WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:07.320 demand on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:13.279 White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is apparently set 5 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:16.239 to leave the administration, according to a couple of people 6 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.359 talk to the AP also being reported by CBS ABC 7 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.679 The Wall Street Journal. Waltz was the one that came 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.160 under scrutiny in March after the revelations that he had 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.679 added Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor for The Atlantic magazine, to 10 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.960 a private text chain on the encrypted messaging app Signal. 11 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.320 Laura Lomer, apparently one of the allies of President Trump 12 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.119 with no real official government position, has also targeted him, 13 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.520 telling Trump in a recent Noble Office conversation that Trump 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.359 needs to purge aids who she believes are not sufficiently 15 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.560 loyal to the make America Great Again agenda? 16 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.159 Are we just going to one more than I'm allotted? 17 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.280 I just want everybody to follow along with the idiocy 18 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.719 of people saying I've listened to you for years and 19 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:08.200 I know everything you've ever said. 20 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.640 You know, you guys have no credibility about talking about 21 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.239 the way someone speaks or the way they think, what 22 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.439 about Biden. I listen to you guys for years, and 23 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:25.879 you guys already ever said anything about abuse? 24 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.799 Sir, did you make fun of your grandpa with dementia? 25 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:30.079 Me? 26 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.400 Neither? Or I'm done with that. 27 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:34.159 Okay, We're done. 28 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:35.640 Ye close the door. 29 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:37.680 From this point on it is going to be what 30 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:39.840 would be Shannon's stripper song after that. 31 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.319 That's all I want to pals with it. 32 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.280 I'm open for that kind of feedback. We are dealing 33 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.599 with in Los Angeles and nearly billion dollar budget shortfall, 34 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.120 and now we're hearing that some of the job cuts 35 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.840 are going to land squarely with the LAPD. Michael Monks 36 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.640 has been following this all the detritus that is downtown LA. 37 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:04.000 One was on there. Here's my issue, just being an 38 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.560 observer for twenty years here in LA. If you cut 39 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:12.319 jobs from the LAPD, Michael, it doesn't take away work 40 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.240 from the LAPD, which means you're dealing with something that 41 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.120 the LAPD knows all too well. And that little thing 42 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.000 is called overtime, which is going to cost the city 43 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.639 a hell of a lot more than those positions. Am 44 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:26.080 I wrong? 45 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:28.840 Hopefully not according to the city. 46 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.439 I mean or or hopefully so according to the city, 47 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.400 because it's not just jobs are being eliminated, the overtime 48 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.080 budget is also being slashed. 49 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:36.759 Impossible. 50 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.800 All of these things are an attempt to help close 51 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.400 that one billion dollar budget shortfall. Now, when the budget 52 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:45.400 was first proposed by Mayor Bass a couple of weeks ago, 53 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.960 it was noted, yes, there are layoffs in the LAPD proposed, 54 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.159 but no sworn officers. 55 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:52.479 So okay, a sigh of relief. 56 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.319 Maybe maybe they're talking about, you know, somebody who answers 57 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.039 the phones as a secretary or that type of person, 58 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.080 a driver. But apparently to the chief, these are significant 59 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:09.400 roles that do directly involve themselves in justice in solving cases. 60 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.280 And like you said, if those folks are gone, it 61 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.719 will be sworn officers that have to fill those roles. 62 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:18.400 Chief McDonald's spoke to the La City Council Budget Committee 63 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.280 yesterday and here's a little bit of what he had 64 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:20.800 to say about it. 65 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.439 Give me, I'm sorry, I could have set that up 66 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.479 a little bit better. Here you go. 67 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.080 The mayor's proposed budget includes a staggering reduction of four 68 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.599 hundred and three civilian positions, representing fifteen point two percent 69 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.719 of our civilian workforce. These are not faceless numbers. There 70 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.400 are men and women who've devoted their lives to public service, 71 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.080 often behind the scenes, with specialized skills, ensuring that our 72 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.680 officers have the tools, data, and operational support they need 73 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.800 to keep our city safe. Their work is essential and 74 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.159 their loss is not just a human one, but one 75 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.560 that will be felt by every neighborhood in our city. 76 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.080 I have a question here. Tracy Park council member was 77 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.840 quoted as saying that officers would be taken off the 78 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:09.439 street to fill jobs like criminalists who handle DNA, gun 79 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.400 duy evidence things like that. Those are different things. Those 80 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:14.199 are different. 81 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.120 Jobs they are. 82 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.360 Don't take a patrol officer and make hey or she 83 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.199 a criminalist in the lab. 84 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:21.800 She was joined by a couple other members of council 85 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.800 a timmic Oscar and John Lee yesterday before the Chief 86 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:28.439 spoke to you know, deride these proposed cuts in the department. 87 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.800 She may be technically incorrect on who would fill those roles, 88 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:33.920 but the chief did say it would be sworn officers 89 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.199 who are pulled off the streets to do some of 90 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.759 these desk jobs. He's talking about DNA ballistics analysis, so 91 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.759 that's directly involved in criminal analysis and investigation, but it 92 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:49.240 off toying evidence and that sort of thing. So vehicle 93 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.480 mechanics are also in the chopping block, so when the 94 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:53.879 cruisers go down. We ran into this problem, yeah, during 95 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.800 the fires with some trucks that were parked and not 96 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.279 in use because they say we don't have enough guys 97 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.720 to fix the So that might be looming on the 98 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.879 horizon for the police department. He says the chief that 99 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:09.319 we might have to shut down facilities, including jails, if 100 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.959 we don't have this type of workforce. 101 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.879 There's a lot of crying wolf, isn't there when any 102 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.079 department is cut into But we need this or else, 103 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.120 and then they throw a worst case scenario at you 104 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.160 to scare you into them being able to keep the jobs. 105 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:29.399 But the LAPD right now is kind of there when 106 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:34.759 it comes to they they're already running very low at 107 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:37.000 the LAPD. It's kind of like the same thing with 108 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.519 the animal services that we talked about. They're already running 109 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.399 at a deficit. These aren't bloated agencies. 110 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:46.240 I don't think on paper they want about ten thousand officers. 111 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.639 They've got somewhere between eighty five hundred and eighty eight hundred, 112 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:52.240 depending on how many retirements have common during whichever month. 113 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.399 They've had a hard time filling the ranks. And they 114 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.160 are budgeted for about ten thousand officers, so they get 115 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.439 the money asigned, but they have not been able to 116 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.680 fill the ranks, and so at some point a question 117 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.000 has to be asked, if your recruitment efforts aren't working, 118 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.720 what do you need to do as a department, either 119 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.399 to improve that effort or to improve your efficiencies to 120 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.759 better deliver protective services to the people of Los Angeles 121 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.439 with the resources that you have currently. One question that 122 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.439 was raised by council Member Eunisses Hernandez very anti police department, 123 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.560 especially with their budget. She wanted them to ground their 124 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.879 helicopters and Chief McDonald explained that the helicopter does fly 125 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:32.600 about twenty hours a day, and she says is that necessary? 126 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.399 And he says it's necessary because it's easier to have 127 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.519 it already in the air than to call it off 128 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.040 a building should it be needed. But that's a question 129 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.000 that was raised yesterday. 130 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.160 Sure that I understand that question. 131 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.519 Absolutely, and so we'll see more of those questions you 132 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.920 mentioned Animal Service. All of these departments are coming through 133 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.079 to lead their case about why these cuts would be 134 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:54.360 detrimental to their various departments. It might be departments that 135 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.839 you never deal with. The arts and culture departments will 136 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.480 come in and say, you know, we won't be able 137 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.519 to have the events that mean so much too whatever. 138 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.040 The people will die, will die. 139 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.199 Without that painting on the walls. 140 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.079 So today, the homeless spending is on the agenda and 141 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:09.600 that's going on right now at City Hall and I'll 142 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:11.720 have those reports throughout the remainder of the day. But 143 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.560 just to put a pen in this for you, you mentioned overtime. 144 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.120 The mayor is proposed reducing the overtime budget in the 145 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.759 LAPD by thirty six million dollars, and the Chief says 146 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.360 that means less deployment to target areas like Nis Beach, 147 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.639 MacArthur Park, the RV Homeless Camp Task Force. So you 148 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.240 will see fewer people on the streets because of this, 149 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:32.839 even if officers aren't being laid off. 150 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.519 Thankless job. Jim McDonald has a thankless job, right. 151 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.680 Well, well, I mean, let's let's not pretend that overtime 152 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:45.279 hasn't been overused by people who protect and serve. That 153 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.639 is as long as that has been an occupation. It 154 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.279 has been overused, but it is necessary, especially when the 155 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:59.560 department is strained unfortunately. So all right, Michael Monks, we've 156 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:04.360 got a lifeguard emergency and you were a lifeguard rag Doll. 157 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.439 I think rag Doll would be your stripper song Aerosmith. 158 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:10.720 Oh really, that's a good one. 159 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:11.480 I don't know. 160 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.319 I think you'd be great at it. Yes, I was 161 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:18.279 a ragged I was a lifeguard. Yeah, that's it. 162 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:19.920 I don't know. 163 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:20.519 Oh, you know it. 164 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:21.839 I don't like it. I don't know. 165 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.360 That's helmer. 166 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.480 Got a cute that was quick, pretty quick? 167 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:27.959 Yep. 168 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:32.720 Lifeguard life and a chance for you to win ten 169 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:33.879 thousand bucks when we come back. 170 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.200 Gary and Shannon will continue. 171 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:40.080 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI. 172 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:41.559 AM six forty. 173 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.879 Is an I choreograph it? Yeah, let me coorey. 174 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:47.879 You know I did some musical theater back in Cincinnattie. 175 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.440 I think I will trust you. We'll let the hair 176 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.159 down in the middle of the set. 177 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.480 Oh yeah, interesting? Am I in trouble to singing travel? 178 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.200 How far can we go? 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One of the reasons they chose 214 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.679 the profession. And when you see dolphins sea lions come ashore, 215 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:48.919 they're still alive. They do the best they can to 216 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.440 make them comfortable, but obviously it doesn't work out many times, 217 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:52.320 and that can take a toll. 218 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.320 Michael Monks is from Kentucky and a. 219 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:59.840 Lot of dolphins, sea lions, And I got it, Pricks. 220 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.039 You know I was a lifeguard. You were deep in 221 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:05.919 pig pig butt hollow. 222 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:06.639 How does that work? 223 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.240 Yeah, that's the county seat. I'm surprised at your geographic knowledge. Yeah, well, 224 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.240 being a lifeguard is a pretty sweet gig in general. 225 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.200 Now these are you know, the beach lifeguards. You start 226 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.039 to get into like, oh, where was I lifeguard? I 227 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:22.759 was a lifeguard on campus. I don't want to brag 228 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.000 about my undergraduate education, but it was at Northern Kentucky University. 229 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.120 Oh my god, amazing and the aquatic Center. I was 230 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.399 also in the summers a lifeguard at a country club. 231 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.679 And then the summer after I graduated, I couldn't get 232 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.559 off of Kentucky fast enough, so I worked at a 233 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.440 sleep away summer camp in the Poconos. And so I 234 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.000 was a lifeguard at the pool there and also the 235 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:40.720 dreaded lake. 236 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:41.600 Wow. 237 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.039 Yeahs die, not that I'm aware of. 238 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:46.440 There were a couple of floaters, but I don't think 239 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:47.279 it was on my shift. 240 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.279 Yeah. I feel like whenever there's a camp these days, 241 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.480 whether it's a book or a movie, someone dies. 242 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:54.399 This was a summer camp. 243 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.879 You got the vibes because all the movies are shot 244 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:58.879 at those places and they all look the same. And 245 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.759 that was all I could think. Not a good choice 246 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:02.840 on my part, Not a good I should have just 247 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.919 left town and moved to LA or something. 248 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:06.919 But I don't know. I got a memoir out of. 249 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:08.759 It, Yes, story exactly, So go on. Sorry. 250 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:09.080 Yeah. 251 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.399 And so when you're that kind of lifeguard me that 252 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.039 you know, this is the casual after class or in 253 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.360 the summertime, it's a pretty good gig. Very rarely are 254 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.919 you needed to do anything to save someone. It happens, 255 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.879 and you're there for that purpose. Mostly you're doing the 256 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.080 mundane maintenance of the pool, changing the chlorine and making 257 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.519 sure that the people to stop running. Stop running is 258 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.519 what you say the most. No running, you know. And 259 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.279 you're trolling the whistle to the left and then you're 260 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.480 trolling it to the right, and then your shift is over. 261 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.480 It's a great gig and you get a tan if 262 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:40.759 it's outside. These are pro lifeguards who are dealing with 263 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.519 significant tragedy right that they can't save. When you are lifeguard, 264 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.200 you were trained to save, right, and these are animals. 265 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.279 Give mouth to mouth to a dolphin that's succumbed to algae. 266 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.200 No, you don't want to put your mouth mouth to blowhole. 267 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.639 Probably mouth to blowhole is that the way it would 268 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:59.399 go in I've never tried, sounds like you have, Okay, 269 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.039 I have, but it didn't work. 270 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:07.679 Well, you're talking about some beloved creatures, the dolphin, the 271 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.120 sea lion. He's trying to put the trade on the trail, 272 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:12.799 the birds, and. 273 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.720 You're talking about some beloved animals. 274 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.519 It's not a rat you ran over in downtown l A. Okay, 275 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.759 these are animals that you We've talked about this before, Shannon. 276 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.759 There are tears of feelings for animals, right. Depending on 277 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:25.120 the type of animal, you have different feelings a pigeon. 278 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:30.279 Ken Champeau is the architect of the animal hierarchy. He 279 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:32.679 famously would say, I would not eat a horse. 280 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.799 So there's not really like a bold position. 281 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.399 No, but that was the top of his higher you know. 282 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.679 He didn't want, you know, animals, and further down you 283 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.679 would eat them, but up at the top you would 284 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:45.200 not eat. 285 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.639 I think you go farther down, I wouldn't eat those 286 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.480 animals either. I wouldn't need a rat. I'd need a 287 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.840 horse before I eat a rat, would you. I would 288 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:52.919 eat a horse burger before you gave me a rat sandwich. 289 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.480 I mean from a morality perspective is where they hierarchy 290 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.759 comes from. The things you'd feel bad about eating. You 291 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.039 would feel bad about eating a you wouldn't want to, 292 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:02.840 but if it came down to it, you went and 293 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.200 feel like, oh it's so cute. 294 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:04.919 I don't know that I. 295 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:07.600 Would more in the majestic animal. Yeah, I might more 296 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:08.879 eat a majestic animal. 297 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:10.360 I think about my cat this way though, like, what 298 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.120 if it came, what if the apocalypse comes? 299 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.120 The cat will eat you before you eat the cat. 300 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.039 He will try and has tried. I've got to scratching 301 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.519 my arm right now, on your forearm. You know that's 302 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:19.120 where they go? 303 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:20.840 Is that where they go? But you die? 304 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:22.960 That's the first thing your cat. It's not even that 305 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.200 flesh groom. That's not the good meat. I got better 306 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:26.080 meat than forearms. 307 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:27.399 Now that's where cats go. 308 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:30.360 Like the forearm must be tender or something. 309 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:31.360 What's your cat's name? 310 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:38.720 Milo, Milo Monks? Like you said, he was trying to 311 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:40.639 put the show back on the tracks. 312 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:45.120 Well, all right, thanks Michael. 313 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:49.240 Goodbye, goodbye. Remember remember no running. 314 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.960 Twirl to the right, twirl to the left. 315 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.759 Shifts over. Garry and Channon will continue in just a moment. 316 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.240 You're listening to Gary Ian Shannon on demand from KFI 317 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.360 AM six forty. 318 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.440 I've everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Stories We are following 319 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:10.960 for you today? Is it the fan that fell off 320 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:11.559 the no? 321 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.559 No, no, brooks Lee. Oh kid who used to play 322 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.360 at cal Poly Samuels Obispo's now playing for the Twins 323 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:18.279 and hit a double. 324 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.519 Oh thanks. I saw him play a bunch of times 325 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:24.399 up at cal Poly. They keep playing the fan falling 326 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.240 out of the stands thing. That's what I was wondering. 327 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:27.440 Oh yeah, No. 328 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.039 My concern is they're going to start putting nets up 329 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:32.840 in the outfield so people don't fall. 330 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.559 I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Elon Musk is 331 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:40.559 defending the work of Doge as he prepares to scale 332 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.120 back from his role in government spend more time at 333 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.679 his businesses. It did an interview with reporters at the 334 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.000 White House yesterday giving hazy answers about the work he'd 335 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.320 been doing, and Doge's future seemed taken aback by the 336 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.039 backlash he has encountered. He has estimated he's cut one 337 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.519 hundred and sixty billions so far and hard to get 338 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:05.080 anywhere near close to his original stated goal of one 339 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.919 trillion dollars. He said, it's sort of how much pain 340 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.559 is the cabinet in Congress? Willing to take. 341 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.000 Speaking of Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal ran with 342 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:20.200 a report today that Tesla was Tesla's board was looking 343 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:24.679 at replacing Elon Musk. Board members reached out to executive 344 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.519 search firms to work on a formal process. Elon Musk 345 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.559 came out and said it is an extremely bad breach 346 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.720 of ethics that the Wall Street Journal would even publish 347 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.720 a deliberately false article and failed to include an unequivocal 348 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.440 denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors. 349 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.159 Well, different influencers are popping up all over the place 350 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.679 with different takes on things, whether it is true crime, 351 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:54.360 influencers on TikTok as they do their makeup and pimp products, 352 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.879 or what have you. God is no different influencers have 353 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.799 popped up preaching about God and they are not preachers. 354 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.559 Girls Gone Bible is what we're referring to. It is 355 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.160 at the top of the religious podcast charts on Spotify, 356 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.480 more than twenty million listens in just two years. Girls 357 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:20.720 Gone Bible. These are a couple of women who have 358 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.599 no formal training in ministry, but they have become unlikely 359 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.720 religious authorities to a fan base larger than that of 360 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:33.200 many of the nation's most popular preachers. It's a two 361 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:38.519 microphone megachurch. They call it speaking to the nation's evangelical 362 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:43.079 teen and tween girls. Will Hart is a pastor and 363 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.680 director of Iris Global, a church with missions all over 364 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:50.960 the world. He told these women, you're reaching more people 365 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.200 than I've reached in twenty five years of ministry. He said, 366 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.359 is that weird for you? It's weird for me, but 367 00:17:57.480 --> 00:17:58.200 it's beautiful. 368 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.960 One of them is an Albanian immigrant. Came to the 369 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.880 United States at the age of two, spent her high 370 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.039 school years in Clearwater, Florida, graduated in twenty fourteen, and 371 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.240 moved here to LA to study acting. She did get 372 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.079 a couple of little roles, but she supported herself waiting tables. 373 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.559 Everybody's heard heard that story before. 374 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:24.119 Angela Haleiley and then Ariel Ritzma also came to LA 375 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.720 right out of high school. She came to LA from Massachusetts, 376 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.839 small town right outside of Boston, and after a rough 377 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.880 start sleeping on the blow up mattress in a small 378 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.240 apartment off of Hollywood Boulevard. Again, very common story. I'm 379 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:38.680 sure everybody's got a version of that, she found an agent. 380 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.720 She started acting in theater productions and started modeling, developed 381 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:45.720 a small social media following and doing brand deals to 382 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:46.400 pay the bills. 383 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.480 Their fans say they're drawn in by these women's unique backgrounds. 384 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:55.640 Both raised Catholic, journey to faith began with alcoholism, OCD, 385 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.920 panic disorder, depression, and anxiety, all of which they just 386 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:05.839 discuss on the podcast. 387 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:13.480 If the message is it's a little uncomfortable, because I 388 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:19.039 think that there's a certain amount of reverence, if that's 389 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:25.279 the right word that should go with a discussion of faith. 390 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:28.319 I think you're honest about it. 391 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:31.359 I think whatever leads you to God leads you to God. 392 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:34.599 And right, who are as anybody to say you didn't 393 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.799 get to God the right way? Right? The point is 394 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.480 you got to God. I think most people would argue. 395 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.920 I think there's also that interesting moment when what turns 396 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:48.640 what starts as just a normal conversation. One of them 397 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.079 says to the other, you know what other people would 398 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:53.880 like to listen to us have this conversation. 399 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.079 Each ninety minute Girls Gone Bible episode generally follows the 400 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.079 same format. Yeah, the first few minutes like a slumber party. 401 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:04.279