeah, see, you can make friends. I do. 368 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:31.519 I do. 369 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:32.039 Yes. 370 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:35.960 Well, obviously we had a busy time here in Chicago, 371 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:40.559 and that doesn't mean we can't do some fun things 372 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.440 that have nothing to do with Chicago, and we end 373 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.680 our shows on Fridays with the nine news Nuggets. You 374 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.799 need to know because of all of the other things 375 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.440 that are going on. So I guess you could say. 376 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.400 Kennedy used the phrase a couple of days ago the 377 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:56.839 Canalope Sorbet. 378 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.160 In an attempt to sort of cleanse our palates. 379 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.759 So as we go into the weekend, why don't we 380 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.039 cleanse our palettes with the nine news nuggets. You need 381 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.680 to know the stories that otherwise would have fallen through 382 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:07.599 the cracks. 383 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:10.799 If we weren't so busy. It's time for your honorable mention, 384 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:17.920 Honorable mention, not the most to mention. 385 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:19.920 It's been an honor serving. 386 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:20.079 With you, a. 387 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:24.119 Great and honorable most is. 388 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:27.240 So today we're holding auditions to become the newest member 389 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:28.240 of honorable Mention. 390 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.920 So one of Evansville, Indiana's Halloween staples is going to 391 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.240 have a new home this fall. 392 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.559 I guess. In Evansville, one of the things they do. 393 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:42.440 Is they take a give tours of the catacombs in 394 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.519 the old courthouse there in Evansville. They use it as 395 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.480 a haunted attraction down in the basement. It's lived in 396 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:54.119 the former Vanderberg County Courthouse for years. However, they've got 397 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:58.200 to move it now because it's full of asbestos. 398 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.279 Raydon right on, right on, rad On, that's one of 399 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:05.440 the elements, isn't it It is? Look at me, I'm 400 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:06.480 basically a chemist. 401 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.599