WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.839 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to kf 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.360 I AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.679 demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's rare I go to Starbucks, 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:13.599 but today I did this morning and. 5 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:14.359 Then put a creature. 6 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:15.480 There was no creature. 7 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.559 It said hi, just high, no exclamation point, just h I, 8 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.039 which I thought was kind of creepy because I've gotten hearts, 9 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.239 and I've gotten high exclamation point and I've gotten a 10 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.239 happy face. But this was the first time I just 11 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.239 said hi, no punctuity, no punctuation, and it felt a 12 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:34.079 little serial killer e to me. However, the woman at 13 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.640 the window said, here you go, sweetie, and I loved that. 14 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:40.359 I want to start off every morning with some stranger 15 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:41.399 calling me sweetie. 16 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.159 That is very funny because yesterday on Fox News Channel 17 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.719 there was a whole blow up. Randy Weingarten, the head 18 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.679 of the Teachers Union the National Teachers Union, referred to 19 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.520 Martha McCallum as sweetheart, and Martha McCallum hated it. Now 20 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:59.359 granted situation, she was being super condescending. Martha McCollums like, uh, 21 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:00.920 you know, call me sweetheart. 22 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.719 See, but that makes it worse for her. When someone 23 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:06.719 calls you sweetheart, you got to just laugh it off. 24 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.200 Steve Gregor used to do that. Oh sweetheart, you just 25 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:10.480 gotta laugh it off. 26 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:11.200 You know what I mean? 27 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.400 If you take umbrage with it, if you take issue 28 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.120 with it, then you are. 29 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.719 The the lily makes it worse. You know, we should 30 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.920 do that as a talkback. Actually is what is your 31 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:21.760 love it? 32 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:23.519 I love movie called sweetheart? 33 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.640 Sweetie doesn't have to be Starbucks. 34 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.840 But in a place where they ask your name, do 35 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:29.480 you give him your real name or do you give 36 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:30.519 him something like now? 37 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.280 I mean, since they have a high on your head. 38 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:33.920 I have a real hard time with people who use 39 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.599 fake names like you seem like the kind of person 40 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.640 that would do that. You do that with your stupid 41 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:44.439 email addresses and stupid stuff like you're very private? 42 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.599 I know, but why who the hell are you? What 43 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.840 I mean, who are you? Why would you hide your identity. 44 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:54.760 Because I didn't want to be found out. 45 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:59.879 People like Starbucks like Dave Bruce just tell him Bruce, tell. 46 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.560 Him name because they want to hear their they want 47 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.640 to hear the barista call out a funny name. 48 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:05.439 That's stupid. 49 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.120 I agree. I'm just saying there are plenty of people 50 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:08.639 who do it. 51 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:09.360 You don't do it. 52 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:10.039 I don't do that. 53 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:10.840 You've never done that. 54 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:12.919 I don't think I've ever used a fake name kick 55 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.319 or like at a hotel or whatever. I'm sorry for 56 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:16.560 profiling you incorrectly. 57 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:21.840 Very strange. Listen, I like your outfit. Thanks. President Trump 58 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.159 has said has said. 59 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.400 Maybe he is ready to pull back on some of 60 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:27.599 those tariffs on China. 61 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.599 One hundred and forty five percent is very high, and 62 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:31.719 it won't be that high. 63 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:33.039 It's not going to be that high. 64 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.039 It'll come down to substay and three. But it won't 65 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.080 be zero. He used to be zero. 66 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.280 We were just destroyed. 67 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.560 China was taking us for a ride and just not 68 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:46.120 gonna have It's not gonna happen. 69 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:48.639 So the Wall Street Journal got on this and said 70 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.599 that the plan that is likely going to happen mirror 71 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.280 is one that was introduced by the House late last year. 72 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.120 This would be a tiered approach. 73 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.360 Thirty five percent levees items that are not considered a 74 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:04.439 threat to national security, but at least one hundred percent 75 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.599 on those that are eased down over five years. One 76 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.800 White House official told the Wall Street Journal the result 77 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.280 would be an overall tariff somewhere between a China tariff 78 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.319 roughly between fifty and sixty five percent. 79 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:18.759 So that's the endgame that we're dealing with here. 80 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.639 I still find it fascinating that Wall Street reacts to 81 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.479 all the whims of this president. And I guess you 82 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.639 have to because he is a president of the United States. Sure, 83 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.680 you're reacting to the title making these calls, not the 84 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:38.759 person behind the title, because we have said said from 85 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.080 go that this is not tenable. 86 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:41.400 This is not a tenable situation. 87 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:44.840 Yeah, and if Scott Bessen, I mean, if the Secretary 88 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.080 of the Treasury says these exact same words and he 89 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.159 has it doesn't make a tenth the impact on Wall 90 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.919 Street that it does when a president says it. Now, 91 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:58.439 other presidents had been more careful and measured when it 92 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.599 comes to things like talking about the Fed Reserve chair 93 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:05.280 or something like that, because they know that it could 94 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:08.520 have an impact significantly on Wall Street and the way 95 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.080 people view American stocks and bonds. 96 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.319 Trump's also said he didn't feel the need to play 97 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:14.960 hardball with Hi Jinping. 98 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:20.279 This is yeah, that language is just hey, we're just 99 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.399 friends having a little bit of a dispute here over what. 100 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.319 But then he'll talk about how it feels like China 101 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.839 has been taking advantage of the United States for decades, 102 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.439 which which is very different then, but we don't have 103 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:33.319 to be we don't have to get we don't have 104 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:34.279 to be nasty to it. 105 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.959 It's such a tactic, right, you come out and you're 106 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.240 super nasty, and then you dial back again, leaving the 107 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.600 door open for maybe a friendship, hoping to lure that 108 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.360 person into the cave of negotiation. 109 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.759 Yea. Then it gives you. 110 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.800 The card to play like, well, friends don't treat each 111 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:56.079 other like this, right, we're friends, you know. A healthy 112 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:59.279 competition is the way we should be going. Right, There 113 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.519 is something that kind of happening on the back end. 114 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.120 It's very quiet that's going on in DC, but it 115 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.319 could potentially signal the opening of talks, sort of the 116 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:14.199 opening round the capital of China. Beijing has sent People's 117 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.879 Bank of China's governor, his deputy, and a finance minister. 118 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.920 Those three guys are all in DC this week and 119 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.800 they are going to be hosting meetings of the World 120 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.720 Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. They're saying simply 121 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:32.319 because we will see high level Chinese officials with high 122 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.040 level American officials in the same place at the same time. 123 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:42.680 Maybe that's sort of an exchange of the contours of it, 124 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.720 of an agreement at some point, So maybe that maybe 125 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:46.560 there is progress. 126 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.720 I am cracking up over the media coverage of the 127 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.680 Pope's death. Everyone is suddenly a Catholic. Everybody cares about 128 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.959 the Catholics. Everybody treating this with the utmost reverence. People 129 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:03.480 talking about mike Langelo's Pieta, talking about the Chamber of 130 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:08.680 Deputies kneeling before the coffin, and the Italian Parliament lower house, and. 131 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:10.839 I mean, nobody cares. 132 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.920 I understand that the eighty percent of this country is 133 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.399 church going, what percentage of that is Catholic? 134 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:19.920 You know what I mean? And everyone's is acting like. 135 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:22.360 This is just such the biggest deal, and they're trying 136 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.759 not to butcher the names and things that we don't 137 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:25.560 really care about. 138 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.519 It's like the Catholic guilt has. 139 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:34.160 Permeated the entire country, like y'all that did sit through 140 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:36.600 it the way we all sat through it and feel 141 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.160 guilty over every single thing. Suddenly the Pope dies and 142 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.680 you're all getting a little dose of what we lived through. 143 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:44.199 Walking with the Rosary. 144 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:49.879 Yes, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from 145 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.519 KFI AM six forty. 146 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:54.120 Hey Gary and Shannon. 147 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:55.560 Hey Gary. 148 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.279 Question, did you we hear speedo under your clothes when 149 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.519 you had swim practice in the morning? Buddy, I'm just 150 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.079 curious day man. 151 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:08.240 The answer is no. 152 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:09.879 Can we unpack that for a minute. 153 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.720 You haven't talked about being on the swim team in 154 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:18.120 high school for quite some time. That's ratnel around, rattle 155 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:22.560 in around in his brain. Ye, thinking about you and 156 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.720 your speedo. I would imagine that you brought your speedo 157 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.199 with you and he changed in the locker room. 158 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.279 Before practice and then changed out of it. Well, yeah, 159 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.560 because it was wet. Yeah, I don't know what the guy, 160 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.120 I don't know why you wouldn't. 161 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:42.160 I don't understand, but everyone's visualizing you as a teenager 162 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.839 great speedo underneath your street clothes. 163 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:50.759 But to clarify, in practice, I would always wear multiple 164 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.120 I wore two or three excuse me, speedos and then 165 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.319 trunks over the top of it. Really create more drag, 166 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.000 big pockets and everything like that, so that when you 167 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.879 on when you'd have a meat, most of them on 168 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.240 Thursdays on Thursday afternoon, you would just wear your skit. 169 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:07.800 It wasn't just penis modesty. 170 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:11.439 Well, you put a lot of layers on top of 171 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.079 that thing, keep it safe, keep it away from the 172 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:14.720 public eye. 173 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.120 Well, I was fifteen, there probably was a little bit 174 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:18.399 of that. S mentioned it. 175 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.680 Man, if I had one of those, I would totally 176 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.959 wear like sixteen speedos, probably into my mid twenties. 177 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:30.279 Latin chants have been sounding across the Vatican. This procession 178 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.720 of red hatted cardinals and bishops, et cetera accompanied Pope 179 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.039 Francis's body from his residency out to Saint Peter's Basilica. 180 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.240 Sy, you're a glam squad that goes along with. 181 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:47.720 Listen, I'm going to get in trouble, but I've paid 182 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.200 my dues. Is there a glam squad that goes along 183 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.919 with the body to touch up the powdering and the makeup. 184 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.440 I would assume that's a yes. You got to keep 185 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.960 that body looking freshly powdered. 186 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.399 Yeah, I I don't know how. I don't know what 187 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:13.960 sort of preservation is equipment, no spackle, spackling. You know 188 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:17.559 he died at the age of eighty eight. Yeah, and 189 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.600 it doesn't take long for the body to change very 190 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:22.480 quickly in. 191 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:24.519 Depth. 192 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.600 How often are open caskets these days? Are they still 193 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:29.279 as common? 194 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.279 I don't, I don't. I don't know. That's a good question. 195 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:32.879 I don't think. 196 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.240 So I can't remember the last time I went to 197 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:36.799 an open casket. 198 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.480 I did one twenty years ago, probably soon after my 199 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.240 wife and I were married, so probably closer to twenty 200 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.080 five years ago. I was a good friend of ours, 201 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.360 someone I went to college with ended up being a 202 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.480 roommate of my of my now wife, sort of a 203 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.960 weird confluence of events. 204 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.840 But her younger brother was killed a motorcycle accident. 205 00:09:56.200 --> 00:10:01.600 How old twenty oh, god, twenty one, and and they 206 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.879 did an open casket and it was. 207 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:10.440 A casket because of the injuries. Oh my god, that's awful. 208 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.879 And I just, I mean, I can, to this day 209 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.639 close my eyes and see john'son like, see the face. 210 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.200 Oh, it's just it's so sad. 211 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.200 First of all, it's such an awful, heartbreaking because it's 212 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:26.559 a young guy, and it was a it was a 213 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:27.519 bad accident. 214 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:28.720 Didn't have to happen. 215 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:33.919 It just awful, awful, awful, And then to see that 216 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.000 as part of the whole day. 217 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.480 Of the funeral is just unbelievable. 218 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.840 I had gone to a lot of funerals. I mean 219 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.360 not a lot, but a fair amount in my childhood. 220 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.360 Older relatives had died. But I remember when my uncle died, 221 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.600 My uncle Harry, a massive heart attack, and he was 222 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.440 probably about your age, I want to say, he was 223 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:00.000 early fifties, and it was obviously a shock, a surprise. 224 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.519 He was a big guy, but. 225 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.679 Still, and I remember seeing him in they had an 226 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.039 open casket, and seeing him in the in that casket 227 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.639 and just losing it because he was so young and 228 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.240 I was twenty at the time, but it gave me 229 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.519 a sense of my parents' mortality at that point. And 230 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.600 it was terrifying because everyone else was in their eighties, 231 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.879 late seventies, eighties. They were ancient. You know, when you're 232 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:26.679 growing up, it's ancient. But he, you know, dark hair Dad. 233 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.519 You know my cousins were on the same age, and 234 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:30.679 it was just awful. 235 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.320 They say that the funeral itself will be on Saturday, 236 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.720 So if you're getting up early to watch it, it's 237 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.759 going to be I think one o'clock our time. 238 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.519 Are you going to get it? 239 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:43.519 Every Saturday morning? 240 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:44.879 You're gonna put on your robes? 241 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:49.240 No, I mean, are your speedo, no, not even my 242 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:51.519 speedo to watch to watch the funeral? 243 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.759 Is it gonna be in Latin? This is it's gotta 244 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:56.799 be in Latin, right, it's a pope's funeral. Although he 245 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.600 pooh pooed the Latin mass. 246 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:00.600 I don't know how they would do that. 247 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:01.559 They've got it. 248 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.240 I mean, I don't know the rules, but I would think, 249 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:05.960 let me look that up. 250 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:10.039 There is also a memorial mass here in La they 251 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.000 say with it will honor the life and the ministry 252 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.960 Pope Francis. It's going to be Friday, of course, downtown 253 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.360 at the huge cathedral of Our Lady of Angels. The 254 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.440 Archdiocese of La has announced that the special service will 255 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.360 start just after noon on Friday, led by Archbishop hose 256 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.360 Ac Comes will also be joined by some auxiliary bishops 257 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.919 and clergy of the Archdiocese of La. That's going to 258 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.320 be on Friday, and then the conclave. I mean, over 259 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:36.519 the next couple of weeks, we're going to do a 260 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.960 bunch of stories about the potential leaders in the clubhouse 261 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:44.440 when it comes to those bishops that could become the 262 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.200 next pope and how they want to run things and 263 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:51.240 if it is very different from what Pope Francis did. 264 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.240 As the pope for the last several years. 265 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.960 My goodness, I'm just going through the protocol. And there's 266 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.600 a playbook for the funeral. Oh yeah, it's a twenty 267 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:05.279 page playbook. It's called the University Dominicis, which is Latin 268 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.279 for the shepherd of the Lord's whole flock. 269 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:10.080 Well, think of when the queen died, I mean, when 270 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.799 the queen or when the prince right, it's the same bit. 271 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.440 It's the same bit. Is that part of our fascination 272 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:17.399 as a country. 273 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.360 I think that, Yes, I was going to say that, 274 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:21.679 I think that there is a certain amount of I 275 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.240 mean you're talking about everybody's been affected by this, Catholic 276 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:30.240 or not. There's something about us as big meat bags 277 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.240 that like to see some amount of history, tradition, and 278 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.840 some amount of tradition and pomp. 279 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:40.679 It's it's science. We're biologically wired to be connected to 280 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.240 our past, Yeah, and to tradition like that, and. 281 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.559 This tradition goes back a couple thousand years. 282 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.440 You know what I would like to do. I'd like 283 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.080 to know you got really nervous with your face right there. 284 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:57.200 Oftentimes, usually that question is answered with I'd. 285 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.759 Like to burn it down. I'd just like to burn it. 286 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.559 I don't sound like candle shoot it first of all. 287 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:03.600 Shoot it and then burn it. 288 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.879 I am coming from a positive place today, okay, And 289 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.879 I think that we need a tradition on this show. 290 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.960 This show has been around ten years, which is an eternity. Basically, 291 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.120 we've had traditions. What coming gone well, I'd like to 292 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.799 stick to at least one of them on the Thursday, 293 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.759 right right, you know, I don't know. I just feel 294 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.080 like we don't pay homage to our traditions here on 295 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:31.440 this show. 296 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:38.320 Enough. Michael Monks is going to join us we come back. 297 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.679 Okay, Okay, we spend a lot of homeless money, and 298 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.039 then we also don't spend a lot of homeless money. 299 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.360 Five hundred some odd million dollars that was not spent, 300 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.399 and finally someone in city Hall goes, hey, uh, I 301 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.080 got an idea. 302 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.639 We maybe just like, look at where the money goes. 303 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.120 Michael Monks has been on top of this, and we'll 304 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:00.000 continue to follow all of the news regarding the whole 305 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.639 less out a City Hall Hill join us when we 306 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:02.120 come back. 307 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.879 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 308 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:08.000 AM six forty. 309 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:12.000 Michael Monks has joined us because we continue to track 310 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.759 what's going on in downtown LA when it comes to 311 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:20.639 all the homeless dollars we have as voters have sent 312 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:25.360 this way towards the county or the city, and it 313 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:30.200 looks like yesterday the council called for analysis of the spending. 314 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.639 You would think that this would be done. 315 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:36.559 That the voters would approve a bond or a tax 316 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:39.600 or what have you, and that all of the money 317 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.960 would be accounted for and you'd know exactly where it 318 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.200 was going, and that's what you do when other people 319 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:45.080 give you their money. 320 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:46.600 Apparently that was not being done. 321 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:51.600 Now they've decided unanimously twelve nothing that they are going 322 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:52.360 to start doing this. 323 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:54.279 That's right, and apologize. 324 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.799 I spoke before I was introduced that's a faux pas so, 325 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:58.639 but you were talking ice cream sandwiches. 326 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:01.279 So no, everyone who as you are, come on. 327 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.960 All right, I wouldn't note that. 328 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.000 Yes, the council voted yesterday to say maybe we should, 329 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.600 I don't know, have a presentation every now and then 330 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.320 on where these moneies are going, because it's a lot 331 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.879 of money and apparently we don't actually know. So that 332 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:16.720 was the first thing they did. But there was also 333 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.200 an example of this playing out separate from this vote. 334 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:23.600 They voted on something else yesterday to get a better 335 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:27.159 handle on a program known as time limited Subsidies, and 336 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:31.039 that is a government word for basically giving a market 337 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.799 rate apartment to a homeless person, subsidizing the rent, but 338 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.000 having that person in a program where they can be 339 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.600 rehabilitated and within a couple of years or so, be 340 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:41.360 able to pay for that apartment on their own. It 341 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.919 sounds like a pretty solid program, but they invested about 342 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.279 one hundred ninety four million dollars in this program, between 343 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.559 the City of the County and LASA and Councilman Nthia Rahman, 344 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.759 who's a hardliner on homelessness stuff, as in she's in 345 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.679 favor of all of the programs and an apologist for 346 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:57.759 a lot of the programs. She says, of that one 347 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.600 hundred and ninety four million dollars, we have noticed that 348 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.840 we haven't spent a lot of it. We've only spent 349 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.960 somewhere between twenty five and sixty percent of it. 350 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:09.920 So that alone is a problem because. 351 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:11.359 They don't know what they're doing with that. 352 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.759 You're not spending all of the money that you've allocated 353 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:15.640 for this program. They say they don't have the you know, 354 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.839 the social workers, they don't have the landlord's willing to 355 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:18.480 rent the apartments. 356 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:19.200 That's the problem. 357 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:21.480 But to me, the bigger problem was, what do you 358 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.359 mean between twenty five and sixty percent? 359 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:26.799 Quite a swath it is, you know, it's not twenty 360 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:27.119 five to. 361 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:28.759 Thirty, you know, because they don't know what they're doing 362 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.799 with money. These aren't money people. These are people that 363 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:36.200 are our whorees that decided to get into politics to 364 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.839 benefit themselves. They they don't have any real money. They 365 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:41.759 don't know how to spend it. It's like giving a twenty 366 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.920 one year old athlete a multimillion dollar contract and saying 367 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.400 you've got all this money, go make great use of it. 368 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.640 And they're like, I don't know what to do with it. 369 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:50.400 That's what's happening at city council. 370 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.880 They don't have anybody like Rick Caruso, for example, who 371 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.720 knows money to come in and triage the money situation. 372 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.480 And again, and I think we've even spent about it 373 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.119 together on this program, that if the results were obvious 374 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.759 and not just occasional presentations every year about how the 375 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.720 homeless population is dipped a percent or two, you know, 376 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.720 in raw numbers, I think people would be more forgiving, 377 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:14.640 you know, like, yeah, it's expensive to do this, but 378 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.319 the progress isn't right that you know. I have five 379 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.440 new tents outside my apartment building this week. Skid row 380 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:25.680 has now come in bled out into the fashion district 381 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.079 and as of this week, five new tents that are 382 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.559 loud blocking the sidewalk, and it looks terrible. 383 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.000 You're absolutely right if we saw some change, if we 384 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.160 saw them using the money correctly. Just give me a 385 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.119 couple examples and we'll publicize it all day long. If 386 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:45.079 you can show us constructive ways you've used the money, 387 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.400 that's been a proof for you to use for this problem. 388 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.000 Show us on the flip side, all we've seen is 389 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.480 mismanagement and now them not even using the money because 390 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.160 they don't know how. I mean, it is such a 391 00:18:58.400 --> 00:18:59.799 freaking mess. 392 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:00.799 It's a big mess. 393 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.160 And this just calls for a report in sixty days 394 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.039 on how the money is being spent, and then they 395 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.839 are to do these reports every quarter about homeless dollars. 396 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.920 This includes spending by LASA, also by the Mayor's program 397 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.759 Inside Safe, which has had some relatively secretive finances, so 398 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.519 we'll maybe get to see a little bit more on this, 399 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:24.000 But again, this is a very expensive project. The city 400 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.039 is now kind of on its own because they don't 401 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.480