WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.839 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.360 I AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.720 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Donald Trump acting yesterday like 4 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:11.679 a candidate who has to make up ground. 5 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:16.079 It's where we kick off Swamp watch. Swamp is horrible, 6 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:20.280 The government doesn't work. Man, make it like a reality 7 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:22.719 TV show, Bad Noos. 8 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.440 Always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. 9 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:29.640 Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a 10 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.280 swamp and in so many ways still a swamp. 11 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:33.520 I have to watch you, malarkey. 12 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:34.719 What he said, drained the swamp. 13 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.600 I said, Oh, that's so hope, keepsh You know the thing, 14 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.159 former president acknowledged that his opponent Kamala Harris is climbing. 15 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:49.200 He's being out fundraised by Harris. He's fallen back in 16 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.119 some battleground state poles. So he had withdrawn from the debate, 17 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.920 and yesterday came out and said, I will debate. We're 18 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.600 going debate September tenth. 19 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:06.599 Matt printed out some of these betting odds two three 20 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.480 weeks ago. They were heavily in Donald Trump's favor, and 21 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.079 we talked about it after the assassination attempt after the 22 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.400 Republican Convention. 23 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.359 It appeared that it was his to lose. 24 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:20.359 I mean, and some people still argue that it is 25 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.879 his to lose because what we've seen in the polls 26 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.760 so far could still be attributed to sort of the 27 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.840 honeymoon phase for Kamala Harrison Tim Walls, and then of 28 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.599 course they'll get another bump in the camp or the convention, 29 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:31.799 because that's what happens. 30 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:32.799 That's just baked in. 31 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:33.920 She has yet to. 32 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:37.359 Field any questions, and I think that was highlighted yesterday 33 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.799 by him standing up there for an hour and fielding 34 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:40.719 any question. 35 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:43.879 That is really a big deal for her. 36 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.319 And she talked about that yesterday afternoon about how she 37 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.040 wants to have a sit down interview by the end 38 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.599 of the month. Well, she said that on August eighth, 39 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:54.599 by the end of the month, if she wanted to 40 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.519 do an interview, she could have done one within. 41 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.640 That half hour yesterday immediately immediately. She's got people, And 42 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.040 here was the pushback from her campaign. Their pushback was, well, 43 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.319 she speaks to reporters every day on Air Force two 44 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.680 when she's traveling around the country for the campaign events. 45 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.280 Yeah, but that's America needs to have her field questions 46 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.520 off a teleprompter in a national interview. 47 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.719 It's different if she's sitting there holding a cup of 48 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.240 tea and just you know, bssing with some of the 49 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.759 people that have been around her for years. There has 50 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:29.560 to be a certain amount of adversarial questioning for us 51 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.080 to get a true gauge on who she is and 52 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:36.639 what she believes, and what policies that she is going 53 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:41.680 to implement implement when she becomes if she becomes the president, 54 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:42.960 those are all important things. 55 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.719 You have to ask yourself. What are they trying to 56 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.479 hide here? I mean, they've hidden Joe Biden from us 57 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.000 for a year and a half, by and large, what 58 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.560 are they trying to hide with Harris not sitting down 59 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:57.520 with ABC News or something. 60 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.879 I do like to push back against the whole the 61 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.520 mainstream media is in it for the Democrats because because 62 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.000 I'm part of the that machine, I'm part of the 63 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.800 mainstream media. But isn't it completely obvious that no one's 64 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:13.120 gonna hold her feet to the fire. 65 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.960 No no one said anything like, what do you mean 66 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.479 the end of the month, Why don't you do it tomorrow? 67 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:21.240 Right? No one said that. No one presses her on anything. 68 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.039 The questions that she does get when she does these 69 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.120 gaggles outside of Air Force two, either coming off the 70 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.479 plane or getting back on the plane, or even backstage 71 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.759 at some of these campaign events, is what do you 72 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:32.599 think of that crowd? 73 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:33.159 Huh? 74 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:33.360 Like? 75 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:34.639 How about? 76 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:35.120 Hey? 77 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.639 World War III is inches away? What are we doing? 78 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:41.039 What? You're the vice president. 79 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.120 You're supposed to be the one who's in the room 80 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:44.520 having these conversations. 81 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:45.400 What are we doing? 82 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:49.000 How can you calm America and make sure that we 83 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.680 do not feel like the world is imploding around us? 84 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.879 Not what a great day in Detroit? 85 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.280 How do you like the weather, Madam Vice President? 86 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.680 That stuff doesn't flo And it's too bad because it 87 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.039 doesn't sound like anybody's holding her to it. 88 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:09.360 What nothing. 89 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:12.759 Is you? 90 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:13.080 Woman? 91 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.319 To play the other part of this, yeah, the guy 92 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.360 was like, hey, helicopter, I. 93 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.879 Want to hear from I want to hear about the riots, 94 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:24.920 which right. 95 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.120 Oh, so Tim Walls Okay, Tim Wall's wife. 96 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:37.600 Gwen, remember the Black Lives Matter riots? This Their state 97 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.600 was kind of the ground zero ground zero for those 98 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.839 And this is a bizarre clip that's been shared on 99 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:46.399 social media about Gwen. 100 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.199 I was okay, So I was actually having a conversation 101 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.120 with somebody yesterday about the summer of twenty twenty. This guy, 102 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.120 small business owner, and we were talking about what we 103 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.399 felt at that time about what was going on. I 104 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.759 know plenty of people who up until that point were 105 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:06.120 anti gun, who did not want to have weapons in 106 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.240 the home, who all thought to themselves, now is the 107 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.839 time that society is breaking down. I need to protect 108 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:18.759 my family those That feeling of fear was real in many, 109 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:23.959 many neighborhoods, regardless of color, ethnicity. There was a fear 110 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:27.360 that we were watching things completely break down in front 111 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.399 of us because they were calling for the defunding of 112 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:36.399 the police, the disintegration of society, the anarchistic version of America. 113 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:40.800 It was not a fun time to be around for 114 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:45.800 Glen Walls, though she decided that this was a way 115 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.000 for her to test sort of her own metal. She 116 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.639 said in an interview, when she was reflecting on the 117 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.680 riots of twenty twenty, she kept the windows open at 118 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.560 her home because she could smell the burning tires and 119 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.439 she needed it to remind herself of who she was 120 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.959 and the position of privilege that she was in. 121 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.800 I would say those first days, you know, when there 122 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:16.800 were riots. I could smell the burning tires and that 123 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.920 that was a very real thing. And I kept the 124 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.120 windows open for as long as I could because I 125 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.959 felt like that was such a touchstone of what was 126 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:27.600 what was happening. 127 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:33.079 I'm not understanding. So she wanted to take in the 128 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.360 smell of the riot. She wanted to feel the burn 129 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.120 so that she could have an understanding of what the 130 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:44.040 riots were about. Is this some sort of look at me, 131 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.199 I'm so woke victory lap self. I want to congratulation. 132 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.519 My goodness. That's odd, you know what that is? It's weird. 133 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.720 There's also a story, I haven't checked the veracity of 134 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.639 this yet, but that their daughter was tipping off some 135 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:00.560 of the protesters by posting things on Twitter guarding the 136 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.279 movements of the National Guard of Minnesota. 137 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:06.600 So they're tipping off the rioters. 138 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.199 Yes, telling them where the piles of tires are burning, 139 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.120 so that they could, you know, make y Yeah, that 140 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.439 makes a lot of sense. There is a developing story 141 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.199 out of South America. Media in Brazil has said that 142 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:24.600 a plane that's able to carry dozens of passengers has 143 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.480 crashed in sal Polo. It's not immediately clear how many 144 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.240 people were in fact on board, but they said it 145 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:33.439 did have a capacity of over sixty Local Firefighting Corps 146 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.879 confirms that the plane did fall in the city of Vinhedo, 147 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.000 but didn't offer any more details. The Globo News network 148 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.079 in Brazil showed footage of a large area on fire 149 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.759 and smoke coming out of an apparent plane fuselage. Additional 150 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.519 footage showed a plane drifting downward vertically and like you said, spiraling, 151 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:53.439 looked like a paper airplane. 152 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.120 Just an awful, awful look at it. 153 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.519 There was a speaking of planes scare for members of 154 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.040 the Carolina Panthers last night. They played in the game 155 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:09.120 against the Patriots preseason game. Flying back from that game 156 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:12.600 late at night, their Delta Airlines plane landed at about 157 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:17.360 two forty and then the plane overran the taxiway. Detail 158 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.879 said that landing gear on the right side of the 159 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:24.399 plane got off of the actual roadway, the taxiway, but 160 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:26.879 otherwise it was a normal landing. They were able to 161 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.720 get ladders or not ladders stairs out there and everything 162 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:32.000 was everything was fine. 163 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.440 Hey, Gary and Shannon, how's going? 164 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:35.799 Just leave a message let you guys know. 165 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:37.960 I'm in Portobayarta, sitting. 166 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.639 On the beach listening to you nice. 167 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:41.279 It's a beautiful day out here. 168 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:42.720 Love the show. 169 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:44.440 Guys, have a great day. Thank you. 170 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:44.879 Hey. 171 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:46.919 I wanted to do this story because it is a 172 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.919 DC tangent, and that is the follow up the more 173 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:55.399 information about the assassination attempt to former President Trump, because 174 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:01.279 we're getting more information from the officers, the local officers who. 175 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.759 Were on the ground that day. 176 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.200 Well, we talked about it yesterday. We got the audio 177 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:09.000 from their body cams and it was in the moments 178 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.120 after that at least one of the local officers said, 179 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.759 I told the Secret Service about that building days ago. 180 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.480 I told them that they need to man that. 181 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:21.720 And it's his first words, at least in this of 182 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.600 f's a lot of f's, but it was that was 183 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:25.240 an f up. 184 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.120 Somebody affed up. 185 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.480 I'd say, this is a company. Why are we not 186 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:36.679 on the roof? Why why were we? 187 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.960 They need to post the guys. 188 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.039 I told him that the Secret Service. I told them 189 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:49.080 that Tuesday. I told him the post guys over here. 190 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:53.360 Now this is it's going to take what weeks months 191 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.399 for us to figure out who that guy thinks that 192 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.000 he was talking to, who the Secret Service says was 193 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.960 involved in those digital pre planning meetings that they had. 194 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.679 All of that stuff has to be hashed out, but 195 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.200 it regard and even if you put a name to it, 196 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:08.639 even if you were able to put a name to 197 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.759 who was involved in those early days meetings, this was 198 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:14.639 I mean, the guy said it right. 199 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.000 It was a complete f up from. 200 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.519 The beginning, and it's unfortunate because it does not look 201 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.559 good on what was otherwise a pretty esteemed agency in 202 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.240 terms of their ability to do what they do. 203 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.039 There has been a third arrest in connection with the 204 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:34.720 foiled conspiracy to attack three now canceled Taylor Swift concerts 205 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:40.120 in Vienna. The main suspect is a nineteen year old 206 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.240 planned to target the onlookers gathered outside the stadium up 207 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.879 to thirty thousand each night, were planning to be there 208 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.559 another sixty five thousand people inside the venue. His plan 209 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.159 was to use knives or home made explosives during the 210 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.039 concert Thursday or Friday to kill as many people as possible. 211 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.559 He was taken into custody early year in the week 212 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.960 along with a seventeen year old. The third suspect is 213 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:08.039 eighteen and a Rocky citizen, was arrested last night. A 214 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.879 fifteen year old was also interrogated, but not arrested. 215 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.200 He was interrogated but not arrested. So there's this small 216 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.799 group of friends, all teenagers. It sounds like. 217 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:29.159 Some just maybe guilt by association, but I think you're yeah. 218 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.360 There was a quick update out of Paris. By the way, 219 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.919 Breonna Stewart scored sixteen points. The US women's basketball team 220 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:39.200 advanced their eighth consecutive gold medal game. They beat Australia 221 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.519 early today. Spoiler alert. I guess I'm supposed to say 222 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.120 spoiler alert. First, they extended their area. 223 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.399 You have to play sirens. 224 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:50.919 Their Olympic wedding streak now to sixty games, sixty consecutive 225 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.440 games that the American women have won. They'll face either 226 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:57.840 France or Belgium on Sunday and then closing ceremonies come 227 00:11:57.879 --> 00:11:58.759 up on Sunday night. 228 00:11:59.360 --> 00:11:59.720 Playing. 229 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.200 So, with dozens of passengers on board, sixty two has 230 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.720 crashed in Brazil. We're getting just little pieces here and 231 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:10.440 there about what's going on on the ground. Local media 232 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.840 reporting that yeah, sixty two people were on board, that 233 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.120 there was a large cloud of black smoke after the 234 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.240 plane could be seen crashing into trees in South Paulo 235 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:22.399 the state fire brigades and several crews have been sent 236 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.159 to the crash site, but so far no word on casualties. 237 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.720 But they said it also crashed into multiple homes on 238 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.159 the ground. Oh wow, i'ld be a problem. Paramount Global 239 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.519 took a six billion dollar right down on its cable 240 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.159 TV business the day after Warner Brothers Discovery did the 241 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.519 same thing for nine billion. Both of those companies have 242 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.600 been saying that their streaming vets are going to make 243 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:46.720 up for those losses, but Paramount Global stock tanked twelve 244 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.919 percent in the after hours trading yesterday despite posting a 245 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:54.320 profit for the streaming portion. Warner Brothers Discovery fell nine percent, 246 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:57.279 down to an all time low after its earnings release. 247 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:02.320 Well one year later, the high community still trying to 248 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:06.279 rebuild following those massive wildfires that killed more than one 249 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:10.840 hundred people, destroyed homes, businesses, cultural sides, all of it. 250 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.919 Steve Gregory was there in the aftermath and joins us 251 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:19.120 now about where the people of Maui there and the 252 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:19.840 Heina are. 253 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:25.080 Yeah, you know, it's been a very very slow recovery process. 254 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.360 More than fifteen hundred families have left the island after 255 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.840 the fires because they had no place to live. Housing's 256 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:36.720 been the biggest challenge right now because after the fires 257 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.879 destroyed twenty two hundred buildings and homes. First things first, 258 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:42.960 they had to get EPA in there to do a 259 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.639 cleanup because there was a lot of toxic debris around there, 260 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:50.080 a lot of dangerous chemicals from cars and other businesses. 261 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.639 And after it got the ok from the EPA. Simultaneously 262 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:56.879 they were trying to figure out where are the displaced 263 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.159 families because, if you might from a year ago, no 264 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.440 one knew the exact number of how many were missing. 265 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.919 No one had checked in. There was a big problem 266 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.080 with accounting for everyone who lived in Lahina. So as 267 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:09.919 soon as they were able to figure that out, then 268 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:11.879 they had to figure out who has housing who does 269 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:15.000 not have housing. They estimate now that there are twelve 270 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.399 thousand people without homes, and that still is a very 271 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.799 very big challenge on the housing side. The governor declared 272 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:27.720 that hotels and other smaller motels and short term rentals 273 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.519 were all to be used for housing these individuals, but 274 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.600 it's been very slow going because a lot of those people. 275 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.399 Are tired of living in temporary housing. 276 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.600 The rebuilding of homes has been. 277 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:39.720 Very, very slow. 278 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.679 Governor Josh Green said the first year was going to 279 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.960 be about healing, the second year was going to be 280 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:49.360 about recovery. And right now the only glimmer of hope 281 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:51.799 that they have is that a settlement is on its way. 282 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.559 Four billion dollars on top of any insurance money, will 283 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.519 be split among six hundred claimants that have filed lawsuits 284 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.480 against the the County of Maui, against Hawaiian Electric and 285 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.080 against the State of Hawaii. 286 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.120 Is that split evenly or is it going to depend 287 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:08.919 on people's claims. 288 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:09.679 I mean, the. 289 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.679 Terms of that have not been disclosed. It doesn't I 290 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:14.919 assume that, as in any one of these cases that 291 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.720 either they're going to approach it as an individual need, 292 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.759 like did someone lose their entire home or was someone's 293 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.240 home damaged? Did someone lose a loved one in the fire. 294 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.120 I think it's all going to boil down to, you know, 295 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.720 what was the significance of loss. And here's the really 296 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.919 sad part about that kind of insurance payoffs the same 297 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:34.080 thing when someone gets. 298 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:36.840 You know, hurt on the job or dismembered. 299 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.200 Unfortunately, insurance companies have formulas already intact that will tell 300 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:42.399 you well, you know. 301 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.000 You lost an arm, so you won't be able to 302 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:44.600 work this sign. 303 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:47.720 So an arm is about seventy five thousand dollars a 304 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.639 year or something along those lines, just for example sake. 305 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.960 So it's presumed that each of the families are going 306 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.720 to be looked at individually based on their total loss. 307 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:02.399 When you talk about the the financials obviously are important, 308 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.039 but there's a social aspect to it too, And I 309 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.559 assume that when you were there last year in the 310 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:10.840 aftermath of it, that that was probably one of the 311 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.080 harder things that people were trying to cling on to, 312 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:16.919 was that sense of community that exists there. 313 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.120 Well, in fact, that sense of community Gary is what 314 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.000 kept most of those people alive and kept them moving 315 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.200 forward because a lot of those people that live on 316 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:30.559 the island of Maui are workers. They are laborers. You know, 317 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.559 some of them have four jobs to make ends meet. 318 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:36.840 Because cost of living there is astronomical and you can 319 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.360 thank a lot of the transplants over there. Your celebrities 320 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:40.919 and your A listers will like to go over there 321 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.320 and call it home. They have driven up the price 322 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:48.480 of everything. Meanwhile, when you're living paycheck to paycheck and 323 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:50.759 you don't have anything in the savings and then you 324 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.799 lose your home in your car and you're left with nothing. 325 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.879 All they had was community, and that's really what kept 326 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:59.080 a lot of those people afloat. 327 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.240 They're really good at that to My sister in law 328 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:05.519 lives there, and she remember when my husband and I 329 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.119 first started dating, and he would say, yeah, my sister 330 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.319 is he's house guests and oh who are they? And oh, 331 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:13.119 a friend of a friend. I mean, that's how Hawaiians are. 332 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:16.920 It's like, you know, she didn't even know these people 333 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.359 and they're living at her house because she knew someone 334 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:20.160 that they knew. 335 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:22.279 And that's just what you do. You open your doors 336 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:22.720 to people. 337 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.680 There the aloha spirit, right, it's ohana. 338 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:27.640 We could use a little bit of that around here, 339 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.640 don't you think we could. 340 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:30.960 Have used a lot of that around there? 341 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:36.240 But the beautiful thing is the beautiful thing is watching 342 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.960 this community bounce back. It reminded me a lot of 343 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:41.559 New Orleans when I was down there for Petrina and 344 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.960 watching that town come back. It has the same kind 345 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.880 of fabric when it comes to not only culture but 346 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:49.039 taking care of each other. 347 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:50.200 Because there were a lot of. 348 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:54.160 Very low income people in New Orleans that were also 349 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:58.480 laborers and workers, and they too lost a lot after 350 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:02.880 that hurricane and watching them and to this day, remember 351 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.839 how long ago that happened. That was in five and 352 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.319 there are still families totally whole and totally complete from 353 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.480 that disaster, and they estimated it's going to be up 354 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.759 to ten years before people are going to be fully. 355 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:15.240 Back to where they were. 356 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.160 Where does Maui stand when it comes to tourism, Obviously 357 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.559 that's an incredibly important industry for them. Are they welcoming 358 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.720 everyone back or is there still limits on what they 359 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:26.119 can do? 360 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.400 Fairly early on, they didn't want anyone over there. In fact, 361 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.119 they were canceling flights and stopping flights from going over 362 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.839 there because they didn't want the additional bodies because frankly, 363 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.839 what they were doing is the burn zone became the 364 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:42.000 tourist attraction, and that's what they were trying to avoid. 365 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.680 They didn't want the extra people over there, and frankly, 366 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.640 there weren't enough workers to handle the infrastructure, you know, 367 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.079 waiters and servers, and they just didn't have enough people 368 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.720 for hotels, and so they just didn't want that crush 369 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:56.839 of people. And there was still a school of thought 370 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.240 where they don't want a lot of people over there 371 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.960 because they're still sort of reeling from that impact and 372 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:08.559 kind of how it hurt, hurt families and how it 373 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:11.160 hurt the workers, and they don't want all those people 374 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:11.519 over there. 375 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.319 It's just it was kind of inconvenient. 376 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:17.079 Meanwhile, there's another group of people saying, listen, we got 377 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.799 to bounce back financially, and this money coming from the 378 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:22.319 government ain't gonna last forever, so we have got to 379 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:25.480 start that revenue machine back up again. So it is 380 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.519 still a big conflict over there. If you check flights, 381 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:31.559 they're still fairly cheap to get over there. Hotels are 382 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.759 fairly cheap. There's one faction of people over there that 383 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.440 want the tourism and there's another faction that doesn't. 384 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:40.079 All right, Steve, thank you for the update. 385 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:41.559 You got it, guys, take care. 386 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:46.359 I remember hearing on a favorite radio station a while back. 387 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:50.240 A new law has been passed that hawking the horn 388 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:55.839 in any way other than to avoid a collision is 389 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.359 now a sightable offense. 390 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:01.640 Oh am, I wrong. 391 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.920 Technically, you're right, but that's where and we're asking you 392 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:11.640 to be judicious in your honk your horn honking. 393 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:14.599 So We've been having people break the law all day. 394 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:19.960 Yeah, and all vehicle code says that honking the horn is 395 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.319 only permissible as a warning and it's only to be 396 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:28.240 done one time. Continuous or prolonged honking is considered a 397 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.319 violation and could lead to criminal penalties. 398 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:34.640 Really now, I want people to honk honk even more. 399 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.279 Let's break the law today. Well there, and many of 400 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:40.480 these people that have been calling in have been from 401 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:46.720