Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 2: Today, of course Liberation Day.
Speaker 3: President Trump is expected to unveil some new tariffs today,
Speaker 3: but at this point still keeping everybody guessing in terms
Speaker 3: of what it is going to look like. He will
Speaker 3: unveil these measures today, flanked by members of the Cabinet
Speaker 3: in the Rose Garden at about one o'clock hour time,
Speaker 3: which is significantly comes after the stock markets close. He
Speaker 3: says that they the tariffs will stop America from being
Speaker 3: ripped off and will deliver a new golden age of
Speaker 3: US industry.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's former White House chief of staff, rolling on
Speaker 1: the former president.
Speaker 4: I mean this is just hurtful.
Speaker 1: I mean, you hire someone as your chief of staff
Speaker 1: and you would hope that in the waning years of
Speaker 1: your sinality is that the right word, nanility whatever, that
Speaker 1: would all be secret. You know that somebody wouldn't air
Speaker 1: that all out in the form of a book. But
Speaker 1: that's what happened. We'll get into those details coming up.
Speaker 1: But Michael Monks is here and I don't want to
Speaker 1: waste any more of his time. I've already wasted enough.
Speaker 2: I got an hour and a half with him.
Speaker 5: Really, No, I'm just saying that was an offline chat
Speaker 5: with Oh.
Speaker 4: I got excited. I was like, we've got Michael till I'm.
Speaker 2: Happy to hang out. I mean they're paying me either way.
Speaker 2: That's also a good point.
Speaker 5: And you talk too much about pee if I'm being honest,
Speaker 5: though I don't know.
Speaker 6: Oh, I thought we've only brought it up twice. Well,
Speaker 6: I brought it up a couple like I said, you
Speaker 6: did take questions last week. You asked about how hot
Speaker 6: is it? And I said, well, it's probably ninety eight
Speaker 6: point six.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask that just out of the blue. It
Speaker 1: was within a conversation about something topical, right, And you
Speaker 1: said that the pea was warm, and I thought it
Speaker 1: is And then I said, well, is that why it
Speaker 1: feels warm when you pee when you get out of
Speaker 1: a swimming pool? And you said, why are you feeling
Speaker 1: your pee?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've never known.
Speaker 2: Do you guys want to be alone?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay, it's better let me try this. There's company.
Speaker 5: If you've ever been in downtown Los Angeles, you know
Speaker 5: that it occasionally smells like urine because the volumes.
Speaker 1: Upon was peppered. Occupy remember that protest that swept the country.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh you just said data we're the age.
Speaker 1: Yeah we are, that's true. But anyway, so we're both old.
Speaker 1: Yes we are both very old. But I remember covering that,
Speaker 1: and they're just being gallon milk containers of urine, just
Speaker 1: willy nilly hanging out right out there.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you this. Say what you will about
Speaker 5: the politics of that. To be able to pee into
Speaker 5: a gallon jug, it's it's not easy.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: You've been on the road and you had to figure
Speaker 5: something out. It's not easy. And I've I've been successful
Speaker 5: and I've been unsuccessful.
Speaker 4: Not easy. You have like you have the equipment to.
Speaker 5: You're talking about, like you want to go likely you
Speaker 5: want to insert Well, you have to penetrate the milk carton.
Speaker 3: Wow, you you should be You are to language that,
Speaker 3: I will say, as you own this one.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see how it would be difficult for a
Speaker 1: man to pee into a milk carton, Like, how is
Speaker 1: that different?
Speaker 5: You have to keep the stream very steady, do you
Speaker 5: know those fair those county fair games with the water guns. Right,
Speaker 5: you have to keep it straight like that, and if
Speaker 5: you're in a moving vehicle, there's no margin for error.
Speaker 3: Your head yours about to explode. She's just closing her
Speaker 3: eyes and picturing it. And that's not a safe place
Speaker 3: to be. Speaking of downtown Urine, yes, you was trying.
Speaker 5: To transition up and made it worse, and I'm sorry you.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that the homelessness problem in downtown La is
Speaker 3: no giant surprise, and the county has finally decided I
Speaker 3: mean you no, We're moving on right. The county made
Speaker 3: a big decision yesterday in terms of setting up their
Speaker 3: own agency to deal with homelessness. I'm going to tell you,
Speaker 3: if you love homelessness in La County, yesterday was the
Speaker 3: biggest day of your life.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you love getting rid of it or
Speaker 4: you love it.
Speaker 5: Was a huge day for homeless news in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: We spent a lot of time talking about the homeless
Speaker 5: department at the County, but it was also the first
Speaker 5: day of the new sales tax that goes into effect
Speaker 5: to fund more homeless programure. Meanwhile, at the City Hall,
Speaker 5: while this homeless Department. Vote was happening at the county Council.
Speaker 5: Members said no to Karen Bass for a significant amount
Speaker 5: of money for her inside Safe program.
Speaker 4: Well because it's not being audited correctly.
Speaker 1: As we reported last week, that judge basically raked her
Speaker 1: over the coals and said, you're not even accounting for
Speaker 1: the millions of dollars that voters have already approved for
Speaker 1: you to spend on eradicating this problem. You're not telling
Speaker 1: us how you're spending it. Nothing has changed. What the
Speaker 1: hell are you doing?
Speaker 5: Essentially, bingo, And so I think yesterday, April first, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five will be significant in the history of whatever
Speaker 5: course correction we think we might be on in dealing
Speaker 5: with homelessness. The biggest thing, of course, in audition to
Speaker 5: the tax is this homeless department. That is a very
Speaker 5: big deal. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars,
Speaker 5: a new department that could have a budget of about
Speaker 5: a billion dollars as soon as it's set up on
Speaker 5: January first next year.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about who's involved with that, because
Speaker 1: there have been too many people involved in about can
Speaker 1: you hang on another segment?
Speaker 2: Are we going to talk about milk jugs.
Speaker 4: We are not going to talk about urine or aiming
Speaker 4: or genitals.
Speaker 5: I always feel like I have to go to confession
Speaker 5: after segments with you guys. Probably safe that way, that's
Speaker 5: probably not a bet.
Speaker 4: That's funny. I was just talking to one of my girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Her daughter has reconciliation today at school, and my girlfriend
Speaker 1: was saying.
Speaker 2: It's like this, that a Catholic thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Catholic thing.
Speaker 1: It's a step before communion where you go and you
Speaker 1: basically go to confession at like nine.
Speaker 4: Years old or so little.
Speaker 5: It's terrifying to confess and you're thinking of stuff like
Speaker 5: I hit my brother the other day. I mean it
Speaker 5: was a little you're lying to confess this sin.
Speaker 2: Well, can't you then confess at the end like everything
Speaker 2: I just told you.
Speaker 1: Well, what you should say to the priest is I'm
Speaker 1: nine and you're ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that would go over very well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will screw up in life and make bad decisions,
Speaker 1: but right now I'm pretty clean.
Speaker 3: Sir, our own reconciliation.
Speaker 2: When we come back.
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Speaker 3: Talk about just that issue, this idea of the millions
Speaker 3: of taxpayer moneies that will not now be going to LASA,
Speaker 3: the La Homeless Services Authority, but instead will be pushed
Speaker 3: at least the county version of it, will be pushed
Speaker 3: through a county new bureaucracy that's going to be set up.
Speaker 2: It's it.
Speaker 5: Don't call it a bureaucracy, sorry, Aunty Horrifat Supervisor Wharrivath
Speaker 5: will disagree with your characterization there that this is but well,
Speaker 5: she's wrong, But that's fine.
Speaker 1: I get some members of the La City Council who
Speaker 1: said the same thing. This can be interesting to watch
Speaker 1: she is. She has caused some fights with some people.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think for a good cause to
Speaker 1: change the way the status quo is.
Speaker 5: That was her remark. The status quo is not acceptable
Speaker 5: any longer. And this comes after those two terrible audits,
Speaker 5: one last year one just last month that showed a
Speaker 5: lot of misaccounting. Again no allegations officially of fraud or
Speaker 5: any criminal activity, but just basic accounting problems for a
Speaker 5: significant sum of money, billions of dollars, Like where did
Speaker 5: this money go, how was it used? What were the
Speaker 5: expectations from the third party providers.
Speaker 2: And what's better.
Speaker 3: I mean, as a taxpayer who wants to see our
Speaker 3: money go somewhere, what's better the idea that someone knew
Speaker 3: where it was and then took it, or someone who
Speaker 3: has no flip and clue where the money's disappearing to.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: And I think with the government, if somebody steals, eventually
Speaker 5: we catch up to them, and there is a paper
Speaker 5: trail that has to be followed a little more closely
Speaker 5: than a quasi government agency like the LA Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 5: Wish will be in some very strange space this time
Speaker 5: next year, because we're talking one hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 5: The county typically gives to LASA that it will no
Speaker 5: longer give as of July next year, and that is
Speaker 5: because they're going to keep it in house and they
Speaker 5: will be doing a lot of these homeless services themselves.
Speaker 5: Now there will be familiar faces, a lot of people
Speaker 5: who currently work for LASA will work for the new.
Speaker 2: Department because well, that's where the money is. Our money
Speaker 2: will be.
Speaker 5: So Lindsay Horrbat, the supervisor, said, you know, we're not
Speaker 5: doing this as any type of criticism of the workers
Speaker 5: sort of the rank and file employees. We know how
Speaker 5: hard you're working out there, and I read that as
Speaker 5: you're going to have an opportunity in this new county department.
Speaker 5: Five members of the La City Council showed up at
Speaker 5: the supervisors meeting yesterday begging to keep the relationship together,
Speaker 5: and we're pretty much shot down. They only got there
Speaker 5: one minute to speak and that was it.
Speaker 3: Listen, you've had an opportunity now, with the time that
Speaker 3: you've been here in La to talk about or to
Speaker 3: hear these conversations, whether it's at the city level, county level,
Speaker 3: maybe some even state people that get involved. Is the
Speaker 3: is the feeling, let's take those five city council members
Speaker 3: as an example, is the feeling that they just need
Speaker 3: a tiny bit more money to get over the top
Speaker 3: and reverse this trend of homelessness that's growing in southern California.
Speaker 4: Did ye Did they.
Speaker 1: Think it's money or did they have self awareness and
Speaker 1: realize it is just eferry with all the bureaucracy and
Speaker 1: the too many people having us say in what should
Speaker 1: be done.
Speaker 5: Councilwoman Nythia Rahman, who chairs the city Council's Homeless Committee,
Speaker 5: spoke at the supervisor's meeting yesterday kind of rudely. Actually,
Speaker 5: she wouldn't stop talking when they told her her minute
Speaker 5: was up, and she kind of demanded three minutes and
Speaker 5: kept plowing through her remarks ninety five minutes later. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was a long conversation with that. It's a woman,
Speaker 5: and she basically said, you know, we are making progress.
Speaker 5: Lass has been very forthcoming with data that she's been requesting,
Speaker 5: and she says that data has been very useful at
Speaker 5: the city level in this relationship. We're starting to see
Speaker 5: the numbers trickle down a little bit. Whereas Supervisor Horrorvath
Speaker 5: and four out of five members of the supervisors say, look,
Speaker 5: we have to do something significant right now because of
Speaker 5: just we need more oversight on these billions of dollars.
Speaker 5: There's no time to waste. The city will be on
Speaker 5: its own in a lot of ways. I mean, they
Speaker 5: don't spend as much on LASA as the county does,
Speaker 5: but if it's just LA and LASA, it will be
Speaker 5: curious how they're able to stand up on their own.
Speaker 1: The fact that there's not a protocol in place for
Speaker 1: accounting of money that the voters hand over to you
Speaker 1: at a level like Los Angeles is insane to me.
Speaker 1: I mean we've all did student government. You remember taking in,
Speaker 1: you know, seventy six dollars for the school dance or whatever,
Speaker 1: and how to spend that on bunting and markers and
Speaker 1: poster board, you know, I mean, like everything was itemized.
Speaker 1: The fact that that's not done with the billions of
Speaker 1: dollars that we have okayed for the city to spend
Speaker 1: to eradicate homelessness, where they're just like we don't know them.
Speaker 1: In fact, let's hire audit firms to come in and
Speaker 1: tell us that we haven't kept track of This is insane.
Speaker 5: If I order a supply, a generic supply for the
Speaker 5: job I do here on the company account, I'm getting
Speaker 5: an email about it, you know, like I have to
Speaker 5: put in receipts. You have to know exactly what it is.
Speaker 5: And this is a company that is far larger than
Speaker 5: LASA is now to have something as significant as two billion,
Speaker 5: two point three billion dollars with questions lingering about. And
Speaker 5: the worst part of that isn't just how much money
Speaker 5: we're spending and seeing very slow results, if any, depending
Speaker 5: on who you ask, it's that there are third party
Speaker 5: providers out there that are getting this money, and there
Speaker 5: were no expectations set. So if you got a check
Speaker 5: to say, I, with this money, my organization is going
Speaker 5: to put ten people into temporary housing, and then we're
Speaker 5: going to put them into school, and then after this
Speaker 5: much time, they're going to be back in the workforce.
Speaker 5: Though that's a set of expectations, the accounting the audits
Speaker 5: found that in many many cases those expectations, we didn't
Speaker 5: even know what we were supposed to get for these things.
Speaker 3: God I also want to point out, because I saw
Speaker 3: this this morning, that this is not necessarily a streamlining
Speaker 3: of the homelessness mechanism that exists in local government. Because
Speaker 3: they're talking about seven hundred county workers, seven hundred that
Speaker 3: will be transferred to this new agency by the beginning
Speaker 3: of the year, and then hundreds of the employees from
Speaker 3: LASA will also be as part of this thing. So
Speaker 3: you're talking well over one thousand and maybe fifteen hundred
Speaker 3: employees as part of this plan. That to me seems
Speaker 3: like it's you're just repeating the same mistakes of making
Speaker 3: something that's too large. It's going to have a budget
Speaker 3: when it starts of about a billion dollars and that's
Speaker 3: similar to what LASA has now in terms of scope,
Speaker 3: budget and number of players that are involved. But that's
Speaker 3: how significant the homeless population is in LA is what
Speaker 3: you would hear from these elected officials, these governing boards
Speaker 3: is that we got seventy five thousand people living homeless
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles County. More than half of those people
Speaker 3: live in LA City proper, this requires a massive response,
Speaker 3: and we got to get a better handle on the money.
Speaker 3: So you could give each person on the street. It
Speaker 3: wouldn't ever work this way, but you could give them
Speaker 3: a check for fifteen thousand dollars apiece and have spend
Speaker 3: less money than what they're.
Speaker 4: Talking about all the bad decisions you could mane.
Speaker 3: No, I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that's why that's not an option.
Speaker 5: But I'll just tell you as an observer, as somebody
Speaker 5: who lives in you know, I live skidrow adjacent basically
Speaker 5: in the Fashion district, And I say.
Speaker 2: Listen, if you need a place to stay, you can
Speaker 2: always ask. I mean, it's do you live in a
Speaker 2: nicer neighborhood than I do? Well, there's less urine. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say there's no urine, but.
Speaker 5: There's less I'll just say this because I know we
Speaker 5: got a run, but I will say that you hear
Speaker 5: a lot about the cost of housing and how people
Speaker 5: are just a rent payment away from being on the streets.
Speaker 5: It's just not the type of homeless person that you see, right,
Speaker 5: So if you gave them fifteen thousand dollars, I mean,
Speaker 5: so it's going to be more than keeping track of
Speaker 5: the money. We need to hear more about the strategy
Speaker 5: and how you're going to deal with these drug addicted,
Speaker 5: psychotic folks who are down in the city.
Speaker 4: You have to treat the addiction.
Speaker 2: Excellent point.
Speaker 4: You have to make them want to treat their dick.
Speaker 1: It's so complicated and it's definitely not solvable by money.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, always a.
Speaker 2: Pleasure, you know, unless you're you're done with me? Are
Speaker 2: we done? Because I think I'm in trouble because of
Speaker 2: you all. Now I got to go.
Speaker 4: You're not into trouble. If you're in trouble, we're five.
Speaker 2: We'll write you a note. She'll write your note.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll get you. Have a note in one hand.
Speaker 2: Thank you as all you guys. Yous.
Speaker 4: Gary.
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Speaker 4: What are they?
Speaker 1: Are you going to ruin it for me? Should I
Speaker 1: look it up independently? Are you going to pooh pooh it?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna miss the milk gallon jug here?
Speaker 2: Okay? They even named the other one.
Speaker 4: The dead one? Yeah, oh that's morbid.
Speaker 3: The names of the Egltza again, children, Yes, I think
Speaker 3: they had something like forty five thousand people choose to
Speaker 3: vote or something like that. Okay, they'll officially be known
Speaker 3: as Sonny and Gizmo.
Speaker 2: The one that didn't make it through the snowstorm they
Speaker 2: named Misty.
Speaker 4: Why they Misty for me?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the pictures of them lately? They're are
Speaker 3: like you said, they're as big as chickens. Now, these
Speaker 3: egltz not Misty. They have really awkwardly large feet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're not pretty. They are not a pretty creature.
Speaker 1: Sometimes what adolescence, you know, it can be weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can be very weird. You're all limbs and it's
Speaker 1: just a situation. But naming the dead one is weird.
Speaker 1: I guess they started the contest before the thing died.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I was thinking about you wanting to
Speaker 4: not be called Gary.
Speaker 3: I didn't say I never Well there was a time,
Speaker 3: right I was six, Yeah, and you wanted to be
Speaker 3: called the fawns.
Speaker 2: No, just fons Fonsie.
Speaker 4: Okay, you just got very particular and demonstrative.
Speaker 3: I was very clear with my parents that that's the
Speaker 3: name I preferred, and they didn't do anything, uh to
Speaker 3: give into that. They never once referred to me as Fhonsie.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking when I was thinking about this,
Speaker 1: because in my book there is a character named Gary,
Speaker 1: and they do a whole thing about his name being Gary.
Speaker 1: If I went through this whole thought process, this thought exercise,
Speaker 1: should I call you Phonsie from time to time?
Speaker 4: Like would that be a nice thing as a friend
Speaker 4: to do?
Speaker 2: No? If I was six, yes, I would have greatly
Speaker 2: appreciated that.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, so id just like my my thought, what
Speaker 1: I landed on is I'll just pepper it in from
Speaker 1: time to time I called this you know, Oh that
Speaker 1: was funny fons or Fonzie. Excuse me, yeah, oh that
Speaker 1: was funny Fonzie and just kind of slide it in.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you something about that. I found out
Speaker 3: about names today. Yeah, the Social Security Administration for some
Speaker 3: reason has a group or has an arm of its
Speaker 3: agency that keeps track of names, right, And they because
Speaker 3: we've talked about Gary being not a very popular name.
Speaker 3: So in the year nineteen ninety five, they said there
Speaker 3: was about sixteen hundred boys in America named Gary.
Speaker 2: Sixteen hundred.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's not money.
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety five, they were about forty seven hundred
Speaker 3: girls named Shannon born. These are the babies that are
Speaker 3: born in these names, forty seven hundred to sixteen hundred.
Speaker 3: You clearly by three times, three times fool. That changed
Speaker 3: in the year two thousand and seven, where there were
Speaker 3: more Gary's than there were Shannon's, And as of right
Speaker 3: now it's gone way way down for both names. But
Speaker 3: they said that this is crazy to me. In the
Speaker 3: year twenty twenty three, there were only ninety six girl
Speaker 3: babies named Shannon. Wow, and there were two hundred boy
Speaker 3: babies named Gary.
Speaker 4: I might as well be Beatrice.
Speaker 3: You might as well a dolorous Ruth, Ruth or something like.
Speaker 4: That, something of that nature.
Speaker 2: My god, you don't get a lot of ash.
Speaker 4: Yes, I had no idea my name was so antiquated.
Speaker 2: I didn't either call me esther lean into that age girl.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Beatrice kind of felt good. Lean into that age old girl.
Speaker 2: I didn't say old girl.
Speaker 8: That's what I heard, It's not what I said. I
Speaker 8: have some info on the eglet. So Jinny Harmon, who
Speaker 8: does traffic for us, is like Amy King. She's obsessed,
Speaker 8: I mean ridiculously obsessed.
Speaker 4: She says.
Speaker 8: The one that was named Misty is after a volunteer
Speaker 8: who has passed away.
Speaker 4: With Oh, oh my god, that got worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesus, thanks for bringing us down.
Speaker 8: Oh I'm sorry, but you know, I just you know,
Speaker 8: I'm passing along.
Speaker 4: One dead Misty wasn't enough. We got to have two.
Speaker 4: Good Lord, all right, let's live in this up.
Speaker 1: I've got squirrel stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we actually do have squirrels.
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Speaker 2: Actor Val Kilmer died at the age of sixty five. Hey,
Speaker 2: good morning, guys.
Speaker 7: Uh sad about Val Kilmer, But man, wasn't he is
Speaker 7: Doc Holiday one of the best freaking roles.
Speaker 2: Ever done in that movie ever? Oh man, it's the best.
Speaker 3: It is absolute have been gun doing nothing but a
Speaker 3: skinny long longer they had.
Speaker 5: What an ugly thing to say for friends?
Speaker 2: Or ugliness? Does this mean we're not friends anymore? If
Speaker 2: I thought you were my friend, I just don't think
Speaker 2: I couldn't bear it, don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played that so well it was kind
Speaker 1: of laughable. Some of his other roles and what seemed
Speaker 1: to be wasted talent, although it was never wasted. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was brilliant as Iceman. I just my god.
Speaker 3: He was in The Jackal Is that the right the
Speaker 3: movie that I'm thinking of where he played.
Speaker 4: There's been so many Jackals.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: It was the day of it.
Speaker 1: But God and Tombstone holds up. I watch it like
Speaker 1: once a year. It's a great, great movie.
Speaker 3: There's one where he played a agent who was undercover
Speaker 3: all the time. It was very good as well. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Bell come er dead at the age of sixty five.
Speaker 4: Squirrels.
Speaker 3: Squirrels kid named Derek Downey when he was a little boys,
Speaker 3: grade school teacher gave him the class hermit Crab at
Speaker 3: the end of the school year because he spent so
Speaker 3: much time mesmerized by the hermit crab.
Speaker 4: What's the shelf life of a hermit crab. How long
Speaker 4: they last?
Speaker 3: Idea, Yeah, they could probably think pretty bad though. When
Speaker 3: he's older, he moves here to La to pursue acting
Speaker 3: start making comedy sketches online. But he said it was
Speaker 3: his friendship with the neighborhood squirrels that resonated with his
Speaker 3: audience online and skyrocketed him to an overnight sensation.
Speaker 4: He's thirty three.
Speaker 1: He is the self proclaimed squirrel whisperer. He shares his
Speaker 1: daily interactions with a cast of squirrels. Squirrels, by the way,
Speaker 1: are very interactive. I've got a squirrel. I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of squirrels that live nearby me and try to
Speaker 1: interact all the time, all the time. Are you they're social?
Speaker 1: I know you don't like this one. There's one down
Speaker 1: here that's near the entrance.
Speaker 4: I just find them to.
Speaker 1: Be a little presumptuous, like they think we're just going
Speaker 1: to be best friends and hang out all the time,
Speaker 1: and they can just you know, they're kind of like
Speaker 1: cats in that way where they're going to do what
Speaker 1: they want to do and you're damned, you be damned.
Speaker 4: Squirrels are like that. Yeah, you know, anyway, He's.
Speaker 1: Named his squirrel friends hood Rat, Raymond, Consuela, Raggedy Rufus,
Speaker 1: tore up, Terry, nibble it. But it all started with
Speaker 1: Richard and Maxine, who are the most popular and make
Speaker 1: the most appearances on his social media pages, to which
Speaker 1: I say, it's it's It's probably tricky to keep squirrels separated.
Speaker 1: It's like having a set of twins at home. You know,
Speaker 1: like which ones which and I guess. If they're your twins,
Speaker 1: you can tell the difference. If they're your squirrels, you
Speaker 1: can tell the difference.
Speaker 3: Generally, there's often size differences between the males and female.
Speaker 4: That's true, like the dead eaglet and the other ones.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's that misty.
Speaker 3: He actually wrote a book, a self published children's book
Speaker 3: called Hand and Paul Maxine's Tale of Compassion. He just
Speaker 3: released it just about a year ago, story based on
Speaker 3: the time that he unknowingly rescued Maxine's babies when a
Speaker 3: landscaper had cut down his neighbor's tree. He said it
Speaker 3: was very intentional on how Maxine and I looked in
Speaker 3: the book and showing that it's okay to show compassion
Speaker 3: to animals. I wanted to give my audience something tangible
Speaker 3: that they could actually hold aside from viewing content online.
Speaker 4: He built a house for his squirrels.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's a good little project.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I've told you about maybe building a barn
Speaker 1: for what.
Speaker 4: What are you going to build a barn for? You
Speaker 4: should build a barn for?
Speaker 2: Again, for what? What am I going to build a barn?
Speaker 1: Would be cool to have a barn in the backyard. No,
Speaker 1: you could build a little one for the squirrels.
Speaker 3: That I could do. Yeah, there's a little corner of
Speaker 3: the yard where we took a tree out that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: looking for some looking for some love in some way,
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe there is a squirrel barn in my future.
Speaker 1: You get yourself down to the depot, maybe get a
Speaker 1: little red paint. Maybe you paint that that barn red
Speaker 1: a white trim.
Speaker 3: Were you really going out on a limb there with
Speaker 3: the creative choices? Well, you want it to look classic, right,
Speaker 3: I wanted to make it look like it's a from
Speaker 3: something in Yellowstone. Yeah, he says. They the squirrels all
Speaker 3: impacted my life in a way that I didn't expect.
Speaker 3: They brought me joy and allowed my childlike creativity to
Speaker 3: just expand. That first video brought me out of the
Speaker 3: dark space that I was in and gave me hope
Speaker 3: to move through it.
Speaker 4: You know what, good for him?
Speaker 1: If squirrels cured your depression, then I'll then go for it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they cured it, but they made
Speaker 2: it go away.
Speaker 4: He sets up the house, he feeds some nuts and things.
Speaker 1: I would assume, right, but what happens if this guy
Speaker 1: is my thing is not to feed wild animals because
Speaker 1: then they stop feeding themselves, right well, I although I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't adhere to that when it comes to feeding birds.
Speaker 3: I led with the story about the hermit crab, and
Speaker 3: I would ask that same question about squirrels.
Speaker 2: What's what's the what's the shelf life on a squirrel?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like, let's find out that's going to
Speaker 3: be one of those things that could plunge him back
Speaker 3: into a dark space.
Speaker 1: If oh, they live a long time twelve years in
Speaker 1: the wild though never money years in captivity.
Speaker 2: Never mind, that's that's like a normal pet.
Speaker 4: Well that squirrel downstairs was there for years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not worried. In Good for him,
Speaker 3: he's going to have friends for a Lord.
Speaker 1: So they get comfortable. That's the thing. It's like a cat.
Speaker 1: They get comfortable, like we're going to be here a while.
Speaker 1: We're going to live how we want to live.
Speaker 2: We will do our swamp watch stories. We come back.
Speaker 3: Also the big one with Justin Warsham coming up at
Speaker 3: the bottom of next hour at eleven thirty. Your kid
Speaker 3: is somebody who's not allowed to date. What kind of
Speaker 3: responsibility do you have to tell their parents that they're
Speaker 3: seeing your kid?
Speaker 4: Do you have to tell them?
Speaker 2: Do you?
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