WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.160 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:09.519 A couple weeks ago, we told you about Virginia Jeffrey. 5 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:14.439 This was probably the most prominent victim of Jeffrey Epstein. 6 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:16.399 She was in an accident. 7 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.879 She'd posted a picture on social media last month of 8 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:22.359 a bruised up face, said she was in the hospital 9 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.120 and said she'd been hit by a bus and had 10 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:30.600 four days to live. Committed suicide Friday, forty one years old. 11 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:33.840 Body found late Friday night by family. Sparks a major 12 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.759 investigation into the scene. They gathered evidence for twelve hours 13 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.159 at the suspected suicide, and they said it could take 14 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.159 two years for a coroner's report to officially file a 15 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:45.799 report on how it is that she'd died. 16 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:50.880 We mentioned this as it has been unfolding. Workers cut 17 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.079 from the La city budget. It is way in the red, 18 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:59.359 and we mentioned that the animal services was going to 19 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.039 receive of substantial cuts and I thought, oh boy, here 20 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.640 we go. There's going to be a lot of fervor 21 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.040 and uproar over this plan. The second of two opportunities 22 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.920 for the public to share their thoughts. As it said, 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:18.040 so politely, so is going to come at City Hall today. 24 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.200 Michael Monks joins us. 25 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.560 He is on top of all things Los Angeles, all 26 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:28.120 the goings on, especially downtown. Michael, what can we envision 27 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.920 for today, especially after what we saw on Friday? 28 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.680 One hundred and twenty positions lost in the Animal Services 29 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.280 Department under this proposal. That's a department that's already been 30 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.280 struggling with capacity of animals. They're packed to the gills 31 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.879 with cats and dogs, trying to do everything they can 32 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:45.079 to get folks to adopt. But to lose thirty two 33 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.840 percent of its workforce really would not be a benefit 34 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.359 to the struggles that they're having. So it would go 35 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.519 from a workforce of three hundred and seventy eight people 36 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.159 to two hundred and fifty eight people. And that is 37 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.239 just one department that is bleeding out employees in this 38 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.079 mare Bass budget proposal. On Friday, the public got their 39 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.319 first chance to weigh in the City Council was having 40 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.359 their monthly meeting and Vannis. 41 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.319 They do this once a month now. 42 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:08.960 They go to the City Hall on van Nis and 43 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.400 that also happened to coincide with the first public hearing, 44 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.800 and that was packed. I mean, just like the animal shelters, 45 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.400 people busting at the seams to get in. There were 46 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.360 so crowded, in fact, that when some people would finish talking, 47 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.800 the Budget Committee chair Katie Arrislovsky would say, if you've 48 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.319 talked and you don't mind, would you please leave so 49 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.439 that we have seats available to the people who want 50 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.479 to come out. All in all, they got about two 51 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.560 hundred public comments, and people are upset. As you can imagine, 52 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.919 this is a significant reduction in the La City workforce. 53 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.680 And people are concerned about the animal Department, they're concerned 54 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.159 about the streets department. The police department is losing positions also, 55 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.360 not sworn officers, but hundreds of civilian workers. And you 56 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.240 heard some commenters say, well that work will still need 57 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.840 to be done, and that might mean sworn officers pivoting 58 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.879 to these other positions, and that costs more because they're 59 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:59.719 paid more. It might be over time and you might 60 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:01.759 not see a net positive as it relates to the 61 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:02.759 finances because of that. 62 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.400 I mean, off the air, you said very creatively and succinctly, 63 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:08.599 La is screwed. 64 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:09.560 That were broken. 65 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.439 I mean this process that we're in seems to consistently 66 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.759 show up every year couple of years when the budget 67 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.000 comes around, everybody looks at each other and scratches their 68 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:19.520 head and goes. 69 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.639 I don't know what we're gonna do. What are we 70 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.520 going to do? Last year, the writing was already on 71 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:22.879 the wall. 72 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.080 They cut a bunch of vacant positions, because even departments 73 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.159 that have positions that are not filled, they still get 74 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.639 the funding for those positions in anticipation that somebody will 75 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.039 fill them. Instead, they cut thousands of those positions and 76 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:38.879 use that money, took the money from the department and 77 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.400 put it back into the general fund. 78 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:41.400 It wasn't enough. 79 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.039 So this year we're talking about flesh and blood people 80 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.159 on top of more vacant positions being slash. So here 81 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:49.879 is a city that already knew it was in a 82 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.240 bad position last year, did not take drastic actions beyond 83 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:57.400 the vacant cuts to position. 84 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.000 Themselves to be healthier this time around. 85 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.360 In fact, it's a worse and the news got worse 86 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:06.240 on Saturday when the S and P decided to lower 87 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.840 the city's credit rating by a point, which. 88 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.719 I missed that that's a big deal. 89 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:11.639 It's a big deal. 90 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.680 And that means it's harder to borrow, it's more expensive 91 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.160 to borrow, and this is a city that is borrowing. 92 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.800 They're talking about borrowing money to cover the cost of 93 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.199 the legal settlements that they've been facing. There's a special 94 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:24.720 kind of municipal bond. 95 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.839 Because they're just settling everything everything. 96 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.480 And there are hundreds of millions over budget for that, 97 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:29.480 the legal settlement. 98 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.560 And everybody knows they're settling everything, which is why they're 99 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:32.399 following claims. 100 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.360 Yeah, and this was already happening back in the fall. 101 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:37.560 I've reported on this in the fall, Like this seems 102 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.079 excessive a lot of times. Even when I first started 103 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:42.920 here and first started going to city council meetings, there 104 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:44.920 would just be a regular meeting and then they'd run 105 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:46.879 through about ten settlements and I kind of write them 106 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:48.040 all down, like the numbers. 107 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.720 Like that adds up to like six million dollars. 108 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:50.839 Here's something about lawyers. 109 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.120 If they notice the city settling everything, they're going to 110 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.199 jump on that gravy train and they have enough. 111 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.920 And it is very seldom that you hear the city 112 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.399 clerk say that the city attorney has reckoned then did 113 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.040 rejecting the settlement. Often, Yeah, no, it happens, but very rare. 114 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.319 So one jury I sat on was a case where 115 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.399 the city did decide to fight and they ended up 116 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.199 on the hook for thirteen and a half million dollars. 117 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.839 And that's why you find them settling so often, because 118 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.519 a lot of these cases, it's not like they're illegitimate cases. 119 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.079 They sound strange in the categories that they're titled. Trip 120 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.120 and fall, trip and fall, tripple. Come on, somebody fell 121 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.319 and now you owe them five hundred thousand dollars. 122 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:25.680 Yeah. 123 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.319 Really, they might have been swallowed up by a terrible 124 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.920 infrastructure of a light pole might have fallen on them. 125 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:33.600 It's it's not good stuff out. 126 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:35.519 There, Michael. Can you hold on for another segment? 127 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.519 If I don't have a choice, I guess, Oh you always? 128 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.800 It is Monday for crying out. 129 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.519 Let me see Jesus is still walking around all. 130 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:46.920 Was always a pleasure to be with you guys, and 131 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:48.480 I would love to stay as long as you'll have one. 132 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:52.040 We haven't gotten to ascension Thursday yet? Is it a Thursday? 133 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.079 I don't know what. Google. 134 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.720 Weren't you in the Catholic school system longer than I 135 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:57.959 was before I was asked to leave. 136 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.560 How long were you doing How long did you do it? 137 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:01.600 Almost the end of fourth grade? 138 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:03.800 They're like, you might do better in the public school 139 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.560 for four years kindergarten too, So almost five full years. 140 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:10.199 Okay, so I was there third to eighth grades of five. 141 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.680 We're thrill ding dong here, real dig dog. 142 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.439 Well, the Clippers are in Denver tonight tomorrow night, so 143 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.839 we'll talk about the Clippers Nuggets series when we come back. 144 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:25.480 Hot, hot Catholic talk. Eagles wings Baby, let's go. 145 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:26.360 Oh that's a banger. 146 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.680 Oh, I know one bread, one body, So well, let's 147 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:29.800 not shut the door on that love. 148 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:36.240 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 149 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:37.360 AM six forty. 150 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.360 Michael Monks is with us from KFI News. He stays 151 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.720 on top of all the things going on in downtown LA. 152 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:48.079 They're easy to not pay attention to. But if we 153 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.399 don't pay attention, then the crooks get to their crookery, 154 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.680 don't they. Right now, there are a lot of job 155 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.519 cuts for Los Angeles. I was wondering if there was 156 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.839 any shades of in the public comment what's going on 157 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.120 in the national level in terms of the federal agencies 158 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:08.959 being gutted and if there's any fingers pointing at LA 159 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:09.920 city leaders. 160 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:12.360 You know, in conjunction with that. 161 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.639 It's a pretty consistent theme that there are folks who 162 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.879 believe that there's something shady going on at city Hall, 163 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.839 but some of the folks that say that the most 164 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:24.680 aren't necessarily reliable narrators. The most common refrain you hear 165 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.639 about the state of the national economy and the federal 166 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.560 government comes from mayorbas herself, because that seems to be 167 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.959 where she's placing the bulk of the blame for the 168 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.720 city's finances, particularly over the weekend when the S and 169 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.279 P lord the city's credit rating. It's you know, we're 170 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:44.560 facing economic headwinds, and we may face some challenges with 171 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:49.240 federal money coming from Trump's animosity towards sanctuary cities like 172 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.920 Los Angeles, something that also escalated today. So that's something 173 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.279 to keep an eye on. And she also talks about 174 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.600 a structural imbalance. Didn't elaborate on what that means exactly, 175 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.759 but she been trying to fix it, she says, for 176 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:04.079 the twenty seven months that she's been in office. 177 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.959 I mean too much management to top heavy. 178 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.199 That's what I can assume, you know, from an engineering perspective, 179 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.560 but we might not know because engineers are also being 180 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.360 cut from the city department. One hundred and twenty five 181 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.720 City engineers are on the chopping block for this also 182 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.040 hundreds of jobs transportation, hundreds of jobs. We already talked 183 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.319 about animal services five hundred and sixty six in city planning. 184 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.199 Well, that imbalance, I mean, it says here that despite 185 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.679 all of the cuts that you're talking about, the proposed 186 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.440 budget is still an eight percent more than eight percent 187 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.759 increase over the plan for the spending plan from last 188 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:42.000 year because part of what. 189 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.200 They want to do is ramp up their their reserve fund. 190 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.279 The reserve fund is sort of like a rainy day fund. 191 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.639 You like to know that you've got some money tucked 192 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.879 away in case the poop hits the fan. Right Well, 193 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.519 it has, and it has all the school year, and 194 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.440 so they've been dipping into that. The city likes to 195 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:04.480 keep that number at about five percent of its total budget. 196 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.039 If it dips below two point three percent, they have 197 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.080 to declare a fiscal emergency, and they're knocking on the 198 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.120 door of that. So the reason that you're seeing more 199 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.720 money go in to just prop that up is to 200 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.919 make them feel better you know, when you're out spending something, 201 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.639 but you know you've got ten grand and the bank 202 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.480 that you can tap into. If this purchase is more 203 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.559 than you bargain for, you feel a little bit more 204 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.720 comfortable about it. But you have to have a plan 205 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.360 to replenish that that savings account. 206 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.879 Because in the event that they did do, like you said, 207 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.919 this fiscal emergency that comes with a whole nother level 208 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.840 of probably credit downgrades from credit rating agencies and things 209 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:43.360 like that. 210 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:44.919 It seems that this is going to get worse. Now. 211 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.480 The optimistic tone that the mayor has struck is that 212 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:50.879 she doesn't want to see these layoffs happen at all, 213 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:56.879 that perhaps Sacramento will come through and somehow bail out 214 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:00.879 and the laughter isn't without merit. I mean, I think 215 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.120 the way I try to think about this is picture 216 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.159 yourself as an adult. You've got yourself in a situation. 217 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:09.200 You've overspent and you're running out of money, and if 218 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.039 you don't figure something out, you might be in default. 219 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.840 You might have to sell your furniture, but you're going 220 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:17.879 to ask mom and dad for the money. If mom 221 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.000 and dad have the money, they might be willing to 222 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:20.759 give it to you. 223 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:21.600 Or loan it to you. 224 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.519 We're going to say, manage your own budget, you dumb ass, 225 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.519 and then slap you across the face. 226 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.440 Because if I do this for you, then your brother 227 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:34.639 San Francisco, your sister San Diego, they might come crawling 228 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:35.320 to us next. 229 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.600 I mean, all the other kids we screwed up raising 230 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.120 are going to need money as well. 231 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:42.279 I do want to add context what you said earlier. 232 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.440 President Trump is supposed to sign an executive order today 233 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.440 to direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland 234 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.440 Security to identify cities and states that are not complying 235 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.480 with federal immigration laws, basically a list of sanctuary cities 236 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.799 in order to One of the things that he's that 237 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.919 he campaigned on was withholding federal moneys from those municipalities, 238 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:03.919 and a federal court. 239 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.000 Told him he can't do that last week. So he's 240 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:10.000 obviously got a weird relationship with the courts right now. Anyway, 241 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.000 under statement, so this executive order seems to just ignore 242 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.320 any warnings about the federal funding. This isn't directly related 243 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:21.120 to federal funding necessarily, but he's also willing to put 244 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:24.799 people in handcuffs, So we'll have to see how this. 245 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.759 Plays out, and not in the recreational sense, no, no, 246 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:29.960 not for fun, more actual jail. 247 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.039 So you know, the city's relationship with federal government is 248 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.960 not going to improve anytime soon, it doesn't look like. 249 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.639 So they won't get a bail out from the Feds, 250 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:40.799 that's for certain. Whether they get one from mommy and 251 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.480 Daddy and Sacramento, we'll just have to see the meeting 252 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.679 on Thursday that the mayor had up in Sacramento, multiple meetings. 253 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.759 She did point out there are a lot of lawmakers 254 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.960 from La County who might be sympathetic. They do make 255 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.519 up an inordinate amount of the total population of the Assembly. 256 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.679 But she didn't get to meet with the governor, you know. 257 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.879 And I didn't hear a lot of champion for this 258 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:02.519 cause at the state Capitol. 259 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.120 Well, she certainly has connections. That's where she uh breads 260 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.360 her butter. So we'll we'll have to wait and see 261 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.240 butters her bread. I don't know how she does it specifically. 262 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:13.600 What did I say, bread's her butter? 263 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:13.960 Yeah? 264 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.919 I mean maybe she just takes a thing up, do 265 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.600 you really bread and slaps it on the Take the 266 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:21.639 bread and butter for the bread. I eat it for 267 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.559 the butter. The bread is just a vehicle for the 268 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:24.759 butter depends on the bread. 269 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.759 You can't just go into the into the into the 270 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.679 refrigerator and just scoop yourself up with your hand some 271 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:30.679 butter and eat it. 272 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:31.480 You got to put it on. 273 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.480 I bet you could. Yeah, I bet you're gonna do 274 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:34.200 it this afternoon. 275 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.039 I told you how my parents would often find me 276 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:38.759 as a child with just a cube of butter in 277 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:39.159 my hand. 278 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.840 Yep. Okay, my goodness, there's a public hearing today. 279 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:44.480 There was just a bit of bow on this before 280 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.919 you guys, get back to your butter. The city council 281 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.440 back down town, they will have more public comments today. 282 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:53.159 They'll also hear from civilian labor unions and the neighborhood councils. 283 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.320 And there are hearings throughout the next two weeks, so 284 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.240 we'll hear off from all the departments, their concerns and 285 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:58.360 all that coming up. V. 286 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.080 Michael Monks, thank you, Thank you. 287 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.519 Better than a stick of butter. 288 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.200 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 289 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:07.320 AM six forty. 290 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.720 It's just something that maybe we could work towards this week. 291 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.200 Okay, well, Friday, I will be on the edge of 292 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:13.639 my seat. 293 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.200 Your license plate numbers are changing here in California. The 294 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.559 state is running out of its current combination of license 295 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.399 plate numbers and letters, so they've come up with a 296 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.320 new plate sequence for newly registered vehicles starting next. 297 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.480 Year instead of the one that everybody's probably accustomed to, 298 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:41.080 a number three letters and then three numbers. That's the 299 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.799 way we've been doing it since nineteen eighty, starting with 300 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:49.279 the one AAA zero zero zero, the latest sequence expected 301 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.039 to end sometime next year with that final plate. When 302 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.600 you go through all of the iterations, which is nine 303 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.559 zzz nine nine, that's funny. 304 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.200 You would open up your mail and you get your 305 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.159 license plate, and you open it up and says nine 306 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:03.679 zzz nine nine nine. 307 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.879 I'd be like, oh, that's not good. I don't know 308 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.240 what that is, but that's not good. 309 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.279 So what they're going to do is it's going the 310 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:16.120 next sequence will be three numerals followed by three letters 311 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:21.120 in one numeral, so like three four or five XYZ two. 312 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.279 I think this screws with a lot of people, you do, Yeah, 313 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.000 people that are used to a certain sequence, you know. 314 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.799 You know, we talked about the spectrum, and certain people 315 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.679 like things done a certain way change when it comes 316 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:38.240 to license plates ruffle some feathers. 317 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.919 I when I saw this this morning, I just was 318 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:47.000 amazed at how many vehicles are are purchased, how many 319 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.559 new I mean, that's the mind blowing thing to me 320 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.840 is Yeah, I know, there's forty million people ish that 321 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.960 live in the state of California and you figure what, 322 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.919 I don't know, twenty million of them own vehicles, of 323 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:03.639 some at least one. But the turnover on that is 324 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.919 so ridiculous that you go through. I mean, that's a 325 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.159 couple million numbers that are possible with just those seven numbers. 326 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.240 Well, now, the reason this news is hitting is because 327 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.519 you look at the numbers people are buying based on 328 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:21.399 the tariff situation, not knowing the uncertainty of what the 329 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.600 tariff situation will mean for car parts and purchases moving forward. 330 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.360 In the first quarter of this year, compared with last year, 331 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.120 new vehicle registrations are up more than eight percent, which 332 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.600 is not insignificant. That is a surge and new vehicle 333 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:43.519 purchases as we wait to hear what the implementation of 334 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:44.759 these new tariffs will mean. 335 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.600 And that's before we get into the When the tariffs 336 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:48.799 were put in so April. 337 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.279 May I mean we're going to see a lot of 338 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:52.799 a lot more purchases. 339 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.080 Yeah. 340 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.600 Did I just say that like somebody's mother? 341 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:00.639 Yeah? 342 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.240 Yeah, yeah, yeap, y'all'll be there, but you tell Margie, 343 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.399 I'll be there at four. 344 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.120 Yeah. 345 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:10.360 Boy, Well, you know what, Just let it happen. Let 346 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:12.159 it happen. Just lean into the slide. 347 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.799 King's lost to the Oilers last night four to three, 348 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:16.799 So they even that series of two games? 349 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:17.120 Apiece. 350 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.039 Lakers lost to the Timberwolves one sixteen to one, thirteen 351 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.879 jor did they trail in that series three to one? 352 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.279 Twins beat the Angels five nothing. Angels actually have a 353 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.000 day off. They'll be in Seattle tomorrow. Dodgers beat the 354 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.559 Pirates ninety two. So the Marlins come to town tonight. 355 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.320 You bet, y'all, yeap four o'clock, Margie, I'll be there. 356 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.360 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 357 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:42.480 AM six forty. 358 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.919 The NFL Draft went down, and if you're a casual 359 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.440 NFL fan like most people are, you're probably not paying 360 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:54.679 too much attention, especially on years where you're not seeing 361 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.159 massive names. 362 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.320 Go I remember the year. I think it is the 363 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:00.960 gear that. 364 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.240 I moved to LA and want to say two thousand 365 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:09.799 and five when it was like Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger, 366 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:12.799 Eli Manning, I want to say that was that year. 367 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.559 I could be wrong on that. No, Philip Rivers was 368 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.880 before then, wasn't he? I don't know anyway. You know, 369 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.960 when you've got like big three quarterbacks or things like that, 370 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:25.079 you know, and you you hear a lot about the draft. 371 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:26.519 There's a lot of hype. 372 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.799 Big names, if it's a family name or what have you. 373 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:35.079 But this year's draft, it was kind of like, nah, sure, 374 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.279 if you're a college football fanatic or if you are 375 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:43.039 into the draft in the NFL season more than the 376 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.319 casual observer, you're gonna pay attention. And the name that 377 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.799 everyone seemed to be talking about going into this one 378 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.599 was Deion Sanders's son. This was his son that he 379 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.359 coached there at Colorado to great success. They retired his 380 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.039 number there at number two at that stadium. 381 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:01.079 And when you ever you have. 382 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.440 A successful a father who played successfully in the NFL 383 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.640 the way Dion did, of course your name's. 384 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:08.039 Going to be talked about it. 385 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:09.839 They're going to watch you grow up, they're going to 386 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:11.640 watch you at every stage of your game. You are 387 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.000 the second coming, whether you like it or not. They're 388 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.480 going to watch you in pee wee. They're going to 389 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.440 watch you in middle school, in high school and through 390 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:19.519 all the camps and everything. 391 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.240 And that's how this kid was watched. And uh, and 392 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.200 he is great. 393 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:28.279 But I hadn't spent much time except for this weekend, 394 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:32.319 listening to his interviews because when we spoke about the draft, 395 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.559 we thought, after reading what the analyst said, that he 396 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.119 was going to go from three to thirty three, anywhere 397 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.319 from the top three pick to thirty three. And as 398 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.160 the weekend progressed, and he falls out of the first 399 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:45.839 round in the second round and what the heck is 400 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.240 going on there? Finally gets picked up by Cleveland what 401 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.400