Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2: A couple weeks ago, we told you about Virginia Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: This was probably the most prominent victim of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3: She was in an accident.
Speaker 2: She'd posted a picture on social media last month of
Speaker 2: a bruised up face, said she was in the hospital
Speaker 2: and said she'd been hit by a bus and had
Speaker 2: four days to live. Committed suicide Friday, forty one years old.
Speaker 2: Body found late Friday night by family. Sparks a major
Speaker 2: investigation into the scene. They gathered evidence for twelve hours
Speaker 2: at the suspected suicide, and they said it could take
Speaker 2: two years for a coroner's report to officially file a
Speaker 2: report on how it is that she'd died.
Speaker 1: We mentioned this as it has been unfolding. Workers cut
Speaker 1: from the La city budget. It is way in the red,
Speaker 1: and we mentioned that the animal services was going to
Speaker 1: receive of substantial cuts and I thought, oh boy, here
Speaker 1: we go. There's going to be a lot of fervor
Speaker 1: and uproar over this plan. The second of two opportunities
Speaker 1: for the public to share their thoughts. As it said,
Speaker 1: so politely, so is going to come at City Hall today.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks joins us.
Speaker 1: He is on top of all things Los Angeles, all
Speaker 1: the goings on, especially downtown. Michael, what can we envision
Speaker 1: for today, especially after what we saw on Friday?
Speaker 5: One hundred and twenty positions lost in the Animal Services
Speaker 5: Department under this proposal. That's a department that's already been
Speaker 5: struggling with capacity of animals. They're packed to the gills
Speaker 5: with cats and dogs, trying to do everything they can
Speaker 5: to get folks to adopt. But to lose thirty two
Speaker 5: percent of its workforce really would not be a benefit
Speaker 5: to the struggles that they're having. So it would go
Speaker 5: from a workforce of three hundred and seventy eight people
Speaker 5: to two hundred and fifty eight people. And that is
Speaker 5: just one department that is bleeding out employees in this
Speaker 5: mare Bass budget proposal. On Friday, the public got their
Speaker 5: first chance to weigh in the City Council was having
Speaker 5: their monthly meeting and Vannis.
Speaker 3: They do this once a month now.
Speaker 5: They go to the City Hall on van Nis and
Speaker 5: that also happened to coincide with the first public hearing,
Speaker 5: and that was packed. I mean, just like the animal shelters,
Speaker 5: people busting at the seams to get in. There were
Speaker 5: so crowded, in fact, that when some people would finish talking,
Speaker 5: the Budget Committee chair Katie Arrislovsky would say, if you've
Speaker 5: talked and you don't mind, would you please leave so
Speaker 5: that we have seats available to the people who want
Speaker 5: to come out. All in all, they got about two
Speaker 5: hundred public comments, and people are upset. As you can imagine,
Speaker 5: this is a significant reduction in the La City workforce.
Speaker 5: And people are concerned about the animal Department, they're concerned
Speaker 5: about the streets department. The police department is losing positions also,
Speaker 5: not sworn officers, but hundreds of civilian workers. And you
Speaker 5: heard some commenters say, well that work will still need
Speaker 5: to be done, and that might mean sworn officers pivoting
Speaker 5: to these other positions, and that costs more because they're
Speaker 5: paid more. It might be over time and you might
Speaker 5: not see a net positive as it relates to the
Speaker 5: finances because of that.
Speaker 2: I mean, off the air, you said very creatively and succinctly,
Speaker 2: La is screwed.
Speaker 3: That were broken.
Speaker 2: I mean this process that we're in seems to consistently
Speaker 2: show up every year couple of years when the budget
Speaker 2: comes around, everybody looks at each other and scratches their
Speaker 2: head and goes.
Speaker 3: I don't know what we're gonna do. What are we
Speaker 3: going to do? Last year, the writing was already on
Speaker 3: the wall.
Speaker 5: They cut a bunch of vacant positions, because even departments
Speaker 5: that have positions that are not filled, they still get
Speaker 5: the funding for those positions in anticipation that somebody will
Speaker 5: fill them. Instead, they cut thousands of those positions and
Speaker 5: use that money, took the money from the department and
Speaker 5: put it back into the general fund.
Speaker 3: It wasn't enough.
Speaker 5: So this year we're talking about flesh and blood people
Speaker 5: on top of more vacant positions being slash. So here
Speaker 5: is a city that already knew it was in a
Speaker 5: bad position last year, did not take drastic actions beyond
Speaker 5: the vacant cuts to position.
Speaker 3: Themselves to be healthier this time around.
Speaker 5: In fact, it's a worse and the news got worse
Speaker 5: on Saturday when the S and P decided to lower
Speaker 5: the city's credit rating by a point, which.
Speaker 4: I missed that that's a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal.
Speaker 5: And that means it's harder to borrow, it's more expensive
Speaker 5: to borrow, and this is a city that is borrowing.
Speaker 5: They're talking about borrowing money to cover the cost of
Speaker 5: the legal settlements that they've been facing. There's a special
Speaker 5: kind of municipal bond.
Speaker 4: Because they're just settling everything everything.
Speaker 3: And there are hundreds of millions over budget for that,
Speaker 3: the legal settlement.
Speaker 1: And everybody knows they're settling everything, which is why they're
Speaker 1: following claims.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this was already happening back in the fall.
Speaker 5: I've reported on this in the fall, Like this seems
Speaker 5: excessive a lot of times. Even when I first started
Speaker 5: here and first started going to city council meetings, there
Speaker 5: would just be a regular meeting and then they'd run
Speaker 5: through about ten settlements and I kind of write them
Speaker 5: all down, like the numbers.
Speaker 3: Like that adds up to like six million dollars.
Speaker 4: Here's something about lawyers.
Speaker 1: If they notice the city settling everything, they're going to
Speaker 1: jump on that gravy train and they have enough.
Speaker 5: And it is very seldom that you hear the city
Speaker 5: clerk say that the city attorney has reckoned then did
Speaker 5: rejecting the settlement. Often, Yeah, no, it happens, but very rare.
Speaker 2: So one jury I sat on was a case where
Speaker 2: the city did decide to fight and they ended up
Speaker 2: on the hook for thirteen and a half million dollars.
Speaker 5: And that's why you find them settling so often, because
Speaker 5: a lot of these cases, it's not like they're illegitimate cases.
Speaker 5: They sound strange in the categories that they're titled. Trip
Speaker 5: and fall, trip and fall, tripple. Come on, somebody fell
Speaker 5: and now you owe them five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Really, they might have been swallowed up by a terrible
Speaker 5: infrastructure of a light pole might have fallen on them.
Speaker 3: It's it's not good stuff out.
Speaker 4: There, Michael. Can you hold on for another segment?
Speaker 3: If I don't have a choice, I guess, Oh you always?
Speaker 4: It is Monday for crying out.
Speaker 1: Let me see Jesus is still walking around all.
Speaker 5: Was always a pleasure to be with you guys, and
Speaker 5: I would love to stay as long as you'll have one.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten to ascension Thursday yet? Is it a Thursday?
Speaker 3: I don't know what. Google.
Speaker 5: Weren't you in the Catholic school system longer than I
Speaker 5: was before I was asked to leave.
Speaker 4: How long were you doing How long did you do it?
Speaker 3: Almost the end of fourth grade?
Speaker 5: They're like, you might do better in the public school
Speaker 5: for four years kindergarten too, So almost five full years.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I was there third to eighth grades of five.
Speaker 1: We're thrill ding dong here, real dig dog.
Speaker 2: Well, the Clippers are in Denver tonight tomorrow night, so
Speaker 2: we'll talk about the Clippers Nuggets series when we come back.
Speaker 1: Hot, hot Catholic talk. Eagles wings Baby, let's go.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a banger.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know one bread, one body, So well, let's
Speaker 1: not shut the door on that love.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks is with us from KFI News. He stays
Speaker 1: on top of all the things going on in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: They're easy to not pay attention to. But if we
Speaker 1: don't pay attention, then the crooks get to their crookery,
Speaker 1: don't they. Right now, there are a lot of job
Speaker 1: cuts for Los Angeles. I was wondering if there was
Speaker 1: any shades of in the public comment what's going on
Speaker 1: in the national level in terms of the federal agencies
Speaker 1: being gutted and if there's any fingers pointing at LA
Speaker 1: city leaders.
Speaker 4: You know, in conjunction with that.
Speaker 5: It's a pretty consistent theme that there are folks who
Speaker 5: believe that there's something shady going on at city Hall,
Speaker 5: but some of the folks that say that the most
Speaker 5: aren't necessarily reliable narrators. The most common refrain you hear
Speaker 5: about the state of the national economy and the federal
Speaker 5: government comes from mayorbas herself, because that seems to be
Speaker 5: where she's placing the bulk of the blame for the
Speaker 5: city's finances, particularly over the weekend when the S and
Speaker 5: P lord the city's credit rating. It's you know, we're
Speaker 5: facing economic headwinds, and we may face some challenges with
Speaker 5: federal money coming from Trump's animosity towards sanctuary cities like
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, something that also escalated today. So that's something
Speaker 5: to keep an eye on. And she also talks about
Speaker 5: a structural imbalance. Didn't elaborate on what that means exactly,
Speaker 5: but she been trying to fix it, she says, for
Speaker 5: the twenty seven months that she's been in office.
Speaker 4: I mean too much management to top heavy.
Speaker 5: That's what I can assume, you know, from an engineering perspective,
Speaker 5: but we might not know because engineers are also being
Speaker 5: cut from the city department. One hundred and twenty five
Speaker 5: City engineers are on the chopping block for this also
Speaker 5: hundreds of jobs transportation, hundreds of jobs. We already talked
Speaker 5: about animal services five hundred and sixty six in city planning.
Speaker 2: Well, that imbalance, I mean, it says here that despite
Speaker 2: all of the cuts that you're talking about, the proposed
Speaker 2: budget is still an eight percent more than eight percent
Speaker 2: increase over the plan for the spending plan from last
Speaker 2: year because part of what.
Speaker 5: They want to do is ramp up their their reserve fund.
Speaker 5: The reserve fund is sort of like a rainy day fund.
Speaker 5: You like to know that you've got some money tucked
Speaker 5: away in case the poop hits the fan. Right Well,
Speaker 5: it has, and it has all the school year, and
Speaker 5: so they've been dipping into that. The city likes to
Speaker 5: keep that number at about five percent of its total budget.
Speaker 5: If it dips below two point three percent, they have
Speaker 5: to declare a fiscal emergency, and they're knocking on the
Speaker 5: door of that. So the reason that you're seeing more
Speaker 5: money go in to just prop that up is to
Speaker 5: make them feel better you know, when you're out spending something,
Speaker 5: but you know you've got ten grand and the bank
Speaker 5: that you can tap into. If this purchase is more
Speaker 5: than you bargain for, you feel a little bit more
Speaker 5: comfortable about it. But you have to have a plan
Speaker 5: to replenish that that savings account.
Speaker 2: Because in the event that they did do, like you said,
Speaker 2: this fiscal emergency that comes with a whole nother level
Speaker 2: of probably credit downgrades from credit rating agencies and things
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: It seems that this is going to get worse. Now.
Speaker 5: The optimistic tone that the mayor has struck is that
Speaker 5: she doesn't want to see these layoffs happen at all,
Speaker 5: that perhaps Sacramento will come through and somehow bail out
Speaker 5: and the laughter isn't without merit. I mean, I think
Speaker 5: the way I try to think about this is picture
Speaker 5: yourself as an adult. You've got yourself in a situation.
Speaker 5: You've overspent and you're running out of money, and if
Speaker 5: you don't figure something out, you might be in default.
Speaker 5: You might have to sell your furniture, but you're going
Speaker 5: to ask mom and dad for the money. If mom
Speaker 5: and dad have the money, they might be willing to
Speaker 5: give it to you.
Speaker 3: Or loan it to you.
Speaker 1: We're going to say, manage your own budget, you dumb ass,
Speaker 1: and then slap you across the face.
Speaker 5: Because if I do this for you, then your brother
Speaker 5: San Francisco, your sister San Diego, they might come crawling
Speaker 5: to us next.
Speaker 1: I mean, all the other kids we screwed up raising
Speaker 1: are going to need money as well.
Speaker 3: I do want to add context what you said earlier.
Speaker 2: President Trump is supposed to sign an executive order today
Speaker 2: to direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland
Speaker 2: Security to identify cities and states that are not complying
Speaker 2: with federal immigration laws, basically a list of sanctuary cities
Speaker 2: in order to One of the things that he's that
Speaker 2: he campaigned on was withholding federal moneys from those municipalities,
Speaker 2: and a federal court.
Speaker 5: Told him he can't do that last week. So he's
Speaker 5: obviously got a weird relationship with the courts right now. Anyway,
Speaker 5: under statement, so this executive order seems to just ignore
Speaker 5: any warnings about the federal funding. This isn't directly related
Speaker 5: to federal funding necessarily, but he's also willing to put
Speaker 5: people in handcuffs, So we'll have to see how this.
Speaker 3: Plays out, and not in the recreational sense, no, no,
Speaker 3: not for fun, more actual jail.
Speaker 5: So you know, the city's relationship with federal government is
Speaker 5: not going to improve anytime soon, it doesn't look like.
Speaker 5: So they won't get a bail out from the Feds,
Speaker 5: that's for certain. Whether they get one from mommy and
Speaker 5: Daddy and Sacramento, we'll just have to see the meeting
Speaker 5: on Thursday that the mayor had up in Sacramento, multiple meetings.
Speaker 5: She did point out there are a lot of lawmakers
Speaker 5: from La County who might be sympathetic. They do make
Speaker 5: up an inordinate amount of the total population of the Assembly.
Speaker 3: But she didn't get to meet with the governor, you know.
Speaker 5: And I didn't hear a lot of champion for this
Speaker 5: cause at the state Capitol.
Speaker 1: Well, she certainly has connections. That's where she uh breads
Speaker 1: her butter. So we'll we'll have to wait and see
Speaker 1: butters her bread. I don't know how she does it specifically.
Speaker 4: What did I say, bread's her butter?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean maybe she just takes a thing up, do
Speaker 2: you really bread and slaps it on the Take the
Speaker 2: bread and butter for the bread. I eat it for
Speaker 2: the butter. The bread is just a vehicle for the
Speaker 2: butter depends on the bread.
Speaker 1: You can't just go into the into the into the
Speaker 1: refrigerator and just scoop yourself up with your hand some
Speaker 1: butter and eat it.
Speaker 4: You got to put it on.
Speaker 3: I bet you could. Yeah, I bet you're gonna do
Speaker 3: it this afternoon.
Speaker 1: I told you how my parents would often find me
Speaker 1: as a child with just a cube of butter in
Speaker 1: my hand.
Speaker 3: Yep. Okay, my goodness, there's a public hearing today.
Speaker 5: There was just a bit of bow on this before
Speaker 5: you guys, get back to your butter. The city council
Speaker 5: back down town, they will have more public comments today.
Speaker 5: They'll also hear from civilian labor unions and the neighborhood councils.
Speaker 5: And there are hearings throughout the next two weeks, so
Speaker 5: we'll hear off from all the departments, their concerns and
Speaker 5: all that coming up. V.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Better than a stick of butter.
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Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 4: It's just something that maybe we could work towards this week.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Friday, I will be on the edge of
Speaker 3: my seat.
Speaker 1: Your license plate numbers are changing here in California. The
Speaker 1: state is running out of its current combination of license
Speaker 1: plate numbers and letters, so they've come up with a
Speaker 1: new plate sequence for newly registered vehicles starting next.
Speaker 2: Year instead of the one that everybody's probably accustomed to,
Speaker 2: a number three letters and then three numbers. That's the
Speaker 2: way we've been doing it since nineteen eighty, starting with
Speaker 2: the one AAA zero zero zero, the latest sequence expected
Speaker 2: to end sometime next year with that final plate. When
Speaker 2: you go through all of the iterations, which is nine
Speaker 2: zzz nine nine, that's funny.
Speaker 1: You would open up your mail and you get your
Speaker 1: license plate, and you open it up and says nine
Speaker 1: zzz nine nine nine.
Speaker 4: I'd be like, oh, that's not good. I don't know
Speaker 4: what that is, but that's not good.
Speaker 1: So what they're going to do is it's going the
Speaker 1: next sequence will be three numerals followed by three letters
Speaker 1: in one numeral, so like three four or five XYZ two.
Speaker 1: I think this screws with a lot of people, you do, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people that are used to a certain sequence, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the spectrum, and certain people
Speaker 1: like things done a certain way change when it comes
Speaker 1: to license plates ruffle some feathers.
Speaker 2: I when I saw this this morning, I just was
Speaker 2: amazed at how many vehicles are are purchased, how many
Speaker 2: new I mean, that's the mind blowing thing to me
Speaker 2: is Yeah, I know, there's forty million people ish that
Speaker 2: live in the state of California and you figure what,
Speaker 2: I don't know, twenty million of them own vehicles, of
Speaker 2: some at least one. But the turnover on that is
Speaker 2: so ridiculous that you go through. I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: couple million numbers that are possible with just those seven numbers.
Speaker 1: Well, now, the reason this news is hitting is because
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers people are buying based on
Speaker 1: the tariff situation, not knowing the uncertainty of what the
Speaker 1: tariff situation will mean for car parts and purchases moving forward.
Speaker 1: In the first quarter of this year, compared with last year,
Speaker 1: new vehicle registrations are up more than eight percent, which
Speaker 1: is not insignificant. That is a surge and new vehicle
Speaker 1: purchases as we wait to hear what the implementation of
Speaker 1: these new tariffs will mean.
Speaker 2: And that's before we get into the When the tariffs
Speaker 2: were put in so April.
Speaker 3: May I mean we're going to see a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot more purchases.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did I just say that like somebody's mother?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeap, y'all'll be there, but you tell Margie,
Speaker 2: I'll be there at four.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Boy, Well, you know what, Just let it happen. Let
Speaker 4: it happen. Just lean into the slide.
Speaker 2: King's lost to the Oilers last night four to three,
Speaker 2: So they even that series of two games?
Speaker 3: Apiece.
Speaker 2: Lakers lost to the Timberwolves one sixteen to one, thirteen
Speaker 2: jor did they trail in that series three to one?
Speaker 2: Twins beat the Angels five nothing. Angels actually have a
Speaker 2: day off. They'll be in Seattle tomorrow. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Pirates ninety two. So the Marlins come to town tonight.
Speaker 2: You bet, y'all, yeap four o'clock, Margie, I'll be there.
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Speaker 1: The NFL Draft went down, and if you're a casual
Speaker 1: NFL fan like most people are, you're probably not paying
Speaker 1: too much attention, especially on years where you're not seeing
Speaker 1: massive names.
Speaker 4: Go I remember the year. I think it is the
Speaker 4: gear that.
Speaker 1: I moved to LA and want to say two thousand
Speaker 1: and five when it was like Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, I want to say that was that year.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong on that. No, Philip Rivers was
Speaker 1: before then, wasn't he? I don't know anyway. You know,
Speaker 1: when you've got like big three quarterbacks or things like that,
Speaker 1: you know, and you you hear a lot about the draft.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of hype.
Speaker 1: Big names, if it's a family name or what have you.
Speaker 1: But this year's draft, it was kind of like, nah, sure,
Speaker 1: if you're a college football fanatic or if you are
Speaker 1: into the draft in the NFL season more than the
Speaker 1: casual observer, you're gonna pay attention. And the name that
Speaker 1: everyone seemed to be talking about going into this one
Speaker 1: was Deion Sanders's son. This was his son that he
Speaker 1: coached there at Colorado to great success. They retired his
Speaker 1: number there at number two at that stadium.
Speaker 4: And when you ever you have.
Speaker 1: A successful a father who played successfully in the NFL
Speaker 1: the way Dion did, of course your name's.
Speaker 4: Going to be talked about it.
Speaker 1: They're going to watch you grow up, they're going to
Speaker 1: watch you at every stage of your game. You are
Speaker 1: the second coming, whether you like it or not. They're
Speaker 1: going to watch you in pee wee. They're going to
Speaker 1: watch you in middle school, in high school and through
Speaker 1: all the camps and everything.
Speaker 4: And that's how this kid was watched. And uh, and
Speaker 4: he is great.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't spent much time except for this weekend,
Speaker 1: listening to his interviews because when we spoke about the draft,
Speaker 1: we thought, after reading what the analyst said, that he
Speaker 1: was going to go from three to thirty three, anywhere
Speaker 1: from the top three pick to thirty three. And as
Speaker 1: the weekend progressed, and he falls out of the first
Speaker 1: round in the second round and what the heck is
Speaker 1: going on there? Finally gets picked up by Cleveland what
Speaker 1: in the fifth round round? And wow, what a weird
Speaker 1: quarterback room that is. Not to get into the weeds,
Speaker 1: but bizarre.
Speaker 2: Especially considering he was the second quarterback that they chose.
Speaker 3: He had the option to pick him in the third
Speaker 3: round and they didn't.
Speaker 1: So a lot of talk was about this isn't about football,
Speaker 1: because he is a very gifted athlete.
Speaker 4: He's a wonderful athlete.
Speaker 1: He's got the pedigree and he's got the physique, and
Speaker 1: he's got the arm and all the things, all the intangibles,
Speaker 1: but he also has the attitude of a kid raised
Speaker 1: with money, raised with a superstar father. Y'all know Dion's attitude.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a hardcore football fan to
Speaker 1: remember Dion Sanders and his presence.
Speaker 3: Good words.
Speaker 4: And that is speaking volumes.
Speaker 1: The way that he approached interviews, and I think that
Speaker 1: the reason we're talking about too is I think there's
Speaker 1: something to be learned from this, no matter what you
Speaker 1: do in life.
Speaker 4: He went into those interviews.
Speaker 1: By all accounts now that I've listened to of people
Speaker 1: in the know, he went into those interviews not caring
Speaker 1: what the person on the other side of the desk
Speaker 1: thought of him. He is so self assured and self confident.
Speaker 1: He did not care what the coaches or the gms,
Speaker 1: or whoever was on the other side of the desk.
Speaker 1: He didn't care what they thought of him. And it's
Speaker 1: very important to an employer or a boss that you
Speaker 1: care what they think, that you acknowledge what they think,
Speaker 1: that you want to do well for them for sure,
Speaker 1: for the team, for your business, for the company, for
Speaker 1: the client, whatever, but that it makes a working relationship,
Speaker 1: work to the point of success.
Speaker 4: If you do care what your boss.
Speaker 1: Thinks of your performance or or your process, depending on
Speaker 1: what you do, it counts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They have to believe that you're going to give it
Speaker 2: all for the team that you're being chosen for. And
Speaker 2: for a lot of those guys, especially if it's in
Speaker 2: the first round. I mean, the first couple are not
Speaker 2: really a surprise. Most of the time we kind of
Speaker 2: figure out who they're going to go to. But let's
Speaker 2: say you're picked, I don't know, middle of the first round,
Speaker 2: you're not quite sure which team is going to pick you,
Speaker 2: and you end up playing for the Carolina Panthers. Whatever
Speaker 2: you're from, you're from California, it doesn't matter. I mean,
Speaker 2: you've made it to the upper echelon of your field
Speaker 2: of play to even be drafted by an NFL team,
Speaker 2: and that team wants to know you're going to be
Speaker 2: in it to where with pride. The Carolina Panthers, jersey
Speaker 2: or whoever it is.
Speaker 1: Have to come with some humility in the NFL because
Speaker 1: you're I was going to just say a bad word,
Speaker 1: your crap. Even the best quarterbacks in the history of
Speaker 1: the league are crap.
Speaker 4: Well out of the gate.
Speaker 3: And think about this.
Speaker 2: If he's drafted, I think one hundred and forty three
Speaker 2: people were chosen before him in the draft. Time will
Speaker 2: erase from memory one hundred and forty of those probably.
Speaker 2: I mean when we think back on those huge drafts.
Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned Philip Rivers drafted in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four. He's one of a couple of names in
Speaker 2: that draft that anybody remembers. And I mean, Shador Sanders
Speaker 2: has every opportunity, as we've seen with other people drafted late.
Speaker 2: Joe Montana wasn't drafted filled the third round I think
Speaker 2: when he was drafted, and again, but he's one of
Speaker 2: those names that comes up from obscurity. Tom Brady was
Speaker 2: another guy who wasn't drafted very high. Even Rock Perty,
Speaker 2: the current quarterback for the San Francisco forty nine, was
Speaker 2: the absolute last guy in the draft. And he's going
Speaker 2: to be remembered as a great well as a pretty
Speaker 2: good quarterback at least to start.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing was this was a kid
Speaker 1: who had a draft room created for him.
Speaker 4: He paid or dad paid or whatever.
Speaker 1: To have that draft room that just said legendary emblazoned
Speaker 1: on all the walls.
Speaker 4: To me, it was listening to him in those interviews.
Speaker 1: It was distraction, distraction, distraction, that's not what you need.
Speaker 1: Lack of humility and distractions not what you need. That's
Speaker 1: not what teams want. And football ability be damned was
Speaker 1: the message. There was a video NFL Memes had posted
Speaker 1: it over the weekend, and it's a take of him
Speaker 1: and cam Ward, who went number one in the draft,
Speaker 1: and they're on a field and they're screen around, practicing
Speaker 1: or whatever, and shad Or Sanders says, hey, let's drop
Speaker 1: a song together, and cam Ward says, no, I play football.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, come on, come on, let's let's
Speaker 1: do this. And he's like, I play football. That's what
Speaker 1: I do. I play football. When they google me, I
Speaker 1: wanted to say cam Ward, National Football League, American football player,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. And that's why he was drafted
Speaker 1: number one because they want a one track mind.
Speaker 2: You bring distractions, you bring the LeVar Ball attitude into
Speaker 2: It's my three sons were going to those three kids
Speaker 2: were going to dominate the NBA and they yeah, didn't.
Speaker 4: So anyway, all right.
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