WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.879 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.400 I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.759 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Marla and Mark for Gary 4 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:10.640 and Shannon, who come back next week. But in the 5 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.919 earliest hours of this Tim Conway Jr. Working straight through 6 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.079 the night. I mean, it was an extraordinary show Mo 7 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.440 Kelly as well, an extraordinary show of commitment to information 8 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.960 and it was the best of this radio station. So 9 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.079 very cool to be here this week. And we are expecting. 10 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:32.399 Of course, as you know, Marla is with child, and 11 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:34.640 it's very exciting for me because. 12 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:36.399 That was a transition I didn't expect. 13 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.640 Yes, exactly. Well, I have much more that you won't 14 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:44.039 expect later this but I am expecting. You are expecting, 15 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.399 and I'd like to say we're expecting because I'm part 16 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.280 of the process too now, Uncle Mark, Yeah, exactly, I 17 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.359 have a vested interest. Would you ever sell naming rights 18 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.200 to your child? Would you ever think about that like 19 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.600 they do like a crypto arena, you know that they 20 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.479 are they paying for the No. No, I don't think 21 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.560 if a big like billionaire like Musk type figure came 22 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.359 into your life and said, you know, one hundred million dollars. 23 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.480 But you have to name your child, uh, you know, 24 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:13.920 Elon or whatever it was. 25 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.959 Well, his son's name is X right, and you're having. 26 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.120 A girl, so it wouldn't be Elon maybe, but yeah, 27 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.599 maybe he won Mexish. Yeah, for for. 28 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:23.319 How much money? 29 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:23.799 Exactly? 30 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.239 Yeah, absolutely, all of a sudden negotiation the art of 31 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:28.640 the deal. 32 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.359 First it will no, but now it's how much money? 33 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:32.840 Was that? All right? Whatever? 34 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.480 We call her beg anyway for baby girls. 35 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.719 That's pretty cool. Well, we're so excited. Anyway, here's what's happening. 36 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:47.799 Time for what's happening. The Santa Ana winds have relaxed 37 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:49.439 across southern California four. 38 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:54.359 Now anyway, thank goodness. Yes, so most of the mornings 39 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.799 expired yesterday at no, today's Thursday. I'm getting my days 40 00:01:58.799 --> 00:01:59.920 mixed up. I'm sorry. 41 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.359 It'll be three o'clock to day that they expire completely. 42 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.120 Yes, yes, yes, yes, But so then we have some 43 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.680 calm going into the weekend, which is beautiful. But then 44 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.639 there is that next Santa Ana wind event that is 45 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:18.039 expected to happen Monday and Tuesday sixty percent chance. So 46 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.280 if you want to look at the other side of 47 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.639 forty percent chance that it won't. 48 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.240 Well, it's not going to be a sent an event 49 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.759 on the scale that we saw no shees. I think 50 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:26.639 worth noting. 51 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.039 It's not one of those particularly dangerous situations. 52 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:31.840 And between now and then, we're going to get a 53 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.280 sea breeze, says the National Weather Service. And that's important 54 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.599 because with that sea breeze comes humidity. Yeah. 55 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.560 Yeah, we'll increase the dryness, but the decrease. 56 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.960 Wind blown dust and ash still around. You should avoid 57 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.400 our outdoor activities, keep windows and doors closed if you're 58 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:48.520 in many of these areas of the Palisades and the 59 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:52.639 eaten fires, and residents, residents who are you know, going 60 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:56.879 through those regions are supposed to be well made aware 61 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.680 of that, which is what we're doing and the National 62 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.919 Weather Service does similarly. There is a mud and debris 63 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.439 slide that has split a hillside home in the Palisades. 64 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.400 I mean the home has been split in half. Marlow. 65 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.159 But this is adding insult to injury because it actually 66 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.639 is one of the homes that survived the fire and 67 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.560 then the debris flow in the slide caused it to 68 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.120 split in half. And a lot of these people what 69 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:29.199 they've done is when they evacuated. They hired private security 70 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.680 to guard because we know the issue of looters and 71 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:34.439 all of that, and of course we have the La 72 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.639 County Sheriff and we have laped out there monitoring various jurisdictions. 73 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.840 But nonetheless, they get private security, and there was a 74 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:46.080 hired there's a security officer who literally saw this home 75 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.919 cast a yea mar or castella mar. I'm not sure 76 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:51.439 how to sell the. 77 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.000 Name of the street. Yeah, yeah, right in the. 78 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.080 Pacific Palisades, literally split in half. 79 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.479 Yeah, and then there you'll see all over local news. 80 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:06.159 It's a huge story, but it's also something of a well, 81 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:09.120 it may be a sign of what's to come. Well, 82 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.680 one of the's certainly what's to come and what of 83 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.240 the One of the concerns that we have contemporaneous with 84 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.959 all of this is that, you know, we saw it 85 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.680 happen in Santa Barbara, you know, in Montecito. I mean, 86 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.199 it was an extraordinary thing. The flow of mud. It 87 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.079 gets to be a concern and it's addressed. I mean 88 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.759 in all of the press conferences that all the fire 89 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.000 officials and public officials have done, they have touched on 90 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.720 that as well. The average rate on the thirty year 91 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.160 mortgage hits seven percent. 92 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.800 It's the highest level in eight months. The rate rows 93 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.839 to just seven point zero four percent from six point 94 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.879 nine to three percent last week. This is according to 95 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:49.639 Freddie Mack. It has risen for five straight weeks. And 96 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.839 what about the fifteen year fixed rate mortgage, which is 97 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.959 very popular with homeowners. That one also increased to six 98 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.959 point two seven that's up from six point one four 99 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:00.879 last week. 100 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.079 Yeah. Of course this affects the real estate market. It 101 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:07.519 adds hundreds of dollars a month to costs for borrowers. 102 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.040 So this is something to watch. 103 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.560 Yeah, the elevated mortgage rates now prolonging a national home 104 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.959 sale slump that began in twenty twenty two. 105 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:23.439 Zin is the nicotine pouch that is used by many. 106 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.600 It's kind of like the chew. You put it between 107 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.879 like your lip and your gums. 108 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:28.560 Yeah, I asked you, how does the pouch work? 109 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.800 Yeah, that's well, that's how. It's not very complicated. Yeah. Yeah, 110 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.279 well you know, I'm gonna recommend as a pregnant woman, 111 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:36.160 you lay off the chew. 112 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:36.519 Yeah. 113 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:41.759 Yeah. The FDA is authorizing though, this Zin nicotine pouch 114 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.360 for sale. They are saying that they have found that 115 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.319 they pose these pouches lower risks of cancer and other 116 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:56.959 serious health conditions compared with cigarettes. It's again, it's not 117 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.920 saying it's safe per se, right Marla, than after agent 118 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:01.720 saying that. 119 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:03.800 It's better than smoking. That's what they're saying. But we 120 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:09.959 know that smoking is bad, and at this point it's 121 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.839 doesn't have a lot of use a young among miners. 122 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:16.879 Meaning that most kids are not are not used. 123 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.040 No, yeah, they're not using it. But I didn't realize 124 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.120 that it had exploded in recent years in terms of 125 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.399 popularity because of a viral online meme trend. 126 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.399 You're not hanging out with the zen crowd over there 127 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.639 in West La, West La and Maternity Land. 128 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.360 You're not there with the well, even if I wasn't pregnant, 129 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.199 I wouldn't be hanging out. 130 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:42.000 You wouldn't be. You don't see yourself with the zen crowd. 131 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.680 You're at the in crowd, not the z. Drug eating 132 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.839 rats have invaded Houston's police evidence room. I know it's true. 133 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.439 It's an issue that has prompted the district attorney there 134 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.920 to alert defense attorneys in open drug related cases that 135 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.360 number thirty six hundred. So they're saying Hey, there is 136 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:07.800 a problem with the evidence room to the point that 137 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:11.040 thirty six hundred different cases likely might be influenced. They 138 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.480 don't think that there's any impact on any cases, even 139 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.759 as large as number as that is yet, but they're 140 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.360 saying it's possible that something could happen as a result 141 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.000 of this rodent infestation. 142 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.160 So get this. The Houston mayor said, just one example 143 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:31.879 is the quote, just one example. We've got four hundred 144 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:36.240 thousand pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are 145 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:41.160 the only ones enjoining got a bunch of high. Rats. 146 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.000 Don't get high on your own supplies one of these 147 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.040 space Come on now, just make money off of it, 148 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:52.519 didn't you rats? Get that? And finally, the Southwest pilot 149 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:56.240 is removed from the cockpit. For anybody guesses. 150 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.680 DUI god a good look. 151 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.800 Just yesterday Georgia to Chicago. It was to have been 152 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.959 a flight that the Southwest pilot would take them on. 153 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:10.560 He was booked on a charge of driving under the influence. 154 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.680 Bail said at thirty five hundred, the employee has been 155 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:15.720 removed from duty. 156 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.439 Uh, yes, I would hope. So that is always the 157 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.560 kind of thing that's going Look, you know, but I. 158 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.959 Love that the FA put out a statement clarifying that 159 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.040 regulations prohibit pilots from using alcohol while on duty. 160 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.960 Yeah, well, I thank you, Yeah, thank you. I would 161 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.759 think that would kind of be a border plate thing. 162 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:42.519 Hollywood mourning the passing of David Lynch. The writer director 163 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:49.559 had kind of a dark vision in his films Blue Velvet, 164 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.200 mulhalland Drive, Twin Peaks. 165 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:53.600 I loved Twin Peaks. 166 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:59.279 America loved Twin Peaks. Yeah, I mean all that mystery 167 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:06.799 and darkness around his stuff. And you know, he'd had emphysema. 168 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:13.519 He was a lifetime smoker, and he actually in a 169 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.480 post just last year, said that he wouldn't likely be 170 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:19.600 able to leave his house to direct anymore. 171 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:25.759 He was seventy eight. The family spokesperson announcing his death 172 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.159 on Facebook saying it is with deep regret that we 173 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.000 his family announced the passing of the man and the artist, 174 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.919 David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. 175 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.600 There's a big hole in the world now that he's 176 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.720 no longer with us. But as he would say, keep 177 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.399 your eye on the donut and not on the whole. 178 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.600 Well, it's interesting because he was one of those guys 179 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:52.039 who was a celebrated director, and he was recognized, I 180 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.720 feel with a profile internationally that was even stronger than 181 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.440 his profile in Hollywood. I just feel as though he 182 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:03.759 was really celebrated. 183 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.279 And beyond Hollywood, he had a foundation, the David Lynch Foundation, 184 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.960 to back meditation for mental health. So this was huge, 185 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:15.679 very big into that huge. 186 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.399 Essentially Lynch dedicated the last twenty years. I wanted to 187 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:22.080 I just picked that number, but I think that's about 188 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:27.159 right to launching this center for meditation, and I think 189 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.480 it's transcendental meditation that he Yeah, you're one. 190 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.080 Hundred percent right. It was in two thousand and five 191 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:32.360 that he launched that oh wow. 192 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:37.519 So yeah, and he dedicated so many resources and so 193 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.080 much social media toward that, and he helped so many 194 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:42.480 people through that foundation. 195 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.879 Yeah, it's amazing. Just this fall, the Foundation's Meditate America 196 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.480 public awareness campaign promoted meditation for stress reduction by offering 197 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.200 free sessions, discounted courses, and scholarships in more than one 198 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:55.360 hundred US cities. 199 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.039 So he was born in Montana. Just I mean interesting. 200 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.559 You always learn I feel so much about people sadly 201 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:05.639 by reading their obituary. I mean, you learn what a 202 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:08.759 rich life and what contributed to this person who was 203 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:12.559 so very creative. So he born in Montana and he 204 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.639 had this weird They talk about contradiction. I'm just reading 205 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.519 different obituaries between his mild manner and the eruptions of 206 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.960 violence and profanity in his art. I mean, let's face it, 207 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:26.840 we talk about those movies and there's a lot of 208 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:32.159 both profanity and violence in his films. And he says, look, 209 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.879 my parents were so loving and good. He wrote a 210 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:40.080 memoir and he said they had good parents also raising them, 211 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.919 and everybody loved my parents. They were fair. 212 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.080 So in other words, don't blame my parents. 213 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.919 Yeah, like, my twisted reality is not owing to some 214 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:53.840 kind of weird childhood I had. But he came up 215 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:58.919 with I believe, Terrence Malick and Paul Schrader, I mean, 216 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:05.799 Paul Schrader wrote Actually Driver, and Lynch made his first feature, Eraserhead, 217 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.360 in nineteen seventy seven, and again that was shot in 218 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:12.200 black and white, and that's a bizarro kind of movie. 219 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.080 I love this description of his genre. These were horror 220 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.679 stories that mix the monstrous with the mundane, that emerged 221 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.360 from a landscape of dreams or nightmares. Their happy endings 222 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.279 doing nothing to erase the discomfort they left behind. Few 223 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:32.279 doubted the power of his vision and imagination, though naysayers 224 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.120 questioned his logical thread. 225 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.320 Yeah. I mean, here's another way to say that. Sometimes 226 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.840 his movies are really tough to understand. Yeah, what's going 227 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:42.879 on in mulhalland Drive. I don't know. But I'll tell 228 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.600 you a movie that's easy to understand and is really powerful. 229 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.960 And it was one of his films I forget when 230 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:49.480 I want to see it. Maybe it came out in 231 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:54.080 the eighties, was a Elephant Man. The Elephant Man. He 232 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.879 did that with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt played the 233 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:02.559 elephant Man. And it is a true story and it's 234 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.519 a really powerful movie. 235 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.679 So again, I didn't realize you did The Elephant Man. 236 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.480 Yeah, nor did I hadn't remembered it either as his. 237 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:15.240 But oh my gosh, that movie. I remember seeing that 238 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.960 and it was just it's one of those that stays 239 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:19.320 with you. 240 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:21.240 Oh yeah, oh yeah. 241 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.320 Oh my gosh, I'm looking it up. When did you say, 242 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:24.879 I'm just seeing if you were correct, I think it 243 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.799 was in the eighties. It was, yeah, in nineteen eighty. 244 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.759 Yeah, yes, Wow, there's stories out of that whole thing 245 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.480 because you know, you had a it was kind of 246 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.919 an immersive experience. The actors there, like, you know, John Hurt, 247 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:38.879 he was just a remarkable as he had all that 248 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.320 prosthetic on as the Elephant Man, and you have Anthony. 249 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.519 Hopkins and Bancroft. 250 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:49.679 Oh that's right and Bancroft right. But I guess there 251 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:54.159 was some real shall we say, flare ups on the 252 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.480 set between Hopkins and Lynch, as reported. You know, Hopkins 253 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.360 was frustrated that Lynch wasn't saying, you know, exactly what 254 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.159 he wanted from his character. But whatever, the result was remarkable. 255 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:05.639 You know. 256 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:10.080 So I'm looking at the movie poster and it's the 257 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.759 Elephant Man and it says I Am not an animal, 258 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.480 I'm a human being. I'm a man. 259 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.080 I'm sure it holds up today. It was, Yeah, it was, 260 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.440 and terrific performances and there were oscars I think that 261 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.120 came from it. Maybe Hurt one, but twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, 262 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.960 and of course, as we say, this foundation that backs 263 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.240 meditation for mental health was really where he put a 264 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.279 lot of his work over the last couple of decades. 265 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:39.279 A big loss and at seventy eight years of age 266 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.000 David Lynch with a great body of work, not just 267 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.559 in show business but in his life. He passes away 268 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.879 again at age seventy eight. Now to the story that 269 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.200 we talk about my show and talk about on Fox eleven, 270 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:54.919 talk about here at KFI, and I was saying, we've 271 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.240 been wall to wall with coverage on the fires in 272 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:02.919 southern California and the question around the fires and the 273 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:06.639 LAFD budget cuts. All of this is being looked at 274 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:12.519 by News Nations national investigative correspondent Rich McHugh. Hi, Rich, Hi, guys. 275 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:16.039 How are you all right? I mean, we're all right 276 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.159 as we kind of sift through the wreckage, literal and 277 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.600 also administrative. What have you found in looking at some 278 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:27.159 of these issues involving the LAFD budget cuts. 279 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.039 Well, it's just it's widespread. 280 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:31.480 You know. 281 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.639 I've been talking to a former twenty three year you know, 282 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.240 veteran the Lostians of the Fire Department, John Knot, and 283 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.320 he stood up a couple of years ago the vaccine. 284 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.480 He refused to take the COVID shot. Yeah, yeah, and 285 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:51.639 they fired him. There were hundreds that refused. Anyway, He's 286 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:55.039 watching this whole thing, and I've talked to other former 287 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.039 lostians of fire department sources, and they say this is 288 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.120 a complete and utter lack of leadership, you know, at 289 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:05.440 the at the in the fire department, like at the 290 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.879 chief level, but above at at the mayor level, and 291 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.120 the budget cuts that you know, I have a document 292 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.240 that shows that the Mayor's office was asking for an 293 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.679 additional forty eight I believe it is forty eight point 294 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.440 eight million in budget cuts this year, which would ultimately 295 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:29.679 require them to close sixteen fire stations, entire fire stations. Obviously, 296 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.320 the fire department was pushing back on that, but that's 297 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.399 that's the state of things. And so their point is, 298 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.440 you can't run an effective fire you know, department this 299 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.159 big of a city with these these types of the 300 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:48.639 issues with under these tremendous budget cuts, when the focus 301 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:54.879 is on the priorities are on not on fire prevention, 302 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.559 Let's put it that way. I also obtained this morning 303 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:05.200 a new a letter from current and former fire chiefs. 304 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:07.960 I'm not going to phrase that right, but they're almost 305 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.279 at chief level like leadership, and it's addressed to Kristen 306 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:15.640 Crowley basically calling it out, calling her out. 307 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:16.920 I can read a quote. 308 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:21.079 It's so damning they're asking for her resignation. One of 309 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.480 the quotes is, there's no doubt among all of us 310 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.880 that if you had done things right and prepared the 311 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.880 Los Angeles Fire Department for an incident of this magnitude, 312 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.319 fatalities would have been reduced in property would have been saved. 313 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.359 All the preventative systems and mechanisms that we have put 314 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:37.799 it in place in the past where non existent at 315 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.160 the Palisades Fire. We attribute this to you and your 316 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.480 command staff, lack of experience, arrogance, inability to lead. I mean, 317 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.480 it's a damning a five phades letter as I've ever 318 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:50.359 read in my life, and. 319 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.759 It was a by who and so that's signed by 320 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:58.519 a former leadership at LAFDLA. 321 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:02.559 Los Angeles Fire Department chief officer's current and plump. Well, 322 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:06.920 this is like in Unison. It's five pages, it's out. 323 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.240 We have a story out Onnation with it right now. 324 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.640 See you can go to the News Nation and find it. 325 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:13.759 But it's. 326 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:20.799 It's really scathing, and it's an indictment of poor management 327 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:25.160 by they allege by the chief and by the mayor 328 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:26.160 as well. 329 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:28.839 Well. You know, one of our reporters at Fox eleven, 330 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.559 Gigi Grassiet. She's the one who got the exclusive interview 331 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:35.960 Friday with Crowley in which Crowley made the point that 332 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.039 you just made, and in Crowley's words that since nineteen 333 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:44.160 sixty one right to now, the fire department has fewer 334 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:49.000 fire stations despite a significant increase in the population. And 335 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.079 then of course she points to the budget cuts, and 336 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.200 that's when we heard her candidly, you know, sort of 337 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.400 go not sort of to go against the mayor and 338 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.599 the city. You also Rich spoke to you have an 339 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:05.519 exclusive interview with a Palisades residents who saw the actual 340 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:11.119 fire break out, and I believe a slow fire response. 341 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.359 Yeah, Michael Valentine, he lives at the top of the Palisades, 342 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.039 and I believe he was among the first people to 343 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.480 see this, and he and his wife were among the 344 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.839 first people to see this breakout. She was the first call. 345 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.400 I believe Los Angeles Fire Departments confirmed that the call 346 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:31.240 it in ten twenty nine was the first, and I 347 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.359 believe that's the one that she made. They saw the 348 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.440 smoke was localized up on the top of the ridge 349 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.920 by Skull Rock. I don't know if you know Skull Rock, 350 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.359 but it's up on the top of the ridge line there. 351 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.680 There was a fire there previously a week earlier in 352 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.839 a nearby spot, and Michael Valentine says the response on 353 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.559 New Year's Eve was overwhelming. There was they put it out, 354 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.200 you know, and so kind of loads him into a 355 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.920 sense of security where he thought, okay, well, here we 356 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.599 go again. He was documented documenting the fire in a 357 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.279 series of videos. He started, you know, videoing about four 358 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.440 five minutes after they called Non one ten thirty four, 359 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:12.000 ten thirty six, ten fifty. In some of the videos, 360 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:16.960 you see a chopper overhead at ten fifty scouting appears 361 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.519 to be scouting the fire, and then you see them 362 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.359 starting to fight the fire around. I believe it's like 363 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.720 right after eleven or eleven thirteen. Obviously it's not a 364 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.680 continuous video, so that we don't know if they were 365 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.839 fighting before that. But according to him, he says he 366 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:36.559 did not see any firefighters up there in that time 367 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:41.440 for a long time, and you couldn't see any other firefighters, 368 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.920 and it just seems to grow and grow, and by 369 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.720 the end of his videos it's it's metastasized into this 370 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.160 giant fires. He says he believes, having lived up there 371 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.519 and been a Palisades resident for forty years, that this 372 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.039 could have been contained. This wasn't a wind event. You know, 373 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:00.400 you no weatherman, but this wasn't a win event. 374 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:00.799 Yet. 375 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.279 It wasn't eighty milius at the top there it was. 376 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:06.519 It was it was windy that they could have he 377 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:07.880 believes they could have contained it. 378 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:09.720 In other words, there was there was a gap of 379 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.359 about forty to forty five minutes with the surveillane then 380 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:17.279 coming back and then doing any sort of drop. 381 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:20.799 Yes. Yes, And this is by keep in mind, this 382 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:25.640 is a former, uh prosecutor for the Department of Justice, 383 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:29.759 Like this is not somebody who is just just some 384 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.480 average resident, like this is somebody who knows, you know, 385 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.480 what they're talking about. And so for him to come 386 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:40.759 out and say this, he used the word negligent. I 387 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:45.400 think he used the word criminally negligent. So those are 388 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:47.799 some strong words, Yeah, they are. 389 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:51.160 And you brought up the New Year's Day fire in 390 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.240 the early morning hours and now as you know, that 391 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:56.519 is being investigated as a potential cause. 392 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.720 Yeah, and it's you know, two people who know, like 393 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.920 it's possible that that fires just thatt there in the 394 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.319 roots for a week in when the winds started kicking up. 395 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:11.799 That's what kicked it up. It's possible. But I'm also 396 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:14.880 hearing that they're investigating who else was up there. I 397 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:17.319 believe there were a bunch of kids that were up 398 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:20.079 there that were documented coming running down. So I know 399 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:23.200 that they're looking at all the security cameras. You can't 400 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.599 even get up there, you know, can't even access those trails. 401 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:26.160