WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, The Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:12.039 on the iHeartRadio app on this Tuesday, April First. Anybody 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:19.120 planning April First jokes, Sonya, no bad news for Luigi 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:21.879 MANGIONI remember him. He was the one who shot and 6 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.920 killed the United Healthcare CEO in New York. US Attorney 7 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.079 General Pam Bondi pushing for the death penalty in the case. 8 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.399 She's pointing out in a statement it was a premeditated, 9 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:36.000 cold blooding assassination. 10 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.320 She's ordered Acting US Attorney Matthew. 11 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.200 Podolski to pursue the death penalty, saying it aligns with 12 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.640 President Trump's agenda to crack down on violent crime and 13 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.280 make America safe again. 14 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.520 Did you see that. 15 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:57.600 A ballot initiative has been introduced in California that the 16 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.079 organizers want to call the Luigi U. 17 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:01.679 Mangione Act. 18 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.319 No, it would The initiative would make it bless you 19 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.280 illegal for the insurance companies to delay, deny, or modify 20 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.120 any medical procedure or medication. 21 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:14.480 And they're naming it after the guy who shot and 22 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:15.079 killed the guy. 23 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.719 That's the plan. It's up to the Secretary of State's office. 24 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.000 This is in California. Yeah, let's see who authored that. 25 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.920 It's it's not any legislator. 26 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:33.519 This is a oh you're right, a referendum. Yeah, battician. 27 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.439 So at this point they won't know. 28 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.680 I think a public comment period is open for April 29 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:42.840 twenty fifth. But what what kind of an a hole 30 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.079 would then ask that this be named after this guy? 31 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.719 Yeah? 32 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.519 Oh, one quick thing before we get onto our story 33 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:52.560 about the sales tax. 34 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.640 My dad, a retired marine, stated that if I didn't 35 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.560 learn to drive a stick shift, I wasn't going to 36 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:02.319 learn to drive. I currently have a Genesis G eighty 37 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:06.040 and my other vehicle, which I've kept as my dog carrier, 38 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.840 is in nineteen eighty four Toyota land Cruiser FJA sixty 39 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:13.960 with a five speed manual transmission. I would probably never 40 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:15.319 get rid of that vehicle. 41 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.919 Yeah, it's a great for a twenty years great vehicle. 42 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.879 Nothing will go for a million miles. Love the manual, 43 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.960 Love the manuals Yeah. I mentioned that that was I 44 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.360 learned on a stick. My kids learned on a stick. 45 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:29.599 My wife drove a stick like that is. 46 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.719 My parents did not, I mean my dad did years ago. 47 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.000 But in my whole life they had and my mom did. 48 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.800 I don't think my mom ever learned to drive a 49 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:40.439 manual transmission, but I. 50 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:41.479 Learned in high school. 51 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:45.879 I grabbed a into adjacent I remember what it was. 52 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:50.039 But a girlfriend of mine, she had a little hatchback car, 53 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.960 a little beater that I learned to drive stick on. 54 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:55.199 She we swipped. 55 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:57.439 We swapped cars for a week and that's how I 56 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.159 learned to drive stick. Trial and error probably dropped her transmits. 57 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.159 But anyway, that's how I learned, just by getting in 58 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.080 the car and nobody, nobody taught me. 59 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.439 I just kind of taught myself that's the best way 60 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.080 to do it. And then how long I mean you 61 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.400 drove you probably I had a couple of forty years. 62 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:15.879 Yeah, yeah, I didn't. 63 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.120 I drove a stick from the time I was fifteen 64 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:23.280 and a half until I was forty six years old. 65 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.159 Only exclusively drove a stick. 66 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.879 Well, they're cheaper too, They are cheaper, and like like 67 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.719 our Brian Moody, our guy from Auto Trader, was saying, 68 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.639 it forces you to pay attention to what you're doing well. 69 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.960 And I'm surprised it's not gaining more traction of a 70 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.680 resurgent idea with people needing to be constantly stimulated. You're 71 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:47.840 constantly stimulated if you're driving a manual transmission. True, you're 72 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:51.639 never bored in the car. All right, So, sales tax, 73 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.319 because we don't pay enough, you're going to pay even 74 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.800 more starting this week. Starting today, you're going to see 75 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.319 a sales tax increase in LA count on your purchases, 76 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.080 because why not throw more money that it's not spent 77 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:07.120 correctly on the homelessness issue? 78 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:12.039 Is this one of those the mentality of voting for 79 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.160 these ongoing tax increases or fees or something like this, 80 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.120 attaching the word homeless to it. Is this a lazy 81 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.120 way for people to feel like they're doing something. 82 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.680 Yes, and it's been done so many times. I mean, 83 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:32.079 bond measure after ballot measure after bondman. We've done this repeatedly. 84 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.959 We've vocated again, Like we've said on this program for 85 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:39.160 ten years, it's not the money that's a problem. It's 86 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.680 the lack of organization or the will or the looking 87 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.600 the other way to what the true root of homelessness 88 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.759 is when it comes to addictions and things like that. 89 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:56.000 I mean, you really do need to get dirty and 90 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:01.279 do the undesirable things politically and otherwise to to eradicate that. 91 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.360 You're never going to fully eradicate homelessness, but to make 92 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.879 a dent in it. It can't just be feelings and 93 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:11.199 flowers and muffins. It's got to be, like you say 94 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.319 all the time, the carrot and the stick. You can't 95 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.199 make it comfortable for people to be drug users in 96 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.959 open air. You can't make it comfortable for people to 97 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.480 live on the streets and be drug users. 98 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:23.800 If you make it. 99 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:28.199 Comfortable, people aren't going to want to leave that environment. 100 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.199 Yeah, La County will have one of the highest sales 101 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:37.600 taxes in the state at ten and a quarter, sorry, 102 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:41.160 at a nine point seventy five. Alameda County right now 103 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.199 has the highest county wide sales tax at ten and 104 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:48.399 a quarter. There are places within La County that are higher, 105 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.399 but across the board. 106 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.480 La County is at nine point seventy five percent. 107 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.519 This morning, and with billions spent on homeless services and 108 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.680 the results not actually coming through, the board of Supervisors 109 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.319 is going to vote on a plan today to consolidate 110 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.160 homeless services into one county department. They said, right now 111 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:14.240 they have fourteen different departments that handle different aspects of 112 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.800 homelessness in La County, and the suggestion, according to Supervisor 113 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:23.319 Lindsay Horvath, is to combine it all into one, make 114 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.079 one giant county clearinghouse for homelessness issues and then have 115 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:29.639 all of the money go through there. 116 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:31.839 Well, we're going to talk about this more because this 117 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:37.040 is a direct reflex to what happened last week, and 118 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.600 we report it to you when it happened in federal 119 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:44.959 court when that Judge David Carter went after the bosses 120 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.439 of the Board of Supervisors and the bosses of the city, 121 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.439 including Mayor Karen Bass, for their failure to tract spending. 122 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.959 I mean, he was so direct to the point and 123 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:00.439 scathing and his takedown of these people. Finally was was 124 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.000 my feeling. Finally, we'll revisit that and tell you what. 125 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.199 He's holding their feet to the fire too. He not 126 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.560 only went after them last week, but they're going to 127 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:12.959 have to answer to him, and they are going to 128 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.160 have to track all the money, and we are going 129 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.720 to probably uncover a lot of fraud and a lot 130 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.959 of phony, bogus contracts that have been handed out under 131 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.199 the guise of solving homelessness in La County and who's 132 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.120 going to benefit when we get to the edit this. 133 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.720 I bet you better believe it's. 134 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.079 Going to be all the people that were in that 135 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.360 room when that judge went after him. 136 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.040 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 137 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:39.160 AM six forty. 138 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.839 Speaking of the Dodgers, they're now six and oh on 139 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.800 the season. It's been a long time since they started 140 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.319 six and oh. They beat the Brave six to one 141 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.040 last night the seven to ten first pitch Tonight. Angels 142 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.879 also beat the Cardinals five to four. Their first pitch 143 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.720 back in Saint Louis is going to be at four 144 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:57.720 forty five on this April first. 145 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.600 Garyan Shannon, I played in April Fool's Joke on the 146 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.639 checker at Albertson's. I have a little crush on her 147 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.600 and I went through the line with a cucumber, a 148 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:16.879 bottle of baby oil, men's diapers, emodium, and I don't 149 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.000 think she was so thrilled. I think that she probably 150 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.040 gets rated on how many items she has to cancel out, 151 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:25.480 so kind of. 152 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:31.639 Backfired items she has to cancel out, well, okay, a 153 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.399 couple things. 154 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:34.240 Number one. 155 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.960 I think that's funny, Like if I was working as 156 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:38.320 a checker at Alberton's. 157 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.440 That would break up the day, break up the monotony. 158 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.720 Right guy comes through with a cucumber baby oil diapers. 159 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.960 I'd be like, yes, this is why we woke up 160 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:47.960 this morning. I'd laugh. 161 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.600 Now if she didn't laugh at that, she didn't have 162 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.080 a sense of humor, And that's probably not a love match. 163 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:57.360 Or she's so dialed in she doesn't even it doesn't 164 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.000 even come true. 165 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:02.120 It's not odd about that he's the third guy today. 166 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.600 How about that? That's also a possibility. We were also 167 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:08.840 talking about driving. I don't know how we got onto 168 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:09.399 the stick ship. 169 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.639 I have a BMW four forty six speed manual. It 170 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:15.159 is the funnest. 171 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:15.440 Car to drive. 172 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.279 Wouldn't drive an automatic for all the cars in the world. 173 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:20.200 And I'm sixty five years. 174 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:21.399 Old, I'm sixty five. 175 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.320 Sixty five is like forty five these days. 176 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.799 One of my girlfriends in high school, I don't remember 177 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.799 the vehicle it was because I was a high school girl, 178 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.279 but it was in the It was an older vehicle 179 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:36.840 and it was in the shape of an H. 180 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:40.919 Yeah, and it was tricky. I mean you had to 181 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.240 really know. I mean, it wasn't uh, it wasn't spelled 182 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:49.080 out for it. It wasn't a smooth changing of gears. 183 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.200 You know, you had to like put it up and 184 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.600 over and then there's a little divot that you had 185 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.000 to know where that was to get. 186 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.360 It around there, to get it in gear. 187 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:57.960 It was a whole time, some of the ones where 188 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.960 you had to push down to get it into reverse. 189 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.600 My dad's sixty five Chevy the pickup three on the 190 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:06.320 tree right there. 191 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.600 Yeah, gear second gear, third gear. 192 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:12.120 Three on the tree. That's the last time you heard that. 193 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:15.120 That was a very fun, wow vehicle to drive. 194 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.120 We were talking about La County sales tax just went 195 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.639 up today to help us cover measure A was it. Yeah, 196 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.000 because we're so stupid that we can't figure out why, 197 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.679 well you keep throwing money. 198 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.240 At it, we can't figure out why it don't work. 199 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.039 So the sales tax in La County is up to 200 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:34.360 nine point seventy five percent from nine point five percent. Also, 201 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.559 the La County Board of Supervisors today is looking at 202 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.840 making a move considering whether to pull more than three 203 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:45.440 hundred million dollars in funding away from LASA, LA Homeless 204 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.399 Services Authority and put it back under the county. A 205 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:55.879 new county organization designed to keep an eye on homelessness 206 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:56.919 and do something about it. 207 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.759 So last week in federal court, a judge finally held 208 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.120 these people accountable, the people who have been given these 209 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.879 boatloads of cash that we have approved as voters in 210 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.879 La County for the past twenty years, at least since 211 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.840 as long as I've been paying attention here, and the 212 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.519 judge in the case, David Carter, went after the mayor, 213 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.159 went after the head of the Board of supervisors for 214 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.399 failing to track spending. They weren't even going line by 215 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.480 line and saying how this money was accounted for, the 216 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:29.919 money that we've okayed, the billions of dollars he calls 217 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.639 he's calling for a forensic audit, despite the fact that 218 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.519 we've highlighted this last week that there have been several 219 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.320 audits over the years the county and the city have 220 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:44.120 paid agencies to look at how they've wasted money. I mean, 221 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.399 they're wasting money in the business of wasting money. That's 222 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:50.960 how ridiculous this whole thing is. So he wants to 223 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.960 do like an independent audit. They're not going to be 224 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.559 involved in it. They're not going to hand out the 225 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:57.960 contract to whatever company is going to look into their 226 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.799 waste of money to see what the hell's going on here. 227 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:05.399 Money has been spent, but where are the results. So 228 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.440 he thinks that there's going to be fraud and abuse 229 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.200 that's uncovered in this forensic audit. So they are looking 230 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:15.159 at a third party to take control of everything. 231 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.440 A city county. 232 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.320 You don't get to spend the homelessness money that we 233 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.360 approved because you've effed it up for so long. 234 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:24.799 Now, a part of the disagreement, by the way that 235 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.279 you mentioned is that the city controller believes that he 236 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.840 has the power to conduct a new audit, but that 237 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:34.600 Mayor Bass doesn't want him to. Her comment last week 238 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.559 was it would be improper for one elected official to 239 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.320 audit another. Well, wait a minute, that's what the city 240 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.279 controller does. That's the job description, whether he's elected or not. 241 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.000 That's what you elected him to do. Now, if they 242 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.240 can't figure this out, if they can't agree the controller 243 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.559 and the mayor on a forensic audit, Judge Carter had 244 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.840 said that he's talking about like you're referring to this 245 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:04.480 third party receiver or basically, I mean, for more casual purposes, 246 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:09.799 a homelessness czar for the city of la And now 247 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:14.759 that doesn't guarantee anything. That doesn't guarantee smooth operation. It 248 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:19.080 doesn't guarantee that we don't continue to waste money on 249 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:24.360 this issue, but it does have a central point of contact. 250 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.480 Whether it's just for David Carter, it's for the media, 251 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.960 it's for the people in the city. Everybody would have 252 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.679 at least someone to blame as opposed to blame or 253 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:39.120 credit depending on how they do for the ongoing problems 254 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.399 with the homelessness issues that we've seen. 255 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.559 All right, coming up next, we talked about these red 256 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.200 flag laws, the see something, say something turns out that 257 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:54.200 a say something a phone line in the wake of 258 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:59.159 the Sandy Hook shooting has prevented something like eighteen people 259 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.159 who had concrete plans to attack schools. 260 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:04.159 These are kind of some of the stories you. 261 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.080 Don't hear about, Like the plane landing safely never makes 262 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.440 the news, right, right, Not all of these shootings that 263 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.600 have been stopped ever make the news. 264 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:13.879 We'll get into it when we come back. 265 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.639 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 266 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:19.799 AM six forty. 267 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.200 I go all hippie on you and start wearing cloth. 268 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:27.679 Diapers, oh like with a little safety pen. 269 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.480 Well it wouldn't be little. It'd be pretty big, wouldn't it. 270 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.879 Yeah, imagine what you're worth. That didn't come out right. 271 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:37.679 Hy, Gary and Shannon. 272 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:42.519 Both my boys learned on sticks and I did this purposely. 273 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:44.519 And those were the cars I feed them so they 274 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:45.799 could not text and drive. 275 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.159 That's an interesting thing, anything about that? 276 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.519 And Shannon, So I drove them up and down the 277 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.799 four five freeway for fifteen years driving a stick Oh, 278 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.759 needless to say, I could skip leg day at the gym. 279 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.440 Yeah, keeping your foot on that clutch in traffic. 280 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:00.879 Yeah. 281 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.720 When I was seventeen, my dad bought me a car, 282 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.639 and I said, I want a stick shift because that 283 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.200 way none of my girlfriends will want to borrow my 284 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.200 car because none of them could drive a stick but 285 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:14.559 neither could I. So it said in my driveway for 286 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.120 a month before I taught myself how to drive it. 287 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.200 Best decision I ever made. Though none of my friends 288 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:21.279 were able to drive my car. 289 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.879 See that was never my experience because my friends didn't care. 290 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.600 That they didn't know how to drive it. They'd drive 291 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.799 it anyway, just like I did with my girlfriend's car. Yeah, exactly. 292 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:32.159 So. 293 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:36.480 There was a chat group devoted to school shootings on 294 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:40.360 the discord app, one of those encrypted end on end 295 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:45.679 communications situations. And in this chat group, an eighteen year 296 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:50.720 old in Indiana recently typed, I'll be honest, I'm close 297 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.240 to shooting mine up. I have an AR fifteen. A 298 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.720 nineteen year old in Wisconsin was in the group chat 299 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:01.240 and wrote, that's so cool, but wait, do you have 300 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:05.919 a solid plan? And the teenager in Indiana who had 301 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:11.679 photos of mass shooters posted on her bedroom wall responded, 302 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.480 Parkland part two. Of course, I've been planning this for 303 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:22.120 a year. She confirmed on this group chat twice that 304 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.320 Valentine's Day would be the date the same as the 305 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.840 twenty eighteen school shooting in Parkland. That's the one that 306 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.279 killed fourteen students left three adults killed as well. Another 307 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.519 member of this group chat said, Okay, that'll. 308 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:37.720 Be enough of that. 309 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.840 Contacted these say something. Anonymous reporting system set up by 310 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.399 Sandy Hook Promise, the group founded by the parents the 311 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.759 Sandy Hook Parents. An operator at the twenty four hour 312 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.919 tip line called the FBI. They track down that teenager 313 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:54.919 in Indiana. They search her home. They find multiple AR 314 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.679 fourteens fifteen's excuse me, a box of forty caliber AMMO 315 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:06.519 and they thwart what they believe was absolutely going to 316 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:10.039 be a shooting. Her name was Trinity Shockley, Yes female, 317 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.720 arrested in charge with conspiracy to commit murder the eighteenth 318 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.400 Credible school shooting interrupted by a tip to this say 319 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.519 Something phone line since twenty eighteen. 320 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:27.000 Okay, I I do have a hard time though. 321 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.319 How do they know how? 322 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.000 And I guess there's no just better to be safe 323 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.559 than sorry in the situation like this, But how do 324 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.359 they know it was actually going to come to fruition? 325 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:43.519 I meant it does have all the ingredients. In many cases, 326 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.720 it does have the ingredients that would make it possible. 327 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:50.240 So you're waiting for a football move kind of yeah. 328 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.599 And I'm not saying that the kids like this. Obviously 329 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:55.880 somebody needs to step in. That's not what I'm saying. 330 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:56.400 You're not. 331 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:58.799 You don't just do it hands off until they do 332 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:04.039 something awful. Because clearly the infatuation with that kind of event, 333 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.680 the infatuation, the videos, the information, the studying on the 334 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.759 researching these school shootings, that's a sign of a bad thing. 335 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.440 I think you have to take them all together. If 336 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:19.200 it was just one comment, it's one comment, It's like 337 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.079 the kid in I want to say, somewhere in the 338 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.319 Midwest whose parents were called into the school. He had 339 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.920 been drawing something about a gun, and it was coupled 340 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.880 with the fact that he also said he's depressed and 341 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.160 asked for a counselor for three years. 342 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:36.759 Or what have you. 343 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.880 You got to take all these things, I guess into 344 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:40.720 consideration before you roll on it. 345 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.160 You roll officers out there. 346 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:46.000 The fact that she had talked about wanting to kill, 347 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:50.400 had the mass shooters on her walls, had access to guns, 348 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:54.359 and AMMO made several comments about it. How do you 349 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:55.480 not take that seriously? 350 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:58.079 And I mean, when weever we do stories like this, 351 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:02.519 whether it's the parents that gave their kid the gun, 352 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.680 or parents like this who appear to be so completely 353 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:09.640 out of touch with their own kids that they don't 354 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:12.599 know that that's what's going on in their kid's life. 355 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.880 Well, and it's also delicate when you're looking at areas 356 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.759 of the country where firearms are a way of life. Yeah, 357 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.200 the dad's got several ar fifteens, but so does Bob 358 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:26.519 across the street, and so does Janine down the hill. 359 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.759 You know, I mean, it's just the way it is. 360 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.279 It's not odd. I mean, if somebody here in. 361 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:36.400 LA had a cash of fifteen ar fifteens, you'd be like, oh, 362 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.000 that's weird. 363 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:40.279 But it's not in many areas, right. 364 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:46.440 And it's also based on very anecdotal evidence, and that's 365 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:50.279 just from being an observer to situations like this. It's 366 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:54.799 rarely the kid who has been taught how to use 367 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:58.640 guns and to respect guns for h or her for 368 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:02.599 their life. They're rarely the ones that go in and 369 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.720 then use those guns to hurt other people. 370 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:07.720 It has happened. 371 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.119 It's not saying it doesn't happen, but there's generally my house, 372 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.480 we were taught very very early on. These were not toys. 373 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:16.839 They're not something to be messed. 374 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:19.400 Also very rare that a kid that grows up in 375 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.599 a home with no guns goes on to do this 376 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:24.720 though as well, Access is a big part of it. 377 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.759 So they've said that you mentioned that they've they're at 378 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.279 least eighteen of these that they believe, countless lives saved. 379 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.160 According to Mark Barden, who is the Sandy Hook Promised 380 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.319 co founder. Mark lost his son Daniel back in twenty twelve. 381 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.880 He sent to video thanking the students at Largo High 382 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:47.400 School and the first responders who intervened in one of 383 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:53.240 those situations. It's again the say tips to the Say 384 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:57.119 Something line have also prevented more than seven hundred teen 385 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:01.319 suicides nationwide, using in school tre sessions to teach students 386 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.160 how to recognize a threat, how to report it, et cetera. 387 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.160 And again, it's one of those things like if that's true, 388 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.359 that's awesome, that's incredible, that's great work. 389 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:13.839 But how do we know it's it was going to 390 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:14.960 get to that level. 391 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:16.839 I don't know if we need to. 392 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:20.680 I think that intervention with a kid who's talking that 393 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.079 much about shooting up a school and having access to weapons, 394 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.960 there should be an intervention there, and a cal therapist 395 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:29.759 exactly should be. 396 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:30.920 Called for that child. 397 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:33.400 Whatever that kid's going through, it's something more than the 398 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:34.279 average child. 399 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:36.839 All right. 400 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:40.319 Coming up next, people are stealing from Whole Foods and Amazon. 401 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.440