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 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.480 demand on the iHeartRadio app Life Office This lively music, 4 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:17.559 exciting games, Cupid, shooting arrows. Oh plus, don't miss out 5 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.679 on sending a special Valentine's Day graham to your special 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:25.079 iHeart sweetheart HR line one. 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:26.600 Yeah, I don't think we do that anymore. 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:27.199 What the hell? 9 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:29.359 What did you got second grade? 10 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:31.600 That was uncomfortable? In second grade? 11 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:35.679 I remember being wildly uncomfortable as a young child. How 12 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:39.600 did you guys do getting Valentine's Days Valentine grahams from boys? 13 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:40.240 Like you had? 14 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.159 What you had like a brown box bag? 15 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.880 Bole would drop them by your desk, and then like 16 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.039 you found out that, like you know. 17 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:54.079 Go on, I don't want to name name? Was it 18 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:56.119 Jimmy Dave? 19 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.759 There was like three Daves. Some of them went by David. 20 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.359 There was like a good Dave and like a bad 21 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.159 David anyway. 22 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.560 The uppity David, Yeah, the lazy David. 23 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:08.040 The athletic David. 24 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.640 Oh yeah, in second grade, the athletic David. 25 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.560 I later never mind, but anyway, terrifying, Like how uncomfortable 26 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:17.879 was that? 27 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:20.480 I was so uncomfortable by that. 28 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:21.799 I figured it was free candy. 29 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.120 Yeah see boys, Yeah, I know, until you. 30 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:26.799 Get in like fifth or sixth grade, and then it's 31 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.319 a little uncomfortable because you want to try to add 32 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:31.599 just a specific note to the one that. 33 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.159 I like your boobs or just boobs. 34 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:36.359 No, not in sixth grade. 35 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:38.519 I don't know, but I didn't like it. I wasn't 36 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.159 ready for any of that until I was about twenty five. 37 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.439 And then by then you were like, I don't want 38 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.319 it any No, silly little Valentine's my little. 39 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:48.959 Hey, Gary and Chen. 40 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.040 A while back, wordle uh the word of the day, 41 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.519 and wordle was oh yeah, And I had never heard 42 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.560 that word before, and I thought I really had it nailed. 43 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.879 When I entered volvah, oh boy, and was baffled, and 44 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.599 that was not the correct word. 45 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:05.640 It happens. I just thought you might like. 46 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.560 To know I remember that day. 47 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:09.919 I thought of you. 48 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.960 I think of you every time I see the word 49 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.039 uvula or volva, you and your wife, think about both 50 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:17.240 of you. 51 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.520 I guess I appreciate the big stories that were following today. 52 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.319 Of course, the rain coming back in this weekend. This 53 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.560 week we will see some rain start to arrive tomorrow. 54 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.240 The biggest day though, is going to be Thursday. It's 55 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.599 just going to basically rain from midnight to midnight on 56 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:34.439 two inches. 57 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:38.000 And so we should do we should send a Valentine 58 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.199 an iHeart Valentine Graham to like the Woody Show or something. 59 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:43.039 Don't you think we should do that? 60 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:44.919 I would? Yes? 61 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:45.879 What should it say? 62 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:47.159 Like? 63 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:47.759 Yeah? 64 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:50.560 But we feel like you guys hate us. We don't 65 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.400 know why we love your show. Happy Valentine's Day. 66 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:56.800 Why don't we just we love your show. 67 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.319 We don't need to, We don't need to back fill 68 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.039 all of the emotional scarring that we have. 69 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:04.240 But then I feel like it's we're just being saying 70 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:05.919 we love your show, like everybody says that. 71 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:06.520 Yeah, we do. 72 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.879 Though, well, we should make it specific. 73 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:10.039 We love it. 74 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.199 I like it when you wear your green socks. 75 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.120 I like no, specifically like it when Sammy says something funny, 76 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.199 or when who's Sammy see it? Apparently you don't love 77 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.439 the show. I'll take care of writing the Valentine to 78 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:25.159 the Woody Show. 79 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:26.400 The Flu is back. 80 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.960 California's flu season, they said could be one of the 81 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.479 worst that we've seen in a century. California Department of 82 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.240 Public Health's weekly report show statewide influenza activity is high 83 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:40.960 and increasing because things like COVID and RSV have been low. 84 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:43.240 They said, already it's. 85 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.400 One of the fourth worst that we've seen in about 86 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.800 a century. And then finally, more than one hundred and 87 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.879 seventy World War Two era practice bombs have been found 88 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.439 beneath a playground in England during a renovation of that site. 89 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:56.759 Come that's fine. 90 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:02.240 A lawsuit filed against LA Unified that they've been spending 91 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.719 money the wrong way, and that. 92 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.520 Is exactly the case. 93 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:12.680 Proposition twenty eight was all about new art programs in schools. 94 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.879 This has been such an underfunded area of learning for kids. 95 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.240 It's gone by the wayside. 96 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:19.040 It would be one. 97 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.720 Thing if we were knocking at it out of the 98 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:22.879 park with our math and reading scores, but we're not 99 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:25.480 doing that, and you're taking away the outlet for so 100 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:30.560 many creative types in schools to grow through art classes 101 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:35.040 and art programs and everything that comes along with that. 102 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.959 So Prop twenty eight was passed to kind of fill 103 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.920 that need. And instead of filling that need, what LA 104 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.399 Unified has been doing is just going along status quo 105 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.519 and using that money for other things and barely keeping 106 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:50.360 the arts. 107 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.519 Program that was running up and running. 108 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.240 And that is putting it lightly because most of these 109 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.920 programs are not up and running. They exist, but they're 110 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.079 wildly under fund This was supposed to remedy that. Instead 111 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:03.399 they're using the money for other things. 112 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.079 Yeah, about I'm billion dollars in additional art funding was 113 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.279 raised a large portion promise to the underserved communities in 114 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.560 about eighty percent of it specifically earmarked to hire new 115 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:14.399 art teachers. 116 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.240 LAUSD got the biggest check. 117 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.439 It's the biggest school district in the state, obviously, but 118 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:24.199 they said parents started noticing a problem that the district 119 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:28.560 wasn't doing what was intended with the money. Former superintendent 120 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.600 Austin Butner said that the district received seventy seven million dollars, 121 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.160 but none of it went to hiring new teachers. 122 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:40.639 Right the district la Unified prioritized the use of this 123 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.120 money to cover existing staff as well as higher new 124 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:50.079 staff because you need more staff. The money was illegally 125 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:55.399 redirected to things like increasing senior staff salaries. Their pay 126 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.079 has increased fivefold since twenty ten, while at the same 127 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.319 time student enrolled has plunged. These school bureaucracies are criminal 128 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.879 mafia like enterprises that need to be stopped. They've found 129 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.160 a way to get all of the union goons involved, 130 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:17.120 paid them handsomely to just run rackets left and right 131 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:17.800 and listen. 132 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:24.279 The parents have the very simple cry of In this case, 133 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.800 one mom wants her son he'd have no arts in 134 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.759 middle school or high school. In his middle school, there's none, said. 135 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.240 I want to make sure that the money's supposed to 136 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.399 go to the schools that gets there. She just wants 137 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.199 more art, less questionable math. Yeah, that's funny, true, and 138 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.279 for her son to dance and not suffer any of 139 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.800 the side stepping around his opportunity. She says, it's sad 140 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.160 you want the best for your kids. I'm not asking 141 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.120 for more, I'm asking for what's rightfully theirs. 142 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:51.360 Man. 143 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:53.920 I don't know how I would have survived the questionable 144 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.800 math years, the whole changing the way math is done 145 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:58.920 math common course. 146 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.759 We were on the very very tail or the very 147 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:07.800 very beginnings of that with our kids. So when they 148 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.040 were in elementary school, obviously it was just we would teach, 149 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.360 we would help them do the math the way we 150 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:16.600 were also taught to do math, and it was easy 151 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.000 to see. I mean there's minor, minor differences in how 152 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.800 the teacher might describe how you're gonna, you know, carry 153 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.879 the one or whatever, but it all made sense. It 154 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.879 was all very common, despite the the word meaning now 155 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.959 it was easy for us to help our kids with math. 156 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.439 And then on the very end of their their career, 157 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:39.759 their high school careers, at least, when we could still 158 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.279 help them with that sort of a thing, it started 159 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.279 getting a little weird, like why are you. 160 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:45.879 Doing it that way? 161 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.639 I understand that someone told you that there's a way 162 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:50.680 to do it that's easier for you to think of it. 163 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.879 But it's okay to struggle with math, like it's okay 164 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.560 to work through the problem. That's part of what's showing 165 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.879 math matheahs, not just it's so valuable. 166 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.480 Yes, because I'm not a mass I loved matt. 167 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:08.160 I loved it, but I was not a savant. 168 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:09.519 Well it was it was. 169 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:11.439 I loved it because it was a you had a 170 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.120 right answer and a wrong answer, and if you were wrong, 171 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.399 you did something wrong and you had to go back 172 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:17.879 and problem solve and figure out where. 173 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:18.079 You should be. 174 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.160 I liked that it was an actual challenge when so 175 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.879 much of curriculum is not a challenge, So there are 176 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.000 some schools that are trying to course correct. When it 177 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.439 comes to the drop off in learning, some will say 178 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.320 there's not a drop off, it just has been a 179 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.240 failed system for quite some time, and they're trying to 180 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.519 account for that with in class tutors and what's called 181 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:44.159 data chats. Specifically, in the Associated Press they highlighted a 182 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.799 middle school in Compton that these in class tutors and 183 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:54.080 data chats have made quite a difference. Schools have poured 184 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.200 federal and local relief money into things like this following 185 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:04.399 the pandemic, hoping to catch students up following the COVID mess, 186 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.039 but as we reported to you, a new analysis shows 187 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.440 that the average student remains half a grade level behind 188 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.320 pre pandemic achievement in reading and math. In reading, especially, 189 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.159 students are even further behind. Part of that is that 190 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.240 kids are just not reading for fun anymore. We've talked 191 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.360 about that, and it's a lot of the screens and 192 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.240 the parents using the screens. And screens are okay. Screens 193 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.039 were a bad thing when we were kids. You know, 194 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.320 you'd get maybe a little bit of television time, but 195 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.320 you weren't allowed to just look at screens. God forbideo 196 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.120 a screen in your room. You know, it just wasn't 197 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.399 a thing. You had books, you had homework, and you 198 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.960 had reading for fun. And that's just gone by the wayside. 199 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:43.519 And that's just the way it is. I mean, I'm 200 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.120 not trying to say get off my lawn. I'm just 201 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.080 saying times have changed and it's harder for people, and 202 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.679 in adults as well. You're probably opening up fewer books 203 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.240 as well. But this is making a difference there at 204 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.600 that middle school in Compton when it comes to actually 205 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.399 putting and the resources inside the classroom like that. 206 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:02.759 Yeah. 207 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:06.440 Well, the district responded by hiring about two hundred and 208 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:10.519 fifty tutors that specialized in math and reading and students 209 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.759 learning English. So certain classes are staffed with multiple tutors 210 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.480 to assist the teachers, and schools offered tutoring before and 211 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.519 during and after school. They also do a Saturday school 212 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.759 and some summer programs for the students, about seventeen thousand 213 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.240 of them there in the district. 214 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.200 They're also conducting dyslexia screenings in all elementary schools so 215 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.399 students aren't just suffering and failing because of this and 216 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:37.840 nobody knows about it this area, Compton, We're talking about 217 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.519 a student body that's eighty four percent Latino, fourteen percent black. 218 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.919 Now as a graduation rate of ninety three percent. 219 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.799 That is an outlier that. 220 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:51.720 Compared to fifty eight percent just about ten years ago. 221 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.720 I mean, that's ridiculous. That is incredible. 222 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.519 There is a woman, a girl, excuse me, that they 223 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:02.200 highlight in this article named Harmony No. She is eleven 224 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.919 years old. She's in sixth grade, and she says, these tutors, 225 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.279 these in class tutors and data chats have really helped 226 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.440 given her more confidence in math. She has these data 227 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.080 chats with her math specialist, part performance review, part PEP talk. 228 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:20.559 And how important is that? 229 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.519 It's so important to have confidence when you're learning, especially 230 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.919 in math right, and to have that is so key, 231 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.279 she says, Looking at my data, it kind of disappoints me. Harmon, 232 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.519 He says, when the numbers are low, it makes me 233 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.120 realize I can do better in the future. 234 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.720 And also now. 235 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.399 That brings up two issues. This whole story brings up 236 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.480 two issues. That is one of them is are we 237 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:46.559 doing enough to keep the kids apprised of their own progress? 238 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:48.519 Is there a way, because. 239 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.200 I remember doing on my own progress reports, like in 240 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.639 high school, because I started thinking about, well, I better 241 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.240 get the right grades for college, and I can't wait 242 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.440 until every nine weeks to get an update from my teacher. 243 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.200 Could I do it every other week and have them 244 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.799 fill out the little form. Usually it was kids that 245 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.240 were on some sort of academic probation, or they were 246 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.240 on a sports team. 247 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:12.679 You had to do it. 248 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.159 If you were playing football, you had to have weekly 249 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.759 updates from your teachers, kind of. 250 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:21.120 A precursor to having bringing a little slip into your 251 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.879 court case or whatever when you get in trouble with 252 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.679 the law. Growing up, you've got to get things signed 253 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:27.600 off as an adulty. 254 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.399 But I remember that. 255 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:30.960 In class, like there were some kids who had to 256 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.480 get things signed off on in their little card or whatever. 257 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:35.080 But I was doing it because I was I just 258 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:36.679 want to make sure I was on the right pat like. 259 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.559 I'm the right conscientious kids and the troublemakers have those cards. 260 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:42.799 The other thing is, and I know that this maybe 261 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.159 conflating a couple of issues, but one of the things 262 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:46.960 that kids do is they look to their parents for 263 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.639 the example of how to work right in school. 264 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.360 For an eleven year old. 265 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:57.320 President Trump hosted King Abdullah the Second of Jordan at 266 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.759 the White House today. Of course, the topic of Gaza 267 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.960 rev fugis is and will be at the top of 268 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:05.639 the agenda. The President said he believes the King of 269 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.080 Della and some other leaders in the Arab world will 270 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.039 take in Palestinians from Gaza because they have good hearts. 271 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.440 At the news conference or the informal news conference that 272 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.799 they did this morning from the Oval Office with the 273 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:21.240 fireplace in the background, Trump did say that they had 274 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.120 some great discussions already today and that they will continue 275 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:27.360 to have them. There's a more formal news conference expected 276 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.960 a little bit later. Top official in Trump's Department of 277 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.799 Justice has instructed the federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop 278 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:39.039 federal corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. 279 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:42.240 The Times that the case would be dismissed without prejudice, 280 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.759 meaning that it could be reinstated. But these charges, the 281 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:51.120 wire fraud, the bribery, soliciting illegal campaign contributions, would have 282 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:53.960 carried up to forty five years in prison. Jury selection 283 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:57.600 was going to start in a couple of weeks, he said. 284 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.320 The Justice Department, that is I think at Emil Bovol 285 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.240 had said that this was another example of the Biden 286 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.720 Department of Justice being weaponized against politicians, despite the fact 287 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.600 that Eric Adams is a Democrat. 288 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.480 One of the things we're keeping our eye on. As 289 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.360 well as this meeting between Trump and King Abdullah, he 290 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:21.840 did say from the Oval Office alongside the King of 291 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.799 Jordan that the US taking control of Gaza will lead 292 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.120 to peace in the Middle East. Now, King Abdullah, for 293 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.799 his part, pledged to take in two thousand Palestinian children. 294 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.200 Trump at one point said, We're going to pull all 295 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.639 our aid if you don't take in the Palestinian So 296 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.720 this seems to be a happy medium. We'll take in 297 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:47.000 a couple thousand children, but that's all we're gonna do. 298 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:50.600 Trump also doubled down on that deadline for Hamas, saying 299 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:52.639 he doesn't think Hamas will meet the demand when it 300 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.879 comes to releasing all those remaining hostages. 301 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:56.600 And I said that again today just now in the 302 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:57.279 Oval Office. 303 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:00.039 If you've been to a high profile comedy show a 304 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.840 lot of times now, they're using yonder pouches to prevent 305 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:07.519 people from recording, and a yonder pouch is this is this? 306 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.960 I guess high tech fabric pouch that locks with a 307 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.399 magnet and you put your phone in there and you 308 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.799 can't use your phone, and. 309 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.879 You can hold the pouch, you can get into. 310 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:23.039 It, can't get into your phone, and then once you leave, 311 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:25.559 it's like you are you. 312 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.320 Put it next to the metal thing the magnet, it 313 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:29.720 unlops open, get. 314 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:30.200 Your phone back. 315 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:34.120 And schools have been doing this because schools are now 316 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:39.039 in instituting these policies where kids cannot have access to 317 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.000 their phones during school hours, and whether it's a locker 318 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.840 in some cases or these yonder pouches which then the 319 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.759 kids get to carry with them, they're smart enough to 320 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.639 figure out ways around it, and once one kid figures 321 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.480 it out, it spreads like. 322 00:15:55.519 --> 00:16:01.960 Wildfires, like Pruno through a jail. Yes, okay, exactly. 323 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:06.000 When you're locked up like children are in schools, News 324 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:14.799 travels like wildfire. How to evade teachers, capture school lessons, plans, homework, yeah, 325 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.080 general attendance. All of the lessons are learned pretty quickly 326 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:19.320 amongst the masses. 327 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.559 Just like fermenting rotten fruit and your toilet in order 328 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.080 to get some sort of wine. 329 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.399 Right, the kids are always going to outsmart the people 330 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:27.519 who think they're smarter. 331 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:27.879 Than the kids. 332 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.960 Students in some cases aren't even putting their phones in 333 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:33.879 the Yonder pouches. 334 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.559 They're just holding the Yonder pouches. 335 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.679 Or why not bring a Burner phone and bring and 336 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:40.200 put it in there. 337 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:41.720 That way, how do they know you don't have that 338 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:43.440 other phone that's in your back pocket. 339 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.679 There are students who have found that if you tear 340 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.679 at exactly the right seam, you can open that Yonder 341 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.519 pouchre smart. 342 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.000 Our kids are so smart. We just we're not paying attention. 343 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.000 The talk about the history of the Yonder pouch all 344 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.639 which I think is a SoCal business if I'm not mistaken, 345 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.319 there about twenty I think it's somewhere between twenty five 346 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.279 and thirty bucks a piece, depending on the contract that 347 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.960 Yonder is able to negotiate with the school district. 348 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:13.519 By twenty sixteen. 349 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:21.119 The technology and again by technology, it's just a significant pouch. 350 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.559 It's been used in fifty seven venues. It was in 351 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.079 three hundred schools. Denver school districts got the idea to 352 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:33.920 try the Yonder pouches in twenty seventeen because teachers experienced 353 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.279 locking their phones in Yonder pouches during local concerts, and 354 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.759 somebody said, oh my gosh, if it works at a 355 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.799 concert or a stand up a comedy special, it should 356 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.319 work in schools. So one of the chemistry teachers at 357 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:52.039 Broomfield High School in Denver did so brought it to 358 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.240 the school board. San Mateo High School became the largest 359 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.279 public school to deploy Yonder pouches for seventeen hundred students, 360 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.960 and the Yonder company saw more than tenfold increase in 361 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.480 sales from government contracts between twenty twenty one and twenty 362 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:07.039 twenty three. 363 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.000 Almost all of. 364 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:15.240 Those were school districts. However, doesn't mean it's infallible. And 365 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.799 like I said, those smart kids or nefarious kids, or 366 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.400 whatever adjective you want to add to those kids, they're 367 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:27.680 smart enough to defeat these things. And it's still incumbent 368 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:33.799 upon us as parents these children to teach them adequate, accurate, 369 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.440 positive phone etiquette. And one of the things that I 370 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.720 would do is just tell my kids leave it in 371 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.039 your car if you're going to school, if you're going 372 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.519 to high school, leave it in your car, or leave 373 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.119 it at home. It'll be here when you get here, 374 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:49.000 fully charged and ready for you to turn your brain 375 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:50.279 into mush. 376 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.279 I will read this book. I will watch the movie. 377 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.920 It is all about the Gray Quill Society. This is 378 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.160 a weekly memoir writing group for residents of the Motion 379 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:05.880 Picture and Television Funds Woodland Hills Community for Aging Entertainment Professionals. 380 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.759 This is a writing group for the retired the senior citizens, 381 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.200 and it is proving that creativity is ageless. 382 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:15.000 I love it. 383 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:18.480 I have a thing to go back to for just 384 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:19.039 for a second. 385 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:21.480 Is this about the Volva No, it's about the Valentine's 386 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:23.000 Okay Party? 387 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.319 Yeah, there's no way in a Valentine's d graham to. 388 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:28.559 A co worker is appropriate. 389 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:33.119 It's tomorrow, right, it's not even on Valentine Say it's tomorrow. 390 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.599 That that bothers you, That bothers you. 391 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.720 Well, this is like the sixth thing on the list 392 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:39.400 that bothers me. 393 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:42.519 It doesn't bother you that Catherine from accounting is going 394 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:46.359 to send you or underwear and or iHeart Valentine's Graham. 395 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:46.759 That part of it. 396 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:48.839 I get that all the time. It's just it's that 397 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:51.319 I forgot. It's been a while since you've got a 398 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:53.319 pair of underwear sent to the office. Do you have 399 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:54.480 another address you have? 400 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.200 What are you doing now? I know what you're doing. 401 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:02.200