WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.280 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.279 Today, of course Liberation Day. 5 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.720 President Trump is expected to unveil some new tariffs today, 6 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:15.919 but at this point still keeping everybody guessing in terms 7 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.079 of what it is going to look like. He will 8 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.519 unveil these measures today, flanked by members of the Cabinet 9 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:24.960 in the Rose Garden at about one o'clock hour time, 10 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:29.359 which is significantly comes after the stock markets close. He 11 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:32.799 says that they the tariffs will stop America from being 12 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.159 ripped off and will deliver a new golden age of 13 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:37.359 US industry. 14 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:38.039 Wow. 15 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.359 Joe Biden's former White House chief of staff, rolling on 16 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:42.399 the former president. 17 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.920 I mean this is just hurtful. 18 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.159 I mean, you hire someone as your chief of staff 19 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.079 and you would hope that in the waning years of 20 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.560 your sinality is that the right word, nanility whatever, that 21 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.719 would all be secret. You know that somebody wouldn't air 22 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:00.679 that all out in the form of a book. But 23 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.119 that's what happened. We'll get into those details coming up. 24 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:04.959 But Michael Monks is here and I don't want to 25 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.319 waste any more of his time. I've already wasted enough. 26 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:09.719 I got an hour and a half with him. 27 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.239 Really, No, I'm just saying that was an offline chat 28 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:14.480 with Oh. 29 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.120 I got excited. I was like, we've got Michael till I'm. 30 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.079 Happy to hang out. I mean they're paying me either way. 31 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:21.200 That's also a good point. 32 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.560 And you talk too much about pee if I'm being honest, 33 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:24.280 though I don't know. 34 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.719 Oh, I thought we've only brought it up twice. Well, 35 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:29.200 I brought it up a couple like I said, you 36 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.799 did take questions last week. You asked about how hot 37 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.359 is it? And I said, well, it's probably ninety eight 38 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:36.000 point six. 39 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.599 I didn't ask that just out of the blue. It 40 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.319 was within a conversation about something topical, right, And you 41 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.560 said that the pea was warm, and I thought it 42 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:49.840 is And then I said, well, is that why it 43 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.680 feels warm when you pee when you get out of 44 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.439 a swimming pool? And you said, why are you feeling 45 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.040 your pee? 46 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.640 Yeah, you've never known. 47 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.120 Do you guys want to be alone? 48 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:01.640 No? 49 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.439 No, okay, it's better let me try this. There's company. 50 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.319 If you've ever been in downtown Los Angeles, you know 51 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.960 that it occasionally smells like urine because the volumes. 52 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:13.680 Upon was peppered. Occupy remember that protest that swept the country. 53 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.080 Oh yeah, it was like fifteen years ago. 54 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.280 Yeah, oh you just said data we're the age. 55 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.159 Yeah we are, that's true. But anyway, so we're both old. 56 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.879 Yes we are both very old. But I remember covering that, 57 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:32.360 and they're just being gallon milk containers of urine, just 58 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.879 willy nilly hanging out right out there. 59 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:36.680 Let me tell you this. Say what you will about 60 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.000 the politics of that. To be able to pee into 61 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.080 a gallon jug, it's it's not easy. 62 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:41.400 I don't know. 63 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.120 You've been on the road and you had to figure 64 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.800 something out. It's not easy. And I've I've been successful 65 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:46.719 and I've been unsuccessful. 66 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.599 Not easy. You have like you have the equipment to. 67 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.680 You're talking about, like you want to go likely you 68 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:56.960 want to insert Well, you have to penetrate the milk carton. 69 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:02.439 Wow, you you should be You are to language that, 70 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.280 I will say, as you own this one. 71 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:05.479 I don't. 72 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.000 I don't see how it would be difficult for a 73 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.960 man to pee into a milk carton, Like, how is 74 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:12.439 that different? 75 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.360 You have to keep the stream very steady, do you 76 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.919 know those fair those county fair games with the water guns. Right, 77 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.039 you have to keep it straight like that, and if 78 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.599 you're in a moving vehicle, there's no margin for error. 79 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.800 Your head yours about to explode. She's just closing her 80 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.879 eyes and picturing it. And that's not a safe place 81 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.960 to be. Speaking of downtown Urine, yes, you was trying. 82 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:39.039 To transition up and made it worse, and I'm sorry you. 83 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.680 You mentioned that the homelessness problem in downtown La is 84 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:47.080 no giant surprise, and the county has finally decided I 85 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:54.000 mean you no, We're moving on right. The county made 86 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.800 a big decision yesterday in terms of setting up their 87 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.960 own agency to deal with homelessness. I'm going to tell you, 88 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.560 if you love homelessness in La County, yesterday was the 89 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:04.680 biggest day of your life. 90 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:07.879 I mean, if you love getting rid of it or 91 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:08.719 you love it. 92 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.000 Was a huge day for homeless news in Los Angeles. 93 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.240 We spent a lot of time talking about the homeless 94 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.639 department at the County, but it was also the first 95 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:18.600 day of the new sales tax that goes into effect 96 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:22.120 to fund more homeless programure. Meanwhile, at the City Hall, 97 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:26.439 while this homeless Department. Vote was happening at the county Council. 98 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.519 Members said no to Karen Bass for a significant amount 99 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.800 of money for her inside Safe program. 100 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.079 Well because it's not being audited correctly. 101 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.560 As we reported last week, that judge basically raked her 102 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.600 over the coals and said, you're not even accounting for 103 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.879 the millions of dollars that voters have already approved for 104 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:46.360 you to spend on eradicating this problem. You're not telling 105 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.040 us how you're spending it. Nothing has changed. What the 106 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:49.879 hell are you doing? 107 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.480 Essentially, bingo, And so I think yesterday, April first, twenty 108 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.199 twenty five will be significant in the history of whatever 109 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.199 course correction we think we might be on in dealing 110 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.399 with homelessness. The biggest thing, of course, in audition to 111 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.399 the tax is this homeless department. That is a very 112 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.879 big deal. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, 113 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.279 a new department that could have a budget of about 114 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.720 a billion dollars as soon as it's set up on 115 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:13.600 January first next year. 116 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.920 I want to talk about who's involved with that, because 117 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.079 there have been too many people involved in about can 118 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:20.279 you hang on another segment? 119 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.639 Are we going to talk about milk jugs. 120 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.199 We are not going to talk about urine or aiming 121 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:26.319 or genitals. 122 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.319 I always feel like I have to go to confession 123 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.279 after segments with you guys. Probably safe that way, that's 124 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.079 probably not a bet. 125 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.040 That's funny. I was just talking to one of my girlfriends. 126 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.120 Her daughter has reconciliation today at school, and my girlfriend 127 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:38.839 was saying. 128 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:40.519 It's like this, that a Catholic thing. 129 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:41.439 Yeah, it's a Catholic thing. 130 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:43.360 It's a step before communion where you go and you 131 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.720 basically go to confession at like nine. 132 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:46.759 Years old or so little. 133 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.160 It's terrifying to confess and you're thinking of stuff like 134 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.040 I hit my brother the other day. I mean it 135 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.480 was a little you're lying to confess this sin. 136 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.240 Well, can't you then confess at the end like everything 137 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:00.720 I just told you. 138 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.480 Well, what you should say to the priest is I'm 139 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.319 nine and you're ridiculous. 140 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.519 I'm sure that would go over very well. Yeah. 141 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.079 I will screw up in life and make bad decisions, 142 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.160 but right now I'm pretty clean. 143 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.000 Sir, our own reconciliation. 144 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:15.879 When we come back. 145 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.480 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 146 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.959 AM six forty to. 147 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.319 Talk about just that issue, this idea of the millions 148 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.519 of taxpayer moneies that will not now be going to LASA, 149 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:34.120 the La Homeless Services Authority, but instead will be pushed 150 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:35.959 at least the county version of it, will be pushed 151 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.600 through a county new bureaucracy that's going to be set up. 152 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:40.000 It's it. 153 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.920 Don't call it a bureaucracy, sorry, Aunty Horrifat Supervisor Wharrivath 154 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.839 will disagree with your characterization there that this is but well, 155 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.079 she's wrong, But that's fine. 156 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.120 I get some members of the La City Council who 157 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.079 said the same thing. This can be interesting to watch 158 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:56.040 she is. She has caused some fights with some people. 159 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.279 I mean, and I think for a good cause to 160 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.680 change the way the status quo is. 161 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.680 That was her remark. The status quo is not acceptable 162 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.680 any longer. And this comes after those two terrible audits, 163 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.240 one last year one just last month that showed a 164 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.959 lot of misaccounting. Again no allegations officially of fraud or 165 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.879 any criminal activity, but just basic accounting problems for a 166 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:22.959 significant sum of money, billions of dollars, Like where did 167 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.920 this money go, how was it used? What were the 168 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.120 expectations from the third party providers. 169 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.040 And what's better. 170 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.680 I mean, as a taxpayer who wants to see our 171 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:36.560 money go somewhere, what's better the idea that someone knew 172 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.319 where it was and then took it, or someone who 173 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.240 has no flip and clue where the money's disappearing to. 174 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:42.839 That's right. 175 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.680 And I think with the government, if somebody steals, eventually 176 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.120 we catch up to them, and there is a paper 177 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.279 trail that has to be followed a little more closely 178 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.720 than a quasi government agency like the LA Homeless Services Authority. 179 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:58.639 Wish will be in some very strange space this time 180 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.680 next year, because we're talking one hundreds of millions of dollars. 181 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.600 The county typically gives to LASA that it will no 182 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:07.639 longer give as of July next year, and that is 183 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.439 because they're going to keep it in house and they 184 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:12.360 will be doing a lot of these homeless services themselves. 185 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.160 Now there will be familiar faces, a lot of people 186 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.959 who currently work for LASA will work for the new. 187 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.839 Department because well, that's where the money is. Our money 188 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:21.160 will be. 189 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.319 So Lindsay Horrbat, the supervisor, said, you know, we're not 190 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.240 doing this as any type of criticism of the workers 191 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.199 sort of the rank and file employees. We know how 192 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.960 hard you're working out there, and I read that as 193 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.919 you're going to have an opportunity in this new county department. 194 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.360 Five members of the La City Council showed up at 195 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.840 the supervisors meeting yesterday begging to keep the relationship together, 196 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.799 and we're pretty much shot down. They only got there 197 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:48.639 one minute to speak and that was it. 198 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:50.960 Listen, you've had an opportunity now, with the time that 199 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.639 you've been here in La to talk about or to 200 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.480 hear these conversations, whether it's at the city level, county level, 201 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.840 maybe some even state people that get involved. Is the 202 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.679 is the feeling, let's take those five city council members 203 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.120 as an example, is the feeling that they just need 204 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.559 a tiny bit more money to get over the top 205 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.080 and reverse this trend of homelessness that's growing in southern California. 206 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.120 Did ye Did they. 207 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.200 Think it's money or did they have self awareness and 208 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:25.320 realize it is just eferry with all the bureaucracy and 209 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.799 the too many people having us say in what should 210 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:29.240 be done. 211 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:33.919 Councilwoman Nythia Rahman, who chairs the city Council's Homeless Committee, 212 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.639 spoke at the supervisor's meeting yesterday kind of rudely. Actually, 213 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.519 she wouldn't stop talking when they told her her minute 214 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.559 was up, and she kind of demanded three minutes and 215 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.960 kept plowing through her remarks ninety five minutes later. Yeah, 216 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.720 it was a long conversation with that. It's a woman, 217 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.559 and she basically said, you know, we are making progress. 218 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.279 Lass has been very forthcoming with data that she's been requesting, 219 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.440 and she says that data has been very useful at 220 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.000 the city level in this relationship. We're starting to see 221 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.519 the numbers trickle down a little bit. Whereas Supervisor Horrorvath 222 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.519 and four out of five members of the supervisors say, look, 223 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.919 we have to do something significant right now because of 224 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.879 just we need more oversight on these billions of dollars. 225 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.759 There's no time to waste. The city will be on 226 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:21.759 its own in a lot of ways. I mean, they 227 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.320 don't spend as much on LASA as the county does, 228 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.799 but if it's just LA and LASA, it will be 229 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.039 curious how they're able to stand up on their own. 230 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.799 The fact that there's not a protocol in place for 231 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:39.879 accounting of money that the voters hand over to you 232 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.759 at a level like Los Angeles is insane to me. 233 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.159 I mean we've all did student government. You remember taking in, 234 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:51.559 you know, seventy six dollars for the school dance or whatever, 235 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.960 and how to spend that on bunting and markers and 236 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.399 poster board, you know, I mean, like everything was itemized. 237 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.879 The fact that that's not done with the billions of 238 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.720 dollars that we have okayed for the city to spend 239 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.279 to eradicate homelessness, where they're just like we don't know them. 240 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.000 In fact, let's hire audit firms to come in and 241 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.120 tell us that we haven't kept track of This is insane. 242 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:15.480 If I order a supply, a generic supply for the 243 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.600 job I do here on the company account, I'm getting 244 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.279 an email about it, you know, like I have to 245 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.519 put in receipts. You have to know exactly what it is. 246 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.240 And this is a company that is far larger than 247 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.559 LASA is now to have something as significant as two billion, 248 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.360 two point three billion dollars with questions lingering about. And 249 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.039 the worst part of that isn't just how much money 250 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.919 we're spending and seeing very slow results, if any, depending 251 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:42.440 on who you ask, it's that there are third party 252 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.559 providers out there that are getting this money, and there 253 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.200 were no expectations set. So if you got a check 254 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.960 to say, I, with this money, my organization is going 255 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.080 to put ten people into temporary housing, and then we're 256 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.399 going to put them into school, and then after this 257 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.080 much time, they're going to be back in the workforce. 258 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.480 Though that's a set of expectations, the accounting the audits 259 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.360 found that in many many cases those expectations, we didn't 260 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:08.480 even know what we were supposed to get for these things. 261 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.120 God I also want to point out, because I saw 262 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:14.480 this this morning, that this is not necessarily a streamlining 263 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:19.519 of the homelessness mechanism that exists in local government. Because 264 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:24.320 they're talking about seven hundred county workers, seven hundred that 265 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.799 will be transferred to this new agency by the beginning 266 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.919 of the year, and then hundreds of the employees from 267 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.399 LASA will also be as part of this thing. So 268 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:38.039 you're talking well over one thousand and maybe fifteen hundred 269 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.440 employees as part of this plan. That to me seems 270 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.240 like it's you're just repeating the same mistakes of making 271 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.879 something that's too large. It's going to have a budget 272 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.440 when it starts of about a billion dollars and that's 273 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.440 similar to what LASA has now in terms of scope, 274 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.600 budget and number of players that are involved. But that's 275 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.679 how significant the homeless population is in LA is what 276 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.919 you would hear from these elected officials, these governing boards 277 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.799 is that we got seventy five thousand people living homeless 278 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.039 in Los Angeles County. More than half of those people 279 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.519 live in LA City proper, this requires a massive response, 280 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:18.480 and we got to get a better handle on the money. 281 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.480 So you could give each person on the street. It 282 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.759 wouldn't ever work this way, but you could give them 283 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:26.919 a check for fifteen thousand dollars apiece and have spend 284 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.440 less money than what they're. 285 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.639 Talking about all the bad decisions you could mane. 286 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:31.440 No, I know that. 287 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.279 I know that's why that's not an option. 288 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.480 But I'll just tell you as an observer, as somebody 289 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.519 who lives in you know, I live skidrow adjacent basically 290 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:40.840 in the Fashion district, And I say. 291 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.279 Listen, if you need a place to stay, you can 292 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.519 always ask. I mean, it's do you live in a 293 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.159 nicer neighborhood than I do? Well, there's less urine. I 294 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.759 wouldn't say there's no urine, but. 295 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:50.720 There's less I'll just say this because I know we 296 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.559 got a run, but I will say that you hear 297 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:55.720 a lot about the cost of housing and how people 298 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:57.879 are just a rent payment away from being on the streets. 299 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.360 It's just not the type of homeless person that you see, right, 300 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.600 So if you gave them fifteen thousand dollars, I mean, 301 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:04.919 so it's going to be more than keeping track of 302 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.720 the money. We need to hear more about the strategy 303 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:08.519 and how you're going to deal with these drug addicted, 304 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:11.080 psychotic folks who are down in the city. 305 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:12.440 You have to treat the addiction. 306 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:13.279 Excellent point. 307 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.279 You have to make them want to treat their dick. 308 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.320 It's so complicated and it's definitely not solvable by money. 309 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:21.600 Unfortunately, always a. 310 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:24.240 Pleasure, you know, unless you're you're done with me? Are 311 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:25.840 we done? Because I think I'm in trouble because of 312 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:26.639 you all. Now I got to go. 313 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.039 You're not into trouble. If you're in trouble, we're five. 314 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:32.480 We'll write you a note. She'll write your note. 315 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.200 Yeah, that'll get you. Have a note in one hand. 316 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.559 Thank you as all you guys. Yous. 317 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:42.720 Gary. 318 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:44.879 During this commercial break, great. 319 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.000 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 320 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:51.159 AM six forty. 321 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:52.039 What are they? 322 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.639 Are you going to ruin it for me? Should I 323 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.000 look it up independently? Are you going to pooh pooh it? 324 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.840 Are you gonna miss the milk gallon jug here? 325 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.919 Okay? They even named the other one. 326 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.960 The dead one? Yeah, oh that's morbid. 327 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:12.759 The names of the Egltza again, children, Yes, I think 328 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.399 they had something like forty five thousand people choose to 329 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.399 vote or something like that. Okay, they'll officially be known 330 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.080 as Sonny and Gizmo. 331 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.960 The one that didn't make it through the snowstorm they 332 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:25.879 named Misty. 333 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.360 Why they Misty for me? 334 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:28.960 I don't know. 335 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:30.440 Oh my god, that's. 336 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:32.799 Have you seen the pictures of them lately? They're are 337 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.200 like you said, they're as big as chickens. Now, these 338 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:40.200 egltz not Misty. They have really awkwardly large feet. Yeah, 339 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.279 they're not pretty. They are not a pretty creature. 340 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.399 Sometimes what adolescence, you know, it can be weird. Yeah, 341 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.200 it can be very weird. You're all limbs and it's 342 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:53.480 just a situation. But naming the dead one is weird. 343 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.240 I guess they started the contest before the thing died. 344 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.720 I don't know. I don't know. 345 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.840 I don't know. I was thinking about you wanting to 346 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:02.840 not be called Gary. 347 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.840 I didn't say I never Well there was a time, 348 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:09.159 right I was six, Yeah, and you wanted to be 349 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:09.919 called the fawns. 350 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.480 No, just fons Fonsie. 351 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.080 Okay, you just got very particular and demonstrative. 352 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.600 I was very clear with my parents that that's the 353 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:24.759 name I preferred, and they didn't do anything, uh to 354 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.720 give into that. They never once referred to me as Fhonsie. 355 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.480 And I was thinking when I was thinking about this, 356 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.120 because in my book there is a character named Gary, 357 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.200 and they do a whole thing about his name being Gary. 358 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:44.240 If I went through this whole thought process, this thought exercise, 359 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.320 should I call you Phonsie from time to time? 360 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.399 Like would that be a nice thing as a friend 361 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:49.960 to do? 362 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:54.720 No? If I was six, yes, I would have greatly 363 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:55.480 appreciated that. 364 00:16:55.879 --> 00:17:01.320 Now, okay, so id just like my my thought, what 365 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:03.440 I landed on is I'll just pepper it in from 366 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.920 time to time I called this you know, Oh that 367 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.920 was funny fons or Fonzie. Excuse me, yeah, oh that 368 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.079 was funny Fonzie and just kind of slide it in. 369 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:16.960 Can I tell you something about that. I found out 370 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.880 about names today. Yeah, the Social Security Administration for some 371 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.599 reason has a group or has an arm of its 372 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:31.279 agency that keeps track of names, right, And they because 373 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.400 we've talked about Gary being not a very popular name. 374 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:40.000 So in the year nineteen ninety five, they said there 375 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:44.599 was about sixteen hundred boys in America named Gary. 376 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:46.039 Sixteen hundred. 377 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:47.319 Wow, that's not money. 378 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:51.279 In nineteen ninety five, they were about forty seven hundred 379 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.799 girls named Shannon born. These are the babies that are 380 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.759 born in these names, forty seven hundred to sixteen hundred. 381 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:04.480 You clearly by three times, three times fool. That changed 382 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.480 in the year two thousand and seven, where there were 383 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:12.559 more Gary's than there were Shannon's, And as of right 384 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:16.359 now it's gone way way down for both names. But 385 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.160 they said that this is crazy to me. In the 386 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:23.000 year twenty twenty three, there were only ninety six girl 387 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:27.400 babies named Shannon. Wow, and there were two hundred boy 388 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:28.599 babies named Gary. 389 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:30.640 I might as well be Beatrice. 390 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:35.359 You might as well a dolorous Ruth, Ruth or something like. 391 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:36.680 That, something of that nature. 392 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.400 My god, you don't get a lot of ash. 393 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.960 Yes, I had no idea my name was so antiquated. 394 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.640 I didn't either call me esther lean into that age girl. 395 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:46.039 I don't know. 396 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:51.799 Beatrice kind of felt good. Lean into that age old girl. 397 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.119 I didn't say old girl. 398 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:57.680 That's what I heard, It's not what I said. I 399 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:01.279 have some info on the eglet. So Jinny Harmon, who 400 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.519 does traffic for us, is like Amy King. She's obsessed, 401 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:06.960